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HAVE WE FORGOTTEN?
Have we forgotton those who went away
When hope burned low behind the
window-pane
And the wide sea was very cold and gray?
Have we forgotten those who went away
And will not come again?
Have we forgotten those who went away
On great, gray ships into the fog and
rain,
Who left the dear, warm arms that bade
them stay?
Have we forgotten those who went away
And will not come again?
Have we forgotten those who went away
To follow the red flare beyond the main,
Who turned aside and let us have this
day?
Have we forgotten those who went away
And will not come again?
We have not forgotten, though at times
our indifference
may well lead those who went to the
camps and the battle front
to conclude that we did not mean quite
all that we said in our as-
surances as they marched away. This
indifference is temporary
and apparent. Gratitude to our soldiers
living and dead survives.
The death of this Polish boy will help
to keep their memory
green. Far from home and kindred he
shall not be forgotten,
and on the annual return of each
Memorial Day, out on beauti-
ful Green Lawn, in that portion set
apart for the soldier dead,
a wreath of choicest flowers will be
laid by loving hands on the
grave of Stanley Nagorka.
And remembering Lafayette, we shall not
forget Pulaski
and Kosciusco.
TWO GENEROUS PATRONS.
The Society has a warm friend and patron
in Mr. Claude
Meeker, prominent citizen of Columbus,
president of the Kit
Kat Club, formerly private secretary to
Governor James E.
Campbell and U. S. consul at Bradford,
England. For some
years the library of Ohioana built up by
Honorable D. J. Ryan
has been recognized as the most valuable
and complete of its
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kind in central Ohio. It is especially
rich in the war literature
of the state which was collected while
Mr. Ryan was preparing
his extensive and incomparable volume on
"The Civil War
Literature of Ohio".
Feeling that this library should belong
to the state Mr.
Meeker purchased it and presented it to
the Society. A most
substantial and appropriate addition has
therefore been made
to the library of the Society which is
steadily growing in spite
of the very small appropriation made by
the state.
Mr. Charles F. Kettering, who was
graduated from the
department of engineering at the Ohio
State University in 1904
and who is now one of the trustees of
that institution, gave
four hundred thousand dollars to the
College of Homeopathic
Medicine, the largest gift which to date
his alma mater has re-
ceived from any one donor.
Mr. Kettering has since shown that he is
not unmindful of
the needs and opportunities of the Ohio
State Archaeological and
Historical Society. He has purchased the
farm near Miamis-
burg, Ohio, on which is located the
largest mound in the state
and has presented to the Society this
mound and adjacent
grounds. What these grounds will be
called has not been decided
by the Society but the name of
"Kettering Park" has been
suggested as especially appropriate.
But Mr. Kettering did not stop at the
presentation of this
notable gift. He emphasized the evidence
of his interest and
appreciation by purchasing and
presenting to the Society the
Harry Thompson collection of souvenirs
and Indian relics, the
most important privately owned
collection in the state.
It is planned in the near future,
probably at the annual
meeting of the Society, to give formal
expression of our grati-
tude to these two generous patrons and
we hope to present in
our October number an extended account
of their generous con-
tributions to the upbuilding of the
Society.