The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-11-11
CEREMONY AT
ARLINGTON TO
!. HONOR DEAD
President Harding in Behalf
OF American People Places
Wreath en- NewsShrine
CELEBRATE ABROAD
CELEBRATE ABROAD
Cemeteries yin Great Britain,
France and Italy Com
memorate Day
TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER


Washington, Nov. 1l.-Ameri-
cas- tribute to its unknown SOL
der was paid through President
Harding today with a simplicity
strikingly at variance with the
splendid ritual Of honors that
marked his coming year ago.
Today there was no spoken
word to stir echoes of the SOL
emn chords and expressions of
high resolve a year ago that still
must linger amid the marble
arches of Arlington Cemetery
amphitheatre where the honor
ed dead keeps vigil.
A distant ,thudding of saluting
cannon, the ring of shod horses
on the hard roadway, low COM
msnd, a still flourish of trump
cts, as rifles leaped up to pre-
sent, and the President had
come to place q wreath upon the
slespers tomb, and had gone
!, again almost before the few
hundreds who awaited realized
that the ceremony had begun. +
Washington, Now 11.-On the
plain granite block in Arlington
cemetery that a year ago became q
new. shrine to American ideals,
there blossomed today a wealth yof
flowers laid revently there to COM
memorate. the first anniversary OF
the home coming of Americans un-
knSWn, soldiers from France. Again
the nation sealed the convenant Of
American faith it then pledged be-
side the grave now covering by the
massive boulder.
And the utter simplicity Of the
scenes today, contrasted against re-
collections of pomp and splendor OF
a year ago in the same beauty OF
setting, saved to add new glory to
the memory of this humble soldier.
Again President Harding made
the pilgrimage from Washington in
behalf of all his countrymen. But
this time the message he bore was
not spoken work but simple
wreath to rest on the great stone.
The guns that roared the national
salute in honor of the dead alone
broke the stiffness to voice ma
tioa's pride.
Secretary Weeks Present -.
For the Army Secretary Weeks
accompanied the Presi sident and for
the Navy Secretary benby. That
completed the group which carried
to the tomb the token Of remembr-
ance that was placed for all the
nation. The only touch Of cere-
mony was that lent by clattcr'ng
troop of cavelry which escorted the
Presidential party. ,... 20
There were many others who took
occasion to pay homage to the un-
known, among them General Per-
shing, for himself and the other
comrades Of the dead in France
The general could not go in person
for he had been called to New
York, but his aid bore the wreath
to the great stone around which the
flowers clustered as the day NOV
ed on. t
None but the routine restrictions
of the quiet cemetery were in force
today. AS one every day III the
year the public was free to come
and go among the great dead rest
ing there and about the memorial
am phitheatre on the terrace in
front o. which stands the tomb OF
the unknown. Any who cared to
make the journey Of remembrance
could share with the Preside1. O.
with the war mothers or with any
other honors paid to the dead.
Americas Share
But Americas share in armistice
day events was not confined to
those at home. The dead in France
were not forgotten, nor was there
lack Of American fellowship at the
great cerem onial in Brussels were
the Belgian unknown, perhaps
among the first to fall in the great
war, was entombed amid scenes
such as those that witnessed the
honor Great Britain and France and
Italy and America did their hero
dead.
At the eight American cemeteries
in France, Balgium and England,
there remain the bodies of 30,363
soldiers, sailors and marines who
gave their lives during the war. At
each of these, from the Meuse-Ar-
gonne; Aisne- -Marne; Suresnes, st.
The Somme. Oise-Aisne, in
France, in Flanders field in Belgium
and in Brookwood, in England, ap-
propriate services were held
throughout the day with American
diplomatic or military and naval Of
ficials paying tribute.
At home in the national cemetari-
es in New York and San Francisco
and Jefferson Barracks. Mo-, where
many war dead from France are
buried. there also were public ex-
pressions during the day but to the
1852 brought home for burial in
private cemeteries. the nations
gratitude was expressed by Presi-
dent Harding at Arlington.