Fear not that ye have died for naught. The torch ye threw to us we caught. Ten million hands will hold it high, And freedom's light shall never die! We've learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders fields. _R. W. Lillard_ AMERICAN SENTIMENTS It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. _Woodrow Wilson_ We came into this war for ourselves. It is a war to save America, to preserve self-respect, to justify our right to live as we have lived, not as some one else wishes us to live. It is more precious that this America shall live than that we Americans should live. _Franklin K. Lane_ No nation has a right to its freedom if it is unwilling to fight for the freedom of others, and for its own. The cost of war is not to be measured in money. It is in the slow paid price of the human heart--in the blood drops, one by one. _Charles C. Gordon_ BIBLIOGRAPHY See Bibliography at end of monograph. FLAG DAY June 14 THE STARS AND STRIPES It is not a painted rag. It is a whole national history. It is the Constitution. It is the Government. It is the free people that stand in the Government, on the Constitution. _Henry Ward Beecher_ FLAG DAY HANNAH H. CHEW, PRINCIPAL CULVER SCHOOL, MILLVILLE The great war has brought more forcibly to us a realization of the necessity for training the youth of our land to a greater respect for, and a fuller knowledge of our national emblem. Wherever the flag floats, children must be taught to love it and to respect its significance. New Jersey long ago required that the flag be displayed on school buildings, and the flag salute be given daily, but no statute can make certain that the spirit of the law is emphasized.