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LAST Ma Dey. sen ofthnsnd) of Ancrcons erched done ith Are i + leyaly parade to. sires, carelee! ox which our soon we, founded. Thu demonirrasion wat sperhad lsoraals im several New York City sewipapert w rata 5 Tie New Yor! Tina advoral ‘the Micron: “Two Kinds of May Days” May Day may well srrve 2s am occasion for nation-wide public demonstrations of loysity to the spiritual foundation of our country, Withour this fundamental, our aation cannot endure: namely, that each buman being counts because God. his Crestor, hat endowed him with personal Fights which it is the business of the Scare to procect. ‘When ovr Founding Fathers, 171 years ago, drew up and sdopted » charter, now recog? as one of the noblest docu ments of all time, they based its authority on Almighty God. In so brief a docu- ment, thew men might have made but ‘one reference to the Creator. But they wanted to hammer home truths which they feared others might discard, truths which they knew were fundamental to democracy. Woven, therefore, into the texture of the Declaration of lodepend- ence sre four significant sentences, two at the beginning and two at the end—for the Founding Fathers were well sware of the human tendency ta remember best the beginning and the conclusion of ay discourse. ) pee Ha wader this beading ‘Sun: “End of May Dey May Day — Loyalty Day Toe many often feel insdequate to the task of defending this concept of God- ven rights. The encouragement afforded & public demonstrations of boyalty to God and country may well serve to in- spire many to do everything within their To uphold the basic truths upon which chis country was founded. Persuade every patriotic organization or Four Significant Sentences 1, Note the wording of the first: "Wien in the course of buman events, it becomes necessary for one people to dis- solve the political bends, which bare con- nected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the seperate ond equal station to which the Laws of Neture ond of Nature's God ernie mag decent seaport, 4 ‘the oj srquires thet they coi declare the conser which impel them to the seperation...” Our pie fathers might have established their claims on “Laws of Nature” slone. Instead, they emphasized the face thar the natural law itself depends on God. 2. The second sentence is equally posi- tive: “We bold these truths to be sif- tre dei te Sor , publicly ond concretely, the Coristien of veterans ond trade weionists wh Clune. sew mond dsinrnilzes Moy Do, ood New Mesning of May Day abe Herald Pinace, Monopoly:” ead Moe the Worl Telegram’ “New Kind of ay Dey ‘group to bold 2 public gathering or pa- rade, not to demonstrate agains! anybody or anyching, but, rather, for this basic truth oa which American democracy fens. As President Truman ssid, in his Inaugural Address, January 20th, “We believe that all men are created equal because they ere created in the image of God. | From this faith we will not be wored.” evident, that all mew ere created equal, that they are endowed by theie Crestor pas certain “wnalensble Rights, thet 1g these ave Life, Liberty, and the pera of Happiness. 3. Toward the end of the document, the Founding Fathers appeal, in their own words, "fo the Supreme Indge of the world” Tor Te grade aod ont, 4, The Declaration closes with the fol- lowing statement: "And for the mpport af tht Declretom, mith fom cee on the tection of divime Providence. we mutually pledge to cach ofber onr sacred , our Fortunes, ont Honor.” Christopher Prayer for Our Country “aspire us, © God, with such deep love of our country that we will be actively comcermed in is welfare as well as in thar of ~ ail our fellow countrymen fer time sod for euernity. Tesch us 0 show by word and dred the amxt tealous interest io protecting and furthering the Choician principles open which our nation is founded that others display in belirding or diminating them. "Guide and mrengthes the President, his Cabiect, the members of Congress, the delegates to the United Nations, the Governor of (Mil Obster Jake Mt. A. Foarns, STD. Cruse Litveroe, alone. our State, che officials of our community, and al} others, in high Position or low, who are entrusted with the taak of procacting for all citizens these right which come from Thee sod from ‘Thee “Teach ur likewise to be worthy imrtruments im extending to sll men of afl nations, Thy children end our brothers, the same peace, freedom and weurity with which Thou hast w abundantly blessed eur land. Through Christ Our Lard. Amen.” Imprimator i Frvaris Cardinal Speitagn. Ancabssten of Sow Vert Addisional copies of tis mey be had at cast, 100 for $1.00 poupaid. by writing 10 | The Cartetepbers, 121 Eat 35% Street, New Yerk 16, N.Y.