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"I can no morc imaginc a man loving only the North or South half of hir country than I can imaginc him loving only thc right or left side of hir wife. If I had to love my country on the installmcnt plaq I'd move out of it. The ' man who ir really a patriot loveg his country in a lump. There is room in hic heart for every acre of ite sunny soil; its every hill upon which the morning breaks; its every vale that cradles the evening shadowe; its every Etrcam that laughs back the image of the sun. I may be a man without a party or a creed; but so long as Old Glory \raves in God's blue firmament, I will never be a man without a country."

Cowper Brann.

Isn't the above a wonderful inspiration to patriotism? ft belongs, dear friends, in every scrapboolg it should be blazoned in letters of fire whcre all Americans may read; it should be placed in the hands of every boy now training for soldiering, and of all the parents and dear ones of those boys in uniform, who, as Jim McGuinness said, are offering "to die that w*e may live."

All men are more or less malleable. More than anything else my mind can reach for, "what this country needs," as the old saying goes, is more and better exhortations to patriotism, to love of country, to love of fag; they are needed a thousand times more today than ever before because this is a strange and unreal war we are engaged in, and confusion reigns supreme. This nation vitally needs to hear and read thrilling and inspiring thoughts translated into words and phrases like those above, which were spoken away back in 1894 at a patriotic rally that was partaken in by both Federal and Confederate veterans of the Civil War.

f read enormous quantities these days of printed words, editorials, columns, and news; and I listen to volumes of informative and otherwise words coming in over the radio, and there is constantly driven deep into my consciousness the belief that in all of them there is lacking one huge fundamental thing i pure patriotism i:loquently expressed. That is the great shortage today. Short-horse politicians make poor exhorters; they*save no souls.

ft seems fe ms-and I wake at night and shudder at the thought-that this mighty nation that once produced and provided patriotic sons capable of speaking and writing words of fire unsurpassed in all this world's history, hears and reads such words no more. Just as our leader- rhip har rhrunken in rizc and importance, Bo har our oratory. Evcn in what ir bcing called thc "great debate" conccrning rending roldicre abroad, now in progrcr!, there is no oratory, no patriotic eloquence, no sraining at the heartr of men through the power of pulsing wordt and thrilling thoughts. Not any. And my mind gocs back to the time when in the United States Senate there took place an immortal debate, with Daniel Webster and Henry Clay on one side, and on the other John C. Calhoun, the mastcr logician. A British reporter who witnessed it, reported to his paper that nothing like it had been known on this earth since thc battle between the angels. Compare those men and their monumental gift of debate, with what takes place todaI I

Understand, we have lots of good, sincere, and patriotic men pouring the fruits of their hearts and minds into the effort to solve our present riddles; but the fire is lacking. Those who hear or read their words inherit from them no thrills, no patriotic fervor. The kind of talk that stirs the hearts of men when trumpets blow for war; that makes them walk up to the cannon's mouth with heads held high -is lacking. Perhaps I am too prone to exaggerate the value of eloquence. But think what a Webster, a Clay, a Calhoun, a Lincoln, a Patrick Henry, or an Ingersoll could do today to enthuse this nation and shake it from its lethargy!

Don't jump me, Junior, for putting Ingersoll in- that group ! Since the tingling of the morning stars came fresh from the hands of the Creator, few men have ever equalled the eloquence of Ingersoll. Recently while celebrating his birthday we read and spoke much about the amazing eloquence of Lincoln. Yet when that sublime thinker went to hear Ingersoll speak, he seemed to kneel in humble admiration of that great orator, for, returning, he said to his wife: "What a mighty instrument is human speech, when played by a master."*

Perhaps f can best illustrate the kind .of patriotic talk I am writing about, by simply quoting some more of the things that W. C. Brann said to that Civil War veterans' convention. If we just had men who could handle the present situation as he did that one! I believe these further remarks will thrill you as they have me. He said:

"As an American I am proud of every man of whatever section, who, by the nobility of his nature or the majesty of his intellect has added one jot or tittle to the fame of this fair land; has increased the credit of our common country; has contributed new power to the car of progress.