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Show "THK lATIIIlK OK II IS COlXTliV" The observance of Washington's birthday recalls to us year by year llii! patience and faith and courage1 with which ho lived the dark years of the revolutionary war. The dullest dull-est and most matter-of-fact history or this period throws a clear light upon these characteristics of Washington. Wash-ington. No man ever more truly carried the fate of a nation upon his shoulders. lie strove against disappointment, dis-appointment, disaster, lack of funds and material, inelllcient or disaffected disaffect-ed aids, English propaganda at least as strong as the German propaganda of the last few years, and through it all he . looked forward with high faith and courage to the ultimate destiny of the United States. - After the war a task of the utmost difficulty confronted him in the rehabilitation re-habilitation of a country worn by war, lacking financial credit at home and abroad and disturbed by factional fac-tional differences. Here also his wisdom wis-dom and patience brought their results." re-sults." It is directly to him that we owe our lives of comfort and liberty. We are again in a time of reconstruction recon-struction after war. Our problems are different from those which confronted con-fronted Washington and his time, but ' no less disturbing. It is for us to attempt to meet these problems with his spirit and foresight and patience a'nd wisdom. So shall we behold, as he did, a greater and more bene-ficient bene-ficient America. |