The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-11-25
UNKNOWN HERO
LAID TO REST
Buried Amid Highest Honors in
All History, as Symbol of
the Country's Fallen.
STIRRING MILITARY PAGEANT
President Officiates at Impressive
Ceremonies at Capitol and Tomb.
Leaders of Great Nations Join
in Honoring Symbol.

Washington. - America buried her
Unknown Warrior on Armistice Day
placed in the earth the body of that
boy whose very namelessiess symbol
lied $4,000 others who had given their
lives for America on the field of bat
tie in the World War.
Surrounded by the worlds great,
with none of them too great to bow
in homage, this dead boys funeral
was still no pageant, no spectacular
drama, no worldly show. 1t was more
a benediction, a spiritual something
whose very realities were less appar-
ent than the thoughts they conjured.
Washington has witnessed many no.
table ceremonials, but never one like
this. Its people saw the bodies of
Lincoln and Garfield borne along the
broad streets, and under cover of
darkness, through a drizzling rain, had
watched the solemn progress of that
procession which followed the dead
Mckinley to the White House. There
were tears Of sorrow then. There
" SlC Oll ltIio oNNuSloiiS Jul AAiOSe
of those who shed them were carried
away by the emotion of the symbol
ism Of patriotism which this unknown
American embodied.
Taken from that central spot In the
Capitors rotunda where before this
only the bodies of Presidents had lain
in state, and where it had been de-
signed to place the body of George
Washington, this fighting boy whose
coffined figure stood for sacrifice to
honor and patriotism was followed
to his body's final resting place by
statesmen, lawmakers, law-givers,
soldiers, sailors and many others, led
by the President of the United States,
all walking for part Of that solemn
journey close to the funeral caisson.
At Arlington, the nations military
Valhalla, in the low Virginia hills
which form d background for the cap
ital city, the Unknown Warrior was
placed in a marble sarcophaguS, de-
signed to be a national shrine like
that under the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris, where an unknown poilu's body
rests, and Westminster Abbey, where
Britain's Unknown lies.
The place of burial is a lawn with
grass still green overlooking the Po-
tomac and the city beyond, the white
dome of the Capitol and the tall shaft
of the Washington Monument standing
out conspicuouSly among the mass of
buildings.
AS the burial services were conduct
ed there stood around the tiag-draped
casket men whose names are known
throughout the world.
President Harding watched the final
scene with uncovered head. Near him
was ex-President Taft, now Chief JUS
tice of the United States, stalwart and
alert, in the vigOr of health.
Ex-President Woodrow Wilson was
not there as he had planned to be, but
he rode in the funeral procession
through the streets Of Washington as
far as the White House and received
an ovation all along the route
Foch, Marshal Of France, stood be-
side the sarcohpagus also. Near by
General Pershing, head of Americas
war army, alert and handsome, the
personifcation Of soldierly appear
ance, watched the solemn scene.
Aristide BRAND, Premier of France,
sturdy as the Breton fisherfolk from
wi ON he came, was there, and with
him Rene Viviani, whose premiership
was all stress and storm. Admiral
Lord Beatty, chief Of the British
naval warriors, was another to whom
this scene must Lave brought memo
ries of the World War.
Diaz, generalissimo of the Italian
armies, and hailed by his people as
the hero of the Pave; General Baron
JACQUES, Belgium's foremost soldier;
General the Earl of Cavan, who COM
manded the British forces in Italy;
American generals who led armies,
corps and divisions in France, ad-
mirals of the American navy, and a
host of others stood beside the un-
known's grave.
Tokugawa, Prince of Japan, last of
the militant Shoguns, watched closely
this occidental scene, which mad all
the elements of appeal to the Oriental
Imagination.
Secretary Hughes was In the fore
ground with Weeks, secretary Of war,
and DENLY, secretary Of the navy, and
behind them the other members Of
the cabinet. Vice President and Mrs.
Coolidge stood near President Harding
and Mrs. Harding. All these and 9th
ers whose names are known in other
lands stood silently by the caisson Of
the man who died for his country.