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Show A PRIVILEGE With its Auxiliary, and the co-operation of the public school, the American Legion prepared an observance to commemorate Armistice Day, upon which a urogram at the school auditorium auditor-ium was given. Leonard Bowen summed up the reasons for the special effort made by the Legion, Le-gion, in saying that the organization organ-ization considered it not a duty but a privilege to arrange a patriotic observance of the hol-idav. hol-idav. The significance of the day and what it meant to the world in 1918 can scarcely be fully grasped by the younger people of the present day. But full well do the more mature remember remem-ber the circumstances of November No-vember 1918, when the terminating termi-nating of hostilities, with a just victory, released millions of America's manhood from the possibility of an early death. Scarce thirty thousand, (a large number, yet small in comparison com-parison to losses sustained by other nations), gave their greatest great-est sacrifice, their lives. The deadly open warfare of that fall had taken toll, and were it not for the Armistice, hundreds of thousands of American homes would have been bereft of kinsmen. kins-men. The day should rt be allowed to slip into insignificance. Armistice Ar-mistice Day is not to be set aside only for football games. Now, and as the years roll on, the American Legion people are doing do-ing much in their several communities com-munities to keep alive the memory mem-ory of America's idealism, sc forcefully stamped upon the world at the date, November 11, 1918. Avarice and greed, strife and clamor of modern business should be stilled upon that day for a moment of reflection, when the spirit of idealism can be renewed. Not one group, but all of the American public should be glad to join wholeheartedly whole-heartedly in keeping the true meaning alive for the one day. |