Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-02-05


With only the two brief religious
services to mark the entombrnent IN
the vault beneath Bethlehem chapel
on the hills high above the stricken
home, there was little that official
Washington could do to mark its
respect and admiration for the life
that had ended. Had Mrs Wilson
willed otherwise. unstinted honora
would have been poured out to mark
the nations mourning Even as Il
Is, in every military and naval posi-
beneath the stars and stripes last
honors will be paid in full with the
booming of guns sounding q kne1l
beneath half masfed colors For
the thirty day period of national
mourning already declared, Presi-
dent Coolidge has thrust aside ali
social activities at the White House
Very few OF the many would come
to express their feelings at the ze<-
vices IL they could flnd place can H<
admitted either TO- tffe e i5r1v!Ffe F;1sf7
cises in the home or the later pub
lie cerefn ony at the chapel AL the
home only the family ana q Iift1e|
group of closest friends can f3aa:
standing room There can be no
place for the plain folk who have r1o
other means of expressing their sor-
row and admiration than to stand
for long hours along the short guard
way where the funeral train viii
pass. For them as well as for hi1l-s
self President Coolidge will 60 fo
the house with Mrs. Co0lidge and
follow the casket to the place OF en-
tombment. In that public ceremony
however. he win be surrounded hy
his cabinet in the last honor the
government can pay to dead
leader.
The family circle will be com
pleted only few hours before the
casket is lowered into the marble
vault deep beneath the cathedral
Mr.. and Mrs. McAdoo will reach
Washington sometime Wednesday
morning. The private service ii
the home will take place at o clock
that afternoon followed BY the
chapel service at 3:s0 and the en-
tombment.
War department officials sought
today to make the most Of the little
share that was left for them IN hon-
oring dead eommander-in-e chief
under whom the war army fought.
Eight non-conlmissioned officers Of
eight marine colleagues of similar
rank and record, will form the little
guard Of hon about the hearse on
the brief journey from the street
house to the chapel. They alone will
touch the cas- ct of the man under
whom ali OF them served galianfly
in the wa
The navy squad win come from
the Presidential yacht, Mayflowef.
Some at least among them will be
OF those who served on the shin
when Woodrow Wilson used her III
the dark hours of his heavy respuis-
sibihties in the war years. They viii
recall perhaps, his look and manner
In times when decisions that meant
vital things to America, to the world.
must be made by him alone. Nana
could share with him the terrible
responsibility he bore for in his
hands alone h-S countrynen placed
the power to act.
The marines win come from the
ships and posts about Washlngtnn
and among them will be Veterans
of the hard fought fields in France
where American valor claimed and
received its recognition from, the
world. They will be picked men or
the service to whom this honor
falls.
Still today there was demand on
many sides that a last moneaz
change should be made and more
elaborate ceremonies mark the fuu<
raj. There were many like Senator
Swanson of Virginia who believed
that this dead son of Virginia.
mother of presidents. should go back
to sleep in Virginia soil forever. n (
was this feeling that prompted the
suggestion that entombment should
be in the memorial amphitheatrc II
Arlington where Americas unlknoN II
already stands guard. Some felt thar
the permanent resting place 81
Woodrow Wilson. war president and
himself struck down by war II
surely as any of the glorious deasl
who Sleep on the hiilsides bene4
the Unknewn's resting place. sl1Q.sI7i
be within that. stately enclosure ~
red to the memory OF those <'l4
have died for the flag.
The OFFER Of sepulture il this h,fi
lowed circle was promptly fs7iJf6
Perhaps there is legal bat1iei
since the law says that no <51<f'3t=
ment or vault shall be placed Il ish IS
the memorial structnre until llIa. ~
whom honor is done shah INf& 81 tH|
i decade dead Sfcrela ~ s. f
made Il plain that u,> n4|'foe S.
Nze4l.i sf1l,,f d
1T upciiing the IA&; {4xail 4{
otic Americans to the &6t pl@