The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-24

ry, where large forces OF German in
fantry sought to force a passage un-
der support of powerful artillery CON
centrations and under cover of smoke
screens. A single regiment of the
Third wrote one of the most brilliant
pages In our military annals on this
occasion. 1t prevented the crossing
Mt certain points on its front, while on
either flank the Germans who had
gained II footing pressed onward. our
men fired in three directions, met the
German attacks with counter-attacks
at critical points and succeeded In
throwing two German divisions into
complete confusion. capturing COO
prisoners"
Joseph II. Dickman was in command
of the Third division on this occasion.
In fact, most military men give the
high honor of driving the Germans
back across the Marne, and of saving
the situation, to Dlckman's troops.
The Third pursued the enemy across
the Marne, took the heights of Mont
st. Pere and the villages of Charteves
and Jaulgonne in the face of the heav-
lest machine gun and artillery fire, and
from there 1t advanced into Roncheres
wood.
st. MlhIeI and the Argonne.
General Dickman was ordered to the
st. Mihiel section, where he took COM
mand of the Third corps, comprising
the First, the Forty-second and the
Elghty-ninth divisions. There the
American troops drove the Germans
from the salient, took 10000 prisoners
and 443 guns. captured an enormous
quantity of material, released the in
habitants of many villages and es-
tablished our lines in a position to
threaten Metz.
In the Argonne forest, when the
commander of the First corps was
promoted to the command of an army,
General Dickman succeeded him. For
three weeks he lived in dugouts, three
weeks of unceasing anxiety, unceasing
fighting and unceasing mastery. The
First corps under Dickman drove
through the hardest parts of the Ar
gonne forest.
Memorial Day at Arlington.
Memorial day in Washington is to
be memorial and memorable day in
one. Preparations are now being made
for the impressive ceremonies OF
May 80.
Arlington National cemetery, pos
sibly the most beautiful burial ground
of the world, is today in the colors OF
spring. There is nothing somber about
Arlington except the thoughts which
come to one as he threads his way
through the paths which border the
resting places of the fallen.
The color scheme of the place Is
beautiful. There is the purple of the
wistaria, the pink and white or the
dogwood. the subdued radiance of the
redbud, the yellow of the dandelions'
the white of the daisies, and the Pur-
pie of the violets which there mingie
with or glow beneath the coming green
of the great tulip trees and the great
er oaks.
There are newly made graves in Ar
lington, those of the few victims OF
the great war who already have found
rest in this section Of fame's eternal
camping ground. An added duty has
come to the surviving veterans of the
wars, and to the widows and children
of the dead. The Memorial day of the
future will find a greater host asleep
which must be remembered with the
hosts which had gone before.
Amphitheater Nearly Completed.
Memorial day the great marble amphi-
theater which has been erected in Ar
lington will be used for the first time.
It stands in a state of near completion,
its white walls shining under Poto-
macs sun. Before long in the great
corridor of the amphitheater there
will repose the disinterred remains or
some of Americas greatest heroes, for
this amphitheater in sense Is TO De
the Pantheon of America.
On the wall of each amphitheater
tomb will be placed tablet upon
which in simple phrase will be detailed
the deeds of the hero thus remember
ed. In some cases it will be imposst-
BILE to place the bodies of the dead
within receptacles, because of the dis
inclination of families to sanction the
removal, or, as in one or two cases.
because the transfer would be an ac-
tual physical impossibility. In such
cases where the mans deeds have been
admitted as deserving high recognl-
ton, the story of what he has done
will be told on a tablet, while the
hero himself still rests far away.
OF the three great northern mill
tary figures of the Civil war period
only one rests In Arlington-Sheridan.
Grant lies on the banks of the Hud-
son. and Sherman on the banks of the
Mississippi. Military thought always
L.. LII 4bnt nll thrna of these Ead-