Show americans living and dead J ble memorial morial day brings deeper mid anti richer every year ar the lie roll of lionor grows longer with the dames ot of americans naho have died for their ling hag nt at home overseas and nd on islands of the hio och acas an hour efin bo be spent by every Ante american rican today glancing back over tho the record of the united states anil and making un an estimate ot of the present and tho the future of tile the country what lid the lead dead accomplish by giving the last full measure ot of devotion are the living Impre impressed sRed by what thoy they till did and du do they more inore than over ever highly resolve that the dead shall not have linao died in vain every ono one of tho the american dead every soldier every sailor Bailor gave Kavo all of himself to ills ills country it I 1 that la Is not a reminder def tent every american owes ovea lit fit least l bt of Illus himself elf to lila ills coull country thon then indeed the lead dead died in ruin rain and tile tho living live in vain the dead gave lionor honor anti and glory anti and perpetuity to tho the naff ling what tire are tile lie living Amer lenns giving to lt it ia 13 it honor glory and perpetuity Ts Is each citizen sitting sifting out tho the purn pure front from thi the dross tit in lits henrt heart and riving giving wills toda country only tile choicest portions of ills hla spirit an lill us ua tile deai dead gave before they aliey were taken away or Is ilia living antrican selecting anil fim I 1 hoarding the be best of for ills ilk own on use mid and palming off it upon ills his country it shain patriotism ti tit it niggardly pretext of devotion a shoddy enco ence to ideals anti and it ft counterfeit of lionor honor 1 it Is not for others to post pass judgment they cannot do so justly it la Is for citizen to fo search ills own heart anil and pass pas judgment lipon if linsell lin self what Is tile the duty of 0 tho the have not the lead dead saved the nation Is not the country strong safe bate and rich why should the living worry M when lan arlington anti and Sure sues and a thousand other cemeteries hold the boI bodies fell 0 of o americans americana who nybo have done tho the work ll to make inako a notion nation strong why not of th tho a matter by ely V ing it a passing thought of 0 to the dead and turn urn to tile paramount business of looking gifter no 11 let somebody i eso else struggle fot for tile the betterin ent of the goyer government innelli if those lie be the thoughts of tiny citi zell it ts Is high time ilat he Ill ask blin self it if lie he Is really nil american Is lie not merely posing ns as nil in american and obtaining tile benell ts when lie lid la 18 in ili fact a slaver slacker and EL a fugitive front froni honor even in ili tho midst of tile grossest materialism there Is a quality might be called tile the instinct of preparedness tile citizen who con billips nil all ills his ideal elsm to promoting ill hla own interest Is still exercising a virtue in spite of himself the virtue of thrifty provision for tho the fl future iture place film upon tile the meanest and most desal cable plane and yet lie ho will exercise some degree of tills instinctive vIrl virtue tle thus it la is a certainty certainly that lie ho can exercise it in 16 bIli behalf alf of ills hla country no matter what his lils moral or character may be la Is it not ili lie primary duty of a ninn man jo ito assist his country to survive lie he Is 18 merely Illius himself elf when lie ho lielas to save his country despite recent inventions there ther 0 Is no satisfactory substitute for n nation the stronger and safer the nation tho the wore moro clr vr dunate the alto citizen no foreigner will dialto a citizen nation strong or I 1 khop beep it so no lie must ilo do it himself with or tout we alie foreigners colts consent ent tha tiia united states la Is stronger than alian ever in its marvelous history thanks linnio to the lio glorious dead find little thanks lothe to tho living if it Is to remain strong I 1 in n proportion to other nations and in with the aspirations of the Amer lenns who tho wave gave their lives to for j it lio ilia living must do 6 their share of tit the worl work in their day and generation no sl ackers I 1 the ten dead amer americans calls immortals m though they be cannot attend to the lie present find and the future I 1 they con can give their example but it will viii not savo save america the living take the lie example next to the never falling fire that every american should keep burning in ills secret heart signifying to him ilono that lie ho ts Is dedicated when pieces sary miry to give himself to ills his country it keenis that ills his most important duty Is to take pains to see sea that tilt the country Is made secure against possible 1 destruction I est ruction ills first duty in short la is to bithe sure of himself him next to inako sure of his fits country Is ohp navy well and strong if not it Is the duty of ayery every citizen to insist fiat it ile be mode made capable of defending tile ali stars slam and stripes against any enemy emy anywhere tiny where inthe in the hie world Is ilia lio army well organized and able to pure on short notice on oil any scale nev necessary essary to defeat ally enemy that assail the united states it not it Is the duty of 0 every citizen to lo insist that tile tho nation bo be properly defended the heroes of Ar america did not fight to ili I 1 litt death to preserve the stara stripes for a few hours days weeks months or years these pa du artois went to eternity believing that all stars anti stripes would fly from their full foll until ibey should rise again there eliere la Is conclusive proof that almighty god la 14 willing that lint tills nation chali duill endure for nil ahne g americans will devote to making it vitro puro and strong hut but alif lie of 4 I 1 must not he be too large washington bost I 1 |