Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-19
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first visit to trance WHeH Itie
 inference opened.
 foreground stood President
 He was looking out over a
 ing hillside toward a fringe
 in the distance. The whole
 ! which he was looking was
 with the little white crosses.
 bery cross lay American sol
 mn, the cross was written his
 nk anG his regiment unit.
 are hundreds of such fields
 ce that contain the dead of
 that contain the dead of ours
 battle.
 he graves remain, of all these
 hey have vanished from earth
 They were sent 5000 miles
 fhe seas to do the bidding of
 buntry and they did it. They
 they had to give that last
 asure of devotion a soldiers
 died feeling and hoping that
 er might happen to them, that
 a and Americans would so on
 ish up the job. They were not
 that some one else take their
 nmediate, and personal job. off
 hands.
 died that whatever America alled upon to do in fhlishing m would be attended to. They
 lot have looked toward to what be done after the war, though
 of them did, for some of the |rains of America died ill France.
 every one Of those fraves in e.represents a pledge that oth- nericans have made to see the
 through. Now that the actual Eng of ialood,. has ceased and the
 is whipped and eowed, there ther things to be dcle that these |would have us to do. :. Job to Insure Pence.
 Is our job to insure peace in the }. It is our job to heal the Ids of war as rapit,lv as tn oy De healed. These men who died America as they knew it. To it WAS the best country n all worlds eThey would like to have it in to the America that they before tAe war came. A coun- )f peace and of opportunity.
 at Land of Graves up in north France has strong cdaim upon Tha men who lie there, at Bel Woo and Chateau-Thierry at scns, and Charpentry. at Exer- and Bauln Hill. at Chepp and lu0is Hill would not rest easy in
 graves could the knowledge h them that many Americans doing their best to aforget the and all that the war has meant. ould be hard for them to unter- 1 that the old, careless, indiffer- mood would ever come overAmer- again. u5tless with that new and clear n that comes to the soul releas- icy can see new dangers, and pit Ill the path of Americans. Not n or them living but would sor- 10 see Americans failing in thelr now that the war is over. nave not done all that we set . 60 when these men joined the S. Hde we have beaten the hun ave arranged to give peace to the !; We are bringing the Ameri- pack from France.
 the very decision to go to war yea us other decisions that were 'achlng. By undertaking the we pledged ourselves to go gu with to thelogical end. And end dlc not mean that we were TOW away our rifles and strip T uniforms and forget all about and dangers and diffi- $ that arc following in the wake e war.
 :. We Must Not Drift
 u'd not mean that we were to z country Grift on evil ways and mat we were to let unemploy@ 'alers beg. in the streets and ac- vhaflty: That we were to let war Risk Insurance lapse for . ol money to pay the claims arose under it. That we were ,,,'. solemn pledge to the ,'s ol the country that if they ! ralse all the wheat they DOS could grow, that we would nay sz'2o bushel for it.
 meant that we were to keep ou, es, spoken and unspoken and o'elan ; word whether it was giv- lnipiied. To do anything else oe 1reachery to the thousands :. who sleep the sleep that , MO dreaming in the lsttle cemeteries ln the high hills of !. usonne Wood and the thousands oe ns ln the great military grave ,, so long ago an American made ,, 4 i,niimage through the snows of ,,r .,pter to the battleficlds of last nper { . and October. He saw the 'lllages and the rusting barb ',o a black against white back ~ ol 'lnc snow. He crossed the Vcne e, trenches, the trees that !, Ike insane trees, broken, 'u' convulsed. " " were no smashed aud dis 'auks lying on the hill-slopes,
 were no marks on the fields ow where the American guns Soou ana hammered at the hum ,o, |, were no dead horses, mo 'gu trucks, no broken wagons m, m sight. The snow hid any ,aG aG,asks, KS helmets, pasks. and K ~. lllles that might have been i, mere, The snow had come and