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decorations that only nations can bestow. can
sense the prayers Of our people. of all peoples,
that this Armistice day shall mark the beginning
of a new and lasting era of peace on earth. good
will among men. Let me join In TINT prayer.
"sOur Father who art In heaven. hallowed be
Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. thy will he done
on earth as It is in heaven. Give us this day
our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those who trespass against US And
lead us not Into temptation, hut deliver us from
evil, for Thine is the Kingdom and the power
and the glory. forever. Amen"
And what of the intervening years since
November II. 1913?
David Lloyd George puts Europe's condition
thus: Fifteen million picked men killed. twenty
million crippled for life, Of billions OF wealth.
gathered through the centuries. squandered In
moment. commerce destroyed. nothing left except
hate"
But not so In America. We have no hate Per
contra. have fed starving Europe without
thought Of payment reward. And America
emerges from the World war the wealthiest and
most powerful natioL Of earth. Food for thought
in the sacred moment 4 silence!
And what Of German, 1t begins to look as II
she were on her knees al asst. Apparently-it is
not snfe to put It more ST. .ngy--the truth has
at Inst been forced upon the German conscious
ness that In the great fouryear struggle which
convulsed the world and Impoverished 1t In life
and treasure Germany was decIsvely and con-
clusivey beaten Never. until the official and
public and unconditional abandonment Of passive
resistance in the Buhr. has Germany given
acknowledgment that the victory In the test of
war was absolute.
So 1923 sees a second surrender by Germany
Of hardly less Importance than that of Armistlce
day Of 1918. Another thought for the moment of
silence!
November II at the eight American cemeteries
In France Belgium and England. there remain
the bodies Of 30,363 soldiers, sailors and marines
who gave their lives during the war. At each
OF these, from the Meuse-ArgOnne, Aisne-Afarne,
Suresnes, st. Mihie the Somme. Oise-Aisne in
France, In Flanders held In Belgium and at
Brookwood in England, appropriate services were
held Throughout the day with American dlpo-
mntic or military and naval officials paying
tribute.
November II Is not the only "Armstice day"
The year is full OF days that are "ArmstIce days.
in spirit
In June the disabled American veterans
through National Commander ]. A. Mcfarland.
plnced wreath on the tomb at Arlington.
On the Fourth of July was unveiled In Paris
monument to the American volunteers who en-
listed in the French army In 1914-15 The stntue
which surmounts the monument strkIngly sug-
gests Alan Seeger, the soldier poet who wrote
that immortal poem II Have Rendezvous With
Death"
In the spring at seicheprey the First division,
A. E. F., was honored by France by the detlica-
tiOn OF a monument. q photograph OF which Is
reproduced herewith. The First division fought
the battle of Seicheprey early In 1918
Cen Henri Gouraud, "Lion Of the Argonne,"
who lost his right arm in the service OF his
country. was visitor here In July and placed
wreaths upon the Arlington tomb.
Another photograph shows the crosses. on
row, which mark the graves of American sol.
diers In the national cemetery at Arlington. They
died In France and were brought back by the
American government
American Kindergarten leaders. visiting Ameri-
can kindergartens In France. decorated the grave
OF Frances, "Unknown Soldier under the Arc
de Tromphe,
Chateau TEierry recently unveiled monuments
to the Americans who there gave their lives to
block the German drive to Paris In 1918.
Cantigny has erected an elaborate fountain as
a memorial TO .he Americans OF the First division
who captured the town from the Germans In
May 1913.