The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-15
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Gsiosness ana just conduct And as We
OF these things our tribute is TO
those men who have created this ex-
nertence. Many OF them are known
~ name to all the world--states-
men, soldiers, merchants, masters of
industry, men of letters and OF
thought. who have coined our hearts
trstu words. OF these men we feel
4hat they have shown us the way. They
have not been afraid to go BEFORE.
They have known that they were
speaking the thoughts Of a great peo-
ple when they led that great people
I along the paths Of achievement,
No Svvamhbsckiers.
.sThere was not a single swashbucR-
fer among them. They were men of
eober, quiet thought the more effective
J herause there was no buster in II.
they were men who thought along the
lines OF duty, not along the lines OF
{ self -Aggrandizement. They were men,
IL short. who thought of the people
whom they served. and not OF them
Y Ralves.
.But while we think of them. and do
honor TO them as those who nave
Aaown us the way, let us not forget
nation ICES with the great multitude or
h unknown men. 1t lies with those men
A whose names are never In the head
lines OF newspapers. those men VINO
& know the heat and pain and desperate
1oks OF hope that sometimes comes IN
the great struggle of daily hfe' not
\ the men who stand on the side ana
comment. not the men who try TO IN
terpret the great struggle, hut the men
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coustsfufe the body OF the nation.
4@Thts flag In the essence OF their
daily endeavors This flag does not
express any more than what they are
and what they 'desireto be; and az
4 think of the life of this great nation
IL see1ns to me that we sometimes look
IL yhe wrong piaces for it's sources
We look 10 the noisy places, where men
a. talking in the market place: we
4 look to where men are expressing their
D Individual opinions; we look where
partisans are expressing passion In
stead OF trying TO attune our ears to
that vciceless mass of men who mere"
4 ~ 70 about their daily tasks. try TO be
honorable, try 10 serve the people they
4 love. try TO live worthy of the great
\ comynunities 10 which they belong
EAess are the breath of the nations
nostrtls. these are the sinew of Its
might.
Cannot Interpret Flag.
$50 how can any man presume TO
+ Interpret the emblem OF the United
States. the emblem Of what we would
HAsn the among the family or nations.
and find 1t incumbent upon us to be
IN the daily round OF routine duty
This is Flag Day, hut that only means
4 that IL is day when we are TO recall
q the things which we should do every
n day Of our lives There are no DAYS
I or special patriotism, There are no
days when you should be more patri-
otte thar on other days You celebrate
u The Fourth of July merely because the
4 xreat enterprise OF liberty was started
IN the <th of July In America. II is
tainstra ted by the blood OF thousands
\ On martyss that went before the great
& experiment on this side Of the water.
THAT merely marks the day when we
sconsecrated Ourselves as nation 10
this high thing which we pretend to
nerpe. and the benefit Of a day like
i this In merely the turning away from
q The things that distract us, turning
Away from the things that touch US
p1feonaiy and absorb our interest IN
the hcnrs of daily work. We should
YSnsind ourselves OF those things that
IRE greater than we sre, OF those prin-
.NtpIes by which we believe our hearts
q N be elevated. Of the more difficult
|S46tpGs that we must undertake In the
g I&y0 of perpiex!ty when mars judy
I 34euf ~ safest only when II follows the
1tne Of principle.
4 am solemnized In the pgeseHee OF
Nfeh ii day. I would not undertake 10
6G&nk your thoughts You must inter
Z T&ef them for me. But DO feel that
e ~ II mot only OF every public official
&6t ~ every man and waman Of the
#Bn4ted States. there marches that great
&H1ef witch has brought us TO the pres
TB NASs thu host. that hss never torzy
the vision whicR r. saw al the
At4h nj the nayinns the hest which al
&xA responds TO Tire dieiRtes ~ bn-
NIFTY and 81 libertv' the host that
N always ronssitats tina strAneth
khe great body OF friends ~ every
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