The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-31

of men and women living on this earth, the ideal of freedom, justice, dignity and self respect for every man and every woman
 Abraham Lincoln reminded us at Gettysburg that our forefathers
 brought forth upon this continent new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
 that all men are created equal
 When he stated that simple truth
 his words recalled the many cen
 turies of the slow progress of the ! human race from barbarism and
 slavery, through tyranny and serf- dom, struggling upward toward a 1 light which could be seen dimly at first throughout many dark ages
 but light to which the founders
 of this republic had found tn e path, upon which path they set
 their steps through blood and tears
 until the pinnacle of freedom was i achieved.
 l National Pathway
 That is the pathway which was
 followed by our fathers, and our | fathers fathers. That is the high
 est ground yet achieved by any human society. and that ground we once again defend, with blood and
 tears, against the onslaught of new i tyrants. On this as on every Mem
 orial Day we men and women of
 America gather to do honor to those who have fallen in the fight
 for the ideal expressed by that pathway of the American way of
 life, that light of liberty, our fore
 fathers, our fathers, our brothers,
 and today-our sons The path will
 be defended. The light will burn.
 America will always remember
 "As we bow our heads by the
 graves of Americas soldiers on our
 especial day of annual remem-
 brance, our thoughts go back
 through many years of history. We
 remember that the blessings of a
 good life in a fair land have come
 to us through the sacrifices of the
 past. We remember farther back
 than the history of our own na-
 ton, and recall the centuries of
 human struggle toward a realiza-
 ton of the rights and dignity of
 man. Not in war and strife alone,
 but in sacrifice and prayer, and in
 the inspiration of the greatest and most noble spirits of the race, was liberty conceived and equality ex- pressed Moses received the message on Mount Sinai and engraved it upon tables of stone. Guatama Buddha saw it and preached it to the millions of eastern Asia. Con- fucius framed it into words of philosophic wisdom. Mahomet per ceived it's truth and founded an empire and a religion upon the doctrines of mans equality and mutual duty. Above all other teach CTS came the word from the simple man of Nazareth, through whose message the souls of men have been made free.
 Our Sacrifices
 Knowing these things, we know that the sacrifices we commemor- ate today have not been made in vain. We know that our men oi America who have died that lib- erty might live have died upon the path of righteousness and that the light they saw was the light of a divine law Today, beside the warriors of the years gone by, rest | the young soldiers of today, fallen on the right path. following the | true light, immortaliZed i'll the hearts of honest men forever be- cause in their turn they h a We II IuIIltu UdCh UllC oWOA0 OA tAiS CP pressor in order that justice and
 decency may continue in this world
 The spirit of Memorial Day IS
 eternal. To each generation in oul
 United States comes the duty ot
 perpetuating it's outward forms and
 ceremonies. To those who have gone
 into battle for America, and have
 laid at rest their comrades fallen
 so that America shall stand, this duty is peculiarly sacred. From the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, now almost all resting under the crosses of honored glory from the thinning but still vigilant ranks of the United Spanish War Veterans, this special obligation has passed in large measure to The American Legion. The Legion, rep resentative of those who lie lii Flanders Fields, welcomes it's re- sponsibility. Its membership now open to those who will be the vet erans of the present world strug- gle, it may be permitted to carry