The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-01
Cabinet Members, Survivors of Disaster and Many Patriotic
 Societies Attend Event.
GOVERNOR WILLIS URGES
 NATION TO KEEP PEACE
Fighting Top of Battleship Rears From Marble Base
 That Bears Names of Dead.

harbor, was the principal feature of Memorial Day cerem onies in Airing ton cemetery, yesterday.
 President Wilson, Secretary Bryan, Secretary Daniels and Governor Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, were on the program more thoroughly national in it's scope than ever, since Gen. John A. Logan established services of the kind forty-seven years ago.
 The monument dedicated to the Maine dead is the Tnainmast and fight ing top of the battIeship which long lay fmbedded with other wreckage in the bottom of Havana harbor. Re stored and rigged as it was on the deck of the Maine it now arises from a granite and marble base chiselled in the form of a gun turret with names of the Maine's 264 victims carved on it's curved exterior.
 Tn the presence of veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American wars, the president, cabinet, justices of the su- preme court, diplomats of foreign tna- tions and heads of patriotic organiza- 'tions of the United States, the fitting memorial was today unveiled. Fifty white-uniformed marines manned the inaprovised rigging designed after the old rat-1ines of the destroyed ship as the veil fell. This exercise followed an invocation by Rev. Father Chid- wick, chaplain of the Maine at the I111o or her. uCLlOA
 As part of the ceremony Frank BagIey Daniels and Jonathan Worth Daniels, sons of the secretary Of the navy and nephews of Ensign Worth Bagley, the first American officer killed in the war with Spain, raised an ensign to the top of the mast and hofsted signal flags flaring to the breeze the words Maine, 1915." The youths, clad in sailor suits, were at tended by Mrs. Adelaide Worth Bag ley and Mrs. Josephus Daniels, mother and sister of Ensign Bag1ey. Secre- tary Daniels was on the program for the dedieatory address. On the pro- gram at this ceremony also were Ma 5or Charles F. Cramers commander in-chtef, United Spanish War Vet erans; Gen. H. Oden Lake, National Commander Army and Navy Union and Major Robert Lee LongsHeet, U. S. A; Monsignor ". T. Russell, a benediction and taps were sounded.
 A memorial tablet placed upon the mast in Havana harbor by the Havana Chapter of the Daughters of the American revolution which was re- moved when the government removed the mast to Washington, was re-af- fixed to the shaft.
 Memorial cerem onies of the day were in four sections beginning with exercises at the graves of the un- known dead whose memory was euIogized by Governor Willis, of Ohio. The rough pile of granite marking the huge grave of 2,111 Union so1- diers whose rank and names are not known, was covered with flowers. Following those ceremonies, was the memorial tribute to victims of the Spanish war under auspices of the District of Columbia Spanish War Veterans. Secretary Bryan was on the program as orator of the day, fol- lowing an opening address by Depart ment Commander H. c. Wilson.
 Elaborate ceremonies characterized the memorial to the Civil War dead Grand Army of the Republic and Wo- mans Relief Corps. They were held in the historic, Vine-colored amphi- theatre on the crest of the Arlington grounds overlooking the national capital. J ohm McEIroy, acting depart ment commander G. A. R. was master of ceremonies, to introduce President Wilson and other speakers including Past Department Commander A. F. Tasker, Past Department Commander George H. Slaybaugh, who read Lin co1ns Gettysburg address, and Mrs. Isabel Worrel1 Ball, Past National Senior e-President Woman's Re lief Corps.
 The program included a salute of twenty-one guns, at the arrival of the president. After the general cere-
 monies and decoration of the graves of 23,Oo0 soldiers in Arlington. came the dedication of the Maine memorial which closed the days events.
 Governor Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, paid tribute to ''the unknown dead in Memorial Day exercises at Arlington National Cemetery in the course of which he urged the nation to stand by the president of the United States aff 7JS of he Is of Europe"
 This nation must remember" said Governor Willis, that there is a heroisrn of peace as well as a heroism of war. In it's biggest and best sense, heroism is courageous service of the peoples cause. He who calmly, con- scientiously and unceasingly does his best to perform his duty to his family, to society and the state, though he may be to fortune and fame unknown, is nevertheless, rendering a high pub lie service.
 s.It is a proper function of govern ment to encourage it's citizens in the solution of their country's problems by giving every man, without regard to race or color, a fair chance, and by encouraging our people to sobriety, in- dustry and economy. Our own peo- pie must be kept busy, our working men must be employed at good wages, our industries must prosper, legiti-  mate enterprise should be encouraged. And this prosperity must depend upon forces within our country and not those without. A ghastly prosperity fed upon dead men cannot long en- dure.
 'tThe president of the United States is making a, successful effort to keep us out of the broils of Europe. Now is the time to keep cool, think care fully, and stand by the president. He and his cabinet know vastly more of our delicate relations with European belligerents than the rest of us can possibly know; let us hold up his hands in the patriotic effort he is making in this crisis.
 .fOur flag must mean the same to all the world as it means to us; it must stand for calm courage, stead fast devotion and lofty purposes in all our dealings with foreign nations. cause. America is for the preserya