The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-06-06

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
If Lincoln Should Come
To Washington
The great Lincoln Memorial was
dedicated on Decoration Day. On
site that was swamp when Abraham
Lincoln lived in Washington there
now stands one of the most magnifi-
cent edihces in all the world. For ten
years this marble shrine, with its for
ty-eight massive Doric columns en-
blematical of the States, has been
building. A few days ago 100000 citi-
zens assembled to witness the dedica-
ton of this structure, which has cost
$3,0OO,000, and which 81 years after
the death of Lincoln has been complet-
ed and will stand forever in mute
proof of the words uttered by Stanton
as Lincoln lay dead: "He now belongs
to the ages"
Two of Lincoln's successors in Of
flee, President Harding and former
President Taft, were the principal
figures in the ceremony. and former
President Wilson would also have
been present had the condition of his
health permitted An old man in fee
BILE health and who walked supported
| by two friends, occupied the seat of
honor on this occasion. He was Rob-
ert Lincoln, the son of the great Abra-
ham Lincoln. Joseph G. Cannon, who
served in the official administration
of Lincoln, was the lone survivor of
that political period, was another guest
of honor.
The great crowds assembled at the
approaches to the Memorial, and many
of them found shelter from the hot
sun under the trees in Potomac Park
Though they were in come cases a
quarter mile from the speakers plat
form the amplifiers installed by the
telephone company, and brought to a
state of perfection as a result of form
er experiences, carried the voices
clearly to the fartherest listener. The
amplifiers were jnconspicuous, and the
arrangement was so perfect that had
there been a million people in the vast
throng every one of them could have
heard as perfectly as though stationed
directly in front of the speaker. By
means of further electrical arrange
Iments the speeches were broadcasted
by radiophone East, West North and
South There were no speeding cour-
liers such as were used in Lincoln's
day, and no one shouted louder" al
the speakers or complained that they
were "too far away" The one feature
THAT married the ceremonies was Giro.
ling airplane flying over the .Memoria
while President Harding spoke o.
horses and carriages such as pulled
Through the mud in Lincoln's day
there were none; But of automobiles
such as Lincoln never saw-there wer'
thousands. They came over hard-pay
ed roads from near mad far. The thre'
lgreat wireless towers at Arlington
stood in sight of the assembled thous
lands This station has been used il
carrying on conversation with Paris
Panama and Hawaii. In strange con
|trast, all this, to runners on foot, ant
messengers and couriers who rod
|foaming steeds that carried Lincoln
orders
The Lincoln Memorial gives t.
Washington three dominating struc
lures. At the East is the Capitol witt
its imposing dome. To the West i
, 1.-THE new Memorial. Between the tw'
rises the Washington Monument. Fac
lis magnificent in typifying its part IL
the institutions and sentiment OF tn
Nation.
There was no more impressive mo
ment in all the Lincoln Memorial cere
monies than when Chief Justice TAT
Iconciuded his address in turning owe
the Memorial to President Harding
with the following words:
"Not with the lowly only, but wit
, all, rich or poor, ignorant or learned
weak or powerful, untutored or o
literary genius has this aura abou
Lincoln's head at his death grown int
, halo of living light.
"Here ON the banks of the Potomac
; 1.-The boundary between the two sec