South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-29
Secretary Daniels in Speech
at NOtre Dame EuIOgizeS
Indiana Men in the Navy
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of lost and loved and the solemn pride
that must be yours To have laid So
costly a sacrifice upon the altar of
freedom. May not this message be
paraphrased for Shilington's Alma
Mater today in the gift she has laid
upon the altar of patriotism
Who are yOu?' That is the 0ues- /
ton addressed TO every ennObling auai-
ity that inspires reverence. what
have you done?' is the challenge to
the deed in memory OF which monu-
ments are erected. Give the eour-
tersign," is the demand 10 the I'M
selfish act which makes this old world
glow with the sunshine OF service.
4 am Sacrifice Is the reply
What Is sacrifice" is the worlds
challenge
4 am the mother who gives her ule
that the child may bless the world.
says sacrifice. j ann the father El"
puts away life's comforts that my som
may have knowledge. 1 am the teacl-
er SO bent upon leading the pupil into
the light of learning that ] forget my
self. l am the man OF God who glad
~ loses my life in the Hawaiian leper
colony and finds il again in the lives
influence for good / am the maiden
VINO donS the nurses white cap.
knowing that il means a shortened
life OF wear and tear upon the heart. /
j am the engineer VINO holds To the
throttle and perishes in saving the
lives entrusted TO me. l am the alienist
VINO battles with the power of Dark
ness TO help the cropping insane pa
tent To find himself again. ] am the
explorer who dies in the snow after
finding the pole. i am the soldier who
falls by the flag. / am the sailor on
the Maine, who finished with cheerful
heart his daily routine, lay down to /
sleep in his swinging hammock. and
later in the night passed 10 a glorious
death with a battleship for "A coffin |
When old Doctor William MacIure.
the beloved doctor of the Scotch glens.
secured the physician to the queen to /
come TO DrumtOchty under great diff /
hcGltieS and to operate on one of his
poor patients, the world DISTINGUISHED
doctor said to the obscure practi- |
tioneer: / am proud 10 have met
you, MacLure. You are an honor to |
our profession When the soul of |
John Henry ShillingtOn Joined the i'm |
mortals, We may well think the well |
come he got from Lord Nelson, and /
hear the commentator of Farragut-
You are an honor to the American |
navy, my lad" Such a death is glori I
Gus. The noted dramatist, Charles |
FrOhman, met it in the same spirit on |
NAAS WiAtil Ait Ce1Au 10 NN SldIU-
er: Why fear death? 1t is the most |
delightful adventure of life"
Fitting Observance.
1t is right that we should celebrate !
Memorial day and recall the deeds /
and decorate the graves of the brave |
men who have sacrificed their lives |
in the defense of their flag. 1t is fit /
ting that this Memorial day should be I
hallowed by the honor paid to the /
heroes whose tragic death touches /
every American home. Memorial day /
is borne of national appreciation. of
Self-Sacrlhcing ValOr. It is the yield |
ing up Of life, the sacrifice Of the 1
hearts blood, for home, for children, |
for country that calls for the highest /
gratitude of a people. Greater love /
hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life"
Our histories record the deed, our
poets sing of it, and we celebrate il |
on Memorial day. The deed begins |
TO shine as star in our galaxy of !
glory. 1t is woven into the texture /
Of our patriotism. Walt Whitman /
caught the idea when he said in writ |
ing of the death of Lincoln:
The grand deaths of the race
the dramatic deaths of every nation /
ality-are its most important inheri- |
lance value-in some respects beyond /
its literature and art-(as the hero is !
beyond his finest portrait and the bat /
tie itself beyond its choicest song and |
epic.)"
If this be true OF the death of one
man here and there, how much more |
true of the trenches of slain upon "A 4
battlefield and in particular of the 1
267 heroes Of the Maine, who found /
graves in the harbOr waters on that |
fateful night Of February Is. 1898. NO |
foe had ever challenged them as one
has well said. The world can never |
know how brave they we're. They
never knew defeat: they never shall. /
While at their posts Of duty. sleep /
lured them into the abyss, then death |
unlocked their slumbering eyes but for /
an instant to behold its dreadful car
nival; most Of them just when life !
was full of hope, and all its tides were
at their highest, grandest flow"
Lesson from THE Bluebrd."
We speak today of the heroes Of |
the Maine as if they were dead. but |
ought we not rather to feel that they /
live, always by their sacrifices stimu- /
lating us to patriotic achievement |
There is a beautiful lesson in Maurice |
Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird" which |
one loves to ponder and out of which /
comfort and happiness to sweeten life /
may be obtained. You viii recall the /
incident when in their search for hap
piness the fairy children go To visit 1
their grandmother in the Land Of
Memories. She is glad TO see them
and when she tells them she has not
seen them since All Saints Day. they /
ask How can people be seen when /
they are dead2" and are told.
How can they be dead. when they |
live in your memory Men do not 4
know this secret, because they know 1
so little: whereas you are about TO I
see that the dead who are remem- I
bered live as happily as though they /
were not dead"