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Show I KI n P rip ki n irxi n tP smmn B IDAYi,l599 mm I i -j THE FLAG COES BY Hatt off I Along the street there comet A blare of buglei, a ruffle of drum, A flah of color beneath the slcyt Hats off! The Flag ii paiitng by I Blue and white and crlmion It ihlnei Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! Tho Colors before us flyi But more than the Flag Is passing byf Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great, F'jght to make and to save the State; Weary marches and sinking ships Cheers of victory on dying llps Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong land's swift increatei Equal justice, right and law; Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong, To ward her people from foreign wrong; Pride and glory and honor all Live in the Colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; -. And loyal hearts are beating hlghi Hats off! The Flag is passing byl By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN , INDEPBNDKNCK DAY Is tho Amort-L Amort-L xi enn holiday devoted to the celebrn-QjiA celebrn-QjiA I Hon of the Declaration of Inilcpend- t' ence In 1770. Of course. Hut thnt wns nearly 150 years ago. Since then wo have had Ave wars. Slnco then we grown from n tuition of about threo millions to n notion of about I'.'O millions. mil-lions. So the American people inny fitly celebrnte more on tho Fourth of July thuii tlio Declaration of Independence. In-dependence. Doubtless the Fourth will be observed ob-served In this year of A. D. 11)22 In a multltudo of ways, some good, some bad, some Indifferentnecessarily In-differentnecessarily so In n country so big, with so vnst n melting-pot population. We Amcrlcuns have Jin nttrucllve list of holidays. holi-days. Christmas. New Year's and Master we share with all mankind. ThnuksgMug Day, Mother's Day nnd Arbor Dny nre our own. So nre Washington's Washing-ton's Hlrthday and Lincoln's Hlrthduy nnd Kins Day. Memorial Dny Is the day the nation grieves over Its soldier dead and pays tribute to Its lighting light-ing heroes nt their Inst resting place. Tho Fourth, of July should be different from all our other nntlnunl holidays. It should have some-thing some-thing of Washington und Lincoln's Birthdays In It, much of Thanksgiving Day and more of Flag Day. The Fourth of July should be most of oil, ns many good Americans see It, n day of nation worship, unstinted nnd unashamed. The Government of the Unfled States of America Ameri-ca secured Its existence through wnr. Rvcry gen-erutlon gen-erutlon of Americans hns had Its war. As one generation of lighting heroes pusses nwny another rises to tnke Its place. Sonic have gone, others arc golri; all will go. None should be forgotten, for the-? deeds are tho basis of the fradlllon nround which our nationalism is built. The heritage heri-tage of the next generation has been made possible by their heroism. There nrq those Americans who profess to see In the American nntlon n peace-loving people, slow to wrntli and nverse to wnr. II Is true that we n'c slow to take up arms. This Is because wnr with us Is a war, not of a professional iirmy, hut of tb people. Our peoplo go slow to war .because they will not fight unless the provocation Is great alio tho cause Is Just. Hut those who believe, America Is not a lighting nation nre utterly nnd entirely wrong. Wo are not afraid to tight. We know limy tq tlgt. K u matter of e,xnct fact we are the ;nosl wurllku pepple on earth. When Amerleii Bin's to war th national heart. j?oes with her aoldlers. We ure die most desperate In Wattle. The Flag" luiswiived over our biittlertlejd for a century nnd a half. Irover litis it t railed in do-feat. do-feat. All of America's wura have been In the cause of humanity. Amcrlcu has cause to blush for none, to npologlzo for none, to feel regret for none. . B6 why should not the Fourth of July bo In pert devoted to nation-worship nnd to remembrance of the deeds of the heroes who kept the Flag victorious from the Philippines to Frnncol In an appreciation of our national history It Is not necessary to acclaim war or to deify the fighting fight-ing man. Hand In hand with appreciation of Amerlcn's valor In wnr go an appreciation of the evils of wur and an appreciation of tho lessons of wnr. The Fourth of July Is surely the day of days on which to sulutc the Flag, remember the heroes who hnve died for It, npplaud tho living who have fought for It and declare again, with tho poet: In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Ball on, nor fear to breast tho sea; , Our hearts ami hopes are all with tlicv, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with these, and all with thee. So tlrst n thought of reverent praise for the the Immortals who drew up tho Declaration of independenceJefferson, in-dependenceJefferson, John Adams, Franklin, Sheriuuii und Livingston. And then n thought of tho ninny heroes of '70, from tho vlllngers who tired the Mrst shot nt Concord to Washington, Washing-ton, the leader or our armies, not forgetting such lenders as Marlon and Wayne and Stark and John Paul Jones, or such patriots as the threo militiamen militia-men whom Major Andre's gold could not corrupt; Male, the martyr, and Molly Pitcher, tho herolno of Monmouth. Next, rcmembrnnce for Hull, Hralnhrldge nnd Decatur and the Constitution und United States they beat tho "Mistress of the Seas" at her own guiue, put the American navy on tho Seven Sens and kept the Flag Hying. Tho Wnr of 1812 was won on the ocean. And don't forget Juckson nt New Orleans ho won for tho United States the mouth of the Mississippi. None of the 1812 heroes Is now nllve; I0 of their widows still live. In 18-10 once more tho bugle blnres nnd tho drum beats thjs time ngalnst Mexico. Iluvo a thought for Scott and Taylor nnd Kenrney and tho heroes who fought their wny from Vera Cniz to Chnpultepcc. Of these heroes 73 still live. All honor to tlienil Tho foe himself recoiled ashaat, When, striking where he strongest lay, We swooped his Hanking batteries past, r And braving full their murderous blast, Btormod -home the towers of Monterey, We were not many we wlui piessed Hut who of us Imvo not con tensed Deside the brave who fell Hitt day; He'd rather share their wunior rest, - Than hot Imvo been at Monterey? And then nunc real lighting American against American I Christendom stiod astounded at tho vigor of the struggle and the splilt of the combatants. com-batants. Hut thut Is over now. No more shall the war cry sever, "tir the wlndlps rivers bo red; They banish our anger forever When they Mure! tho gtaveiTor our dead: Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the Judgment day; . Love and tears for the Illuo, Tears and love for the a ray. A stutuo of Stonpwnll Jackson was recently nn-veiled nn-veiled ut Charlottesville, Vn, Senntor Pat liar-rlsoii liar-rlsoii of Mississippi, the orator of tho dny, said In part: "A tuition torn by fmtrlcldul Ktrlfe, mfipn reunited. re-united. Is, like welded Iron, given Increased strength und durability. -Front tho gulf thnt separated tho sections In elxty-one has come un iiniJersliindJng',niaklni.''for the pH'greie of each mid the common welfare of' both. Till roultl not hin been but for tho cour-ngtf. cour-ngtf. einvlctliitt. und Ideals of if whole poojde. "The sharp linttles rev rtled In Its. lenders mill, tnry genius unsurpassed, and 111 Its men and women wom-en courage und fortitude thnt rellecled cmlll on sbbbbI both sections nnd left n priceless legacy to a great H. and united country. M I "Tho men who tilled the ranks of the northern S j armies were prompted by n conception of duty J no greater thnrf thoso who fought under the Stars fl j nnd liars. Glorious victories or crushing defeata j dim not the bravery and sacrlOco of cither. When I we view those four -years of titanic struggle In the ' Hfc'lit of tho present dny, cither through northern j or southern eyes, there Is so much glory re- m ' Mectcd from both that ench merits tlio greatest j prnlso mid has won Impcrltinblo renown. It has j been tho record of these gallant heroes that hns j Inspired and led our sons to victory In every war W In which this country has slnco engaged. Sp "At Sun Juan Hill tho boys from tho South, Vij under Wheeler, charged with thoso from the North Mi under Roosevelt. On tho cactus plains of Mexico MM the lads In klinkl from Vlrglnln marched by the MK sldo of those from Vermont. At Helleau Wood, H Chnteiiu-Thlerry, and Argonne, when civilization K trembled In the Bcnlea tho bravo boys from every BK part of this land, under the folds of tho Stars and H, Stripes nnd to the tunes of "Dlxlo" and "Yankee If Doodle Dandy," followed Pershing for humanity Iff and their country And todny, It matters not In SI which war they were engaged, tho nnmes of north- R ern und southern heroes Illumine tho pages of if history nnd are enshrined In the hearts of a com- w mon country. SI The Illuo and the a ray. I In fierce array, ; No local hates dissever, jf Strike hands once more If From shore to shore, IK The North and 8outh forover. m "Tho stirring sentiment that prompted a few I weeks ugo those brave marines encamped on tho mR historic llelds of the Huttlo of tho Wilderness, who KB discovered tho little graveyard covered with weeds MM nnd briars, with Inclosuro down, In which, among H unmarked graves, was hurled the nnn of that gal- 19 laut hero to whom we todny pay tribute, Is Insplr- IS Ing. These boys from every part of tho country S9 wearing the uniform of tho American lighting man, VI sworn to defend tho Flng of a common country, and IS jeady to glvo their lives for Its protection, went KI Immediately to work, cleared the graves, resurrect- EK cd the fence, and clothed the surroundings with an mm air of attention nnd enre. It wns the American KS spirit, the spirit of tho present-day American sol- fm dlcr, whose heart was thrilled, whoso soul was touched, und whose patriotism was aroused when Wm he saw that In trds' modest way he could pay trlh- KK ute even to tho rin of ns true a soldier and as M dailng a lendc us ever murched to the tune of Kit , mnrtlnl nlrsV' Sjf The Snnnl8li-Ajnorlean vChrv Oiousli n little wnr Ml lit 'comparison w'th the Civil wur and the World 11, war, was un Important war. It was won by m - volunteers) It win marked, by valor mid etQclcnry M- ou laud nnd sen t Lns Ounslmas, Sun Juan Hilt H and, KI Cnney, at fiuntlngo and at Munllu Hay. It ' hastened the day for complete reconciliation bo- K - tween the North und tho South, It gave us a I realization of pur vast resources und mun power, B mid l njudc us a World Power over night. I And surely we can Fourth-of-July over tho record w : of oirr lighting men In tho World war. No need to H " nil) .the roll of heroes, cither; or to ask "who won R the war?" ' Oh, the KngHih and the Irish, and the 'owlln' Scottlea. H ' too, The Canucks and Austrtlee-Uns, and the 'airy I'Yench A - poltu; t , The only things that bothered us, a year before we M Was 'ow In 'ell the Yanks'd , 0ok, an' wot la 'ell B . J they'd do. taTl'u Uy word. It 'appennt) sudden w'en the drive 'ad flrtt Si - berfinr M We sn the' Vsnks a-runntn' aw Ullmy, how they m ' runt , HI Bui the only thing that bothered us Ciat saa tk Ml chaae beoin - , xl Mm 'on In ' to atop 'm 'fore they got (aW.Bedla. j! BJBjBiajaHiMaWssttsBH 3 |
