| Show birj 0 rm isice f y ON ty nir nirta IL tB ij iola a P r ra k AA a OA iv t ay ito V 4 fai leg at its 0 44 20 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN PADS bared I 1 face faces to the fasti faitt I 1 it ii Is the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the fifth returning of the moment when hen silence fell upon the pun guns and the cheer chirs of victory replaced the clamor of cont conflict lct when joy cam came once more upon the earth when hope which springs eternal in the human breast rose high when personal loss was esal enl owed lowed up in thanksgiving it ii Is a it moment sacred beyond all telling let each good american interpret iti its silence according to hie his experience and capacity with a prayer for better understanding understand inc and may each recurring november 11 forever find and the american people in reverent silence with beads heads bared and faces to the ti eat fast may they in la that sacred moment say ach ouch to himself himi elf 11 1 I will remember while the light lasts and in ta the darkness I 1 shall not forget at arlington americas tribute to her un known soldier will be paid by the highest officials of the government two years ago president Ilar hardinge dings address was the feature of the elaborate burial ser services last year president Ear ding accompanied by secretaries weeks and denby of the war and avy departments departmental placed a wreath of red white and blue blossoms on this rational shrine then the president saluted and tamed away not a word was spoken the andrice was broken only by the clatter of the loots of the cavalry escort and the booming of distant guns la in the national salute this year another band hand must place that wreath and when America stands with bared bead head and face to the be east there will be remembrance of be kindly gentleman and true patriot unspoiled ly by aridi elds of place who has gone west to join tte boys over oyer there fur warren 0 vas was a good american and had understanding witness these words 0 his at arlington which should never be forgot forgotten tent we do not know the eminence of his birth kit let we do know the glory of his death lie fie died fw r his Us country and greater devotion bath po loan t than ham this thill he lie died unquestioning buncom with faith in bis his heart and hope on his am pe that his country should triumph and its atlon survive As a typical soldier er of this democracy he fought and died moving in the indisputable justice of his coun cause sleeping g in these hallowed grounds are thou mods sands of americans who have given their blood sw the baptism of freedom end and its maintenance armed amed exponents of the nations conscience it Is letter leter and arid nobler for their deeds burial here Is in lather more than a eign sign of the governments g lavor savor it Is a suggestion of a tomb in the heart ef st the nation sorrowing for its noble dead To Xo daya days ceremonies proclaim that the hero known Is 14 not we W rather gather him to ue so nations breast within the shadow of the capitol bf the towering tow erinc shaft that honors wash teflon been the great father and of the exquisite monument to Lla lincoln the martyred sartor saylor alere be the inspirations of yesterday and the th conscience cons dence alf today forever unite to talk the Ite republic public worthy of bis his death for flag gag and country 11 speak not as a pacifist fearing war but as eoe see who loves justice and hates war I 1 speak as who balleres bel leres the highest function of govern beat amt Is 1 to give its citizens the security of peace so opportunity to achieve and the pursuit of W As we return this poor day to ft its mother edill fl fri by lore and coa A the decorations that only nations con can bestow I 1 can sense the prayers of our people of nil all peoples that ill lil ill armistice day shall mark the beginning of n new neu and lusting era em of peace on earth good will among men let me join in that prayer our father who ho art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom kIne Join come thy will be ile done on earth as it ti Is in heaven give us this day our dally daily bread and forgive us our trespasses alises as we forgae those who trespass against us and leid le id Us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine Is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen and what of the intervening years since november 11 david lloyd george puts europe s condition thus fifteen million picked men killed twenty million crippled for life tens of billions of wealth gathered through the centuries squandered in a moment commerce destroyed nothing left except bate hut but not so in america we have no hate bate per contra we have fed starving europe without thought of payment or reward and ameilla emerges from the world war the wealthiest and most powerful nation of earth food for thought in the acred sacred moment of el silence lencel I 1 and what of bf germany it begins to look as an if she were on her knees at last list Apparently It Is not safe to pat put it more strongly the truth has at last been forced upon the german consciousness that tn in the great gnat four year struggle which convulsed the world and impoverished it in life and treasure germany was decisively and conclusively clu beaten never until the official and public and unconditional abandonment of passive resistance in the kuhr ruhr has germany given acknowledgment that the victory la in the test of war waa was absolute so IM 1023 sees a second surrender by germany of hardly less importance than that of armistice day of 1018 1918 another thought for the moment of silence I 1 november 11 at the eight american cemeteries in france belgium and england there remain the this bodies of bolm soldier soldiers bailors sad lad marines who gave give their lives byes during the war at tad each of these from the meuse argonne arsne marne mame sure Bur esnes es st 81 the somme oise ainne in france la in flanders andrs Fl field in belgium and st at brookwood Drook wood la in england appropriate services were held throughout though out the day with american diplomatic or military and naval officials paying tribute november 11 Is not the only armistice day the year Is full of days that are armistice days in spirit in june the disabled american veterans through national commander J A mcfarland placed a it wreath on tho the tomb at arlington on the fourth of july was onvel led in paris a monument to the american volunteers who enlisted tn in the french army in the statue which surmounts the monument strikingly suggests alan seeger the soldier poet who wrote that immortal poem 1 I dave a rendezvous with death in ili the spring at the he first division A EL a F was honored by france by the dedica tion of a monument a photograph of which Is reproduced herewith the first division fought the battle of hwey early in 1918 gen henrt gouraud lion llon of the argonne Ar sonne who lost bis his right arm in the service of his country was a visitor here in july and placed wreaths upon the arlington tomb another photograph shows the crosses crosse row on row which mark the graves of american soldiers u n the national cemetery at arlington they died in franco francs and were brought back by the american government american kindergarten leaders visiting american kindergartens in france decorated the grave of frances unknown soldier under the arc are de do chateau thierry recently unveiled onvel led monuments to the americans who there gave their lives to block the german drive to paris pads in 1018 Can has erected an elaborate fountain as a memorial to the americans of the first division who captured the town from the germans in may 1818 t 46 k X now I 1 r belleau snood a corner of the f firest rest pre bere ere iere at hand and ballard roods roads has been made cook county a first living memorial to her horld orld war ar sold soldiers lers of cook ook county illinois area urea in accordance with the plan of the county bi cal to name forest preserve tract tracts after battles of the world war mar commemorates the deeds of the second division at the famous hooded hill near chateau thierry A memorial testifying to the regard of the people of ot tennessee for her sons who gave their lives in the orld war soon will take its place among the most beautiful and elaborate buildings of the kind in this country the state appropriated the city of nashville raised and the county of davidson Dav ldson put up the general federation beder lede atlon ration of clubs comprising the majority of the clubs of the entire nation has indorsed and its component clubs will take an active part in 11 the campaign for border ing the victory highway national memorial transcontinental highway with living monuments to the soldier dead of the united states in the form of tree trees planted and cared for by the local clubs which are members of the general federation chatel the little which WAS wa almost wiped out five ave year years ago in the course of the hard ewitt swift drive by which general men cleared the bt SL mihiel salient of germao troops la in september celebrated it its resurrection thanks to american generosity along with the fifth anniversary 1 of the deliverance of the village from the german miss belle skinner of holyoke MASS li 11 the wealthy american woman to whose who generosity the tillage village lj Is indebted for its restoration at chaumont in jane june a monument was dedicated to franco american friendship chau chan mont moat wai was the headquarters of the american gen eral staff the french nation has bits begun the erection of a magnificent and colossal monument to the american amerlean soldier it will stand upon the pointe de do grave the lonely cape upon the stormy bay of biscay where the american soldier soldiers first landed in the great world war the monument will rise risa to a height of WO feet it will be by far the tho greatest monument of its kind in to the world the principal sculptural feature of the work will be a gigantic figure of france on the seaward side gazing straight over the atlantic in the direction of america the foundation stone of the monument was mas laid with imposing ceremony by prime It minister coln care in company with ith the american ambassador to france the day chosen for the ceremony was the anniTe anniversary rsM of the landing of the american troops troop and happened also to be that of the arrival of Oft lafayette fayette in america with french troops at the time of the revolution belleau wood which marshal foch called tin ill cradle of victory was consecrated in july to the memory of the americans who died there the french flag gag at fochs command wa hauled down to trumpeting by french buglers and th the 0 mar seil sellI laise also by the marine band from the U S S pittsburg Pit Pitts burt and the american flag wa was ran run up to the strains of the star spangled banner ballner A group of americans from many states and rela tives of the dead assembled inside the ring of french lilla villages Til lages teal the homes of which the amer leans saved the wood was formally dedicated as a a permanent penni nent memorial by the belleau W wood memorial association represented by th the a dent mrs mm james carroll frailer frazier who d directed I 1 erected the plan to buy the land and pr eserre the battlefields tle fields with trenches and machine gun gan nests and erect A monument and place descriptive tablets A demand iw for a congressional investigation lot into the alleged deplorable condition of the th america military cemetery at lit belleau woods france made in october by edward ed E F spafford Bp afford new N was w york state tat commander of the th american legion |
