, 1923-05-24

of their kindness to the aged and infrm, of their
romping over the barbed wire entanglements and
jumping the trenches and storming the ~pilI-boxes
and routing the Hun. And they will go on Me-
mortal day to the American cemeteries to strew
MOWERS and to bless the nation that came with her
men and her women; her material, money and eff
clency-the nation that fed the hungry, succored
the injured and freed the world.
Full soon the shell holes fill with grass
Into the mist of yesterdays;
But still there fingers word or phrase
A touch of Western breezy slang
To lend Provencal speech a tang.
Stern battles. though the flags be furled,
WIN boom in "say-rn tell the world"
And sparks of many a valiant fight
VIII fash in "Listen!" and Good night"
Boy faces grinning. wistful. kind.
With each brisk phrase will come to mind;
Boy faces. grim and gray and drear.
Who called the worlds worst war the fuss"
In vivid speech homogeneous;
Who joked like boys and fought like gods
And earOled; "Biooey! what's the oddsS
Reduced the hell of Marine and Roye
To crisp and long recalled patois.
Those boys who said, so this is Francel'
And. gayly gallant. took a chance"
There was n parade up Fifth avenue Of the
Seventy-ffth division of the A. f. F. Far ahead OF
Mai. Gen. Robert Alexander and his staff, in front
even Of the police escort. marched 30 men. each
carrying a banner bearing 100 gold stars. Behind
these 80 men and the banners with the 5000 gold
stars was q gap three DlOckS long. Said n thick.
witted man in the reviewing stand:
Why, these banner-bearers are out Of Mace"
you fool" stormed his n%eighbor 'The dead are
passing now"
If all the patriot dead look upon the services OF
Memorial day, there is a host indeed. For il "a
almost a century and u half since the struggle 10
gain and maintain our freedom began.
BY the rude bridge that arched tho 400,
Their Flag to April's breeze unfurled
Here once the embattied farmers stood
And fred the shot heard round the world.
There we're giants in those days and no Ana-t.
can but is the better American for thinking of
them-washington. Jefferson. Admins. Franklin.
Sherman and Livingston, who drafted the Declara.
ton OF Independence; Alexander Hamilton. Ma.
than Hale. who regretted that he had but one lIfe
to give for his country: Greene, who outwitted
and outfought Cornw allis; George Rogers CLARK.
who took and held the northwest to the MIssIssip-
nj; John Paul Jones.
In the War OF 1912 the Constitution and the
United States and the American p~rlvateers out
sailed and outfought the British on the seas. TO the
establishment Of the world. Andrew jackson won
the Battle OF New orieans-a decisive American
battle that saved us the Mississippi. And the sue.
cessful defense OF Fort McHenry called forth
Francis Scott Keys national hymn. "rhe Star.
Spangled Banner"
OF thus be II ever. when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the wars desoia-
BEST with victory and peace. may the heav.n-
rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved M.
n nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause It is Just.
And The star-spangled Banner In triumph shaii
wave
DER the land of tho free and tho home OF IN.
brave.
Another generation and the wnr-drums bent
again and the bugles blew. "On TO Mexico ~ PaIo
Alto. Resaca. Buena Vista. Monterey and Chnpui.
tepec are names TO conJure with even now. In the
short and brilliant Mexican campaign Winfield
Scott won fame. Zachary Taylors record made
him President. There Grant earned his first lau.