The mirror., 1919-06-05
The Month Of June

June-M, jest git doped on June!-
The trees and grass all at their greenest-
The round earth swong 'twxt and moon,
Jest at ts-so to say-serenest:-
In country-stars and whipperwils;
In town-all night the boys invadin'
Leadin citizens winder-sils,
Sara adin.-James Whitcomb Riley
June, is the sixth month of the year. By some
it's is believed have been derived from Jun
us, the Roman Emperor; by others. from Juno the
consort of Jupiter, and queen of Heaven.
In our great state of Minnesota there Is no
month in the year to be compared to the glorious
month of June. Gone is tickle May, with it's ex-
treme heat of July day and the next the frosts
of late March and early April shriveling the tender
buds and blossoms. until is ready to cry out in
dispair at the capricious weather But
look forward TO bright, sunny days, intermingled
with delicously refreshing showers that makes
long to do nothing but spend his time lying under
the spreading branches of the and
gaze dreamily at the feecy clouds they float
through skies of blue, seemingly with other
end in view than just to float, ever float, as our
thoughts and spirit float pleasantly in this joy
time of all the year. 1t is indeed the month of
brides, when madens hearts float buoyantly greeting
the outstretched of the waiting bridegroom and
be borne along joyously the wings of Hera to the
glorious land of Honeymoon.
June has several notable historical dates to it's
credit, besides numerous lesser ones. Perhaps the
greatest event to the Engsh-speaking world the
signing of the Magma Charta, Great Charter,
June 49, 1915, at Runnymede. near Windsor, Eng
land. Although the Great Charter was repealed in
later times it the real stone of English
democracy. From it grew the great English-speak-
ing democracies of to-day-the British Empire and
the United States. and indirectly the French democ-
racy, the Italian democracy and the Latin democra
cies of South America. True, the great of the
people of England that time gained very little real
liberty through the Great Charter but it pointed
the way and instlled in them the germ of the idea
that the people the nation and not the lords,
barons and kings And that germ grew until it be-
came great idea and then fact that was used with
terrible and telling effect the self styled masters
of the world.
just six hundred years AFTER on June 49, 1915,
was fought the great battle of Waterloo when that
queer mixture of autocracy and democracy.
no stranger government ever existed in this world
than that of Napoleon's. On the one hand IT con-
sisted of absolutism despotc as to be almost Ori
entail in nature and the other nearly dem
ocratc what our government is today. The latter
phase possible through that wonderful system
of excellent laws promulgated by Napoleon which
has since been the foundation of French gov
ernment. the Code Napoleon And strange as it may
hoca aha Of
not by grasping the power himself but by an over
whelming vote of the French people.
Events of the Great War in June, 1918
While in May the central powers seemed to be
getting the best of it, in June they checked
every point and at places driven back with
siderable loss. On June the Allies stopped the
German advance the Marne, the apex of their
salient. The Germans shifted their main attack to
the Oise front on June S, but with success. On
June 6 the Americans defeated the Germans in the
Chateau Thierry sector However, June 10, the
Germans advanced two miles of Montdidier, but
their losses were To up for the ADVANCE
the Americans drove the Germans out of Belleau
Wood entirely. The French defeated the Germans
southeast of Montdidier and the Americans
again near Chateau Thierry on June IL. However,
the Germans reached the Oise at Machemont and
Bethancourt the same date. On June Is the Austr-
ans began their great offensive against the Italians
on front of 100 miles. but the 10Th the Italians
checked the drive retaking many positions, and
the Goth the Italians, REINFORCED by the Allies drove
the Ausrians back. The Austrians began to
treat on the 22nd and by the 23rd the retreat had
been turned into rout.
Chronology of Important Events for June
June l. Tennessee admitted to the Union, 1896.
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