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Show i tow r :? v - A vA A mPJ mrf .C, riA'i'W - '- : ' i; L: us nsM forset thAt without 0.-t-piJr r.4 Am.fan thorn ouM hv : tWa r.o r-iUoJ Wooa p.J C:u:.-au T.trrv ar.d Arsor.n Korf St. ?; ivwm- auv M. Clyi Kelly of Fenr.sylx at; la. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN A GAIN cv:r.es Mo:-.u-rUil Day. - t Tho rtvi:rr'nt iislrtic'.e of vj: th spring rrovldos tho I . , its Inward and sp'.rltu..' 1 y grace. So there will I j Vjfi Cowers. to:h for tl.e H.ae uf and for the Gray a:.d for I ' the Khaki which the Plue "j, p.nj Gray united to r.'.ake. Ar.iia shall we see the aged forir.s of the veierans who fought under Gn.it ted under Lee. under Sherman and :' Stonewall Jackson ; under Sheridan iS krd Stuart. And do cot let time dlni for you the ' n.ar;ial glories of their battles. For J" there Is o:ore to Memorial Day than ar tallies at! tears and tears and smiles :-jr ftr the Elue and the Gray. :zz The United States of America does :r cot go around with chip on shoulder. - But you know, and I know, away down r. leep. that we Americans are the most - warlike people on this earth, and the cost desperate In battle. The Stars lw end Stripes has never yet trailed lu cefeat 1 Yes. there was fighting nt Belleau Wood and at Chateau Thierry. But j . y there was fighting at Gettysburg and Ant'etam, too. Read these lines by " the laconic Grant, who never wasted a word, and saw things as they were. In tLs chapter entitled '"Battle of the Wll-t Wll-t -dercess" : -:: "At 5:10 In the afternoon Lee at-f: at-f: tacked our left. His line moved up to within a hundred yards of ours and opened a heavy fire. . . . The nemy pushed through our lines, p'.ant-jl p'.ant-jl Ing their flags on a part of the In-trenchments In-trenchments not on Ere. . . . Fight-I Fight-I tug had continue3 from Ave In the j 3' morning, sometimes along the whole ' Hue, at other times only In places. The ground fought over varied In r width, but averaged three-quarters of 't a. mile. The killed, and many of the severely wounded of both armies lay within this belt, where It was practi-l practi-l cally impossible to reach them. The ' woods were set on fire by the bursting shells and the conflagration raged. The 4 wounded who had not strength to r move themselves were either suffo- -cated or burned to death. Finally, the fire communicated with our breastworks breast-works In places. Beh;g constructed of s, wood they burned with great fury. But "the battle still raged, our men firing . through the flames until it became too " tot to remain longer. Lee was now to distress. . . . During the night all of Lee's army withdrew within their Intrenchments." Let us give full meed of honor to the survivors of those heroic days. For soon there will be uo survivors c either in Blue or Gray. Consider the ory that comes from Eradford, t'a. Because only eight of the 134 Civil war veterans who made up Encampment Encamp-ment No. 7, Union Veteran legion, are still living, and only three of this number are able to leave their homes, the roster has been presented to the JIcKean County Historical society for preservation. The encampment was made up of veterans who flocked to ; Bradford with the discovery of oil i soon afjer the close of the war. They i "presentedmore than 100 regiments ; -and most of them had been wounded j la action. New York contributed 41, . MTv ';V . 5 i .j .vt'-'.vM;. - ... : IVnr.sjhanla CO, Ohio 1'-. WNcor.sin U . - -C 5. Massachusetts and Vermont 3 each, V f " . ; Iiiinols and Connecticut 2 each and V' .- :)','. H j Indiana. Kansas, Missouri and Mich- . .. ; . ' ' -- . I Wn 1 each. K . . ,e' , j Time, they say, heals all wounds. ' "- '.a. I It Is well that It does. But time. also. "-" i erases r.'.emories. Ana tnis is uoi iso well. Time should not be allowed to entice us away from the "music of the boisterous drum and silver voice ! of the heroic bugle" of the days of ! i lSol-5. American citizenship came j out of the crash of combat, not only j i unscathed and unblemished, but also j enriched and glorified, and It was for j that very citizenship the war was ; f,.t:-ht. " ', The Spanish-American war was a Fhort war and soon over. But It was i a tremendously Important war for all ; ' that. This war put the American Navy on the Seven Seas to stay. It I made the United States a world-power ! over night. It was to the world an object less-on that the American of ISi'S was still the same old fighting man of 1770 and lblC and ISIS and J And It was In this war that the Blue and the Gray first blended into the Khaki. When Miles and Wheeler j fought under the Star-Spangled Banner Ban-ner and drove the blood-red flag of Spain with Its yellow heart from Its last start In the Western Hemisphere, the way was clear for complete reconciliation recon-ciliation between the North and South. One day In liOS a great transport of the United States, bearing 2.000 American soldiers and sailors, left a dock In the Hudson river for the Phil- . Ippines. This great ship turned north instead of south and steamed slowly I up the Hudson to the tomb of Grant. I And then a mighty salute was given. When the Grant memorial was dedi-: cated in Washington it was a veteran ! in Gray who thing out tiie Flag and said : "He gave us tlds 1" ' No more reverent homage is paid at the tomb or the "Unknown Dead" In Arlington than by the Gray veterans of 1501-3. Said President Harding last month j at Augusta and remember that -it was ; through Georgia that Sherman marched "from Atlanta to the sea." j "I believe the framing of the Constitution was inspired; I believe it with God's Intent, and yet there was an ambiguity in this Constitution that brought the North ami South together in a "great civil war. and that ambiguity ambigu-ity had to be wiped out at great costs; and yet, again, this is one of the best things that has ever happened to the American republic, because it lias brought us to a greater understanding. understand-ing. "I want to sny now, I don't believe there Is a vestige of the Civil war feeling feel-ing left in the United States. 1 spoke ' last year to an assemblage of Coufed- ' erate 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 cooperation, more earnest wishes for the good fortune of the republic than thoe 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 back In 1S37: "From 1777 to 1S57 CO lung jears the Nation lias thrived and grown great In the visible presence of tht surviving heroes and heroines of th devolution, the very sight of them in spiring us. But now, In 1S37, these are all gone, with few exceptiors, and the Nation 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 1023 we of this day and generation gen-eration have thrived and grown great for 60 long years In the visible presence pres-ence of the heroes of 1S01-5. Now the heroes of that time and no finer, smarter fighting 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. But 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 and the men of 1S01 ! "The loftiest tribute we can bestow today the heroically earned tribute fashioned in deliberate conviction out of unclouded thought, nelthet shadowed by remorse nor made vair by fancies, is the commitment of thif Repablic to an advancement nevei made before," said President Harding at the burial of the "Unknown Dead'" at Arlington. "If American achievement achieve-ment is a cherished pride at home, if our unselfishness among nations is all we wish it to be, and ours is a helpful help-ful example in the world, then let us give our influence and strength, yea. of our aspirations and convictions, to put mankind on a little higher plane, exulting and exalting, with v. ar's dis tressing and depressing tragedies barred from the stage of righteous civilization." i |