The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-01

'Belleau Wood" corner Of the forest pre-
serve at Rand and Ballard roads. has been made
Cook county's first living memorial to her World
war soldiers Of Cook county, Illinois. The area.
In accordance with the plan Of the county board
to name forest preserve tracts after battles Of
the WoEld VIZ, commentaries the deeds Of the
Second division at the famous wooded hn' neal
Chateau Thierry
$2OOO.0OO memorial testfying to the regard
Of the people of Tennessee for her sons who gave
their lives in II = World war, soon will take tts
place among the most beautiful and elaborate
buildings of the kind In this country. The state
appropriated $1.OO0,O0O, the city of NASHVILLE
raised $6OOOOO and the county Of Davidson put
up 100000.
The General Federation Of women's Clubs,
comprising the majority of the clubs Of the entire
nation, has Endorsed and ts component clubs will
take On active part In the campaign for border
Ing the Victory highway. national memorial trans
continental highway. with living monuments to
the soldier dead of the United States. In the form
Of trees planted and cared for by the local clubs
which are members of the general federation.
Hattonchatel. the. little village which
almost wiped out five years ago In the course Of
the hard. swift drive by which General Pershing's
men cleared the st. MhIel salient of German
troops, In September celebrated Its resurrection.
thanks to American generosity. along with tn.
fifth anniversary of the dellverance of the vii
lage from the Germans. Miss Belle Skinner OF
Hoyoke. Mass, Is the wealthy American woman
to, whose generosity the village is Indebted fo
Its restoration.
At Chnumont in June a monument was dedi.
Gated to "Franco-Amercan friendship" Chau.
mont was the headquarters of the American gen
eraI staff.
The French nation has begun the erection Of
magnificent and colossal monument TO the Amer.
lean soldiers. II will stand upon thn Pointe de
Grave. the lonely cape upon the stormy Bay. at
Biscay, where the American soldiers first landed
In the great World war. The monument will ris-.
to height of $50 feet. 1t will be by far the
greatest monument of Its kind In the world.
The principal sculptural feature of the work
will be gigantic figure of France on the seward
side. gazing straight over the Atlantic in the,
direction of America.
The foundation stone of the monument was laid
with Imposing ceremony by Prime Minister P0In.
care in company with the American ambassador
to France The day chosen for the ceremony was
the anniversary of the landing of the American
troops, and happened also to be that of the arrival
of Lafayette in America with French troops al
the time of the Revolution
Belleau wood. which Marshal Foch called 'the
cradle of victory" was consecrated In July to tn.
memory of the Americans who died there. Til,
French flag, at Foch's command wns hauled down
to trumpetng by French bugers and the "Aiar-
selllase' by the marine band from the u. s. 8.
Pittsburg and the American flag run up to
the strains OF the "Star Spangled Banner 4
group Of Americans from many states and rela
tives of the dead assembled inside the ring OF
French villages. the homes Of which the Amer.
leans saved. The wood was formally dedicated as
n permanent memorial by the Belleau Wood
Memorial association. represented by the presi.
dent, Mrs. James Carroll Frazier, who directed
the plan to buy the land and preserve the bat
tlefields with trenches and machine gun nests
and erect monument and place descriptive
tablets.
demand for a congressional investigation into
the alleged deplorable condition of the American
military cemetery Mt Belleau woods, France was
made In October by Edward H. Spaford New
York state commander o. tAe American Legion.