The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1922-05-25


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 identifying and ornamentlng have
been placed In the hands of special commission
appointed by the secretary Of war.
II Is headed by the chief of the cemeterial
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 BelgitM. for wherever lies the grave OF an
American soldier. lies too spot that Is forever
America.
Romagne. which Is our Argonne cemetery orig.
lnay held In Its bosom 1900 OF our men who
fell in the Muese-Argonne offensive Americas
greatest battle. There every State Of the Union.
us well us 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 us that Of 1915 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-A rgonne. our beautiful and largest Gene
terry, stands MS a monument to Americas share
In the worlds greatest struggle.
Belleau, whose name memory lovingly links with
the herosm and sacrifice Of our men Of the Sec
ond division. Hes In green. fertile valley. dense
ly wooded, with loved and shattered Chateau.
Thierry near Its portals. This cemetery Is and
A.
glory to the United States. for 1t was at Chateau.
Thierry that the American soldiers cried. "They
shall not PAST" 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 a semi-circe Of hills, 10
like white gem In an exquisite setting of emerald
Old Fort valerien. whose massive gray walls
crown one Of the hlltops. stands Ike grim sen.
tlnel guarding our dead Lying of In the dis
lance can be seen one Of the worlds greatest
observation-disclosures beautiful Washington boule-
ward, curving in graceful lines connects II 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 ThlrtIeth
divisions whose united effort as the Second corps,
furnish one Of hstory's most brilliant pages Boys
Of the North and South. sons 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 common enemy. on the battle
ground Of Flanders Fields.
In smashing the Hlndenburg line many Of the
divisions bravest sons were left to sleep In the
field they had so calamity defended-"In Flanders
Fields where peoples blow"-the deep, rich GRIM
son Of those peoples; how they cover every hill.
side and dell! Growing thickly among them are
the white lilies Of the valley and the beautiful
blue cornAowers. And "Old Glory" floating high
and wide, finds Its colors reflected in these dow.
ers below.
So peaceful and restfull It seems such 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 threats
oil through the day pour forth floods Of melody
q requiem over the dead, psalm Of Thanksgiving
to the Great Creator for bringing again TO their
home psass and quiet