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Show members of the family of nations as well as provide fitting memor-j ial of those who fell in the San Juan fighting. War leaves its scars; ! but fortunate are those people who can give national thought to ! something other than those reminders of strife; and in this the chief factor is the untiring hand of time. Syracuse Post-Standard- ! THIRTY YEARS AGO AND NOW. Thirty years ago now, American soldiers were going to Cuba singing of ''A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" as they made ready to play their part in that international unpleasantness which we know as the Spanish-American War and out of which came the freedom of Cuba On the first day of that May of 1 898, Dewey had won at Manila; and, before the Fourth of July, was to come the taking of San Juan Hill and the related fighting. On that hill, Cuba is now preparing to set up ajmonument in memory of those who there fell, both Cubans and Americans. Plans for this have been approved by Cuba's president; funds have been provided- The design is to be by Giuseppe P. Collia, of New York. The battlefield is to be modestly, but appropriately marked. On July 1, as an anniversary occasion, there will be dedicatory dedica-tory ceremonies. And in two features thereof, there is impressive evidence of the degree to which peace has taken the place of war. Young girls, representing each of the provinces of Cuba, will strew flowers, thousands of them, over the field of conflict, in remem-' brance, and in token of the era of better feeling which has come. ,And the ambassadors of the United States and Spain, no longer bel-iigerents, bel-iigerents, are to attend by special invitation. Such is the plan of those responsible for the monument enterprise. enter-prise. They would have the occasion indicate the friendly relations rela-tions now prevailing between Spain, Cuba and the United States as |