The Dolores star., 1922-05-26

of the air service whose daring and brilliancy
will ornament many pages Of the Worlds
history. Already extensive plans foot to
make our cemeteries over there great national
memorials; and to insure the success of the under
taking plans for beautifying and ornamenting have
been placed in the hands of Il special commission
appointed by the secretary of war.
1t is headed by the chief of the cemeteral
division; other members are: Charles Moore
retary of the National Fine Arts commission ;
james l.. Greeneaf, New York landscape artist ;
and William Mitchell Kendall, the well-known ar
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
or Belgits, for wherever lies the grave of an
American soldier, lies too, spot that Is forever
America.
Romagne which is our Argonne cemetery orig
inally held in its bosom 1900 of our men who
fell in the Muese-Argonne offensive America g
greatest battle. There every State of the Union
rs well as the territories Of Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands, had representation,
No spot in France is more historically famous
thah ms the Argonne sector, where lies larg-
est field of honor.
Here Frances greatest battles have been foupht
but none so great that of 1918 when America
ana france again fought side by side rs In the
days Of Washington and Lafayette. and again for
the principles of freedom and liberty. So Ro-
magneAreonne, our beautiful and largest ceme-
terry, stands rs n monument to America's share
In the worlds greatest struggle.
Belleau, whose name memory lovingly links with
the herosm and sacrifice of our men of the Sec
ohd division, lies in green fertile valley dense
ly wooded. with loved and shattered Chatoou-
lhiefry near its portals This cemetery is and
always will be of the greatest national pride and
ElorE 10 the United States for it was at Chateau
Ihicrry that the American soldiers cried .rrho,,
snail not passi' and. like a barrier across thair
path' matted the Huns on their way to Paris
sureShes cemetery, In the winding valley of the
oeihe anu surrounded by n sem-circle of hills Is
hke white gem in an exquisite setting of emerald
old Fort Nhlerien, whose massive gray walls
crown one of the hlltOps, stands like n grim son
tinel guarding our dead Living off in no A.,
tance can be seen of the worlds greatos.
cites-Paris-whose beautiful Washington bouIe
Vard, curving in graceful lines connects If with
our cemetery ~
Flanders Fields Familiarity known bv Its old
name OF Bony, Is the spot made historcalIv fa,no
" hlerica py the Iwenty-seventh and ThIrtletb
DIVISIONS, whose united effort as the Second corns
furnish one Of history's most brilliant n,ooe ~
OF the North and South, sons of the MOI, i
wore the Blue and the Gray-who cap saw tbot
IN spirit the great commanders of that lono na.
war were not near to guide their bows ms tboy
"u'"neeu 10 meet common enemy on the battle
ground Of Flanders Fields
In smashing the Hlndenburp limo NAV,
niVislohs bravest sons were left to sleen In ~
neld they had CALAMITY defended-"In E1,-
f1eids where poppies blow"-the deep, rich cri,
son of those poppies; how they cover every bui
side and dell Growing thickly among tben nno
the white lilies of the valley and the beout,sn
Dlue cornhowers And "oId Glory" floating bIpb
and wide. finds its colors reflected in these an,'
ers below. h""-
SO peaceful and restful II seems enc, ,.,
while ago that the boom Of cannon and the scroa.s
OF shell had sent fleeing from their natjve hona.n
the sky arks now returning whose LITTLE thronts
all through the day pour forth floods of ms,na,,
requiem over the dead psalm of thanksgIvina
10 1he Great creator for bringing again to their
home peace and quiet ~ '''e'r