Show t I II I I I 1 I I ww e N NL L And We e Have Our Oar Dead T That at the old order old old fashioned folk can call never e e for for- give Every May those who vho lived through civil war times combine to condemn what they cA call r. r 1 the desecration of Decoration day lay They remember the origin of the day its day its consecration to soldiers wl who o died in war war they they recall a decade in which only soldiers soldiers' graves were were decked decked with flowers and flags Now they see the red red white and blue waving bravely bravel p over the little mound where the immigrant buried his 1 s child yesterday They grieve also because the young men and aud girls give Memorial Memoria day to the first picnic of the season Every year the festivities festivities' increase increase in in- old fashioned people prot protest s that crease in number and every year Decoration day was never meant for such things realize what wonderful national holiday is is in in the They t do not a making one making one which unites the many people of this country in the one bond bond they all have in common common and and that is the bond of ot grief Go to the foreign cemetery of any large city today The approaches lined with booths resemble the roads to toa a circus Between the tho stalls filled with flags flats a and cut and potted flowers are others where popcorn sandwiches and ice cream cones are sold The man inan with toy balloons parades the street And within the cemetery children play at the edges of t the e ponds and family amily parties spread their luncheons under the trees And little American flags wave over rows and rows of graves And note that all the women have put on black black crepe crepe if they have it Few of them ever heard of our civil war BUT THEY HAVE THEIR DEAD even as you and I. I And this is the one American holiday whose sp spirit r t they can an Understand un- un 1 completely Grief is one thing grievance quite another The patriots who object to a Memorial day of the new order are c perhaps perhaps doing less for their country's good than the immigrant who ventures through his grief to join hands with the many peoples of this land in the Memorial day ceremonial As for the young let them dance After tomorrow and tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row rov they will be old fashioned folk too with too with ye yea and andt I t grievances |