The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
OUR REAL TRIBUTE.


The universal subject for the pulpit, yes
terday, was Memorial Day. The Rev. Fred
erick Shannon who breaches at Orchestra hall
in Chicago presented thought of useful
value to all of us. Without mlnlnlz-
ing in the least the beautiful ceremonial OBJ
servance of Memorial Day, with its eloquent
eulogy of our valiant dead, and it's varied tri-
butes of song and garland, he urged upon us
that all this is not enough. Memorial Day is
for us-for us more than for them. 1t is due
to our own spiritual growth that we turn from
the engrossing affairs of every day, and i'm
press upon ourselves the debt of everlasting
and imperishable gratitude we owe to those
who died, those who suffered, and those who
survived 1t is national inspiration which
we all need, and which should revivify our
patriotism through all the months that follow.
But, as for them, living or dead, manned or I'M
harmed, there is tribute broader and deeper
which is their due, and which should be given
faithfully and ungrudgingly.
Whenever the hour of national need has
come the men have been there to- meet it
triumphantlY, at whatever COST Once, to es-
tablish the right of humanity to liberty once
to repel an invader; once to maintain inyiolate
the constitution that had been established in
war and cemented in blood; once to rescue a
bleeding and suffering neighbor people; once
to save the right of free peoples of the world
to remain free No matter what we have
fought for, or whom we have fought, war to
us has always been a battle for principle
and nothing but the establishment or defense
of fundamental principle has ever called our
nation to it's colors. And it is not enough to
eulogize those who have made these valiant
battles successful-it is not enough to deco
rate with beautiful flowers the graves wherein
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stricken who are left to us from the field of
battle-all this we do cheerfully and in the
fulness of loving gratitude. But the princi-
pies for which they fought are in every in
stance grounded deep in human life, and they
are principles that, once fought for. and estab-
lished, must be maintained in the constant
exercise of vigilance and endeavor.
This is the duty Dr. Shannon urged upon us
as the real tribute to which our loved and hon
ored soldiers are entitled. They won the fights
1t is ours to carry on. They went over the top
at the zero hour-many of them-far far too
many went West" from which there is no re-
turn-some came back to lifelong suffering
and serious economic impairments-they
lived, for the principles which called them, all
the hell there is to be lived in all the ways
there is to live it. And while they should have
their eulogy their songs and their flowers, all
ouCpoured from the ueep gFaIlCuQe OF ma
TONS loving heart-that is all futile and shall
low mockery unless we too dedicate our lives,
not merely on Memorial Day, but on every
day, to perpetuate forever, the principles for
which they served.
Memorial Day, as we get the thought from
DR.. Shannon, is merely milestone on the way
which shall serve to.remind us that we too are
passing along the road they blazed out for u.s.
and that it is we who must in honor to them
forever keep the way open for all to reach the
goal they fought for Let their service and
their sacrifice constantly remind us that we
too have duty to maintain always that for
which they served and sacrificed