man lives his fellowship is a blessing, and when he dies his memory is sacred. [Applause.]

But one more stroke remains to be added to the picture. The typical Dutchman is a man of few words. Perhaps I ought to say he was: for in this talkative age, even in the Holland Society, a degenerate speaker will forget himself so far as not to keep silence when he talks about the typical Dutchman. [Laughter.] But those old companions who came to this country previous to the year 1675, as Dutch citizens, under the Dutch flag, and holding their tongues in the Dutch language,ah, they understood their business. Their motto was facta, non verba. They are the men we praise to-night in our―

SONG OF THE TYPICAL DUTCHMAN

They sailed from the shores of the Zuider Zee
Across the stormy ocean,

To build for the world a new country

According to their notion;

A land where thought should be free as air,
And speech be free as water;

Where man to man should be just and fair,
And Law be Liberty's daughter.

They were brave and kind,

And of simple mind,

And the world has need of such men;

So we say with pride,

(On the father's side),

That they were typical Dutchmen.

They bought their land in an honest way,
For the red man was their neighbor;
They farmed it well, and made it pay
By the increment of labor.

They ate their bread in the sweat o' their brow,

And smoked their pipes at leisure;

For they said then, as we say now,

That the fruit of toil is pleasure.
When their work was done,

They had their fun,

And the world has need of such men;

So we say with pride,

(On the father's side),

That they were typical Dutchmen.

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They held their faith without offense,

And said their prayers on Sunday;
But they never could see a bit of sense
In burning a witch on Monday.

They loved their God with a love so true,
And with a head so level,

That they could afford to love men too,
And not be afraid of the devil.
They kept their creed

In word and deed,

And the world has need of such men;
So we say with pride,

(On the father's side),

That they were typical Dutchmen.

When the English fleet sailed up the bay,
The small Dutch town was taken;

But the Dutchmen there had come to stay,
Their hold was never shaken.

They could keep right on, and work and wait For the freedom of the nation;

And we claim to-day that New York State Is built on a Dutch foundation.

They were solid and strong,

They have lasted long,

And the world has need of such men;

So we say with pride,

(On the father's side),

That they were typical Dutchmen.

GEORGE EDGAR VINCENT

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

George Edgar Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, is one of the most gifted and best known speakers in this country. He reports that the most complimentary comment he has ever heard on his speaking was from a farmer in Kansas who had listened to one of his extemporaneous addresses: "He ain't no orator but he's a damn good talker." The following address was given at the dinner at the Union League Club, Chicago, in celebration of Washington's Birthday, February 23, 1903. Another address by Mr. Vincent is printed in Volume VI.

WHEN I was a small boy my heart always used to go out with gratitude to the minister who at the beginning of his sermon outlined the chief heads of his discourse. Later on these became cheering mile stones on a road which too often seemed to stretch long and hot and straight and dusty to the closing prayer. Let me follow his good example and prefix to what I have to say a brief table of contents.

We are gathered here this morning to arouse and to foster the spirit of patriotism. I want to discuss three fundamental conditions of patriotism: knowledge, wisdom and enthusiasm.

It is customary for us to regard knowledge as a very important thing, but not ordinarily to associate it with a great spirit of enthusiasm. We want to insist that the first thing for every young American is to have knowledge of the great fundamental facts of the history of his nation, and this knowledge should be of that sort which brings before his mind in vivid procession the great events, great men, great epochs of national life. We sometimes assume that the schools confer this, but we are not always justified in counting upon it. It was a young woman in high school (not in Chicago, I am glad to say) who when asked what was the origin of domestic slavery in the United States,

replied, "Domestic slavery began when, in 1619, a shipload of women landed in Virginia and became the wives of the planters." It is possible to have some control of the facts of history and yet not see in them their true significance.

Another point which I want to insist upon with regard to the knowledge which one should have of his country is this, that the knowledge should include not only those particular things which we associate with the famous men of America, but should include the great movements, the activities of the whole people, should comprehend those underlying and fundamental facts, which, after all, are of the greatest significance to national life. War is always an attractive thing to young people. There is something spectacular about the general leading his army; and yet there is nothing that we need to learn more clearly in these days than the things Miss Addams has already insisted upon, that these striking events are not after all the most important; that they are not the fundamental things which make for national prosperity and national progress. A small boy was once asked to write the history of the world, or he undertook it on his own account. He began with Cain and Abel and some one said, "Why didn't you begin with Adam and Eve?" He said, "Why, they didn't fight." I want to insist on another thing, and that is, no patriotic American in these days can afford not to know in a general way the history of the world and be familiar with the rôles played by the great nations to-day. To imagine that American history is a thing isolated from the great life of mankind is to take the narrow, the bigoted, the provincial view. A small boy was asked who was the first man, and he promptly replied, "George Washington." When he was reminded of Adam, he said, "Oh, if you count foreigners." Now, I am very much afraid that there has been a spirit of not counting foreigners. My young friends, if you are to be truly patriotic and ideal citizens of this great republic, you must not only have a vivid comprehension of the facts of our own history, but you must know something of other nations, respect the traditions for which they stand, and recognize them as great coöperative factors in the history of mankind.

But the mere control of facts is not enough. There must be power to evaluate those facts; there must be the ability in look

ing back over our national traditions to pick out the things which are significant, the things which are important, the things which are enduring, and to separate them from the things that are unessential. A small boy in this city not long ago was asked to compare two men, and he compared George Washington and his own father. He had the deadly parallel in this form: "George Washington was a tall man; my father is a short man. George Washington could not ride a bicycle; my father can ride a bicycle. George Washington was a great man; my father is not a great man." It is probable he picked out one significant fact, but he was misled by two unessential particulars. So it is with our estimate of Washington. When you think of all the myths and traditions which have been associated with the life of Washington, all the absurd stories that have been associated with him, you can quite understand this reaction, this desire to bring Washington down to earth again. But let me point out that after all the "human" Washington is of no particular significance to us in respect to his frailties and foibles. It is in these great fundamental principles which Mr. Sherman has urged that Washington is distinguished. What if George Washington was a dandy, and if he did write letters to his tailor directing him to be particular about the buttons on his coat. These are interesting facts. We are glad to know that George Washington had some of these traits But after all, the American lets his mind dwell on the great faith, on the noble justice and absolute fairness of the man. These are the things upon which the mind of the wise patriot dwells. More than that, as we look over our history, the wise patriot will understand that these vast movements in which we take so much pride, our industrial progress, our commercial expansion, all these tremendous economic developments, that this after all is significant only as that makes possible a higher national life, he will see that those things are a means to an end, and not an end in themselves. He is not a wise patriot who rejoices in material prosperity unless he rejoices in it because it makes possible a higher life for men and women.

And in the third place there must be enthusiasm. What is enthusiasm? It is not a mere sentimentality. A stranger visiting this country once attended a political convention where