Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-05-18
Heroes Honored
In the Capital
OF the Nation

Every succeeding Memorial day-or
Decoration day. as 1t Is oftentimes err
roneously called-comes to the Ameri-
can nation with added meaning. All
over the country there are thousands
who will decorate the graves Of loved
ones, who had mourned for them in
the absent cemeteries in France, or
Belgium, or England. This year many
are with us. All through the year SOL
emn corteges have escorted to the great
Arlington cemetery. just across the
Potomac river from Washington, the
earthly remains Of the gallant Ameri-
can boys who left home and country
to cross the seas and stop the onward
rush of the Hun. Sometimes these
burial professions accompanied, with
highest military honors, a few, some
times large numbers of the dead,
through the streets of Washington to
their final resting place in beautiful
Arlington. And so 1t has been all over
the country. Memorial day is Q holt
day in the true sense-a holy day. In
Washington 1t is especially observed,
for at Washington it is not only the
silent resting place Of the heroes Of
three wars, but in Washington wreaths
and decorations are placed also before
the statues and memorials of the
earlier heroes of the nation-thOse of
the Revolution, the War Of 1912, and
\ the Mexican war. Washington is in
deed City Of Memorials, writes Guy
Elliott Mitchell in Grit.
All Held in Love.
To describe all the public memorials
of Washington would require many
pages. They range from small ex-
ouisite structures, such as the Archie
Butt fountain erected south Of the
White House to that beloved member
of the newspaper fraternity in Wash
ington and aide to President Roose'
Welt. a victim of the Titanic, to the
great group of statues of Marquis La
| fayette, Count Rochambeau. John
Paul Jones and General Thomas
known as the Rock of Chickamauga
and others who fought either FOL
American freedom or the Union.
Nor are all the open park places ano
inches of the nations capital yet hllec
with memorial statues and monu
mepts. There are many projects whicr
are under way and others that ar'
certain of fulfllment. A splendid gov
eminent park has recently been com
pleted to the north of the main OouS
of the city, and already 1t contains
beautiful equestrian statue OF Joal
dare presented by the French Gu
zens of New York city and the statue
If Dante presented recently by the
italian government. Here also VII
he erected by congress splendle
memorial to President Buchanan
Daniel Webster. who himself mas
snlendid statue in Washington, once
sa,d that President Andrew Johnson
proposed to span the Potomac VIII
.arches of ever enduring granite sym
holical of the firmly established unior
of North and South" This is no"
hearing fruit The magnificent trahcl'
| Scott Kew memorial concerts WASH
ington with Virginia and Arlington
while another great s5.0oo.OoO bridge
tower down the Potomac Is to eonnee'
washington with Virginia ana tn'
boulevard leading 10 Mount vernon
the home OF Washington.
To the Titanic Victims.
Another beautiful memorial IS 10 p'
erected IN commemoration OF me We
Tins Of the Titanic disaster. fe' an
ether striking memorial figure Is TO Dc
statue OF Alexander Hamilton on,
arst secretary Of the treasury erected