New Britain herald., 1919-09-22


 a great nation moved by war by so completely unselfsh and idealistic mo- lives.
 Scores Political Agitation.
 F'lt was this for which these men died, and if we are to see to it that they shall not have died in vain, then we must not in this day of readtust- ment allow those ideals and those lofty purposes to be lost in the scram- ble. The man who uses the serious issues of the hour for political or business advantage is a traitor just as truly as the man who in any way gave aid to the enemy or obstructed our progress in time of war. The hour is nc less serious now than then, in truth it is more serious. The deci- sions which must be made by our leaders in the next six months will decide the destinies of civilized peo- Dles for hundreds of years to come. If those decisions are spiritual it means life and liberty, if they are material and selfish 1t means a slow decline into tho same kind of catastrophe which the word has witnessed in the last five years. The days were never so serious.
 "A special responsibility rests upon the members of the A. E. F. because you are young men and upon you must rest the burden of solving and carrying through to fruition the is- sues of the years ahead. You bear a peculiar responsibility also because you. especially you who saw the fighting, had a vision of life given in supreme sacrifice for a noble cause. No man can have gene through that experience, seeing his comrades fall ing all about him and not knowing but that any moment will be his last. without being deepened in his spirit ual vision and enlarged in his sym pathies and interests in mankind This vision did not come to all men. You have suffered and in your suffer- ing you have seer God and read His will for men. Alas it must be said many have not suffered sufficiently to catch the real meaning Cf this terri ble war.
 "GoG pity us if we fail these men who gave not only their lives but their immortality on earth which would have been perpetusted through their offspring. We must not break faith with them"
 Father Sullivan Speaks.
 Father Sullivan's subject was directed at the boys who came back. and a better more American speech, one in which all that is best in Amer icanism was urged, has never been heard here. Father Sullivan took occasion to verbally fay the Boston police for what he considered their unAmerican action in deserting their posts and leaving their fellow citizens unprotected. He spoke, in part, as follows:
 When the story of the great war will take it's place in our histories, we will see emb1azoned on it's pages the marvellous achievement of that dauntless and intrepid leader of the French air forces, that king of bird- men, the ace of aces-Guyneme We are told that Guynemer so com pletely made himself the master of the aerial conflicts with the German aviators that the very mention of his name struck terror into the hearts of his enemies By that name the Ger man cavalry would call their horses to attention while German mothers would still their children by the mere mention of it.
 One eventful day during the great war the leading birdmen of France gathered early in the morning for an ok under their great leader, Guy nemer. Up in the air the great col umn of Frances bravest scared, to do battle with the menacing host of Germany's aerial fleet.
 "The contest was fought. the Ger man air forces were nearly anni- Inflated, back to their rendezvous came the remnants of Frances fam ous birdmen. Back, did I say? Yes, but one did not return.
 France Doses Guynemer.
 '"The report spread throughout the camp that Guynemer did not return; throughout the allied encampments the cry arose, 'Guynem has not returned!' All France took it up and the sorrowful wall resounded through it's length and breadth-G has not returned!'
 "Our Guynemers-our heroes-left New Britain just two years ago, and they, too, did not return. They suf- fered and died for us. and their hal lowed remains on foreign shores are eloquent testimony of the supreme sacrifice they made for us.
 Christ trod the thorny way of the Cross even as the brave boys whose mortal remains lie beneath the pop pies of Flanders field.
 Christ led the way; the Cross on which He offered up His precious life whispered a new meaning to those who looked from the trench into eternity The sufferings of the God