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Show p V' J': '- jJ'' "- p fl EiJ?-? ssi-.VMJ-L fro, W. ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A LL over the world wherever there are men and women who claim A the privilege of American citiren- ffi slliP Hay 30 will be observed as "" ' t t!ie day on which we honor our soldier dead. For Memorial Day v V lias outgrown its original slg-(.' slg-(.' niQcance as a day of remem- jj-b"'' jjfi brance for the men who wore the ' ,7" I;lue anJ those who wore the iAXR-J' Gray In the greatest civil war In 5 history, the War Between the States of 1SG1 to ISflo. America's soldier dead lie buried in many lands In Cuba, in the Fhilippines, in Mexico and In Frauce, F.el-gium F.el-gium and England. In the environs of the City of Mexico there Is a little cemetery in which a small granite shaft stands, bearing these words: "To the memory of the American soldiers who perished in thi.s valley In 1S47, whose bones, collected by the country's orders, are here buried 750." llemorial Day is a day of remembrance for those 7,"0 Americans as much as it is for any of the hundreds of thousands thou-sands whose graves in cemeteries in every state of the Union will be covered with flowers on May E0 of this year, 10-7. Since 1!JIS the world-wide significance of Memorial Day for Americans has been more apparent because of ihe long rows of white crosses in England and France and Belgium. In a military cemetery at Komagne-sous-Mont-fancon in the Meuse-Argouue region of France there are 14,045. of thee crosses. In the Oise-Alsne Oise-Alsne cemetery there are r,'s)4 ; at St. Mihiel, 4,141; in the Ais.ie-Marne, 2.212; at the Somme! l.Slo; at Suresnes, l.f.Hij; in I'iandiis Field in Belgium, ;uid at Erookwood. IJng'. ind, 4:',7. So It is in remembrance of those :H..".02 American Amer-ican soldiers, who are buried in eight European cemeteries, and the 4C.214, who have been brought home to rest beneath the soil of their native land, as well as the countless host of the dead hemes of the Civil war, the Indian wars, the Spanish-American Spanish-American and every other coalllct in which the United States has ever been engaged, that Memorial Day will be celebrated this year. If there Ls any one Memorial Day ceremony which is outstanding it undoubtedly will be that In the great amphitheater In Arlington cemetery Bear Washington where 1'resident C'oolidge will volc-e ti.e nation's tribute to its soldier dead. Around him will be grouped high government otll-clals otll-clals and ambassadors of foreigu countries. But It will not be the presence of great men which will make the Memorial Day services there notable. It is the place itself which Is the Incarnation ot the spirit of Memorial Day Arlington cemetery, where stands the memorial to the "Unknown Dead" of thu Civil war and where was placed the greatest of all American shrines, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Of all national celebrations, Americans have best preserved tiie original connotation of "holy day" for "holiday" In the case of Memorial Day. Untouched by the commereinihsm and the materialism materi-alism which has crept into the observance of other special days, it has a digidty and a spirituality all of Its own. Perhaps the f;:ct that it was conceived con-ceived In love and perpetuated in reverence has made it so. For It was the touch of a woman's hind, laying flowers upon the grave of an e:ieuiy--periiaps the very one v. iio was re sponsible for the death of some one near and dear to her , who-e example ex-ample of loving kindm.'.-.s and forgiveness for past hatreds eventually brought about the observance of Memorial Day. In lSOo Miss Lh-.zle Rutherford Ruther-ford of Columbus, Miss., sup-fsteil to the members mem-bers of the Ladies' Aid society, who bad been careful!;.' attending the grave, of Confederate dead, that April 20 b" set a ide each year as a special day for deeorat'rjg the -e graves. Her Sii'.-gestion was at once adapted by the s'.";ci.y and on April 21, Ihe li,- I Memorial d- y sen ice was held in St. Luke's Methodist "hureh in Columbus with Cci. James M. Itani icy ;'s the orator of t!a day. tin t!:: i d y the graves of both Union and Co:ifi dorah: soldiers buried near Columbus were h-co: ;.lcd v. iiii !o.ve. s. In 'I1.- ineMitiiuo letters to won'on in oilier southern t'.Tns resulted In the adoption of Apr;l 2H for a generel observance of a memorial day for the foldler dead. In the spring of 107 a New York newspaper planished a paragraph In which this brief statement state-ment was made, "The women of Columbus, Miss., have shown themselves Impartial In their offerings offer-ings made to the memory of the dead. They strewed flowers alike on (he graves of Confederate Confed-erate and National soldiers," In 1S'!7 the nation was still bleeding from the wounds or the war, rod anger, hatred and suspicion were still rife. I'.ut this avion by the women In the South sent a Ibrdl throughout the North and the following year, C'en. John A. Logan, national commander of the 0. A. I.'.., dcvigmitcii May r.,r the pur-pone pur-pone of strewing with (lowers or othoiwlse dec-onitlug dec-onitlug the graves of comrades. How (ieneral Logan came t. psue the famous order to his comrades of the (). A. It. which resulted In flip observance of May ;:() as Memorial Day, or "Decoration Day," as it was first known end us It Is still often referred lo, was related n feiv yeiirs ago by his widow, for many years known rit "The (irjind Old Lady of Washington." The Mory, as told by Mrs. Logan, follows: Thr h U Col. ClrU. U Wllc,n, cjltor of th y "tpjf 3T7 1 r ; 1 if 6' s 4 - -C- v a J I . 1 ":!; J f J 1 H - ; U V J I i M -i Z b i . L i hi ;t I t -''r;-;'.f -v. ;- - - .' v : i X Jt?:l -" c- j -Js'l V-Sci'7 Gcr.cralOrdcrsNo.il )i- "H-n(!'iuarler tJrand Army of the :)i r. public. h A'lju'nr.f r;pnral Ol.r, J 4-i; Mth P-rret, Washlncton. D. C. Mry 5. IS. 'Oeneral Oruori, Nn. M. t "I. The 3rnh day of M-.y, 1, H fUnli-riatf.t J far the piin')s r,f n'rf-v.-1nic with flower, or o'hcrwhfl fl-v-drnrltiK. th craves of oomradM 1, v. li'j ri 1 ( in d f n n r p of "ir'r country during .f the htte rt'ljplliiin, and boillrs row Me Jf. !n n Inmost every Ify. vKI.irro, harrltt ond 'f f n iiT-rli ya rd In thr land In this ol.porvnnrfl, if no forrr of c?rntony In nrrncrlbd, but pnn'n sf: r.tul rt)mnrl-i will. In ihrlr own wny, ar- ?ic r.-mre !U'-li flttln pervicn and tf.r Im'.nlal ;ic of r'sri'M-t, as flrr'.i T!innrrs may permit. " W e arn or tin n 1 ."d. njn r:t d cj, an our riru- ift InMnni to 1 r us. for the pur;on amonr other things, "nf prserv.nL- and sr rn i; t honl nj sje th'.pe kind and fn'crnr-j f. rllr.s n hl' h hav J sj hound toother the - I1 f ri. diiloiH and ;i: riinrir.os. w!m unl'rd toirtl.T to iwppre th-t I Inle rhflllon." What ran aid tnorc To nxsiiM )i: . 'his r-vult thfn ;y rhf r!h In t t end. rly ih rr "mory of our herolr dt-nd, who tn,nl t h t r ;( hroast.i a harrlr.ide t wit n rtir cuutry nnd Its f Their P'.d!.-r Ivh wtp th r'-v!l!e !j, "f froed ini to riifp In H-nlnn. nnd t h(r d'-alhs tho ta'tf.o of vehi-1 ll'iun tyrmny In ijj armR. U'e iho5ild t' ard f hfir i:r:vv.n wl-li birred vlKlIin.-o All that tho v n ,crs r d 4 weal: h nnd t;i:!" of tin- nn t ton cm n-'d lo ;': 1 h I r adornment ,-.:id nrl'y. In hut a flflnir J sj: tribute to the rn"innry of hr uliln defend- sje Lot no wanton rnnt lrn.1 rudely ,.tl mn-h h;il- lowed (.'rounds Let p!r-nnt paths Invito the romlliff Hfifl Hf.ln;' of reverent vlHtors end rond ri'ourners, I,"t nr. viridall.:n of nvuriro or n-trle.t. no r?vn(-M rf tln-e. t p T I f y to (he ;.: pre-inr or to the c,;,, v n ; a : I o n m that w have forgotten, a p-MP!o( f h rum of f: a fre. nnd undlvid-d r.ii!l!r. X "If oth-r ey n cro-.v d-i!. tmd oth-r hand- jjj :js slfck, ;i o'Ilt h'-m rro.r rdd I'. I ti e J -f- yoifn-ii trim!, niirM li l:e..p It w.-II. ttn 1-hl: ji if as t!ie Uu'ht ;it.d w.irmth of life rnrjirln J 'o us. :' ; "Let us, then, nt the tlnm appointed, i': ;: cathf-r n i ou ml t he! r miti-iI rernn Ihh, it ih -'f- fT'at.d the p-w,n ,..n mounds nhf.vo theiti :: Vlth the rhoce..,t fi.-.v.-rs of H o-hi ! line ; let us r;i1se nl.i.vp them the denr old (I.sjf they :i? 'aved from di-hor,' r: let un, In this solemn 5j preseiife, r ik ".v our 11 ' : '' t ri J T and ns!nt j- l ho :e whom they h:iv left ainoni: vn a r.;n rod 4 ch;T!;e upon a natlon'H Kratitudr the ol- . cjier's widow jinil orphan. st! ;: "If It Is the purpose of (lie, com m n nd r -1 n - A: rhh'f tf InautC'irite this ohservain-e, with the hope thf.t It. will hn Itepi t( p fr.,m year to :t T. y;ir, whilo a mirvlvor of war roriu'ln-i to honor the it emory of IiIk depfirtod romrjid.'s. J Af. I J e, en rn ' st 1 d-Jtl i en the pu I.) If prew.H to c-i 1 if k attention to this order, and l ml Its frlmidly c aid In brlnfiln;; It to the no'lne f cotnrndeH .jj In all pariH of tho country In tlnu for nlmul- tarieoi.H complin nee therewith. "MI I pa rt men t conmmtiilrrs will un vry M effort to rn.'ilte thia ortlnr effective, jj, "'y order of John A. Lonn, k Cotnniiuiflor-ln 'h!ef, T " fl'liil: N. r. C!iilpmn, Adjutant (ieneral " t riileitco Joiii'iuil 'if rhnt (hiy, tnTltrl a purly run rlRtltuc of Ills nlorn M'ht Anna "WMrom IhvfT Mm It(r,'illa M.'iy). MiMn K.-irrnr, hln n;im-''p (nil new flcn'li: (JertTiil lyiwri, norl oiyHelr, to vl-iit Km hat-tlefi'l'trt hat-tlefi'l'trt nrouiid Itli'tiiiinricl In Murr h, IKt'.JJ. 'I'tir lm. portline.i. of nomn liifflniiri-H (den ((ftl'llniT In rno-ur'M rno-ur'M prevented f.;erierfi I.oir.in, nt. flio I:im( mo. oi'nt, from Kolrwr. but to? Iic.ImIimI litem my Kiilnu wffh Ihwn frl'oeli. W n nuifh' n lour of cvniy tmtl Irflelil, ftirl lfletlon, toTTiiporcry l);u-i leiubi nnd remotfiy around thn orntwlillp f ' on Twit- ru I n cflpKnl, drlvtnt; about In old tumbU-dnvi n ve)ilclis, drawn by iwii, j.njd lu-rir, drlvrn by thinly clnd. poerty ! led men. who h.ol nurvlvrd tho lone Mei,-e nf lilch- I mend We n.iw the colort-d men. women and cl-.ll- ! dren dlitKlni; out ;h held and Iron which had been nhot l;.t.) th fnrtlth-Mtloni, alnuist the only nupporl I of then wr-tehed people. lnlnB cenieloriej and 1 church yard. we were deeply touched by the I withered wrreaihs nn.l tiny fl.im that marked tha I frraven of the Confederate dead. In the bleak March wind nnd 1 lc h t - f u I It n n anow, tha deola:lon I aeamed rnnsl upiirealve. I Returning- toi-etber to the old Wlllnrd hotel where we ihen lived, eltllnic In our p.irlor nfter' dinner, w, ro. united to Oneral I.oKan the Incl-dnn Incl-dnn of the trip and how deeply touched we wer by the devastation and ravUbea of war. In the churchyard around an old hiatnrlc chur.-h at I'eterel.un;. every foot of tlve irround a-omed occupied oc-cupied l.y the cravei of th. ('oniv.lerute de.td t',on tli'jni hiy wreath, ot.ee beautiful flow.rra now crumbllr.s. which had been p-,,-ed there by lovlnu han,t l.t.tle f oN I c.nfe.lerrn. f.a,:, m.rkeU e u-h Krnve. mute evhlec.re of the devotion of the aouth-ern aouth-ern p.-op.e lo t,,.r loved and .,at. iner.i! wa.i much lm,,r.,ed by ou- description savin's "the Creel.!! nnd llotcnnn In the ,!ur of their tlery were wont to honor their h.-ro d-a, ,T rhanlet, of laurel and flower,, a, well t.ronza and .tor.e" ""d that a, commander In chief of th. Crand Army of the. lpl,IP ,,,, .m,r of ,,,.' from Illlnol,. whi.h he ,hn was. he would an order , ,, ,.,,,, M ,1.,, ,. ,, ,l 7 ,e l ," , li" "'''''" 'he -am. ,; that he l.,eve, lm, n r,,,, (.r ,h ,,,, ,, ' J""", -'"l"lon mnhlCK I, niitlonal holldir and a nailcal ccemony. , . , p a pe 0,', nnd paper nnd wrole the nmlchles, order N l A i r.,.lt of this onler f,,r,:,l cxon-U,-, w,., lioltl ( Aril,,,-,,,,,. Vtt. (,,er ll. SJ. of , !'!', Arllncioii N,, ,,.,,.,.) ,m Mav 0 . , "': '-n-.uot.y heiK . ,: .: on with lines ,,,, Mower, of ,. ,,,., , H'. I. ,, mow,, Pen,!." n incnorlnl th.n ll hoer, .rec,e,l t ,. t,,,.,,,,, of o ,,, ,,,,,,,., on,,,! o II,,. helil, f ,.., ,; ,, , n I',i1'''"'11'""""1'- 'I'l.e tlny ws !. ,,,,.,,,'vH " "f "'" '""""V '""wine n,,,,.,., Hohlier.' critves, It, n.v.,,-,!,,,,,.,. wi,, ,;,.,.,, ,ocMs ,,r,ler. Imt tho tern, M,..rl:,l P,v (ir Wecrnllon h,y U,u not ,et hee ,.., ,, - H,e 1,1,,, s,,re:!, r,.,l,lly, ,Wover, , ( tl, I'J' ' '"' !. A. . ,, ''''"1,'lcrv In l'hll.'i,lcl,hln on .v L-.i 1ST", , , reconlcl thnt "the nnntml llor: -.'.,- !.', f ,,u, 1 urave.M of r ,., s:icrs hs ,,. n ,, j c.islom. ,.,,r ,t ,,. (lilInK nmiil " ; .M,i.l:: , honor (hclr ' '''l. Hie iN-rlh nnrl tho Sotilh were f,-K,.t,K ,,, ! hll lei iicss uf f,.w short .v,,,, h l,e, ro r , II," sl,:i,,vnt MM f cvhlcnc,. f ,,H or. I l'"IT'"1 '" ''.r....i.vn when V1 f Mav " '""' """.' Ms,.,-,hic,i i ,i. A,.:i : of Music l l,ir (ho chief ,,,,,. f ihy Indce Korer A. Pryor. formerly l,rl,:,l,.r cc. ernl In Ihe ('nfe,cri,le Mi-niy. Trorn Ihut lip,,. ,m Mcniorliil Hv celehrntlon, were Incrensln-ly Kymh r ,,,, ,., ,,,,,'' r..-,cclnl.v wm ( hlM ll'llO ,,f ,..o will, follow,,,) "'" S' 'I'-Amerlrnn xvr, In which sons of . who hn, wort, (he Ithio r,i;;llt ,, ,,,,,,, l(,siU sons cif men uhn hml worn Ihe (;,,,v ..,, even tnoro ttue f Metuorlnl lv celehr,,,,,,,,, ':li"'c llllll. Th Wnrhl wnr l,s lef, Amcrlc, ,l, li-r-It HK. --H Mcf.,r':;l I.y f l,,-,,,,,,,.,- ,, ,,,, ,, M,r",t,lnc lhn It , ,.Ver !,,! hef,,,.,, VuKl no North, no Sonih, o -s(, w,,Hl ,., Ihe l!i:htln;; ,c r no pnrllcilnr wnr hm r "'.its. It Is trnin,,,.! cull t ,,11 Atnerlcnns (,, ptiy reverent trlhnlc lo tho incnory f 1 1 , . . i ,- ,.. oretl fiend - t,c A M l'"ll K'AN noltller ' |