The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-22
|,merican Dead in Other
Lands Will Not Be
Forgotten
MINOR ALL VETERANS
r,recial Stress Will Be Laid
on Personal Aspect of
Observance

aoriginally designated by tn,
,,.,o, veterans of the Civil war as 9
r,icuiar Decoration day for theii
w tsr comrades, May 80 gradual,
become a day set apart in mem
:, n ali Americans who died fol-
.hs,r country. Although IL has Ions
saon the custom OF many southern
s,otes To observe a memorial holi'
sov Of their own on April 26, the
sssdsncv 10 a uniform observanc,
t.s bqen apparent since the World
Tar The licgion, composed of both
,ss north and the south, officially
.S,nted MAY 80 as its Memorial day
"a nosts OF the World war men OF
so,b sides Of the Mason-Dixon line
S,ye. for the last three years stimuli
,,rsouslv honored the dead OF the
CIVIL. Spanish American and World
vars .,,
ysderation, made up of World wal
v,erans OF France. England. Can.
"a Italy and the others of the allied
,stIons and of which the legion ia q
rember, adopted the legion's date
IN the observance of rites for the
And, May 80 became an interna'
io,al holiday, comparable only tr
itrsal Observance TO Christmas
rbb year It will; be observed BY
,ron posts and allied veterans or
9r,nIzations in the following coun.
;riss other than the United States:
canada, Belgium, France, Poland
turkey, Mexico. Argentina. Brazil
British isles. Chile. China. Cuba
Guatemala, Japan. Peru, Porto Rico
Portuguese West Africa. Santon Do
rngo, Spanish Honduras, India
Venezuela and in the Canal zone
Hawaii. Philippine islands and the
prritory of Alaska.
Graves in Foreign Lands.
AS Il did last year and the year
before, the legion will decorate and
hold appropriate exercises over the
raves of every American who sleeps
IN foreign soil, as well as thus hon.
o!ng the graves of American and
tlied veterans who are buried in the
emeteries of this country. Legion
posts in France. Belgium. Poland and
turkey will visit old battlefields and
idjacent cemeteries.
The United States graves registra
ton service has completed its huge
task Of returning to this country the
bodies Of 42,023 of the A. L. +. who
died overseas, but 10000 Americans
stin remain permanently buried In
cemeteries OF the allied nations.
To finance the Memorial day dec
o1'lon Of graves overseas. each OF
ne legion's IL, 900 posts, was asked
. subscribe an amount equal to five
ents for each of its members. A
central committee of the legion In
france will receive the funds from
his country and have charge Of dec
Grating the individual graves.
Several months before Memorial
nv Hanford MacNider. national
ommander of the legion. sent each
post request that exercises this
year be made as personal as possi-
Die. with this end in view" Mr.,
MacNlder wrote. "the legion is ready
10 make special efforts to aid rela-
'lyes and friends who think on Me-
mortal day not so much of the whole
army Ct the dead as they will OF
some one youth who went forth tc
fight and did not come back" Gold
Far parents, desiring that especia
a'iention be paid to the grave oi
,heir departed. requesting a certain
Npe OF floral decoration or religi-
oW ceremony, were asked to com.
rHiicate their wishes to the organ.
.sMon's national headquarters here
trom which they are relayed to the
tslon post nearest the place o.
burial.
The legion will not confine Il:
eAerclses and decorations to the
memory OF World war heroes alone
ine graves OF all veterans OF al
american wars will be visited anc
decorated and fittingly honored. Las
year the organization requested III
pS,s and units of the Legion auxil
.ary 20 seek out. in each community
naVes OF all American soldier ant
sslor dead and to prepare charts
enow'ng where such graves were 10
Tnd a'ed and how they could be reached
the efforts of the World war mel
c,i riye resulted in many graves o
NJ war veterans being rescued from
,Dscurity and the graves of severa
se.rans Of 1912. long since for
o@n' nave been found and re
"A similar plan of keeping a clos,
nu nonored watch on graves o
nmerlcans buried overseas has beer
suNed' There will be in Franc,
,our principal cemeteries wherein
s %sn OF the A. Il. +. will sleep for
vi AZ present n special Fine Art
.JhnIlislson is working on the projec
uch VIII entail. for the collection
cs uouIes and the Identification o
,tneteiles, an expenditure OF NOR
nsn N,O00,000. These fields o
wVynor viii he located at Belleal
,au' near Chateau -Thierry; Bony
pa peaI 81. Quentin; Suresnes, nea
m, ana Romagne. in the Ar
M near Montfaucon. More thai
americans will remain buried Il
,sahu' ~ a gift OF land by the Brit
As,sso.efnment allows for the futur
IlnSaa and care of these graves
NJ pans already advanced a lit
ssmetery for those American
h,s uIed IN England. Ireland, Scot
ana Wales will be located a
SprSSWood, Surrey. England
VIII. year still fewer OF the proud
.se.haired heroes OF '6l-65 wi
their colors and their flower
!. he sacred round where thei
he sacred ground where thei
1Nas year the thinning ranks wer
rs-. with sturdy. tanned Young
Mn, IN their army drab and nav
,bs VINO were honored TO march a
sde OF the veteran patriarchs O.
mo. mL holy mission. The present Me
G,aal day will find the hosts n
ina and Lee all but dissIpate
NJ as the youths Of the World wa
~se Tor the honored files NJ IN
,ssa procession. the day wi
Nc on new sf1nifgna.a-