Show MAN MAW WHO WHO FAILED GIVEN TRIBUTE Just exactly what Is IR a mans man's real life work work How are ate we to tell whether he has baa mad made a success suc sue success cess or a failure of o It 1 Those questions seem seeni a bit stranger perhaps Yet a few rew days dars ago In la more than a dozen states busIness was as stopped so that the people mIght pay tribute tributo to the memory of ot a man who failed railed ut utterly terly to gaIn his ends and anil who we went t down to an overwhelming o defeat after years year of o heartbreak heart heart break Ing struggle Theman The I man was Robert E Lee lime Leeone-lime time one commander of the armed forces of the southern conCeder confederacy confederacy acy Our nation does doe not worship failures We have hue no palms to to spare for tor who could not succeed Yet Yet Robert Robert E Lee Iee Isone Is Isone Isone one of our chief heroes Why Why Why- since he ite failed Perhaps it Is because e we e are growing to realize that there are failures more dazzling th than n any success Perhaps ise sie are comIng t to understand that It Is i not alto alto- altogether altogether tether alto gether what II a man does that counts that how he ho does doe It may maybe maybe maybe be more Important Time Tim has ha swallowed up the mighty armies that struggled along the tho ba banks ks of the nock nock flock the and the James The hosts that fought ought at Gettysburg at Shiloh and at Chan Chan- Chan have ha marched on into the dim mists o of the past so that blue and gray cray uniforms uniform alike are hardly distinguIshable Green Greengrass Greengrass grass covers cover the remains of o the I trenches at Cold Harbor and Fort Sumter Is only a relic The bat bat- battle battIe battle tle tIe flags are in museums Yet Lee has not been swallow swallowed ed by time The TI cannon smoke has drifted a away way only to reveal his heroic figure looming larger I more majestic than ever The country has forgotten gladly that he fought for tor a lost eau cause e it reo remembers re remembers members only the valor 1 the skill and the shinIng manliness with which h he He rode to be sure at the ld heid of a a lot lost lo t battalion that marched for a bivouac over the borders of the land of o darkness but en route he taught us u that there can be failures which shine as as any success |