Show NATION HONORS ALL HER HEROES memories of veterans of three wars are enshrined in Count rys heart memorial day Is the day of the lead dead tho the veterans of three wars but though newly consecrated by tho the tresh fresh and poignant sacrifices aces of those who passed away in the great war of liber over there there theio cannot bo now tiny more than tha 4 in the past any associations hut but those of true joy and honorable pride far removed from tho d despair 0 of causes causon bosti or from froin over olier those whose death Is without meaning and end without result vor for 11 Is tile the holy joy of those who know that flint the sacrifices were wco not lit in vain ant that distinguished this day ot of days das tilts year coupled with the realization that both those who went find and those who remained joined freely in the oblation on the altar of tho the country with an unfaltering belief in tile the ine fine nobility of 0 the obligation and the deep significance of what it meant for the common good while the ceremonies onlea on oil tins this side follow tile usual lines heightened by the opportunity to pay fresh homage where heritage Is title due the tribute that Is paid over there beginning with lie ceremony fit at Sur suresnes esnes ear near n which tins lias been developed tile american cemetery nearest to paris at which president wilson officiated last hist year in the he very presence of the dead themselves takes on an especially moving character for in nothing did the Am american ellean expeditionary force and till nil all its helpful accessory agencies such as tho the tied ped cross so distinguish them as in their concern thill the last resting place of phoso who fell abroad should ho be neither unknown unmarked nor As a result of tills this determined and consecrated effort of rill nil services sen ices the new graves craves of tile tho hero dead bo be they located where they fell or removed to tho the permanent centers of burial that have been selected at appropriate places as the official american cemeteries will receive every attention that Is their just duo due front from their brothers brot licia in arms over them tharo and a grateful country the graves nil all separately and singly marked with tho the cross or tile tho star save lit in name and title no distinction of frnnk ipong allowed in the identifying symbol will bo be decorated one an and all and while much that tins has been beell devised its as to the handling of these special cemeteries has follo followed weil tile plan of tho the british Britis li who have been nt at work at efio problem much longer yet a american touch Is ip given in that this annual commemoration of memorial day so fa familiar mIllar to lo ui us alt all Is new to our allies and to the french though they biava gladly co operated with tho the american forces in n order older to ninke make the lay day a truly notable one rill anil one of general and significant colli commemoration me wo so far as the general cemeteries go ve have followed the british in the plan for the separate graves bit hut t they have gone a lIttle further in that each large burying place will ile 10 dominated by tt a tall tail crass and plain altar stone by kipling ns as ilia lie cross of sacrifice and the stone of remembrance tile the stone hearing bearing the inscription also suggested by kipling their name liveth forevermore save sao for this the grent great concentration cena tortes of tile american forces such as sur the lie hir hargest gest containing graves grave of those who fell in the meuse aleuse argonne battles will represent little more than the still simplicity of quaker burying grounds since inco the permanent tite morial inona meats that may ile bo c erected tire arc yet at to be determined but there la Is no question of tile monumental effect of 0 the nor will those who lie in the smaller cemeteries or in the little french churchyards bo be over looked today or in the years sears to come tills this Is all ns it should be and quite quI tells as those tit nt home would wish it and ns as has happened I 1 in n the case of the older ed celebrations lebrat tons even though alm ilm lit lay day brings its fresh and an deeper sop set rows rovis at the lie same time there must bk I 1 felt everywhere the comforting sense that the he country and those who have passed away were equal to their task in the file world crisis it Is but meet lind and proper therefore that all should insist that wherever they tiny may lie ile each and till all who paid the final debt shall filial remarked be he marked from among their fellows lead dead and living by such seemly and ceremonial observances as we have haie set up tip here for generations and are aie now repeating respect find and recognition for what they did tind and proper honors for the hero here dead lend dignity to the living glorify nil all sense senne of duty and discipline and lift all life into tile the nobler channels of a humanity man that Is not as 03 Is writ of the of the fields without aim or hope but serves selves understandingly and not tn in vain |