Show I Tributes Are Due to Fallen Heroes Observance of Memorial Day Is s Duty and Privilege lege of Americans Day originated as ns a MI M trl tribute ute to the fallen he heroes rots rot's of ot I the Civil war has come In these later years ears to mean menn much more than that says say a writer In the Detroit Free Press Iress The dwindling lines of ot the Old Guard representing the tile Grand Army Array of the Republic will soon pass passIn 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 keepIn In la memory all nil our men who struggled In battle to keep Old Glory flying in tn inthe inthe the heavens These men heroes of ot the Spanish American war and those of ot the World Yo rill war conflict now loom large on the national horizon and to them as ns well as to the remnant of theOld the theOld theOld Old Guard that kept watch and ward along the and In the Mississippi sippi valley during the dark days of the Civil war our solemn graciousness Is due We Ye can never do enough to show our appreciation of what they did In time of trial and It Is meet that we assemble each Memorial Day and give thanks to Almighty God for tor the victories victories vic vie tories won by these sons of the republic lic on so BO many ensanguined fields of ot war The clad blue-clad armies that met and conquered the hosts of ot Lee u-e In the sixties have their counterparts In the lads In khaki who stemmed the Gernan Ger Ger- German man nan flood of In the Ar Ar- Argonne Argonne gonne and on oa other fields of ot gore orl teaching th the hitherto conquering hordes of ot the kaiser that the despised Yankee from across the brine was not visiting the for picnic sport but to terminate once for tor all the claims of ot an on absolute monarch monarchy that It ruled rule the world Memorial Day Is the one day In La all the year fear when the men and women of ot America can cnn show more reverently more sympathetically more heartfelt appreciation and gratl gratitude tude for our boys who In the World war as ns In all other conflicts In which the republic has b been en engaged led the van causing victory to perch upon the banners bannen of righteousness Bring Dring flowers to garland the graves of Americas America's soldier dead What more appropriate Tears Tars for the dead help for tor the living We must not forget the maimed malmd and suffering that legacy left lett by the frightfulness of ot the most ferocious fete fero clone cious and heartless war In the history of ot the world Kaiser Wilhelm sits In Inthe Inthe inthe the shadow of Dutch hospitality and broods over the fall of ot the tile tern lern dynasty Ills punishment Is small compared to the suffering his guilty goUty reign inflicted on his fellow tellow beings Doubtless he Ito Is now counting the cost when It ills Is too late to save him from the just condemnation of ot mankind Many thousands ot d if graves will this year ear be decorated In Jn France graves groves ot of o American soldiers lers who paid with their lives for tor their patriotic stand for tor God Goc and country when the bu bugle le sounded for tor the march across tho the ocean |