The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-16
YOUNG PATRIOTS OF LINCOLNDALE
REVERE MEMORY OF THEIR PATRON
At ANNUAL HOLIDAY EXERCISES

refreshing to roam over the cottages
and grounds, from dishwashing ma
chimes to administration Office, and
everywhere that a boy was found to
find there also a bright smile and an
Intelligent manner accompanied with
ready, though not forward, word of
direction or explain ation to an inquir-
ing quest To one who observed it
seemed quite apparent that there is
real comradeship between brothers
and their charges. On a casual meet
ing between one and the other there
seemed always to be exchange of
greetings or at least a look of pleasure.
Brother Henry, the Director of Lin
coIndale, is the host to the manner
born. Each guest, be he previous
charge or wealthy benefactor, receives
a warm welcome and feels quite at
csc. Out on the porch to greet the
first arrival and again at the same
spot and down the steps to speed the
very last to depart-here, there and
everywhere-one lost sight of him on
1y to find him again, nearby or distant
diffusing his good nature on some new
group of boys visitors.
Among the guests at the Lincoln
Day celebration above described were
noted Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas M. MUlry,
who have been connected with Lin
coIndale and Westchester Protectory
since their earliest reco1ections. Mr..
Mu1ry has so many charities on his
hands, that one might make an acros-
tic of his name, also, letting the first
initial stand for its Roman numeraI
and then there would still be a few
more charities to be added that no
one knows but himself. Perhaps Mr..
Marks could be induced to Try his skill
on ''Mulry'' as well as Lincoln for
some future celebration. There were
also present Miss Mary Mulry, who
from her apparent enjoyment of the
day, bids fair some day to be a worthy
successor to her distinguished pS-renrs
Mrs. Catherine Boyle, Mr.. and Mrs
Edmond D. Curry, Mr.. George B. Rob
inson, Brother Paulian, DR.. Quinlan,
DR.. Shea, and so many more than tho
usual number of guests, that it would
be Impossible to name all, The ex-
ira car that the Harlem Road always
runs for this event was taxed to ca
pacity from New York City to Lin
coIndale.
Below follows the prize Grafton
above referred to:
TRUE PATRIOTISM.
when we look back into the CEN
turtles and inquire from history what
caused one nation to fly at the throat
of another, think we will find the
answer to be: Ignorance leading to
false conception of patriotism. From
the very beginning of recorded his
tory, we find patriotism exalted, in
some cases, until it has almost usurped
| the place of Religion.
Patriotisn-love of ones country
is one of the noblest sentiments of the
human heart. But, patriotism as 1t is
commonly inculcated is not simply
love of ones country but, suspicion
and even hatred of other countries.
How often are we taught that our own
country is superior to all others and
that our institutions are second to
none? ~
Right and wrong, justice and crime
exist independently of our country. A
public wrong is not a private right
for any citizen. The citizen Is a
man bound to know and do the right,
| and a nation should be an aggrega-
ton of such citizens.
eff a man should shout, My country
| by whatsoever means extended and
bounded, my country right or wrong,
he merely repeats the word OF the
thief who steals in the street or the
! trader who forswears himself in the
custom house.
my fortune howsoever acquired,
can never be the motto of any good
citizen. Thus we see that man
country is not certain area or Iand
of varied mountain ranges, flowing
rivers and verdant woods but love OF
the good and the true, of home and
friends founded on principle; and pa
triotism is loyalty to the principle.
THAT patriotism which takes its IN
SEPARATION from the Creator of the
citizen to deeds Of valor, of devotion
even death itself, that and that alone
is public virtue and public virtue IS
patriotism.
AFTER the stupendous war now ra-
ging who can say that bravery in
superlative degree belongs to his race
| alone? Has it not been demonstrated
that bravery, valor and self-sacrlnce
are attributes not of a single nation
or race but of all mankind? All
nations have virtues as all nations
have vices.
LET us be patriotic Americans, but
| let us not be a party to the vihhcation
of any nation or race. On the con-
| trary, let US remember that all men
! are brothers, none are all good not
even our own; and none all evil; that
all are stamped with the seal of the
| Divinity and tending towards a goal,
| where God has prepared homes Tor
those who love Him first, country next,
and self last.