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Show Proved Their Heroism by Heroic Daeds I In the talk about July 2 or some day In August when the lat of th.- Sinn era Signed. The Fourth of July has always been the national birthday, and it will remain such. On that day I .VI yeiirs nto there occurred the greatest event in purely secular tin m:in history, unl the tnen who niild perform the event wi-re heroes. Look at the thirteen colonies ami look at the I'nitod Slates and dr, homage to the men w:io converted Hie one Into the other. Thry are lbs heroes of the nation. -KxchVnge. History Is n tapestry with right 1 side and -a wrong one. What benefit li II to gaze Intently on the wrong aide? The purpose for which It was woven appears on the right side. Our admiration is excited by the right side. Why Insist thai the real tap entry Is shown by the wrong side? The eriod of the Revolutionary win I wns the heroic era in American tils 1 tory ne-i'c thills were done then and the men who do heroic things are heroes. If the men whose names llgure largely In history were not greater than the mass of tis little men who earn our livings for a few years nml then die nnd are forgotten, why don't we do those things? Why don't we make history? "It Is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are under lings." We decline to take much Interest |