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Show way of the popular mind that wills nnd that executes. Additions have been made lately to the host of the bereaved. Their sorrow is still recent. Shall we forget the afflicted living as our obligation to the sanctified dead Is paid In the souls of flowers and appreciative, ap-preciative, perhaps even beautiful thoughts? Shall we not before evening eve-ning falls have for them some brief word of sympathy that may make their outlook on life a little less bleak and lighten the sadness for all that this day recalls? Days of Memorial for All Who Have Served the Nation Of the two great patriotic holidays In the national calendar, one commemorates com-memorates the establishment of our independence. The other Is not a day of memorial to those who at " some particular time or under some particular partic-ular circumstances have given their lives for the common good. It le a day of memorial to all those who, at any time and under all circumstances, have earned our gratitude by sacrifice. As time goes on, undoubtedly additions addi-tions will be made to the list of dates which have an Important relation to the history of the nation. Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly also their significance will be emphasized em-phasized In various ways, that the people may remember. After all, however, how-ever, Is there In the whole gamut of patriotic sentiment anything that cannot can-not find full and adequate and appropriate appro-priate expression on the two traditional tradi-tional days set aside by common consent con-sent as well as by law as days of peculiarly pe-culiarly natienal Import the one dedicated to the beginnings of things In a heroic epoch, the other dedicated to the means by which our existence as a people has been perpetuated, and especially to our patriotic dead? In some foreign countries, when religious , holidays were greatly multiplied, the j meaning of any one was dimmed and ! virtually all well Into neglect. If the j number of our patriotic holidays Is I much extended there will be a similar i danger In this busy country, which lives much In the present and little in the past and whose emotional side Is In strong restraint to the practical. Their Proper Tribute. j Of our May and July anniversaries, the tenderest thought goes out to the one on which we honor those whose exit from life was made glorious by fortitude and high devotion. When a people cease to pay tribute to those qualities, whenever or wherever exemplified, ex-emplified, and specially as exemplified j among their own, they have become I unresponsive to promptings that ex- plain all the great achievements of the future. As the perfervld days of the j war period recede. It Is to be expected I that the anniversary of this date will lose something of Its potency to suggest sug-gest and inspire, but It fills a place no other anniversary can fijl. It comes at a season of the year when Its observance ob-servance can take on a graclousness denied at other seasons and represents repre-sents so fine an Idea that we must never suffer It to be minimized. Anguish of Bereavement. Mighty ns Is the host that would be formed If all those who In the long flight nf time have lost their lives for country stood together. It would still he exceeded by another mighty host those who In the deaths of the other spectral host endured the anguish of bereavement. Of such as they was tliis holiday first appointed, long before be-fore It received the sanction of statute-makers, nnd it rules from Its sunny place In the calendar In an authority au-thority that Is above the law, In the |