Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-05-29
NATION ID HONOR
 DEAD SOLDIERS
 WITH REVERENCE:
Memorial Day to be Ob- served Turnout United
 States.

WdSnlngCOn, U. C., way LS.-VcCeI- ans of the civil and Spanish-American wars ana members of the various ,women's auxiliaries and other pat .riotic societies here have completed arrangements for the annual obser- vance tomorrow of what will be the most impressive Memorial Day the nation has seen in years. Combined with the customary exercises in mem- cry of the heroes of long ago there will be an impressive tribute to the memory of those who have given their lives in the present great conflict for freedom and democracy.
 The principal exercises in this vicn- itv will be held at the national mili- tary cemetery at Arlington, across the Potomac from Washington, where sleep 22,O0O of the nations dead, Fed eral officers and soldiers and Confed- crate officers and soldiers side by side.
 Arlington is the greatest of the na- tional cemeteries and perhaps the most beautiful burial ground in all the country Within it's confines rest the soldiers of many wras. Revolutionary veterans and soldiers and sailors of the War of 1912 lie under the same trees that shelter their descendants killed in the great war between the States and those who gave their lives in Cuba and Philippines. Soldiers who met death at the hands of the Semin- ole or Sioux sleep side by side, and with them are the men who fell in the war with Mexico. Sailors who served the Constitution and on the Maine are in port at Arlington.
 There are constantly being garnered in the dead of the army and navy who are still fighting the nations battles wherever the service calls. There are lepions of dead in Arlington and the number is constantly increasing, but on Memorial Day not one of the mul- titude will be forgotten.
 To him who strolls casually through Arlington and reads the names upon the gravestones will be called up the memories of the deeds of such men as General Phil Sheridan, Grants chief of cavalry, who rode that 20 miles to Winchester. There will be soon the tomb of Gen. John M. Schofield, com- mander of the Army of the Tennes- see in the civil war, and later com manding general of the army. Not far away are the last resting places of Crook, Gresham, Gibbon, Wheeler and Harney. For seventy-one years Har- ney was commissioned officer of the United States Army-a veteran of the old Second Dragons. He fought in the Black Hawk and Seminole wars, in Mexico. and on the plains, and in the Northern Army in the civil war. Among the men of the navy there are to be found in Arlington names no less honored than among those of the army. There are to be found the gray es of Admiral David Dixon Porter, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley; Ad- miral William T. Sampson, and Ad- miral Fighting Bob" Evans.
 In the very foreground of the ceme- tery stands a tall, spiral monument over the grave of General ole Wheel CT, that dashing leader of Confederate forces in the civil war who later in the Spanish-American controversy led the troops that bore the flag against which he had formerly fought.
 In the midst of towering monu- ments that indicate the greatness of those that rest beneath them is to be found the grave of General Henry w. Lawton, the last of the men of his rank to meet death in the field. eGn- eral Lawton was killed in the Phil ippines in 1899, as he pursued the out law Aguinaldo through the morasses of that newly acquired possession. Occupying a prominent place in the cemetery is that most tragic of all monuments the tomb of the unknown. Here lie the remains of more than g. 900 men who died on battlefields in the civil war. Mostly they are of that great body known as estray soldiers.
 Aside from there there are 4,00O other graves in Arlington that mark the remains of soldiers Or sailors who were never identified A slab with the names and company marks the grave