The Holly chieftain., 1923-05-24

OF their kindness to the aged and inirm, OF their
romping over the barbed wire entanglements and
Jumping the trenches and storming the pill-boxes
and ronting the Hun. And they will go on 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 efi
ciency-the nation that fed the hungry, succored
the injured and freed the world
Full soon the shell holes NIL with grass
And battlehelds and shell holes pass
Into the mist of yesterdays:
But still there fingers word or phrase
touch of Western breezy slang lf
To lend Provencal speech . tang
Stern battles. though the flags be furIed
WIN WI. @ boom IN. in n, -,say-I.l tell the worldl"
VIII nash in 'TAsten!" and Good nightr
Boy faces Erinning. wistful kind,
With each brisk phrase will come to mind;
Boy faces. grim and gray and drear,
who called the worlds worst war .ths fuss.
In vivid speech incongruous:
And caroied: .Biooey! w whst's the oddsp: T..
Reduced the hell of Marine and Roye
To crisp and long-recalled patois
And. sayiy gallant "took a chance"
There was parade up Fifth avenue of the
Seventy fifth division Of the A. E. F. Far ahead Of
Maj. Gen. Robert Alexander and his staff, in front
even 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 was gap three blocks long. Said thick
witted man In the reviewing stand:
"Why, these banner-bearers are out Of place"
"You fool" stormed his neighbor, .sThe dead ara
passing now"
II all the patriot dead look upon the services Of
Memorial day. there Is a host indeed. For 1t il
almost century and half since the struggle to
gain and maintain our freedom began.
BY the rude bridge that arched the Hood.
Their Flag to April's breeze unfurled
Here the embattled farmers stood
And nred the shot heard round the world.
There were giants in those days and no Amer,.
can but is the better American for thinking Of
them-Washington, Jefferson, Adams, 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.
pi; 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
astonshment 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, 'The Star.
Spangled Banner:"
o. thus be 1T ever. when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the wars desola.
ton:
Biest with victory and peace. may the heay.n.
rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved II.
nation M .r
Then conquer must when our cause II Ia fu..
And The Star -spangled Banner in triumph shall
Der the land of the FREQ aud the homo of tn.
brave.
Another generation and the wnr-drums beat
again and the bugles blew. ION to Mexicow 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 Taylor's record made
him President. There Grant earned his first lau.