The New York herald., 1922-05-31
Emancipator's Son, His
Friends Cannon and Cul-
lOm Also There.
TAFT PRESENTS EDIFICE
World War Wounded Grouped
With Boys of '61-Moton
Speaks for Negroes.
BY LOUIS sEIBoLD.

~ AOOlo SGl
Special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
New. York Herald bureau.
washington, ID. G., May 30.
In paying tribute to the man born
In a mud chinked Kentucky log cabin
the American people to-day invested
their annual memorial observance
with broad and vividly imprescriptible
meaning.
Standing at the feet of the heroic
marble figure Of the llumbly born Lin
coin, President Harding accepted on
behalf of the country the memorial
erected by the people to the man
who guided the nation through the
turmoil and tragedies of war and saved
it from internal destruction.
In doing so the American President
of fifty-seven years later voiced the
hopes that the people might ever re-
member all the nations sons who made
the supreme sacrifice 20 uphold and
defend its honor throughout the life
of the republic. In a voice vibrant
with emotion the President said:
How it would comfort his great
soul to know that the States in the
Southland Joined sincerely in honoring
him and have twice since his day
Joined with all the fervor of his own
great heart in defending the flag.
-. To-day American gratitude, love
and appreciation give to Abraham Lin
coin this lone white temple, pantheon
for him alone"
Lincoln's Fuce In Sculpture.
Behind the President as he spoke.
the latest chiseled study of the i'm
mortal Lincoln was revealed in dim
translucent light that filtered through
faint green class ceiling and pro-
vided softened atmosphere not un-
like that which falls upon the tomb
OF Napoleon in the Invalides at Paris.
The sculptured face of the Great
Commoner is toward the east. 1t re-
fleets deep and serious concern as
those who knew him assert it wore
when in introspective mood. There is
lacking at the corners of the mouth
that kindly quirk which marked his
humorously challenging defiance of
ulStuTDllg pTODielHS.
The poise of the sculptured head as
revealed to the great mass of people
who viewed 1t to-day is noble and
likely to hold fascinated attention. Yet
it Is the face of the Lincoln who
brooded over the heart wracking tasks
that confronted him at times through
out his term. Looming in back Of and
above the chair in which he sits is
this inscription in large Roman let
ters:
IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE
PEOPLE
FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE
UNION.
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
is ENSHRINED FOREVER.
Presidents Vantage Point.
In front of the President as he stood
at the feet of the sculptured Lincoln
was the dazzling white shaft erected
to the memory Of George Washington.
His gaze lifted above and beyond the
heads of the 100000 persons grouped
in the verdant and picturesque APP
proaches to the memorial and finally
came to rest on the dome of the Amer
lean Capitol, prismatic in a brilliant
sun.
Viewed from tho western emincnce
of the memorial there stood out in
bold relief the marble mausoleum of
the Unknown Soldier of the world war
and that which marks the resting
place of the ALL unidentified dead
who gave their lives to the cause of
freedom and liberty for which Lincoln
finally gave his.
Beyond the nations burying ground
In the Virginia hills lowered tho
aerias which spread throughout the
country the tributes spoken at Lin
coins shrine. Between the memorial.
which will commemorate his great
services as long as the Republic en-
dures. and the tomb OF the Unknown
Soldier threaded the brown Potomac,
marking the two sections which he
finally brought into one indssoluble
Union.
Probably never before in the history
OF the country were there ever gath
cred more interesting and picturesque
groups to pay homage TO one man.
Flanking the President and other
speakers as they stood before an orna-
mental voice amplifer were the MEM
bers OF the Supreme Court. the two
houses of Congress, the diplomatic
representatives of yellow and brown
as well as Caucasian races and other
high officials OF this Government.
Beside the President stood one of
the two living ex-Presidents. William
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