Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
Lindbergh, Like St. Louis, French King,
A World Beacon of Courage and Spirit

darkness and the relentless upreach-
ing powers of wind and wave, in de-
termined striving against their new
conqueror. Undaunted he rode on,
his heart strong in the serene courage
of a fixed purpose. Just ahead, MS
heart must have cried. lies France,
and the goal drew him on Who
knows but that the laughing spirit
of Saint Louis guided him safe to
Paris? There Is power in the associ-
alton of ideas, and the young aviator
went companioned with more than
hope, more than courage, for he
shared his voyage with the Spirit or
Saint Louis. .
Was ever there a king so real and
vet so familiar in address, convers-
ing with ease with his household
and his mobiles, removing thereby all
constraint and misunderstanding?
1t is as though st. Louis had tu-
tored the young crusader from the
West, for Lindbergh spoke with peas
ant and with king. saying always the
right thing in the right manner in
the right place. 1t is regal art
and worth kingdom to its possessor.
81 am Charles Lindbergh.'' he said
to the Old World. and the Old World
and the New were captivated with
which cleaned a genuine humility.
diffidence not of timidity but OF
fixed purpose and calm endeavor.
The young king, in his love for his
people, loved order and justice, and
strove to establish these principles
that his land might be happy.
Through sheer moral persuasion, he
stamped out rebellions before they
arose; he attended trials and heard
his officers try cases, for always he
wanted unity and justice in his fair
land of France. What was right?
Where was justice? Not until the
answer came did he act.
Somehow, Lindbergh fits into that
picture. too, for, when the adoring
world lay at his young feet, it was
drought best that he return to his
homeland. So he put aside the
to the wish of his country. 1t
must have cost him dear, and his
young eyes must have held the
strange light of joys withheld, but he
would in good grace obey the sum-
mons. though his heart longed to see
Europe.
Lindbergh seems, indeed, like ST.
Louis, every inch king, strong in
body, serene in spirit, accomplished in
endeavor heroic in adversely, man
so clean-cut in character that the
petty weaknesses of men find no
lodging in 9his clear atmosphere.
Louis could face in fearless calm the
terrors of a bloodthirsty Saracen
army on the hot sands of Egypt, but
were their terrors greater than the
terror of the wide stretch of waters
that we call the Atlantic? Louis
would teach these infidels the way of
peace, and Lindbergh, without effort,
SO charmed the people of France that
where misunderstanding had been be-
tween that country and ours, there
blossomed like a flower in a desert
the fair bloom of concord.
If Louis ruled by the moral force
of his clear. shining character, so has
Lindbergh won the allegiance of the
world through the charm of his char
acter In some earlier age, when the
giant imagination of the newborn
was in full strength, some eternal
epic would have been woven from the
character of Lindbergh and from his
noble exploit. an epic song to go sing
ing down the ages the pristine con-
quest of the paths of the winds whose
way lies above the Watery
wastes we call the Atlantic.
Crusaders both, these world dream
ers, these young hearts whose laugh.
ter mingles the modern and the mid
die ages, the joyous laughing of spirits
that are serene and content in pur-
pose-flled lives. 1t is a fair renais-
sance that ST. Louis has had at
the hands of Col. Lindbergh. The
young crusader will go companioned
all his days with the enchanting fig-
ure of st. Louis.
Winifred Knox closes fascinating
of the soung king with words
that might well have been written for
so aptly do they voice his
to an age that pretended
to scott at things of the spirit: Louis
was one of those chosen souls who are
the beacon lights of their generation,
whose flame is the signal which
wakens the distant fires of other CEN
turtles to life. Their lives are not only
beautiful memories. They are living.
dominant forces in the spiritual world
for all generations. In every age, apart
from every limitation of time or cir
cumstance, they maintain the eternal
standards of truth and justice, and
appeal from the things of the flesh
to the hidden things Of the spirit. 1t
is in this long, fllustrious line of spir-
itual princess. among the great guard
ians of the Spiritual monarchy, that
st. Louis Of France has his undying
fame