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SECRET COUNCIL
DAYS ARE over
So Says President in His
!. Memorial Address.
DEFENDS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Calls Society Covenant That Heroes
Shall Not Have Given Lives IN

Vain.
Paris. Nav 31.-The day OF secret
co,ncils is past because the people are
in the saddle.
President Wilson so declared IN mis-
Memorial day address in the American
Cemetery at Suresnes, near faris. Inc
nriyate councils of statesmen, he aod-
ad will no longer determine the des-
TIMES Of nations.
Other points in his address were /:
ST would be no profit to US to eulo-
o;ze these illustrious dead II we uio
NOT take TO heart the lesson winch
they have taught us.
ssThey came to see to 1t that there
should never be a war like this again.
IF is for us to see to it that there
never is war again.
"These men have given their lives
in order that the world might pc
united.
"The league of nations is the cove
nant of government that these men
shall not have died in vain"
An earnest defense of the league OF
nations was a prominent note OF the
presidents address, He said he hook
ed for the time when man VINO TALL
ed to support the league would De az
ashamed as the man who opposed the
union of the states after the civil war.
BY the time President Wilson arrlv-
ed at the Suresnes Cemetery, great
throng had gathered. 1t included nu-
merous distinguished members OF al
lied officialdom, who had come to hear
the presidents address and pay trib-
ute to the American dead.
President Wilson was accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, Rear Admiral Gray
son. Brigadier General William w.
Harris and Miss Edith Benham, Mrs
Wilson's secretary. The weather was
ideal for the ceremonies.
Not grave of any American who
fell in the great war was overlooked
in the observance of Memorial day in
France.
Some of the services were held in
the vicinity of the battle line along
which the troops fought and sacri-
feed their lives-in the cemeteries
where they were laid to rest. Others
took place near the hospital centers
further back, where those whose
wounds finally caused their deaths
have been buried.
The two most notable events Of the
day were at Suresnes and at ROmagne,
near the ArgOnne. General Pershfng
went to Romagne, near the spot where
the Americans suffered their heaviest
losses in the fighting, to speak at the
exercises.
The $500 soldier dead at ROmagne
were honored by the attendance of a
battalion of infantry, battery OF ar
tillery and q regiment band. Similar
detachments took part in the exercises
at other large cemeteries.
After paying tribute to the memory
of their fallen comrades, the members
of the American expeditionary forces
from the Rhine to the sea spent the
remainder of the day in taking part
in and witnessing athletic events.
AS part of the Memorial day OBJ
servance, Hugh c. Wallace, American
ambassador to France, went to the
Picpus cemetery, in the outskirts of
Paris, in the forenoon and placed a
wreath on the tomb of Lafayette.
Marshal Petain, commander of the
French army, gave directions to the
French troops near the places where
the American dead were buried to pay
tribute to their fallen comrades in
arms from overseas. The marshal
notified General Pershing of this &C.
ton in letter which read:
81 have invited French troops sta
toned near American cemeteries to 60
and salute their brothers in arms, fall
en- for the safety of their land and the
liberty of the world. Later, when you
have left Europe, rest assured that the
same rites will be rendered them, and
with the same fervor The remem-
brance fthese valiant men will en-
dure in our hearts,"