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Show By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A f,L over the world wherever there 'a. are men and women who claim the privilege of American cifizen- j fy t EniP May GO will be observed !is f ""A t,le day on which we honor our soldier dead. For Memorial D;iy f ti '!fis outgrowu its original s's-! s's-! nificanee as a day of remem-'Jltr remem-'Jltr , h ranee for tlie men who wore the ' tT Jr? '"'Iue an those who wore the 'it&:J Gr!,y iD lne greatest civil war In &s3 " Vadjy history, the War Between the States of 1S01 to 1S05. America's soldier dead lie buried in many lands in Cuba, In the Philippines, in Mexico and In France, Belgium Bel-gium and England. In the environs of the City of Mexico there U a little cemetery in which a small granite shaft stands, bearing these words: "To the memory of the American soldiers who perished in this valley In 1S47, whose bones, collected by the country's orders, are here buried T.jO." Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for those T50 Americans as much as it Is for any of the hundreds of thousands thou-sands whose graves in cemeteries in every state of the Union will be covered with flowers on May 30 of this year, 1027. Since 1013 the world-wide significance of Memorial Day for Americans has - . - iVjTi more apparent because of the long rows of white crosses in England and France and Belgium. In a military cemetery at Romagne-sous-Mont-faucon In the Meuse-Argonne region of France there are 14,045 of these crosses. In the Oi.se-Aisne Oi.se-Aisne cemetery there are 5,934 ; at St. Mihlet, 4,141; in the AiSne-Marne, 2,212; at the Somme, i- !-':"!fl4.DtS':-one5, 1,500; in Flanders Field in Belgium, 305, and at Brookuood, England, 4'3. So it Is in remembrance of those .';0,502 American Amer-ican soldiers, who are buried In eight European cemeteries, and the 4G.214, who have been brought home to rest beneath the soil of their native land, as well as the countless host of the dead heroes of the Civil war, the Indian wars, the Spanlsh- American and every other conflict in which the United States has ever been engaged, that Memorial Day will be celebrated this year. If there Is any one Memorial Day ceremony which Is outstanding it undoubtedly will be that In the great amphitheater In Arlington cemetery near WanMngton where President Coolidge will voice tie nation's tribute to Its soldier dead. ArcriTiJ hlra will be grouped high government ofQ- clals and ambassadors of foreign countries. But It ' will not be the presence of great men which will make the Memorial Day services there notable. It la tie place Itself which Is the Incarnation of the spirit of Memorial Day Arlington cemetery, where stands the memorial to the "Unknown Dead" of the Civil war and where was placed the greatest of all American shrines, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Of all national celebrations, Americans have best preserved the original connotation of "holy day" for "holiday" In the case of Memorial Day. Untouched by the commercialism and the materialism materi-alism which has crept Into the observance of other special days, It has a dignity and a spirituality all of its own. Perhaps the fact that it was conceived con-ceived In love and perpetuated in reverence baa made It so. For It was the touch of a woman's hand, laying flowers upon the grave of an enemy perhaps the very one who was responsible for the death of some one near and dear to her , whose example ex-ample of loving kindness and forgiveness for past hatreds eventually brought about the observance of Memorial Day. In 18C5 Miss Lizzie Kuther- ford of Columbus, Miss., suggested to the rnern- hers of the Ladles' Aid society, who bad been carefully attending the graves of Confederate ) dead, that April 20 be set aside each year as a I special day for decorating these graves. Her (suggestion was at once adopted by the I society and on April 2fJ, YW, the first Memorial I rXv service was held In St. Luke's Methodist I church In Columbus with Col. James M. Itarnscy ' ;,s the or;itor of the day. On that day the graves l . t.f both Union jnd Confederate soldiers hurled rear ( 1 uowjijk were decor;. led with flowers. In tliO-r.'.'nti'ne letters to women in other s-oiit.herii .-Tim resulted In the adoption of April 20 for u '-j rJV'-ral observance of a memorial day for the o!diT dead. In the spring of l.",07 a New York newspaper . rbllshfd a paragraph In which this brief statement state-ment was made, "The women of Columbus, Miss., li'iw; Khown themselves Impartial In their olTer-lr:'S olTer-lr:'S made to the memory of the dead. They f t.rewed flowers alike on the graves of Confed-enile Confed-enile and National soldiers." In 1H07 I he nation was still bleeding from the wound of the war, er.d anger, hatred and mj'.plcioii were Ktlll rife. Il'it this a f'.lon by the wom n In the .South sent u IIKil throughout the North and the fol'owlng year. On. John A. Logan, national commander '(,( the C. A. It., designated May :;0 fv-r the pur-I pur-I of ft i evlng Willi flower-; or otherwise dec. ora'lng 'he grave--! (if comrades. How Oneral I,"g!,n came to Is aie the famous rrhr l' his comrades of the IJ. A. I:, v.-hh-h rr ..ulK'd In the oh ervam-e of May '.',') as Memorial 1 1;, v, or "Decoration Day," as it win llrst I:iiv. n cud a H It h a'lll often referred to. v.as relale. a fe year-t a,"o by his widow, for m.'tiy year l iai vn as "The Orand Old Lady of a-hiiiglon." The t ry, mi told by ,Mr. L'.;;an, follows: i'n' I' '" Charl-m I.. Wlljon, Jltor of th,i W Xm f , suk "I - ' - f i 1 'try ir s - - , , :rtZ2A - Jl j if ' ' t . v - ' 'JZJr$rS- - .-.- ( j, Wf r-f; ' ' i 1 1 1 V,vk' ; General Orders No. 12 "Had'juarttrs (Irand Army of th j Kf-publJr:. Jfi Adjutant OenrrardOfTlcff. 445 14th F'roet, Waahincton. D. C. May S, "General Ordrn, No. 1 1. 5jc "I. The 20th day of May. 1161. fa animated J for the purpose of Btrw)nK with flowrri. or otherwise de:'ratine, the (travel of comrtlM who died fn defence of th!r country during the late rebellion, and whone bodies now lie J sje in almost every city, village, hamlet and churchyard In the land. In ihln obgervann, no form of crmony 1b prcrlbpd. but post J and comrades will. In their own way, ar- 5j ranpe such flttiriK nervlc-i and teuMmonlala of repeat, as clrcumRtancs may permit. "W are oranlz'-d. comradeo, a.i our rira- latlonn tell us, for the purpon amonK othor thlnK". 'of priervInK and Btrenifthenlna; J thoBe kind and fraterr.nj tftWrn which have J it bound toscether t h soldiers, al lor and marines, who unl'ed tocthr to ntipprBB th late rebellion What can a!d mfre to amure thin rewult than by rhrrlfhlnir tenderly the J fc memory of our hrolr dad, who made their )fs bre.iBtB a barricade Ix-twen our country and Ita foea. Their noid!r l!va were (he reveille JJJ of freedom to a ra:e In rhaln. and tii"l r death the ta. too of rebel lloua tyranny In if arms. We nhou Id Kiiarrl their Rravi wlih sacred violin nr-o. All thst the co numerated M wealth and ta-to of the nation cn add to w- their adornment and f-T-urliy, 1 but a fitMni? J tribute to the memory of hr slain def-nd-ra if. Let no wanton foot tr-ad rudely on such hnl- . lowed Kroundf. I,et p!ej,sfint paths Invite the comlnsf nnd Ko!ni; of fvercnt visitors nnd fond mourners. Let no vandalism cf avarice i or n-srl:ct, no rav;n,'M of time, testify to the present or to th i:ornlnf K"neratons that 'M we have forott-n, as a p-ople, th) c-st of a free nnd undivided rermMic. "If other eyes kp.w dull, and other hanrti jf. Hlnclc, ar-d oi h:r h'-nrii itdw old I the w 'A' solernri trust, oiith Phut) ):or.p It wdl, hs ltn ss the 1 1 k h t arid wfirmlh of life renmin lo tJ"- J; "Iet us, thn. at the time appointed, jf. Kafhf-r arour;d ,t hf r saerd rmrilnii, nnd K-Trland tiie p;i snlo n 1 ' --ih pifiuri'ls ufvn tlieiti :: with the fhoic-st flow-rs of n jrl n c ' t me ; let us ra h'O alovn t he rn the rbsi r old fl;u they saved from d Ixhonor ; l-t tji. In this so lin n if. preneiiro, r imiw our iy,m to aid nnd ns'ilst thowe v.'hofn tli-y Imv b-ft arriooK us a nre red 4 fharce upon a tiat ion's k t ;i 1 1 1 ud u t.)ie sol- dU-r's widow and orpliiin. 4: "II It Is tb" ptirponf f.f tfie com mn n d n r -1 n - if. rhl'f tf I n;i u icu r ' e tlii'i olntorvuric", with the .y, bop'- t li; i It will be h l up f f 'ni y r to y year, wMI" a survivor of ihc v,-:ir rtnuini to : honor Mm memory of bin d i r 1 "d r u i r,i rl i-n. J 4: He earn-'itly d-Mlr-'t the puhllr- pr-Fi in mil J Y- air.nliori to this onl.tr, and brid Hs filenrllv :f: n Id In hr I n; I n ir It to tlie nollm ,,r cotnr;i.-H X In all ;irtn of Urn coniitry In (ijno for flniul- J t.tn.-o.m roinpil.'in" w H li T i; "III. I "!' rl ftofp t coot mn rub' rs w 1 1 1 line evet y . effort to ma : this onb-r fi"--t i v. "Uy or'I'.r of Julm A l.ncnn, if. ( 'o in mi, ii (J f r - i n ' h. r f . J "nfllfdal: N I'. 'J'.ilpinan. Adjulant ( :.-ii-i Jil." 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Wis mw t.; cH-ird m-n, u-.m.-n and ihil- ! drn d'KKliitf t j t the l-ad ancl Iron w!:b-h bad ben shot Into tt-e f "rt b at Ion 1, alinnni tb only support of lhse wr?rhed people. i f r 1 c c m r I e r : and j church yards, we w-re d--py torched by the wiihrr-d wreaths and tiny fi.u-i tiuit mnrkul the Itnvfi of the Con fed Tate dad. In the bleak March wind and 1 : nh t -fal line snow, the d.i l.i'.ln eemed rn'.Hl tpprr 1 ve. 1 lUtumliiK' toic-!hT tr the old Wizard hotel.' where we then lived, alltlntf In our p.irbT after dinner, vm n-rou n t r d to ';nrr. Low a n the I tic I - I dent t.f the flip mid how d.--p!y ton.-hrd w were 1 by th rievaat.it ion and ra viahea of war. In the I churchywrd around an old his'orlc church at , Pet rilMiTK. ovi ry foot of I ru cround -rmn oc-cuplrd oc-cuplrd Ly the (truvn of the "..nf"-!ptjl dead. Ion thftn Uy wrear lia. ni,r, be iu' if ,U flow em. now crumMlnr. wbb h b.d hern pi... d thr by lovlna; I hands l.Htle f id. d Conf'd.rnte flats marked ea-'h I ernv, niuie evidence of Die drvoiSm of the south 1 nrn peopU t.i their lowrj lMd I. .at. (innnral I.et.in I was nnjch In pr-ed by on- iovritlnn, taviim, t "The ;rrks o a d lioniRns In the day of their trlory t were worn to li .tn.r tlie;r hero ri-nrt bf rl'.apUta of j laurel and floweis, as well -is In linuim and st"rrt." ' and that ai coinnitnidT In cblrf of ihe (Irand I Army of the J public and in-nibT 'f run r rest from Illinois, ubl-h he th-n n ;i s. he would Lsus I an order establishing .Mnin-.rl.il I'ay. thm cal'ed 'erorntbo, l.y ,,e derlnr.-d at the same time I Hint he b-l!eved that ,1- culd s-rure the adoption of a Joint resolution tnaklnic It a n.iilonal holiday t en.1 a nailor.nl ceremony, lie then took up a pencil I and paper and wrote the matchless order No 11 As a result ,.f t!,N nnl.-r forn.nl rxr-n'iscs M(tf liol-l nt Arlihirt.-n. Vn. (IjIm- tho HIio of tho (irr. ; out Arlington Nt..n.il ri-nnd cr v ) on Mtiy T.O, !Sr,S. f;. irlnrl.i. corcmntiy Ih-Ii,- (.n (l.T.,ni! ( t!on with n:Vs n,Hl lluwrri of Hip hp .mi iti.-nt lo , Hi" "riil.nown P. ji.!," a im-morlal Unit Iim1 , n 'riod ( ,. ,hrMMt,ry nf m ,m nnMl. ,!;,,, (lr(iJ j foiitHl on ii,,. r.i-bl i.f l-.uil i;,m JltHi th0 nint( Io J t ! i j . j 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 o n , 'j-. ,;iy was nlv ..I.mtvin! 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