Show Past Is Prologue A THOUGHT ON O TilE THE OLD YEAR TEAR Dy By Kuth loth Taj Taylor Talor lor What Is Past is Prologue is carved in tho enduring stone of or that great marble building which houses the Ar Ar- Archives Archives Archives chives of or the United States Past is Prologue The dictators whose insane lust for power laid waste one continent and whose mad dreams dreams' reach reach- reached reached ed across oceans to engulf us should have havo paused at these words and con con- considered considered considered their meaning meaning before before the on on- onslaught onslaught onslaught slaught of our aroused armies swept them into oblivion Past is Prologue What Is our past but a struggle for freedom for all oppressed op op- op oppressed pressed and disheartened people people re re- re freedom political freedom eco ceo economic freedom The founding fathers beloved of or every patriotic orator Incorporated this urge for freedom in the tha classic classic- phrases of the preamble to tho the i Constitution and in the Bill BIU of Rights flights which Is s the Magna Charta Charts of or our free free- dom Past Fast Is Prologue The past Is useful in determining what the future shall be With tho the past this nation possesses wo VO could not have turned aside from the I cries for help rising from tho the victims of or the new oppression those helpless people peo- peo people plo whoso whose only fault was that their ways were the ways of ot peace and that they had possessions the gangster ter overlords of Europe and Asia coveted With our past record we could not have turned away like the tho Pharisee from the tho wounded traveler For us with us-with with our heritage of t action for freedom freedom binding binding up the tho in In- In InJured lured as did the tho Good Samaritan was not l enough Tho The fight was ours The Thel task was plain We Wo had to help drive tho the robbers from the tho Jericho Jeri o Road Past Post Is Prologue But the past Is fulfilled only as the desire for a better futuro future which h It had Inculcated Into our hearts and minds minds' bears fruit The past is but the tho prologue to the future future- and we must make the future better Past Is Prologue To keep the pro pro- promise promise promise mise of or the past we wo must stand firm now and fight to preserve the tho right We must not compromise with evil We must put into practice the truth by which wo we hold sovereignty over this na na- nation nation na- na nation tion That all men are arc created equal and are aro endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights life 11 e lib lib- liberty liberty erty and the pursuit of happiness The task Is great but the past has trained us for the tho needs of the present We can and will do all that Is demanded of or us In the new year ahead |