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Show CpYif of Ikiitorial Mm 113 tefcj fljnW.1V' , . - ' C. wW- 7 i i :v:i';. Asf-- - r-rwv- ibc I !. : ' ; : ; "i s -v. WCWin Et3 Sleep on, proud heroes of America's wars, wher- FKiw 4 J r o' 32Zr SAZZ&R. 1 ever you may lie. The fight you have made has ,L'$Jr'c ' .'" 7)47)' been a blessing to mankind, and Americans In '"" 'ff?7a?,, g J3-" S s tj""' X ' -'v"- America see In a new light the tower of liberty 'SI-'j t; T" , u S MfuferivoocfS- that now faintly illumines the darkest recesses of "Z '"'Vj" " Kfez-Hsocxt the world. Your lives have not been given in vain. - . g&faT' XtrV TV WPcn Kona,ieo irnii o Vin Vint Tim ara rrrtllH tO Sleep on, proud heroes of America's wars, wherever wher-ever you may lie. The fight you have made has been a blessing to mankind, and Americans In America see in a new light the tower of liberty that now faintly illumines the darkest recesses of the world. Your lives have not been given in vain. We weep because you are our kin, but we are proud that you so nobly fought and so nobly died and rejoice that you are in God's keeping. Representative Representa-tive Charles Pope Caldwell of New York. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN K PIEIT of Memorial Day, 1023 ! XjL We all know the purpose of Memorial vi'--' rvf day. We Americans assemble to com-Vwc com-Vwc fl memorate our Nation's soldier dead to njSiOtS? jn express our love and gratitude for their X5f3hfe service and devotion by strewing flow-ers flow-ers on their final resting places, by re-counting re-counting their deeds of valor and patriotism, patri-otism, by seeking new and deeper understanding un-derstanding of this national holiday, sacred, sanctified, glorified. In one way it is a day of celebration, of hero worship unstinted and unashamed. We won our Independence In-dependence by fighting for it. We are not a warlike war-like nation, but we are a fighting nation. There is no fighting man like the American fighting man. The Star Spangled Banner has never been lowered 1- defeat. So we celebrate the deeds of our fighting fight-ing men. But we do not assemble to awaken bitter memories mem-ories of battle and slaughter. We do not meet to rekindle the vengeful fires of hate and passion. We do not gather to exult over the defeated. We do not come together to glorify war or to exalt militarism. We meet rather to dedicate anew the power and wealth and strength of the nation to liberty, humanity and justice. Sea-fights and land-fight3, grim and great. Fought to make and to save the State; Weary marches and Binking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong land's swift increase; Equal Justice, right and law; Stately honor and reverent awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong. To ward her people from foreign wrong; Pride ann clory and honor all Live in the Colors to stand or fall. This is part of what Memorial day means to the good American. Too far away are Flanders fields Upon his grave to lay My roses and forget-me-nots. My rosemary and bay; A scarlet poppy on my breast Will apeak Memorial dayl Many a poppy will be worn In America on Memorial Me-morial day. There are eight national cemeteries In Europe, six of which are In France, one In Belgium, Bel-gium, and one In England. There are 30,587 bodies at present In Europe, distributed as follows: Meuse-Argonne American cemetery, No. 1232 : Itomagne-sous-Montfaucon (Meu.se), France, 13,038. Unknown, 483. St. Mlhlel American cemetery, No. 1233; Thlau-court, Thlau-court, Meurthc-et-Mosclle, France, 4,231. Unknowu, 157. Somme American cemetery, No. 030 : Bony, Al.sne, France, 1,830. Unknown, 154. Olse-AIsre American cemetery, No. 008: Ser-lnges-et-Ncsles, Alsne, France, 0,071. Unknown 008. AIsne-Marne Amerlcnn cemetery, No. 1701: Bel-leau, Bel-leau, Alwne, France, 2,220. Unknown, 224. Surcsrif.'s American cemetery, No. 34: Suresnns, Paris, France, 1,407. Unknown, 2. Flanders Field Amerlcnn cemetery, No. 1252: Wacrcghcin, Belgium, 305. Unknown, 20. Brook wood American cwnctery, No. 107-E: Brooltvvooil, Surrey, England, 435. Unknown, Of!. M;iny of these American graves overseas per-hiips per-hiips nil will be Btrewn with (lowers. American Initiative will do much. Admiring and grateful henrts will take many a Frenchman, Belgian iiih', Briton to these graves with blossoms. It will bo long before Europo forgets tbn American fighting men. Who won the war? Never mind; there Is glory enough for nil. Jimt the name the American doughboy left IiIh Imj-reHH. Franco may bo Irrl-tnleil Irrl-tnleil with America JiiHt now, but French mothers lire still telling tlielr children of the great olzo of (lie An-.Tlennn, of their tender euro of tho young, of their kindness to the aged and Infirm, of their romping over the barbed wire entanglements and jumping the trenches and stonplng the pill-boses and routing the Hun. And they will go on Memorial Me-morial day to the American cemeteries to strew flowers and to bless the nation that came with her men and her women ; her material, money and efficiency effi-ciency the nation that fed the hungry, succored the Injured and freed the world. Full soon the shell holes fill with grass And battlefields and shell holes pass Into the mist of yesterdays; But still there lingers word or phrase A touch of "Western breezy slang To lend Provencal speech a tang. Stern battles, though the flags be furled. Will boom In "Say I'U tell the world!" And sparks of many a valiant fight Will flash in "Listen!" and "Good night!" Boy faces grinning, wistful, kind. With each brisk phrase will come to mind; Boy faces, grim and gray and drear, That still could manage "Whoops, my dear!" Who called the world's worst war "the fuss," In vivid speech Incongruous; Who Joked like boys and fought like gods, knd caroled: "Blooey! What's tho odds?" Reduced the hell of Marne and Roye To crisp and long-recalled patois. Those boys wto said. "So this Is Francel" And. gayly gallant, "took a chance." There was a parade tip Fifth avenue of the Seventy-fifth division of the A. E. F. Far ahead of Maj. Gen. Robert Alexander and his staff, In front even of the police escort, marched 30 men. each carrying a banner bearing 100 gold stars. Behind these 30 men and tbe banners with tho 3,000 gold stars was a gap three blocks long. Said a thick-witted thick-witted man In the reviewing stand : "Why, these banner-bearers are out of place." "You fool," stormed his neighbor, "The dead are passing now." If all the patriot dead look upon the services of Memorial day, there Is a host Indeed. For It Is almost a century and a half since the struggle to gain and maintain our freedom began. By the rudo bridge that arched the flood, Their Flag to April's breeze unfurled Here once tho embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round tho world. There were giants In those days and no American Ameri-can but is the better American for thinking of them Washington, JefTorson, Adams, Franklin, Sherman and Livingston, who drafted the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence; Alexander Hamilton; Nathan Na-than Hale, who regretted that he had but one life to give for bis country; Greene, who outwitted and outfought Cornwallls; George lingers Clark, who took anil held the northwest to the Mississippi Mississip-pi ; John I 'mil Jones. In the War of 1812 the Constitution and the United States and tho American prlvaloers outsailed out-sailed and outfought the Ilrltlsh on the nous, to the astonishment of the world. Andrew Jackson won the Iiattle of New Orleans a decisive American battle that saved us the Mississippi. And the successful suc-cessful defense of Fort Mcllenry called forth Francis Scott Key's notional hymn, "The Star-Spimglcd Star-Spimglcd Banner:" O! thus be It ever, when freemen shall stand Between tlielr lovod liomca and tho war's desolation: desola-tion: Blest with victory and peaco, may tho heav'n-roseued heav'n-roseued In ml pralso til o power tlint lmth made and preserved us a nivt-lon. Then e.omiiier wn nust, when nur niusn It Is Just. And The Ktur-SpiuiKled Banner In triumph slmli wave O'er Hi" land of the frno nnd tho imnti of the bravo. Another generation nnd the war-drums bear again nnd the bugles blew, "On to Mexico I" I'nlo Alto, HeHiica, lSiionn Vint n, Monterey and Cluipul-topee Cluipul-topee are tinmen to conjure with even now. In tho short and brilliant Mexican campaign Wlnlleld Scott won funic. Zachnry Taylor's record nindo Mm President. There Grant earned IiIh first lau rels. And did you know that on the pension rolls of a grateful nation there are yet 52 names of veterans vet-erans of that war, though it closed 75 years ago? ' When Abraham Lincoln left his Illinois home for the White House he said to his neighbors, assembled assem-bled to wish him Godspeed: There has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon .hs Father of His Country, and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for that support without which it will be impossible to perform that great task. I turn. then, and look to the great American people and to that God who has never forsaken them. He was a true prophet. All Christendom stood astounded at the magnitude of the struggle that followed, and the spirit of the combatants. It was American against American. Nor did the American Ameri-can people fail Lincoln. Nor did God forsake the America n people. The outstanding fact In American Ameri-can history is the hand of Providence in the affairs of the nation. But ".he Civil war Is over now and Its wounds are healed. Recalling what were tbe Issues of that war nnd remembering that Appomattox settled those Issues right and for all time, we can strew flowers alike for Grant and Lee, for Sherman and Jackson, for Sheridan and Stuart with: Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray, As for Lincoln he stands beside Washington In the hearts of a reunited people. It was this mighty struggle of American against Amerlcnn that give us Memorial day. And it was Gen. John A. Logan who, as commander In chief of the Grand Army of the Republic In 1S0S, established estab-lished Memorial day. Logan has been In the tomb for 37 years. And now his widow has gone to join him. She was always his constant helpmeet and Inspiration ; it is likely that she herself brought about Memorial day. Flowers for her graF; the memory of her works will live. It was only 25 years ago this year that the itaine wns blown up in Havana harbor. That mennt war, of course. The summer saw It begun, fought nnd won. And It- wns an Important war. It saw a reunited re-united North and South again fighting under the Stars and Stripes. It made the- United States a world j.-ower over night. It showed the world that America would fight for th rnuse of humanity and could forego tbe fruits of Victory. It was notice to tho nations that the J SOS American was the snnio old lighting man on land and sen. Wouldn't you like to have been on "Fighting Hob" Evans' Iowa nt Santiago and seen the bnnd perched on the forward turret, grimy nnd hnlf-nnkod. hnlf-nnkod. just ns they came from the guns, and heard them blare out : There'll be a hot time In tho old town tonight! ,- It seems only yesterday that the Lusltanln went down. And that meant war, too America's entrance en-trance Into the World war, the greatest of all history. his-tory. loubtless the quintessence of the nation's thought on Memorial day wl be In the offerings at tbe tomb of our "Unknown Dead" In Arlington. Fitting Indeed nre these words of President Harding, Hard-ing, spoken at the burial of this Unknown Soldier: "We do not know the eminence of his birth, but we do know the glory of his death. He died for his country, and greater devotion hnth no man than Ihls. He died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in bis henrt nnd hope on bis lips, that his country should triumph and Its civilization survive. As a typical soldier of this representative denioc-rncy, denioc-rncy, he fought and died, believing In tho Indisputable Indis-putable justice of bis country's cause. . . . We gather him to the Nation's breast, within the shadow of the cnpllol, of the towering shaft that honors Washington, the great father, and of tho exquisite monument to Lincoln, tho martyred savior. sa-vior. Here the Inspirations of yesterday and the conscience of today forever unlto to lunlto tho republic re-public worthy of bis death for flag nnd country." |