The Holly chieftain., 1922-05-25

will ornament many pages of the Worlds war
history. Already extensive plans on foot to
memorials; and to insure the success Of the under
taking, plans for beautfying and ornamenting have
been placed in the hands of special commission
appointed by the secretary of war.
1t is headed by the chief of the cemeterial
division; other members are: Charles Moore, sec
retary of the National Fine Arts commission;
James L.. Greeneaf, New York landscape artist;
and William Mitchell Kendall. the well-known
tist Of New York. Their ideas when carried out
will make the american Fields of Honor" the
most impressive war cemeteries In the world And
every one will be an outpost Of America In France
Belgium. for wherever lies the grave of an
American soldier, lies. too, spot that is forever
America
Romagne, which is our Argonne cemetery, orig
inaly held In Its bosom 23,OO0 Of our men who
fell in the Muese-Argonne offensive, Americas
greatest BATTLE There every State of the Union,
as well as the territories of Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands, had representation
No spot in France Is more historically famous
than this, the Argonne sector where lies our larg
est field of honor.
Here Frances greatest battles have been fought
but none SO great as that of 1913 when America
and France again fought side by side. as in the
days OF Washington and Lafayette, and again for
the principles Of freedom and liberty. So, Ro
magne-Argonne, beautiful and largest Gene
terry, stands as monument to Americas share
in the worlds greatest struggle.
Beleau, whose name memory lovingly links with
the heroism and sacrifice Of our men of the Sec
ond division, lies in green, fertile valley, dense
Iy wooded, with loved and shattered Chateau
Thierry near Its portals. This cemetery Is and
always will be OF the greatest national pride and
glory to the United States. for 1t at Chateau
Thierry that the American soldiers cried. "They
shall not pass!" and like barrier across their
path. halted the Huns on their way to Paris
A.
Seine and surrounded by semiclrcle Of hills is
like white gem in an exquisite setting of emerald.
Old Fort Valerien, whose massive gray walls
crown one Of the hilltops, stands like grim SEN
tinel guarding our dead. Lying of in the dis
tance can be OF the worlds greatest
cities-Paris-whose beautiful Washington boule-
ward, curving in graceful lines, connects 1t with
our cemetery.
Flanders Fields, famIliarly known by its old
name of Bony is the spot made historically famous
to America by the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth
divisions, whose united effort the Second CORPS
furnish one Of history's most brilliant pages Boys
Of the North and South, Of the men who
wore the Blue and the Gray-who can say that,
in spirit, the great commanders Of that long past
war were not near to guide their boys as they
advanced to meet a common enemy, on the battle.
ground Of Flanders Fields.
In smashing the Hindenburg line. many of the
divisions bravest were left to sleep in the
held they had SO calamity defended-"ln Flanders
Fields where peoples blow"-the Deep rich Grim.
son Of those peoples; how they every hill
side and dell Growing thickly among them are
the white lilies Of the valley and the beautiful
blue corniowers. And "old Glory" floating high
and wide, finds Its colors reflected in these flow
below.
So peaceful and restfu! 1t seems such a little
while ago that the boom of cannon and the scream
Of shell had sent fleeing from their native haunts
the sky larks now returning whose little throats
all through the day pour forth floods Of melody
a requiem over the dead. psalm of thanksgiving
to the Great Creator for bringing again to their
home peace and ouiet