, 1923-08-09
NATION GIVES UP
BODY TO HOME TOWN.

" - 49,
Associated Pressl1Laden with all
the honors the American people could
bestow. the nation today gave War
rem G. Harding back to Ohio.
Yesterday. while a republic mourned
at his bier, the great government of
which he was head performed funeral
ceremonies such as are reserved for
departed presidents.
To-uc-rnv. In the shaded quiet Of
n grassy slope. Marion. Ohio. will en-.
tomb q citizen. the NTH son of Ohio
brought home from the presidency
to rest
For at the express command OF his
heroic widow, there will be in Marion
none of the solemn and impressive
display with which nations entomb
their chief magistrates. The caisson
which carried his casket over the
route travelled by h nations great
dead in Washington. will be replaced
My the loving hands of fellow towns
men; tho cavalcade of troops which
escorted the body OF a commander+n-
chief, will be REPLACED by home folks
doing their last duty for a friend and
neighbor. The picture in tho great
vAulted dome of the capitol where
the shades of the natron's other great
dead looked down on the solemn cere-
mony viii give way to a simple scene
In the Marion cemetery which will
commit Warren Harding to the tomb
like other native sons. before him.
Warren Harding left Washington
forever last night. and today he will
be back among the home folks he
loved so well. to remain until judg-
ment.
The same train which bore him
away from the capitol confident and
we'll n few short weeks ago and then.
returned him for a short day of cere.
mony. a figure of history. departed
from Washington at six O'Clock last
night for the last part of its sorrow-
full journey.
Immediately afterward It will be
dlxsembled and never run as one
Erain again.
Tonight another train bearing a
president westward will roll out of
the capital; but It will not take Calvin
Coolidge to represent at Marion the
government over which he now pro.
sides. He will go. rather. to pay the
homage OF a plain American at the
tomb OF 4 fallen chieftain. and to give
oppression to his personal sorrow
IVA the loss OF a dear friend At
yesterdays funeral ceremonies. his
was among the most solemn of the
many sorrowful faces in the great
procession of woe that passed up
Pennsylvania avenue. For to know
Warren Harding we'll was to love
him and Calvin Coolidgs has come
thus to know and love him through
the months of close association.
But among all OF those in sorrow
full caravan OF yesterday tho ono
that will linGer longest among the
memories OF that SAD day. is not
President Coolidge; nor woodrow
Wilson. nor William Howard Taft, al
though they too rode behind the nag
enshrouded casket With a full under
standing of the tragedy which had
taken place In to life Of one who had
planned and napined to great things.
All three of these will be remem-
\ bered long as rotable figures in a
notable outpounng OF n nations
grief. But the one who will be re-
sfnembered even longer is Mrs. Hard
Ing, who had done much to make
Warren Harding the leader he be-
came. and or whom the blew a
Allltu viii n CIuAHAhb sWh1h'oo nv
10 DO compared to the pain felt by
any other.
The PRESIDENTS widow. through all
the trying ordeal. had made good all
her promises, when at the moment
death closed her husbands eyes. she
said: IT am not going to break down;
] simply mustn't; I won't break
DOWN.
All through yesterday when thou
sands who claimed him only as n
president failed to choke back their
tears, she who knew him rs a hus
band had stined the outward signs Of
grief. She sat by his coffin with a
fortitude that won her the love n
sympathy OF every one. determined to
lay him In his tomb among his towns
men with The calm h feels Is due
him.
That last sad duty performed, Mrs.
Harding plans TO return TO Washing
ton to gather Up the Harding home
things in the white House and then
70 back to take her place again In
Marion. among tho home folks and
near the last resting place OF her
beloved dead.
MARION RITES TO