Arizona republican., 1921-11-12

guided its deStinies before They were all there, walking proudly with age and frailties of the flesh for gotten. Judges, senators, represent atives, highest officers of every mill itary arm of the government and a trudging little group ef the nations most valorous sons, the medal honor men, Some were gray and bent and dropping with old wounds, some trim and erect as the day they won their way to fame All walked gladly in this nameless comrades last parade.
 Behind these came the carriage in which rode Woodrow Wilson, also stricken down by the infirmities as he served in the highest place of the nation, Just as the humble private riding in such state ahead. had gone down before shell or bullet. For the dead mans sake the former pres- ldent had put aside his dread of seeming to parade his physical weak ness and risked health, perhaps life to appear among the mourners for the fallen.
 There was handclapping and A cheer here and there Tor the man In the carriage, a tribute to the spir- It mat brought him to honor the na- tions nameless hero, whose com mander-in-chief he had been.
 After President Harding and most o1 the high dignataries of the gov ernment had turned side at the white house, the procession headed bv it's solid blocks of soldiery and the hat talions o1 sailor comrades, moved on with Pershing, now flanked by Sec retarles Weeks and Denby, for inc iong road to the tomb. It marched on, always between the human bor- ders on the way of victory inc na- ton had mace for itself of tbe s,ra.+ avenue; on over the oldbridge that spans the Potomac, on up the lone mn 10 Fort Myer and at last to the sate or the greatA ecemtery where soldier and sailor folk sieen hv tLa thousands. There. the hnhers-. guns of the artillery swung aside tbe
 cavalry drew their horses out os the long line and left to the foot sol oiers and sailors and marines the Ias+ stage of the journey '''Ss
 Aheao the white marble of the am pitneater gleamed through the fraes it stands erowning the slow slone ,of tne hills that sweep upward from inc rIVer and just across was wash;ng- ton, its clustered buildings and mon uInents to great dead who have gone peIore. moving picture in the an tumn haze. %%- N--odcd1nQS were rl0rfr7c- about the great circle of inc anor,Iiss l,iedtre; The great ones to wbon, piaces had been given in fha sacraa enclosure and the plain folk xrho trudged the long way inst -o gHmpse the pageant from afar. were IIn9Ing their places. Evervwhere Mitnln the pillared enclosure briohf unIIorins Of foreign soldiers ap- peared. They were laden with 5ha Jeweled orders of rank and merit worn to honor an American privafe soldier, greater than any there io the majesty of his sacrifice. Tn rba trlDute his honors were paid to an Americans who died.
 Europe Send, Tribute
 Down below the platform, placed Tor the casket, in a stone yault law wreaths and garlands brought from England.s king and guarded by Brit lsn soldiers. To them came the brltlsh ambassador in the full mi form of his rank. to bid them keen these tributes from overseas safe against that hour.
 Above the platform gathered men whose names ring through history Briand, Foch, Beatty, Balfour. Jac- ques, Diaz and others in a brilliant array of place and power' They were followed by others, Baron Kato from Japan. the. Italian statesmen i ana officers, by the notables from all countries gathered here for to- | morrow's conference and by some of the older figures in American life too old to walk beside the approach ing funeral train.
 Down around the circling pillars the marble boxes filled with distin- guished men and women, with a. cluster of shattered men from army hospitals, accompanied by uniformed nurses. A surpliced choir took its 1 place to await the dead.
 Faint and distant, the siIvery strains of military band stole into the big white bowl of the amphi- theater. The slow cadences and mourning notes of a funeral march grew clearer and the roll and mutter of the muffled drums.
 At the arch, where the choir waited, the hero comrades of the dead lifted his casket down, and, followed by the generals and the admirals who had walked beside him from the capitol, he was car ried to the place of honor. Ahead moved the white robed singers chanting solemnly. Carefully the | casket was placed above the banked flowers and the marine band played sacred melodies until the moment