The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08

lenged .t people to rally to the sup port ot their colors so unsulled and so proud. The cry of Columbia was heard and needed. How magnificent ly her ISople rallied to her side needs no rete &ng here. The old and the young q their part. And 10 matter how hut hple a part might have been played { the oldest man or woman, or the VI xngest boy or girl, they did
 their bit as best they could and we know that within their breasts the flame of patriotism and the fire of their 1 love of country burned clearly and as strongly as it flared in the heart of the most intrepid American dough- boy soldier on the far-flung battle front. 1t was the great American sprit--the spirit of the new world the spirit of the west-that formed our army and that backed it up so wonderfully and made it possible, in at incredibly short space of time, Tor
 the fresh, youthful, bouyant American army to fling itself, like an olive drab whirlwind, across the subma-
 rine-infested waters, to bolster the faltering and wearier forces of our allies over there and to inspire them with new hope and give them new life. just as the ,ransfusion of fresh lifeblood from the veins of friend into the body rf weakened comrade.
 A Wonderful Story
 Tt will be wonderful story in history, my friends, for our children
 to read-how then the allied armies,
 invigorated with this new blood' ripped the German lines asunder eN- anywhere and continued their furious and relentless onslaught until the T. .l,,.t,, !. f,,.r n sinking away with bowed head and
 broken sword. and the curse of Kais- erism was stamped torevcrmore from
 the face of the earth.
 And today, my friends, she ap- peals to us again, and the great American spirit must again respond. Her call today to you and to me IS not 'To armsr but to the duties oi citizenship. It is that we must meet this future that our country is facing,
 as true, faithful, noble- e-hearted Amer ican citizens. It was to prepare us to meet this test that our forefathefs died at Bunker Hill; that our tath- CTS gave up their lives at Gettysburs' and that our brothers made the SUI prefne sacrifice at Chateau Thierry and in the Argonne forest. To us here now they left legacy which we
 must fulfill.
 "Nobly, as they died, must we live here now, and faithful must we uo
 our full duty as true-hearted Ameri-
 can citizens, living always above ana
 beyond sham and veneer and talse issue, striving to know and do Una.
 which is for the best interests or our country, if we are to carry out the
 legacy left to us by our immortal
 buddies who went over with us pu.
 who came not back again
 "Personally. l have no fear aooue
 ths soldier of yesterday proving ms
 stability as the citizen of today, anu
 of the years to come. Of course we
 know that the average man came out
 of the service more or less unstruhs and out of tune, for the moment, wlth
 the routine of civil life. It is but nat
 nral that he felt the wanderlust d.
 first and that he was restless anu
 found it difficult to imme iiately ntlu the notch where he could best ils himself back into the scheme oi things But. I am sure that he Will adjust himself and that he will dem onstrate his real worth as goou' active, intelligent anc depenoaple citizen"