Show A 4 tw 9 ak 7 e ry 4 t VZ va lk all A IN t N id IN A i 11 1 ca ay 6 ar A I 1 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN E ESI OniAL dr DAY Is with us again rind and again all good americans will fittingly observe this national hollday holiday and holy day for it Is a holy day in a sense it Is the most comprehensive of all our days of national observance for memorial day has grown as tho the united states of america has grown as the american people have gro grown rl memorial day la Is now hallowed by more than fifty years yeara of observance think what it has now come to mean to us can you not read into it something of the spirit of every one of our days of national observance surely on memorial day an amerl american can make good resolutions as fittingly as on new years day and with much to inspire them the birthdays of lincoln and washington are closely akin to it arbor day with its me memorial mo trees and its sense of responsibility to posterity Is closely in touch easter eastek day and memorial day are inseparably bound together in many loving and trusting hearts and ale memorial no day fits hand in glove with flag day with independence day with armistice day there Is something of thanksgiving day in it and something of the christmas good will on memorial day in short we weep as we strew lowers flowers because the dead are our kin we thrill with pride that tha t they so nobly died we rejoice that they are in gods keeping we assemble not to rekindle vengeful fires not to exult over the defeated not to glorify war or to exalt militarism but to give thanks of the providence that lias bas watched over our nation and to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of liberty humanity and justice to which our nation Is dedicated memorial day means to us all that old glory means hats along the street there cornea comes A blare of bugles a rume 0 of drums A lash flash of 0 color beneath the sky vita oft off the flag la is passing by clue blue and white and crimson it shines chines over the steel tipped ordered lines flats orrl the colors before us fly dut but more than the flue flag la Is passing by raea aea fights and land lights grim and great fought to make and to save the state weary mar marches clies and sinking ships cheers of 0 victory on dying lips rays daya of plenty and years ot of peace march ot of a strong lands swift In increase creaso equal justice right and law stately honor and reverent awe sign 0 of a nation great and strong to ward her people from rom foreign wrong 5 t pride and glory and honor all live in the colors to stand or fill fall moreover memorial day will be observed at the very ends of the earth for at the very ends of the earth are burled our american soldier dead in the eight american war cemeteries in flowers will be strewn by loving hands and tribute paid by eloquent tongues in france in belgium in england diverse indeed were the tongues and colors that made up the yanks tanks of tho the A E F r and far away indeed rest some of these yanks sergeant demosthene burdelas Bur dells who died tor for liberty under the flag of the united states was borne by men in the uniform he be had worn to the lands of his fathers among the isles of greece td in the mediterranean and there interred with all the honors of war do you think that grave will be neglected memorial day sam soo hoo was born in san francisco the world war found him in china china married and the father of three children sam traveled many thousand miles to enlist in the rainbow division and to get to the front at fere en ills jour journey jey ended one hellish night in apt of 1018 1918 ancl sa sam m at the request of el his relative alv sent the body miles by land and by sea that their american sold soldier ler might rest near the graves of his ancestors at jia gl chuen in shin ling just beyond the south gate tal san shen do you think the grave of sam soo sao hoo will be neglected memorial day there Is a thrill in each of the pictures herewith fighting new market over again by the united states marines and the cadets cabets ot of the virginia military academy re enacts the battle at 0 new market in the famous shenandoah valley fought may 15 here the confederates under breckenridge defeated the union forces under there Is probably no secondary battle of the civil war of more importance had alad siegel won lee could not have spared the men to check his advance without exposing richmond nich mond to immediate and perhaps inevitable capture the fact that new ncy market could be re enacted with the applause of thousands of spectators shows how bow thoroughly the lie wounds of the civil war are healed the mimic battle also recalls the glorious part of the cadets cabets in the 1804 battle there bere ere 22 of them till nil under sixteen under colonel ship ote oie of their professors they stood steady as veterans under galling rrell artillery 1 cy fire then they charged with the virginia infantry a six gun buttery battery on elevated ground overpowered the gunners and captured the guns A cadet mounted a caisson and waved tho the academy flag and liow how the triumphant youngsters young stera yelled I 1 they lost 8 killed and 40 wounded in that wild charge truly the american Is the same fighting roan man from one generation to another memorial day will see both the blue and the gray cray in una line marching arching in as bravely ns as 0 of f yore but alna ala tho the steps will bo be feebler end ranks thinner Ile herewith renith Ls Is pictured maj giles B cook who has just left the white itsuso after inviting president coolidge cooledge to attend the commencement exercises of 0 the lawrenceville industrial school schon of virginia virinia inia ue ile la Is said to be the only survivor of the twelve members of the staff that surrendered with gen robert 13 lee to general grant at app 0 m a 11 bojc x court house undo uncle jack armstrong of windsor S 0 eighty years of age Is said to be the only survivor oi of the first south carolina infantry 0 3 A the oldest member of the 0 A 11 in new kew england Is henry D lay of west newbury mass who celebrated his hundredth birthday the other with his J wife by ills his side and WC A surrounded by chil wt d dren r e n grandchildren and great grandchildren what changes change have been Ni wrought rought in the span of hla his life altel I 1 the political world lias has practically been made over the industrial and commercial world has baa been revolutionized the whole scheme ot of living has been changed the merican american A people have marched from the mississippi sis sippi api to the pacific when henry D lay was born in 1824 there were only twenty four stars star on the flag the western boundary of the united states was the rocky mountains and the red river missouri and louisiana were the only two states west of the mississippi no figures are at hand for the united confederate veterans whose general commander Is gen william G B II 11 aldane Louls Nille ky cut but the figures for the grand army of the republic whose commander in chief Is galord M van wert 0 tell a saddening story the peak of the membership was in 1890 in 1021 the membership had dwindled to in 1892 it was the decrease in grand army posts 1021 1921 2 was to so this year there will be fewer veterans in lilue blue and in gray cray to cheer and more graves to cover with blossoms but praise god we can strew flowers alike for grant and lee tor for Sh ermall au and jackson for sheridan and sturart and for their men with ith love and sara tor for the blue tears and lovo love for the gray two new graves there are this memorial day to which the thoughts of the american people will instinctively turn the alie grave of warren gamaliel If ardIng and the grave of woodrow wilson each was stricken down in the service of his country each deserves well of his country out of the niue blue and the gray came the khaki oil oh that the thousands who wish it could strew lowers flowers over there I 1 but too far away tire are flanders fields upon his grave to lay my LIT roses and forget argot me ine bots nots my aly rosemary and bay A scarlet poppy on my breast will speak Ble memorial morial day dart doubtless the quintessence of the american peoples thoughts on 0 11 memorial day will be in the offerings ut at tile the national shrine in arlington the tomb of our unknown soldier we gather him to the nations bream within the shadows of 0 tho the capitol of 0 the towering shaft that honors wash ington the great father and of tile the exquisite monument to lincoln too tho martyred marty red savior |