Show SPIRIT OF washington WASHING N or EMULATION even though we may find it necessary in certain particulars to modify the advice which washington gave his country a century and a half aggas doubtless he himself wo would uld modify it were he liere here today facing the world as it is there is in the spirit of washington as a citizen and patriot nothing thai tha we could wish to atter alter on the contrary we could ask nothing better for america than a revival of that spirit there was noble selflessness and a generous breadth of vision in his attitude toward his public duties which must remain through all the years the high ideal for americanism he saw america as something bigger arid and finer than an opportunity port I 1 unity for material success he saw it as a spiritual adventure aj great experiment in human rela eions and in the development of human values it was his appreciation of ais this phase of american possibility which inspired his pride and devotion i |