friends were raised up for America, men who sailed from Europe, sword in hand, to battle for Liberty with us. These men had nothing to gain for themselves. They were not Americans. They risked fortune and life itself to fight with men they had never seen, against an enemy they had never seen.

Why?

Because, oh, children, let us never forget, the love of liberty is a great and sacred love, the faith in man's brotherhood is a great and sacred faith. The noblest men of the world have been willing to die for it. It is greater than the love of power or the fear of death. It is a part of man's religion.

The unselfish heroes who sailed from Europe to fight with the Americans against England showed us that other men believed in freedom and democracy; other men also could say, "Give me Liberty or give me death."

Let us remember the names of these men, and be grateful to their memories. Freedom has no race; she is of all races. Where the love of Freedom burns in the heart, all men are of one family. These men came from different countries to strike a blow for us, and what they did shows the natural brotherhood of free peoples.

We have all heard of Lafayette. He was a French nobleman, a young French gentleman of wealth and a brilliant mind. The Marquis of Lafayette was not twenty; he was as young as the American college boys who were ambulance drivers in France in 1916 and 1917. He bought a ship and fitted it up with his own fortune, and sailed to America. And here he offered his services as a volunteer without pay.

When we think of the service Lafayette did us, we must also think of the Americans who have gone to serve his country in her hour of need. When the freedom of France was attacked by Germany in 1914, many young American men did not wait for America to join the war. They went to France at their own expense, and said to the French Government, as Lafayette had said, "We will serve as volunteers without pay."

Many of these young men were in the Lafayette Escadrille, the famous flying corps of Americans serving for France.

Not all these American heroes have come back to their own country, as Lafayette happily went back to his. Some died across the sea, for Freedom's sake. One of the first and bravest of them said, just before he died, "I pay my debt to Lafayette."

These are noble and beautiful words, and many of the other young American soldiers have said noble and beautiful words for us to remember. Our teachers will find for us some of the poems written by these young Americans who are paying our debt to Lafayette.

From another country, Poland, came two more men noble of heart and title. They were named Kosciusko and Pulaski. They, too, offered their swords to freedom on American soil. They had reason to love freedom, for Poland had been taken away from her own people by stronger countries around her, and had been divided among them. Polish people no longer ruled themselves.

When we think of Kosciusko and Pulaski, we like to remember that America began to pay her debt to Poland when she entered the Great War in 1917. America promised to defend the rights of small nations against tyranny. Poland's freedom was one of those rights which the Allies were fighting for.

From Germany also came friends of Liberty. Johann Kalb, born in Bavaria, but later belonging to the French Army, came with Lafayette to fight for us. He gave his life for American liberty on American soil. And a Prussian officer named Von Steuben helped Washington drill his army at Valley Forge.

When America entered the war against Germany, President Wilson remembered the love of liberty in these men and in our many devoted citizens of German birth, like Carl Schurz, who worked all his life for American patriotism. He said, "We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship."

He meant that we were fighting, not to kill Germany, but to kill the tyranny that the German Government stood for. Many friends of the German people believed with him that our victory would set the German people free from tyranny, and bring them at last to the very freedom and brotherhood their armies were trying to destroy.

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still keeps the color of England in its red stripes, although the white stripes come between to show that this country separated from England.

In the same way America keeps the old English color in the ideals of her men and women. We must never forget that most of the people who helped to found this country were of English blood. Before the time of the Revolution, and before the coming of the