Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-17

Oh tner KINDNESS TO the aged and lnfrnl, or their
romping over the barbed wire entangements and
jumping the trenches and storming the pillboxes
and routing the Hun. And they will go Me-
mortal day to the American cemeteries to strew
flowers and to bless the nation that came with her
men and her women her material. money and eff
ciency-the nation that fed the hungry, succored
the injured and freed the world.
FUN soon the shell holes oil with grass
And battlefeIds and shell holes pass
Into the mist of yesterdays;
But still there fingers word or phrase
touch of Western breezy slang
To lend Provencal speech tang
Stern battles though the flags be furled
VIII boom In "Say-Tll tell the world"
And sparks OF many valiant fight
Will fash in "Listen" and Good night"
Boy faces grinning. wistful kind
With each brisk phrase will to mind;
Boy faces, grim and gray drear,
That still could manage "Whoops my dearr'
Who called the worlds worst "the FUSS"
In vivid speech homogeneous;
Who joked like boys and fought like gods.
And caroled "Blocey! What's the odds?"
Reduced the hell of Marine and Roye
TO crisp and long-recalled patois
Those boys who said, so this is France!"
And, gayy gallant took chance"
There a parade up Fifth avenue of the
Seventy-fifth division of the A. e. +. Far ahead of
Maj Gen. Robert Alexander and his staff, in front
of the police escort marched 80 men, each
carrying banner bearing 100 gold stars Behind
these 30 men and the banners with the 5000 gold
stars a gap three blocks long. Said thick
witted man in the reviewing stand:
"Why, these bannerbearers are out of place"
"You fool" stormed his neighbor 1.-THE dead are
passing now"
If all the patriot dead look upon the services Of
Memorial day. there is host indeed. For 1t is
almost a century and a half since the struggle to
gain and maintain freedom began
BY the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their Flag to Aprls breeze unfurled
Here the embatted farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
There giants in those days and no Ameri-
can but is the better American for thinking of
them-Washington, Jefferson, AdaiS, 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 eutfought Cornw aIlis; George Rogers Clark,
who took and held the northwest to the Mississip-
ri John Paul Jones'
In the War of 1872 the Constitution and the
United States and the American privateers out
sailed and outfought the British the seas, to the
establishment of the world. Andrew Jackson won
the Battle Of New Orleans-a decisive American
battle that saved us the Mississippi. And the sue
cessful defense of Fort McHenry called forth
Francis Scott Keys national hymn, 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner"
o., thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the desoia-
ton:
Blest with victory and peace. the heavn-
rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us
nation.
Then conquer must, when it is just
And The star-spangled Banner in triumph shall
Ger the land Of the free and home Of the
brave.
Another generation and the war-drums beat
again and the bugles blew. "On to Mexlcol" Palo
Alto, Resaca Buena Vista, Monterey and Chapul-
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