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Show ! DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE . j : -O 1 j ' BY DR. .T.ViMS I. VAXCE I Easter proclaims peraon.il immortality; immor-tality; Memorial day, tho immortality of influence. May 30, to America, is the tlay a nation stops to lay the flower flow-er of loving- memory on the tomb of its soldier dead; We think of those; valorous souls who paid the supreme' prlco, and when -we tnink of them, tho pale lino rises from iis shadowy couch and ea lutes. In the "jJluc Bird" we are told that the dead arc happy when we think about them, because when we think I about them they hve. It Is more thanl a' poetic fancy. There is a subtle truth! in the creed of the "Blue Bird." For when wo think of our soldlcivs whoi have died on the field of battle, when wo think of their courage and hero-j ism, of their loyalty to thcflag and, devotion to country and espousal of ai great cause whpn wo think of them thus, our own souls catch fire. Life' fills with ardor, and we, too, are ready 'to adventure In the crusade that saes' the world. They have stirred the sluggish pulses of traders and kindled the Jaded Imaginations of scholars and made genius flame in song and on canva3, until mortals have put on 1m-1 mortality. I The dead live when they have j power to stir the living with the great 1 thoughts and noble resolves which ! 3ent them through the red line Into the black faco of death. They live1 when the things for which they died live. They live whon tho living live for what the dead have died. What are they saying to America today0 What the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray and the men who wore the khaki would say, could they climb out of their graves and face us. They are saying: Let the nation listen to its dead, and Think r Think1 Lest we forget' |