The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-15

With living comrades gathered
from the four corners of America
TO do them honor, the dead of the
First Division recently came into
their visible heritage of glory, in
the unwilling of the monument err
ected to their memory at the ma
tons capital city.
Ranked in orderly, soldierly col
umns on the bronze tablets beneath
the mighty granite shaft, these COM
rades have raised TO them, their
names are set forth that men for all
time may know of their supreme
sacrifice for the flag, and 1t was the
Juggling hand of hero comrade
weighed down with his own battle
wounds, that tore aside the last
shrouding curtain that obscured the
seren beauty of the tribute to valor,
written in stone and bronze.
ut is a tribute of reverence and
sorrow to more than 5000 of our
immortal dead from those who knew
and loved them" President Cool
idge said in dedicating the memorial.
sThe figure of winged victory rises
above the scrolls of the imperishable
bronze on which are inscribed alone
the ennobled names of those who
fell and through their deathless val
or left us free.
"Other soldiers, generals and pri-
Yates, officers and men, rank on
rank of illustrious fame, are unre-
corded here. They live. The dead
reign here alone.
Lesson of Peace With Honor.
This monument commentaries
no man who won anything by the
war. 1t ministers to no aspiration
for place or power. But it challeng-
es attention to the host, the suffer-
ing and sacrifice that may be de-
manded of any generation so long as
nations permit a resort to war to
settle their disputes. 1t is symbol
of awful tragedy, of amending sor-
row and stern warning. The final
lesson which 1t imparts is the bless
ing of peace, the supreme blessing
of peace with honor.
eff anyone doubts the depths and
sincerity of the attachment OF the
American people to their institu-
tions and government, let them gaze
upon this monument and other like
memorials that have been erected in
every quarter of our broad land. Let
them look upon the representative
gatherings of our veterans and let
the member that America has dedi-
Gated itself to the service of God
and man"
Up the same wide avenue In Wash
ington. where its victory jageant I'M
rolled itself only few short years
ago, the First Division assembled
again to march its veteran legions
that full honor should be done to
fallen comrades, wherever they
slept. They moved through thin
ming haze of fog that draped trees
and buildings in softened clouds as
the troops and the marching veterans
tramped by. And again, they found
crowding thousands all along the way
to greet the rumbling guns and the
thick ranked hosts of marching men.
Up past the tall monument the
procession rolled to deploy out over
the grass and under the trees and
form a living wall of khaki about the
scene On the platform at the base
OF the shaft ,decked out In autumn
leaves and gay flags were Secretary
Weeks and all the high officers who
served with the division abroad or
at home, as we'll as distinguished per-
sonages from the cabinet and dip
Iomatic corps.
The services were simple. The
tale of how the funds for this great
tribute came, mostly from the con-
tributed pay of members of the di-
vision itself, was told. A letter
from General Pershing, It's former
commander was read to sa. that to
the commanders Of the First Division
mo higher tribute could be paid
than to say that they were worthy OF
the men they led"
To the man long its commander in
battle, Mai. Gen. Charles p. Sum-
mernall, the division left the task OF
telling of the spirit that had moved
1t In France, the devotion Of patri-
otto courage in which its dead had
laid down their lives. He touched
upon the bitter days OF preparation
with enemy guns ringing In their
ears, of the first clashes in the
trenches of Picardy and Lorraine, oil
the crashing attack that brought
Cantigny back into allied hands and
told the world that the American
of Bunker Hill and Gettysburg was
still the American of the battlefields
of France"
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