Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-29

years. hyve rural mail carriers lost their lives in the
performance of their duties that organizations in each
field kept busy citing the vaor of miners. and tee
phone operators and messenger boys? More than
thousand medals have been given for gallanty in the
telephone service alone and up to four ago. the
Carnegie Fund had considered the of nearly $1,000
men. and children who had sked their lives that
others might live and made awards in 2,89 of them.
We should have neither bridges railroads tall
buildings if thought doing his job more important
than personal security.
W. REcoLLEcr how Colonel John Jacob Astor put his
wife into ifeboat the Titanic, and stepping back
to make for other women lit his cigarette and sad
"Goodby dear I'll join you later But do you remember
the brass band that went playing while the vessel
sinking? Did you know that every enlisted man in the
feet volunteered to sail the collier Merrimac under the
Spanish guns Santiago de Cuba and block the channel
by blowing her up? Every and in the employ
of the Southern California telephone companies was cited
for rskng life in devotion to duty following the earth
quake of March 10. 1893. Did you hear of Alvin
Page the railway postal clerk. who. faced by four armed
desperadoes on Texas & Pacific train out of Dallas.
calmly dragged away the mailbags behind which they
hiding and exposed them to the fire of secret
concealed in the car? Or of Sarah j. Rookie, the
sixty eight yearod switchboard operator at Folsom New
Mexico, who stuck to her post, warning people, The
rivers broken loose up the valley; for your ves!
until she and her cottage swept into the flood? Did
you know rof Patrick F. O'Nei the schoolteacher who
under fire, carried twenty-five pounds of dynamite to
blow up the refuge of convcts who had shot their guards
and deying the militia in the state penitentiay at
Canon City, Colorado? And did you read few weeks
ago of the English doctor who operating for mastod
when planes bombed the hospital? There raid
shelter outside Did the doctor for it? No. he finished
the operation And your family doctor doubtless would
have done the same.
I'm sorry but can't believe that speaker in Rochester
too many people have proved, and proving it false
There may be thousands SOFT tmd, comfortable
that nothing else to them worth while exist
ence but there millions who know that to live under
certain conditions may be only prolongng death,
1t is not those lying in Flanders Fields who suffer- but
countless numbers of those who go living in Poland
and Belgium and France To these the dying might have
said what Jesus said to the daughters of Jerusalem
not for me- but weep for yourselves and for children
people that prefers dishonor to death will have
to weep. The who would not perish for wife child
country for any ideal achievement principle, is
part of death of the soul by which mankind survives
There must be last trench beyond which the human
spirit will retreat Whatever have of security and
dignity and welbeing for ourselves nation and
all that separates from savagery, everything of
the mind and heart, and of aspiration and accomplish
wanting to live, still dared for high to suffer-
resist, fight - if need be- to die