The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-05-27

Of the air service whose daring and brllliancy
will ornament many pages OF the Worlds war
history. Already extensive plans are on foot TO
make our cemeteries over there great national
memorials: and to insure the success of the under
taking plans for beautfying and ornamenting have
been placed in the hands of a special commission
appointed by the secretary OF war.
1t is headed by the chief Of the cemeterlal
division other members are: Charles Moore. sec
rotary Of the National Fine Arts commission;
James L. Greenleaf. New York landscape artist;
and William Mitchell Kendall the well-known ar
fist 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
or Belgium, for wherever lies the grave OF an
America.
Romagne which is our Argonne cemetery, orig
ipally held in its bosom $4,000 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 arg
est field Of honor.
Here Frances greatest battles have been fought
but none so great as that Of 1918. 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-
terry, stands a monument TO Americas snare
in the worlds greatest struggle
Beeau whose name memory lovingly links with
the heroism and sacrifice Of our men OF the Sec
ond division lies in green, fertile valley, dense
" wooded, with loved and shattered Chateau
Therry near it's portals. This cemetery IS ana
always will be Of the greatest national pride and
glory to the United States, for 1t was 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.
Suresnes cemetery, in the winding valley of the
Seine and surrounded by semi-circle 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 off in the dis
lance can be seen one of the worlds greatest
Observation-Disclosures beautiful Washington boule-
ward curving In graceful lines, connects it with
our cemetery.
Flanders Fields, Familiarity 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 as the Second corps
furnish one of historys most brilliant pages. Boys
of the North and South, sons of the men who
core the Blue and the Gray-who can say that
IN shirt 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 sons were left to sleep In the
field they had so CALAMITY defended-"ln Flanders
Fields where peoples blow"-the deep. rich Grim
CON If those poppies how they cover every hill
ido and dell! Growing thickly among them arr
tho white lilies of the valley and the beautiful
nine cornhowers And "old Glory floating hisl
and wide. finds its colors reflected in these flow
ers below
Co neacefu and restful! 1t seems such litt'
while ago that the boom of cannon and the scream
of shell had sent fleeing from tier native haunt
the sky larlss now returning whose niue throa'
IN +hronqh the day pour forth floods of melody
rooniam over the dead psalm Of thanksgiving
n the Great Creator for bringing again to thei
home peace and quiet.