Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-28

The morbid seeking after publicity
which sometimes becomes epidemic
among men and women, suggests the
great need Of another amendment to
the American Constitution which will
enable the addiction to come under
better control than that vouchsafed by
State laws.
For example, two prominent" preach
ers in New York City announced as
the topic on which they would preach
last Sunday the proposition that Me-
mortal day should be abolished, because
"it preserves the tradition of war, as dc
the Grave of the Unknown Soldier, mil
itary training in public schools and
propaganda by our so-called patriotic
One said: I would have parades of
black-robed mothers through the streets
mourning the dead, so futilely dead.
would have the living rededicate them
selves, that If these dead shall not have
died In vain we must see to 1t that nc
others shall similarly die"
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Just as the devil has been accused
of quoting Holy Scripture, and dis
torting its meaning to his own hellish
purpose, SO the cause of love of coun-
try and its ideals of liberty and Jus
tice is distorted in false paraphrase
that I'VE, the living, shall be here
consecrated to the cause for which they
died" 1.-The cause" was not cowardice
$50 futilely dead?" Go ask q war
mother If she would today desecrate
the holy grave Of son or husband by
recalling him to live q character like
that which would sneer at the brave
and scott at love of country even in
the face of the ultimate sacrifice.
Was it the pacifists who formulated
the Kellogg multilateral treaty? Was
it the traitors who pledged the nations
of the world to forswear war as a
national policy? No! But 1t Is only
they who today belittle the statesman
ship which pledges that every other
method but war shall first be used to
maintain peace and secure the safety
of civilization.
And, after all else has failed, and
evil threatens to destroy the ideals Of
liberty and home, then men shall say
as did the patriot at Lexington: IF
they are bound to have war, let it begin
here and now"
So long as character surmounts
flee, men will know that defensive
war-defensive of pure ideals of liberty
and home and of the dependent weak
is righteous, and Sinking evasion Is
shameful.
Memorial day has accomplished q
miracle of reconciliation between the
Blue and the Gray of those who fought
for their ideals, so or more years ago,
but today know only that bravery and
devotion and sacrifice, such as exalts
humanity. was on both sides OF the
fighting line.
Was not Lincoln right in saying:
1.-THE world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did here?
Nor did those heroes of Gettysburg
differ one whit in spirit and devotion
to lofty ideals from the American men
of Manila and Cuba or the men at ST..
Mihiel and the Meuse-ArgonAe.
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Abolish Memorial day? What ghoul
will desecrate the grave of the Un-
known Soldier, who typif1es all true
soldiers?
The traitorous proposal brings every
American into closer comprehension OF
how Moses felt when he came down
from the mountain with the stone tab
let's of the Ten Commandments. and
was so shocked and furious at the
sight Of the gold calf that he smashed
the stones. Scriptures fail to say that
he hit the calf with them, but surely
there are some modern calves which
would make fine targets.
When this notwithstanding pacifist
preacher proclaimed his brave co pur-
pose to insult the veterans and war
uothexs with o pulpit harangIe against