The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01

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 for tail end team that has won only l4 games thus far during the season. Fincher has seldom been batted hard,
 
 lie ahead of it and in the present wha t challenges it to the display of it's pow CT. But there are "reminiscences which are stimulating and wholesome and among those "reminiscences are chiefly to be ranked the recollections of days of heroism, days when great nations found it possible to express the best that was in them by the ardent exercise of every power that was in them
 Not Day of Regret That is what gives dignity to a day like this. It is not day of re- | Grct; 1t is not a day of weakening memory. It is a day of stimulation. Put my friends, these stimulating | fs semories we are sometimes apt to min l inize because We do not see the full | significance of them. We are constant l ly speaking of the great war of which we think today a war which saved 1 the union and it did indeed save the union, but it was a war that did d great deal more than that. It created l in this country what had never ex isted before-a national consciousness. l It was the time when America for the l first time realized it's unity and saw l the vision of it's united destiny l ''The solemn lesson of these mem ories for us is not that we must be ready to save the union again, for there l are none among us who threaten its life l but that we must see to it that the l unity then realized, the vision then seen lis exemplified in us and the things l that we do. Because there is no stim-
 ulation in any lesson unless it be the | stimulation to duty There is no stim 1 Itlation in any occasion if 1t be mere | ly the pleasure of recollection; it mnst l also be the ardor and courage of hope. l Greater days lie before this nation than ! IL has ever seen yet and the solemn 1 consciousness of those who bear of 1 flee in this time is that they must make their best endeavor to embody in 1 what they do and say the best things l in the United States.
 The Only Test
 l Tt does not do to talk too much about oneself and 1 do not think that 1t is wholesome for the United States to talk too much about itself ] dc not want to know what you are
 today so much as l want to know what you are going to do tomorrow. The l only test I know of that is competent to determine what you are is the test of what you do. Let us not thick
 
 cuties and of the actions that lie be- fore us have always maintained that the man who lives to cultivate his own character will resultonly in cultivat- ing an intolerabley prig, because his hject will be himself. Character, my friends, is a by-product It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. But duty is not easy to determine. Duty for a nation is made up of so
 many complicated clements that no man can determine it. No group of men without wide common counsel can pos sibly determine what the duty. of the
 day is. That is the strength of dem ocracy. because there daily rises in the great body of a democracy the express sion of an uptrammeled opinion wh,ch seems to fill the air with its sugges- tions of duty, and those who stand at the head of affairs have 1t as their bcunden duty to endeavor to express in their own actions those things that seem to rise out of the conscience and hope and purpose of the great body Of the people themselves.
 America, I have said, was reborn by the struggle of the civil war but America Is reborn every day of her life | by the purposes we form, the concep- lions we entertain, the hopes that we cherish We live in our visions. We live in the things that we sec We live, and hope abounds in us as we live in the things that we purpose. Let us go away from this place renewed in our devo- ton to daily duty and to those ideals which keep a nation young, keep 1t noble, keep 1t rich in enterprise and achievements make it to lead the na tions of the world in those things that
 make for hope and for the benefit of
 mankind" At the conclusion of the exercises
 in the amphitheatre of the cemetery
 President Wilson witnessed the unveil-
 The monument is the main mast and
 fighting top of the Maine, set in a granite and marble base chiseled in the form of gun turrent
 Secretary Daniels, principal speaker at this ceremony raised tribute to "sacrince," saying 1t was the ono at- tribute to which everybody paid homage
 The universe teens with stout hearts," said the Secretary. Courage is the commonest virtue among men If you once doubted this truth the abun- dant display of 1t on iand and sea in the past few months has not left you a skeptic. The call of home and country In the day of danger drowns all the oaser crles or seif, of passion. of avaric6 The love of ones own laud stirs as no other affection One hour the free man stands in the assemblies and declaims against what 4le believes the unjust policies of his government. The next hour another country is in arms against his <motherland In th 2 | supreme passion of being true to his own. opposition fades away and the everest critics forget he had ground l for censure"
 Az part of the ceremony Frank Basley 1