Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-23

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America affronted and resented II.
They saw our Nations rights imper-
lied and stamped those rights with
new sanctity and renewed security,
Reverence Shall Be Preserved
They gave all which men and wom-
en- can give. We shall give our most
and best II we make certain that they
did not die In vain. We shall not
forget, no matter whether they lie
amid the sweetness and the bloom OF
the homeland or sleep in the soil they
crimsoned. Our mindfulness, our
gratitude, our reverence shall be in
the preserved republic and the main
tanned liberties and the supreme JUS
tice for which they died.
In placing the wreath on the casket
the President said:
In the name Of the republic be-
stow this tribute on the casket OF
the first soldier who perished on the
soil of the enemy. This opportunity
Is not chosen to express the sugges-
tion of hatred in the American heart,
for there is no hatred in the American
heart, but l have chosen II because l
am offering the tribute to one re-
WuOSt utdtu ou tVh
marked the day when our civilization
went face forward and the assault on
cur present day civilization knew it
bad failed.
May 2Ith 1918, is the date on
which this soldier was killed, aud the
name is that of Joseph w. Guyton,
Company I. Of the 126th Infantry.
a resident patriot and hero Of the
State of Michigan of the United
States of America.
When the President had finished hit
brief address he stepped forward
stopped in front of the coffin that hat
been selected to symbolic the army o.
dead surrounding him and laid upon 4
his wreath of roses and orchids.
There was another moment of silence
II was as IL the great piers. bustlin,
with life az men went forth to death
had been turned to a tomb after tn,
return of those who had survived.
On the coffin decorated by presidential
hand was a plate chronicling the fac
that Joseph Guyton, of Evart. Mich.
private in Company !, Of the 1851
United States Infantry, had given hi,
life for his country on May "a. 1918
in the Gildwilder sector in Alsace.
After the ceremony President Hard
ing. accompanied by Mrs. Harding
several Senators and their wives ant
army officials Of high rank returned
to Msnbattau. where he was scheduh
to address tn. Academy Of Politicn
Science nt It's lrnr heon in the Hot i As
tor before reviewing the old l06tl
United States Infantry in Brooklyn
this afternoon.
Dead Represent Every State
Arriving in New York at 8 80 A. NJ
the President proceeded at once to Ho'
boken to nttend the funeral service fol
the war dead, representing every Stat
In the Union and every combat division
OF the A. L. F., whose bodies wer,
brought home last week on the trans
port Wheaton. The presidential part!
landed at the great army piers in Ho
boken at 10 80.
Preceded by military guard. steel
helmeted and gsrbed as for the battle
field, President and Mrs. Harding on,
tered the great hall of the dead.
With barred head, the President Rnt
his party trod softly down the great
white walled shed. with coftns to right
coffins to left and coffins ahead az fal
as the eye could see. Each was drapec
with an American flag.
Finally the party passed into on.
section holding itself nearly a thousand
bodies. 1t was in this section that the
ceremony was held.
President Harding came here from
Washington on the Mayfiower and
landed at West Ninety sixth street
AS the yacht passed Fort Lafayette sh'