The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-06
THREE GRAVES OF
UNBA0NNISOLDIER
WILDLY RECALLED
Broomfleld Claims Lack Of
Reasonfor War Cause Of /
Moral Decadency.

escauses o. ArmisHce Day being
celebrated this week, DR.. ]. G.
Broomfield Of the Methodist Prot
estant Temple took for his theno
last night, sImpressions at the
Graves Of Our Unknown Dead" He
described his visits TO the graves
Of the Unknown soldiers" chosen
BY the French, British and Ameri-
can governments, pointing out that
America has 2, 500 unknown soldiers
buried IN France, and that, accord.
ing % the law Of averages, there
are 1900 mothers in the United
States whose sons made up tina
$500 referred to.
He asked the audience to com.
pare the few thousands OF our dead
withtthe millions OF the dead of the
Allies, and then to figure through
that comparison the great army Of
their unknown.
Doctor Broomfield claimed that
after going over the French and
BELGIAN battleflelds his great sur.
prise was that there were not more
among the unknown dead.
IN line with his text, "Rende:
thefefofe to all their dues, honor 10
whom honor he interpreted the
action OF the various governments
m their efforts TO honor the IN.
known dead through giving to Their
REPRESENTATIVES, magnificent. inter.
national funerals.
Recalling his experience at Wash.
ington a year ago when attending
the burial OF the unknown soldier,
he gave five Impressions OF that
occasion that have remained with
him during the year: First, before
death all distinctions disappear:
and In support OF that he cited the
great parade on foot up Pennsyl.
yania avenue In which the Presl
dent and his Cabinet, ex.Presidents,
and judges Of the Supreme Court:
generals and admirals, officers aud
prtyates and men and women from,
al walks in life, marched behind
the casket containing the remains
OF the unknown soldier. Second
the service was all'in the language
OF the common ueopie. No strange
or dead language was heard. Third,
the service was saturated with the
spirit OF informal and impressive
devotion. The hundred thousand
present listened and worshipned
as one man. Fourth, 1t provided
a wonderful atmosphere and bacS.
ground for the Washington Confer.
encelotf the Allies for Disarmament,
which opened the next day: and
LASTLY, II notified the world tina,
officially this Is a Christian nation
FROM this description, Doctor
4 eoomheld took his audience 4,
The head Of the Champ Des Elysee,
the most famous avenue in Paris,
where stands the famous Napo.
ieonic Arch OF Triumph, under
Which rests the body Of France
tentative OF her unknown sol,
der dead.
The Sunday he was there a noted
musical organization from Belgium
was gathered about the grave, and
played a number Of selections.
What Doctor Bloomfield saw
around this grave. as we'll as what
he had seen in Washington, con.
yinced him that these graves OF
the Unknown soldiers OF the Allies
are destined to become information,
al shrines, and that as such they
viii do much to bind the nations
concerned close to each other for
world betterment.
Standing by that French grave,
under the great Arch Of Triumph,
Doctor Bloomfield said that he
coindsnot refrain from thinking 81
the reyersals with which history
sbuundsi for under that same arch,
and over the Identical spot whera
the unknown soldier rests, Just
ti4ty years ago, the victorious Ger.
mans marched In their triumphal
entry into Paris, Even as the un,
lust terms Of peace laid down By
the Germans at the close OF the
Franc -Prussian War, provided a
backs round for the World War in
1871 even so the unwise condi,
tions laid down in the treaty Of
peace Eatthe close OF the World War
are responsible for much OF me
present world confusion, and will
proyfde an even darker background
for another war.
IN his description Of the burial
place Of the unknown British sol
der the speaker called tho atten,
tion5 81 the audience to the contrast
between the pout.of.doors surround,
fiigs OF our Unknown soldier dead
az Arlington, and OF the French al
the head OF the most noted thor.
o1ghtare in Paris, with the clois.
tered conditions Of Westminster Alb,
hey. No greater honor can come
to British dead than burial in the
old abbey. Even as in Paris and
Washing on, 50 here also, the
graye was heaped about with
bronze and bead, and floral wreaths
from the Allied nations" he con.
tinneds One that impressed Doctor
Bloomfield was a fresh floral
wreath bearing the Inscription,
For Percy and Fred-the Un.
known From. Mother" Added Ia
these were the following inlaid
brass scripture quotations border.
ING the grace: Greater love hath
no man than this that a man lay