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Show GENERAL WASHINGTON IN THE FIELD O wPCw V mj4 i?Oe s1mm lsT a 3s( MOy if fKfuWtlM - - i "LEST WE FORGET" Nation Does Well to Honor the1 Memory of the Founder of Its Glorious State of Independence. In-dependence. IP we today lived In a colony, ground down by utijful uwm, our passion for national life secretly and tragically trag-ically burning, If Washington had failed, had 'died In vain for the cause which In fact he brought to lasting triumph tri-umph then for poor sentimental humanity hu-manity be would shine with a luster greater than now Is bis, writes Joyce Kilmer In the New York Times. His cause triumphed ; the dream became a reality, and therefore lost the charm of. the dream. Washington, dying on his bed, In his honored old age, his hopes realised, Is a noble figure. But he lacks the dramatic appeal of Washington Wash-ington bidding farewell to his children at the foot of the gallows. By some strange perversity of human hu-man nature the cause we consider romantic ro-mantic nnd picturesque -is always a Lost Cause. The names most deeply loved are those of the fallen leaden whose partisans met with defeat-Robert defeat-Robert Bruce and Robert Emmet, William Wil-liam Wallace, Sarsfleld and Sobleskl, that "fair and fatal king," Charles I, and his persecuted and uncrowned heirs. Children of. Union soldiers though we may be, our hearts beat more quickly at the thought of Lee than at tho thought of Grant. We rise when the band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner," but we rise and shout when It plays "Dixie." And it must also be acknowledged that a tragic death endears a statesman states-man to the generations that follow him. If you are a great leader and want to be sure of posterity's affection, 'Me that your cause falls. Then the conquerors will legislate against the honoring of your memory, and that will make your fame secure. But If. your cause succeeds, then nt least see that your death Is sudden and violent. Give the wrld a drama, a legend. Washington 'triumphed. At York-town York-town he captured Cornwallls' redcoats and put an end to, tyranny on our shores. It is. not forbidden to honor his memory;, 'the. wearing of the red, white, and bjuo is attended by no perils. per-ils. And so we tnke things for granted; grant-ed; we forget tho hideous dangers through which we passed only some hundred and two-score years ago; we take for granted our nationality, our freedom, and the fearless warrior, tho enlightened statesman who gavo them to us. When we speak of Washington as the Father of His Country wo do so ,: L with a Inugb, as If the phrase were empty rhetoric Instead of sublime truth. Liege means more to us than Lexington, nnd remembering Edith Cuvell, we give no thought to Jane McCrea. ,. We may well thank God that tho war of American Independence has not the glamor of battles fought In vain, that our freedom Is no lost cause, that Washington's halo Is not thnt of n martyr whose life and death were unavailing. un-availing. To those who look at the world's events In true historical perspective, per-spective, without sentimentality nnd with love of Justice and freedom In their breast, the American Revolution fills the most encouraging pnge in the chronicle ,of the centuries. But for most of us It is only In times of stress like the present that we can come to an actual sense of our exceptional privileges to a realisation of the radiant radi-ant truth of the stories we read In our history book In school. This year the Declaration of Independence takes on a clearer significance; we know, as we did not in bygone years, what It means to be free and independent states, abc solved forever from all allegiance to foreign powers. And so this year Washington's birthday Is no routine holiday, but a day of solemn yet Joyful ) commemoration, a day on which we honor with full hearts him who made ' us a nation, the warrior whose sword cut the bonds of our thralldom, the , statesman who bade us, avoiding entangling en-tangling alliances, go our free way, nn Independent repulllc, no nation's sycophant, syco-phant, no nation's tool. "With malice toward none," said Washington's greatest great-est successor, "with charity for all." It was a summing up of Washington's own political creed. No lost cause, however glorious with the blood of I martyrs, seems today so noble as tho still triumphant cause of American Independence. In-dependence. No modern hero, fighting overseas. Is today so dear to us as our founder and preserver. And to his examples ex-amples and his counsels we cannot look for guidance and look in vain. INSPECTING OUTPOSTS AT VA LLEY FORGE I "" VBajm KsiKa -JKS&i sffLsBahsliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiB Vfl LIiHbHbvTV''' " BVlBlw7aVBlVjBCr2BttV simja Mr BiiiiiiiiiiiiiH .dPPVIBB ?''' : 'v-s71'. Jm WjKlMsBKm PHJ SBstss.BBiWy Jf KBkw' LasAr ..isV.BSsssaVsOBsr - RH? &3i -- ii i i 1 ii i ii iiriiiiTn 1 1 i - friii iHiBsfi mi Th y i- riaaaai'jir- 4 - |