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Show America can show more reverently, more sympathetically, more heartfelt appreciation and gratitude for our boys who in the World war as in all other conflicts in which the republic has been engaged, led the van, causing victory to perch upon the banners of righteousness. Bring flowers to garland the graves of America's soldier dead. What more appropriate? Tears for the dead, help for the living. We must not forget the maimed and suffering, that legacy left by the frightfulness of the most ferocious fero-cious and heartless war in the history of the world. Kaiser Wilhelra sits in the shadow of Dutch hospitality and broods over the fall of the Hohenzol-lern Hohenzol-lern dynasty. His punishment is small compared to the suffering his guilty reign inflicted on his fellow beings. Doubtless he is now counting the cost when it Is too late to save him from the just condemnation of mankind. Many thousands of graves will this year be decorated In France, graves of American soldiers who paid with their lives for their patriotic stand for God and country when the bugle sounded for the march across the ocean. Tributes Are Due to Fallen Heroes Observance of Memorial Day Is Duty and Privilege Privi-lege of Americans. MEMORIAL Day, originated as a tribute to the fallen heroes of the Civil war, has corae In these later years to mean much more than that, says n writer in the Detroit Free Press. The dwindling lines of the Old Guard, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, will soon pass in last review before the inspector general, and the. heroes of other, later wars will take their places. It Is well that we Americans keep In memory all our men who struggled in battle to keep Old Glory flying In the heavens. These men, heroes of the Spanish-American war and those of the World war conflict, now loom large on the national horizon, and to them, as well its to the remnant of (lie Old Guard that kept watch and ward along ihe Potomac and in the Missis-i Missis-i sippi valley during the dark days of the Civil war, our solemn gi'aciousness Is due. We can never do enough to show our appreciation of what they did in lime of trial, and it is meet that we assemble each Memorial I:ty and give thanks to Almighty God for the victories vic-tories won by these sons of the republic repub-lic on so many ensanguined lields of ivar. The blue-clad armies that met and conquered the hosts of Lee in the sixties have their counterparts in the lads in khaki who stemmed the German Ger-man flood of frightfulness in the Ar-gonne, Ar-gonne, Relleau and on other fields of gore, teaching the hitherto comptering hordes of the kaiser that the despised Yankee from across the brine was not visiting the Rliineland for picnic sport, but to terminate once for all the claims of an absolute monarchy that It ruled the world. Memorlul Day Is the one day In all the year when the men and women of |