The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17

ing the question put to them How do you know this or that?" putting aside all interrogators with a wave of the hand
 that thereby they were alone competent
 to teach the world (and the world came near lowing to their arrogance); where as their boasted achievements amounted,
 in the main, to little more than that of
 Jack Horner who sat in the corner,
 eating his Christmas pie and who put , in his thumb and pulled out plum saying: What smart boy am T.
 The Kaiser became convinced of the correctness of thought of his benighted people, falling into persuasion of it as readily as Sancho Panza did to his gov ernorship of Barratania and assumed | the management of that partnership which, of a truth, should subsist between God and man. That was noble conceit | of the Kaiser's that partnership between himself and God, and had he left the management with God, it would have prospered; but when he put God out of office, and assumed the management of the affairs of the firm, the bankruptcy which has overtaken him was inevitable To speak of the Kaiser and the im- mortal Washington in the same breath iSeS'pAS Ol oidcpliSiiiyp anu duN COIlpdTl- son of the two would, in the language | of Dogberry, be "odorous," but with what divinity of mind did Washington re- | pei all attempts on the part of his coun- | trymen to idolize or apotheosize him. His was that true greatness of which Sem
 eca speaks: Were magnum habere in und, stabilitatem dei ct fraglitatem ho- | minis, the stability of god manifest 1 ing itself in the man.
 J,at +t,o l~o ing called upon to indulge unrestrained
 adulation and glorification of the heroes | of the great conflict between peoples on | the one hand who are emerging from su- perstition, idolatry and organism, and l those on the other who were unconsci- | ously steeped o such abominations, and | who defended degradation and de- | basement with 1T lives, may we not l congratulate wl... ourselves that the out burst of the flames of enthusiasm and | glorification which have been kindled by
 the glorious issue of that conflict, and | which are now smouldering in exultant 1 hearts until they say, the Rainbow divi- sion and "Black Jack" Pershing shall re- turn from France, when they shall be per mitted to burst forth with all imaginable fury, shall amount to no more than the generous outpourings of the hearts of g
 free and grateful people, and which, hay. | llS eApeHQeU lHtIiSelNcS III lHeif OWi
 impetuosity, shall leave no permanen
 sca1ds and scars, and brands of tha
 worst form of idolatry-man-w worship.
 And of the heroes who shall return
 from the least of them to the greates
 of them, those who shall, in emulation
 of the father of this great country, calm
 ly. firmly. and consistently refuse t
 encourage in the hearts of their coun
 trymen development in any institutions
 fnr,, ,F |, t, nrt I.v, n
 emotionalism, will enroll themselves il
 that great order of the Cincinnati
 founded by Washington, the "Cincinna
 tus of America" Figuratively speaking
 as we in our ship of state pass by th' ; shores of that fabled island, do we no
 hear those on the shores proclaiming t' us: 'The Great God Man Is Dead"