Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1922-05-26

"Mari"." or city hail. Eighty-,wo stone
buildings are 10 he restored. Us we'll
nS Il group Of SNAIL farms on the hill
side. che Frrnrh government has
promised t" have all roads put into
! condition rs their contribution. and It
! will be guarded by orr boys who Ito
silent in the little green-anIwhtto
cemetery just across the way.
Homes Must Be Rebuilt.
In time nature will restore to France
! her trees and lowered loneliness but
neither time nor nature can rebuild
shattered homes. Those Of us who
have not been intimately touched By
the horrors of war or the cruelty OF
sudden overwhelming separation from
| those we love can only approximate
the sadness in the lives OF those about
! us who have not been SO fortunate
Many Il mothers heart is buried and
her enthusiasm dradenrd. 1t is only
through some practical memorial that
her interests can be reused and re-
awakened
The field Of homer AZ Ee!!"au will be,
the i"rmaT"ui .\i,n"-M Marine cemetery
'Wh""' Il shining itrr>t ni >luw-whito
crosses VIII stand rs Srn,irrIS over
the mortal remains NJ G.Dui ~ our
boys" The organization for this NE
: m"rfal TO or dead has iIs hrahuuar-
tiers in Washington with Marshal
Fo"h chairman for France john w.
Weeks. honorary president. The pres
ihent Is Mrs. James Carroll Frazer,
, vice president or the Navy League or
the United States. and Vice President
Coolidge as Il member OF the national
committee. Mrs. Charles Lea Is chair.
man for Pennsylvania; Mrs. rheodoro
w. Reath, acting chairman; Gen. w.
T. Waller. executive secretary; Mrs
Helen Foster. secretary.
! How Our Boys Wont Isto Action
| Mrs. Reath revisited France last
summer and went over all tho ground
In the neighborhoSd Of Beileau. At
Les Mores farm she made tho &C.
quaintance Of a young Frenchman nhe
had been severely wounded ut tho Bat
tie Of the Marne. HE had witnessed
the advance of the American troops"
said Mrs. Reath. land his account was
so graphic and bore such testimony to
the truthfulneSs Of the American cor
respondents who had covered the ad-
vance Of the American army in 1918
| and described the troops in action at
Relleau. that | feel I should tell it to
; you rs he told 1t to me-.
| "'IhISt men wHe magnificent. ma
. dame. They had taken off their coats
ana had pinned To their shirts a DOD.
| py. As they rushed f,Eward they
| Yelled aud, madame. rs they fired
! the Germans went hipiiy hop. hipIty
. hop. This was the only English word
/ that Frenrhman knew. but it was tho
! most expressive English word | have
ever heard. II does seem incredible
! thai our boys Shn':ld have been so
! careless with their lives" continued
! Mrs. Reath. 'hut / have no reason to
! doubt the truth Of the s,an's word,
| especially as 1t cOrroborated the &C.
count of our own correspondents at
the time"
! This memorial IT Belleau is to be
! established to those b0ys-our boys :;
/ TO their idealisan to their heroism that
| bro0ked no barrier. 1t Is TO be me
mortal that will give TO the people OF
| this part OF France a practical express
sion Of the good-wU OF the American
| people as well as Il national tribute TO
the men whose "sOals shall be where
the heroes are" and whose memory
] shall "shine like the morning star"