The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-31
DAY
:: IN MANY LANDS
-:
EFrom This Time There Will Be
!, Graves Of Soldier Dead to
| Be Decorated Overseas.

i- MEMORIAL DAY this year
!NH finds the thoughts Of many
l." Americans thousands OF
miles away. With cinema
IKE rapidity the principal Memorial
~ scene has changed from the 50
taationai cemeteries, where tiny flags
lecorate nearly 100000 graves to-
France, where 76,247 Of the flower Of
american manhood lie buried in 2,342
cemeteries. ,,....ss,. ., ..u
T Filling the ever-thinntng lines Of
blue and gray Is the mighty khaki
clad hosts Of democracy. There is the
patriotic oratory by the foremost men,
bot this time by men tried by war.
There is the usual booming Of guns,
ne-enforced this year by the blazing
Fardllery Of the A, E. F.
But the Significance Of it all Is
IN almost international observance Of
the great American Memorial day..
For the first time graves Of American
soldiers. like monuments Of demOc-
racy. are found in rugged Scotland. In
tquiet English churchyards, at Coblenz
lin Germany, on the icy wastes of ST.
IBERIA and in the fields Of sunny Italy,
as we'll as on the slopes Of Montfau-
con and at Suresnes, in France:
.Suresnes, the great American GEM
| stery Just outside Of Paris. might be
retained in perpetuity by the United
States for the purpose for which it
was so generously given by the
French nation. 1t lies on the beauti-
full slopes of Mont Valerien. sentinel
Led by q historic fortress. Border
ling the curved frontage of its $4,000
fsquare meters runs shady boulevard.
(which the municipality Of Paris has
lrecently named boulevard Washing
ton" .... .~'-.,~
f'*''''A The Seine Winds Past.
From this spot of the sepulture one
Sveriooks the city Of Suresnes. with
4 the Seine winding past its doors, and
i the world-famous Bots de Boulogne,
Tying yet farther on down the gentle
ldeclivity toward the French capital.
IL Writing to the mayor Of SuresneA
Maj. Gen. n. L. Rogers, former quar-
termaster Of the A. E. F., but now
fquartermaster general of the army.
steaid: =
Z '"The commander-in-chief is deeply
tsensibie Of the touching devotion thus
1 nanifested by the people Of the town
n of Suresnes, both in the donation Of q
iplace that shall be sacred to the NOR
Il TIL remains and the honored memory
d OF our heroic dead and in the noble
dissolution to watch over their resting
.lplace. He also desires for me to i'm
aIpart to you his appreciation Of the
j tributes, Instituted at your suggestion,
To- the memory. Of our first American
lpresident, In giving the name Of Wash
i ingtonS to Il the boulevard leading
% the space allotted for this hallowed
ipurp0se." 5ssa .SfyE r. -,
! - >. n Shell. Holes Opened UP.
I The graves registration service
4 which comes under General Rogers
and which did such &laudable wori
throughout the war under the abl'
Leadership OF Lieut.. Col. Charles 9
Pierce Of Philadelphia, REINFORCED b,
10000 negro troops, combed the entirl
a battle area Of France in an effort t.
4 locate and identify the bodies Of al
! soldiers who fell. So thorough wa.
4 this fnai inspection that even shel
4 holes were opened up in the search
fer missing bodies. o'..5 y'1 ~ -. z5
The cemeterial branch Of the quar-