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Show IF5L i F1 -r 1 IS iMrflMlBan ySHH eS'liJ ,- yv fi Thicrrv and Argonne Forest.H.-11r. Sfiu- Jfk- W- ' ,K.i- Vg ' iL ' " ; k. j atlve M. Clyde Ke.ly of P.nn.y.van.a. . $- f By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 4' piEW? ' 's- v v I y 7tT & ' ' A GAIN comes Memorial Day. i5m!l " x ' ' $ ----4sC26Ji! The recurrent miracle ot JtSP'S' 5SS t , e4$ the sprins provides the My tj'f outward and visible siitn M fg. 1 l-v . of its inward ami spiritual fMr N ""-! &A grace. So there will he VJ -3 . " Uowers, lioth for the I'.lue '''-f r "3 T and for the Gray and for 1&jM t 3 -",, " S " - L Nr the Khaki which the lilue s- lSfi A A K , and Gray united to make. i " Again shall we see the aged forms of x the veterans who fought under Grant Pennsylvania 2!), Ohio 12, isonMi V t s and under I.ee, under Sherman and 5? Massachusetts and cim.nt ! eidi ' " s Stonewall Jackson; under Sheridan nijuois and Connecticut 1 euh ind f ; s pi mid Stuart. Indiana, Kansas, llissouil md Mi h ;x X n --J And do not let time dim for you the tgau l each. L . J' 'f martial glories of their tiattles. For Time, they say, heals all wounds. ' there is more to Memorial Day than it is well that it does. lint time. also, '"'""'i Let us not forKet that without Gettysburg Get-tysburg and Antietam there would have been no Ball-au Wood and Chateau Thierry and Argonne Korest.K-!'r'Senl-ative M. Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 4 GAIN comes Memorial Day. The recurrent miracle of the spring provides the outward and visible sign , of its inward and spiritual 1 J-vJ S'';K'e- So there will he llowers, both for the I'.lue nnd for the Gray and for Wif the Khaki which the lilue and Gray united to make. Again shall we see the aged forms of the veterans who fought under Grant and under Lee, under Sherman and Stonewall Jackson; under Sheridan mid Stuart. And do not let time dim for you the martial glories of their battles. For there is more to Memorial Day than smiles nr.cl tears nnd tears and smiles for the 151 ue and the Gray. The United Slates of America does not go around with chip on shoulder. Hut you know, and I know, away down deep, that we Americans are the most warlike people on this earth, and the most desperate In battle. The Stars and Stripes has never yet trailed in defeat ! Yes, there was fighting at Relleau Wood and at Chateau Thierry. lint there was lighting at Gettysburg anil Antielain, too. Head these lines by the laconic Grant, who never wasted a word, and saw things as they were, in his chapter entitled "liattle of the Wilderness" Wil-derness" : "At 3:10 in the afternoon Lee attacked at-tacked our left. Ills line moved tip to within a hundred yards of ours and opened a heavy lire. . . . The enemy pushed through our linos, planting plant-ing their flags on a part of the in-trenchments in-trenchments not on tire. . . . Fighting Fight-ing had continued from live in the morning, sometimes along the whole line, at other times only in places. The ground fought over varied in width, but averaged tliree-ipiarters of a mile. The killed, and many of the severely wounded of both armies lay within this belt, where it was practically practi-cally impossible to reach them. The woods were set on fire by the bursting shells and this eoulhtgration raged. The wounded who had not strength to move themselves were either suffocated suffo-cated or burned to death. Finally, tiie fire communicated with our breastworks breast-works in places. I'.eing const ruclod of wood they burned with great fury. 1 -ill the battle still raged, our men tiring through the Unities until it became loo hot to remain longer. Lee was now in distress. . . . During the night all of Lee's army withdrew within their intrenchnienls." Let us give full meed of honor !o rhe survivors of those heroic days. For soon there will be no surivors either in I'.lue oi Gray. Consider the story that conies from I'l-adl'ord. I'a. Localise only eight of the l.'l! Civil war veterans who made up Knenmp-ment Knenmp-ment No. 7, Fnion Vet.-ran Irginn. are still living, and only Ihr.'e of this number are able to leave their homes, the rosier has been presented lo the MrKi'iin County Historical -..ciely for proservat ion. Tiie encampineni was made up of veterans who (locked lo I'.r.idlord with the discovery of nil soon after .he close of the war. They represented more than pwi regiments and most of tiieni had been wounded in action. New York contributed 41. Pennsylvania 2!), Ohio 12, lsoonsm 5, Massachusetts anil ermoiit 3 each, Illinois and Connecticut 2 each and Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Michigan Mich-igan 1 each. Time, they say, heals all wounds. It is well that it does. lint time. also. I Prases memories. And this Is not so well. Time should not be allowed to entice us away from the "music of Che boisterous drum and silver voice of the heroic bugle" of the days of l.Slll-5. American citizenship came out of the crash of combat, not only unscathed and unblemished, but also enriched and glorified, and it was for that very citizenship the war was fought. The Spanish-American war was a short war and soon o er. Iiut II was a tremendously important war for all that. This war put the American Navy on the Seven Seas to stay, it made the United Stales a world power over night. It was to the world an object lesson that the American of ISilS was still the same old lighting man of 1770 and 1S12 and ISfS and I 18(11. And it was In this war that the I'.lue and the Cray tirst blended into the Khaki. When Miles and Wheeler fought under the Slar-Spanglod Haulier Hau-lier and drove the blood-red tlag of Spain with Its yellow heart from its last stall in the Western Hemisphere, the way was clear for complete reconciliation recon-ciliation between Ihe North and Soulh. One day iri ISPS a greal transport of the United States, hearing 2,(X)(1 American soldiers and sail. .is. loll a dock in the Hudson river for the Philippines. Phil-ippines. This great ship turned north instead of soulh and steamed slowly up the Hudson to the tomb of Granl. And ( 1 1 en a mighty salute was given. When the Grant memorial was dedicated dedi-cated in Washington it was a veteran In Gray who Hung out the Flag and said: "He gave us this!" No more reverent homage is paid ! at the tomb of the "Unknown Dead" ; in Arlington than by the Gray veterans , of i Said President Harding last monih' at Augusta and remember that it was thri'iiLh Georgia that Sherman marched "from Atlanta to the sen." ' "1 believe the framing of the C. .ns! il lit nui was inspired; 1 believe it with God's intent, am! yet Ihere was an ambiguity in this Constitution that i brought the North and South together I in a great civil war. and that anibigii-! anibigii-! ity had to he wiped out at great eosts; and yet, again, this is one ol the best ! things that has ever happened lo Ihe American republic, because il has I brought u s to a greater im.lerstaml-i im.lerstaml-i ing. "I want to say now. I don't believe tiiere is a. vestige of the Civil war feel-; feel-; ing left in the United Slat-s. 1 spoke last year to an assemblage of Goofed-' erale veterans. I never had such a cordial cor-dial reception In my life. "I have been President of the United States a little more than two years, and I have never heard more cordial expressions, more generous tenders of co-operation, more earnest wishes for the good fortune of the republic than those which have come from the states of the South, and which are not In party sympathy with the administration." administra-tion." Abraham Lincoln once said, away hack In 1S.",7: "From 1777 to 1SH7 (iO long years tin; Nation has thrived and grown great in the visible presence of tin, surviving heroes, and heroines of tlm Revolution, the very sight of them in spiring us. lint now, in 1S!i7, these are all gone, with few exceptions, and the Nalion Is closing the door upon the heroism of the past; and must now turn and face, without this inspiration, in-spiration, a future, which I cannot know, and you cannot know, and only God Himself can foretell." So in V.Y1W we of this day nnd generation gen-eration have thrived and grown great for 00 long years In the visible presence pres-ence of the heroes of 1S01-5. Now the heroes of that time and no finer, smarter lighting men ever marched at the ' double-quick are bent and stooped, tired by the long march, almost al-most ready to break ranks for the last bivouac. Put for the next 00 years of the nation there is a new heroism the 'heroism of the boys in Khaki. May the coming generations thrive and grow great in their visible presence. May their visible presence be as Inspiring In-spiring as that of the men of 1770 nnd the men of 1 SOI ! "The loiliest tribute we can bestow today Ihe heroically earned tributt- fashioned in deliberate conviction, out of unclouded thought, neither shadowed by remorse nor made vain hv fan.-ies. is Ihe coliilnit lllent of this Republic to an ndvai nient ne er made before." said Pr'sident llardinp at the burial of the "Unknown Dead " at Arlington. "If American a.'hieve nam! is a cherished pride at home. If our unselfishness among nations is all we wish It lo be, and ours Is a help fill example in the world, then let u. give our inlluence and strength, yea, of our aspirations and con vi t ions, to put mankind on a little higher plane, exulting and exalting, with war's dis tressing and depressing ;'r:iL'o';e-barred ;'r:iL'o';e-barred from the stage of righteous clvi llal inn." |