The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-12
PRESIDENT PLACES
WREATH ON GRAVE
Of UNKNOWN HERO
Simple Ceremony Marks Sac
red Event at Arlington
Cemetery.
WEALTH OF FLOWERS
RL0SSOMED ON MOUND
Utter Simplicity in Order in
Honoring Unknown in Great
Contrast of This Event of Just
One Year Ago.

Washington, Nov. 11:-On the
main granite block in , Arlington
cemetery that a year ago became
new shrine to American ideals, there
blossomed today a wealth of flow
ers laid reverently there to COM
memorate the first anniversary of
the homecoming OF Americans
unknown soldier from France. Again
the nation sealed the covenant of
American faith it then pledged be-
side the grave now covered by the
massive boulder.
And the utter simplicity of the
scenes today, contrasted against mem
ories of pomp and splendor of a
year ago in the same beauty of set
ting, served to add new glory to that
which is dealized in the blood of this
humble soldier shed in France, the
high purposes that is Americanism.
Again President Harding made the
pilgrimage from Washington in be-
half of all his countrymen. But this
time the message he bore was no
spoken word, but a simple wreath to
rest on the great stone. The guns
that roared the national salute in
honor to the dead alone broke the
stiffness to voice nations. pride.
For the army, Secretary Weeks ac-
companied the president, and for the
navy, Secretary Denby.
None but the routine restrictions of
the quiet cemetery were in force to-
day. AS on every day in the year, the
public was free to come and go
among the dead, resting there and
about the memorial amphi-theater, On
the terrace in front of which stands
the tomb of the unknown. Any who
cared to make the journey of remem-
brance could share with the President
or with the war mothers or with any
others honors paid to the dead.
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
ceremonial in Brussels. where 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 Brit
ain and France and Italy and Amer
lea did their hero dead.
AS formally expressing the com
radeship of the American govern
ment in tribute to the Belgian un-
known, President Harding has ap-
proved the following citation which
will be bestowed with congressional
medal of honor, the highest American
recognition of valor, by Maj. Gen.
Henry T. Allen, commanding Ameri-
can forces in Germany and especially
ordered to Brussels for the purpose.
At the eight American cemeteries
in France, Belgium 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-Argonne,
Aisne-Marne, Suresnes, st. Mihiel,
the Somme, Oise-Aisne in France, in
Flanders Field in Belgium and at
Brookwood in England, appropriate
services were held throughout the
day with American diplomatic or
military and naval officials paying
tribute.
At home in the national cemeteries
in New York and San Francisco and
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, where
many war dead from France are
buried, there also were public express
sions during the day, but to the 39,-
672 brought home for burial in pri-
vate cemeteries the nations graft
tude was expressed by President Har-
ding at Arlington.