New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31

are busy with the mechanics Of life. Any
person who is not getting results 10 fet
by them to be Intellectual. In that ABSORB
ton in material gain they have laid hold a.
doctrine which would justify them in theli
indifference to profounder values. It is 81
that We have weakened our sense Of ma
tionality.
The nation is a natural biological group
whose members have an Instructive liking
for each other and "act with a common pur-
pose" The instructive liking is created by
common customs and shared experience
This experience, expressed in song and legi"
latve enactment and legend, becomes known
as the national tradition, and is passed %
from generation TO generation in househo''
heroes. such as Lincoln, and famous phrases
such as government Of the people" That
instructive liking, created by the contacts OF
a common purpose and rooted in loved ira
dition, is gradually being weakened IN our
people By mportations of aliens, who have
not shared in % common experience and nave
not inherited our tradition. II Is not pos
sible to blend diverse races into NATION
when members Of one race plot against our
institutions in the interests Of huropean
state and members Of another race extrse'
wealth from our industry and carry It home
to their own people. Instructive liking is ne'
so nourished. A common purpose is not msa.
Tested in that way We have not touched
the Imagination Of these newcomers
These changing conditions Of our groS'H
have botted out from memory the old ms
torlc experience and substituted a fresheh
more recent, experience. Forty years Of peace
and commercial prosperity have created
new American tradition, breeding IT'S oN"
catch words and philosophy. The change mas
come so quietly and yet so completely us'
Americans to-day are largely unaware tna'
they are speaking and acting from different
motives. impulses and desires than those o.
the men who created and established the 10
ton. The types Of our national heroes nav.
changed. We have substituted captains o.
industry for pioneers and smart men TOT CIV
alive men. Our popular phrases express NV
new current Of ideas. Making good 'neu'
trality," punch" peace and prosperity ,
these stir our emotional centres. We use.
to be shaken and moved when the spirit o.
a KOssuth or Caribaldi sake to US. But to-
day we receive the appeal Of Cardinal Me'.
cier and are unmoved. We no longer kn0'
the great accent when we hear II.
SO we must look TO the young to save y
Henry Farnsworth was Boston mar I'VE.
ty-Gve years old He died near "'Es"''"
fghting Tor France :.
81 want to fight for France he had '''"'
"as the French once fought for US
Our American workers are aiding r's"
because she defends our tradition ~AI'n
also hers. tradition OF freedom ana ".
tice. praetised in equality In her Se'''V
OF il there are elements Of intellectual s'ss'
cham. a profundity OF feeling EXPRESS
with light touch, bits OF glory eio'"'o
flowing purple. which are peculiar 70 "
Latin temperament But the ground p'an
the same. Our doctors and nurses OF W.
American Hospital, our workers in the a0'',"
and the clearing house, our boys !"
American Field Service, are not alone ''''
the lives Of broken men OF friendly pe0P'''
They are restoring American nationsh''