Evening star., 1925-05-29
NATION WILL BOW
HEAD TOMORROW
HON0R|NG ITS DEAD
Memorial Day Services Gen.
ter at ArIington-CooIidge
Tribute to Be Broadcast.

The Nation, led by it's Capital. will
pause once again tomorrow TO pay
homage to its heroic dead and their
devotion TO that cause for which they
SO nobly gave their lives. Bright gar
lands viii be laid at the bivouac of
these honored heroes. orators will re-
call their brave deeds and painful sac
rifices in touching eulogies and bugles
will resound taps over their eternal
camping grounds.
Arlington Cemetery, as in past
years, will be the scene of the princi
pal Memorial day ceremonies, for here
President Coolidge will give national
significance through his presence and
a speech in tribute to the dead. These
services, however, will only be sym
bolic of the hundreds of others to be
held over the country wherever sleep
the heroes of past wars.
The Arlington ceremonies will be
held in the beautiful amphitheater-
itself lasting monument TO the vet
Grams beneath the cemetery's verdant
slopes. A chain of high-powered ra-
dio stations will carry every word of
praise, every prayer and every reso-
nant beat of the muffied drums to the
thousands within their homes in
scores OF cities, towns and hamlets
throughout the East.
At Tomb of Unknown.
AS prelude 10 the chief exer-
cises, procession comprising mem
bers of the Grand Army. Woman S
Relief Corps. Daughters of Veterans.
Ladies of the G.. A. r. and all auXil-
iaries. will form in front of the AR
lington Mansion al 1:30 o'clock and
march to the Tomb of Americas In
known soldier, where flowers will be
placed and brief and impressive cere-
monies held. The chief exercises in
the amphitheater are scheduled to
start at ! o'clock and the President
is expected to begin his address a
half hour later
The shrill notes of bugle will sig
nal the start of the Arlington cere-
monies. after which the United
States Marine Band will play an ap-
propriate overture. Comdr. H. B.
Moulton of the department of the
Potomac of the G. A r., will then
issue the call to order. The custo-
mary presentation of colors will be
made by John Middleton, and the
Washington Quartet, accompanied by
the Marine Band, will close these
ceremonies
Right Rev. William F. Mcdowell,
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church Of Washington, will offer the
invocation. and Rev. DR.. r. F. Nc
Bride. chaplain of the G. A. r., the
benediction. The salient features of
the program. however, include the
reading of Gen. Logan's order es.
tablishing Memorial day, by Osborn
II. Oldroyd; the Presidet's speech, a
recitation of Lincoln's immortal Get
tysburg Address" and an address by
Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont.
Tribute to Nurses.
The Jane A. Delano Post of the
American Legion also will hold brief
services at Arlington at 11:30 o'clock
tomorrow morning in the nurses sec
ton. Miss Bowman. chief of the NAVY
Nursing Corps, will eulogize those
women who save their lives in the
service of the Nation, and Harlan
Randall, prominent Washington solo
ist, will sing. A bugler from Fort
Myer will sound taps.
In other cemeteries throughout the
District. where lie the revered dead,
services will be held. These include
the National Cemetery at Soldiers
Home, the battle-ground National
Cemetery, Congressional Cemetery,
Holy Rood Cemetery, Oak Hill Gene
terry, Glenwood Cemetery, Prospect
Hill Cemetery, ST. Mary's Cemetery,
Mount Ciivet Cemetery. Harmony
Cemetery. Northeast Cemetery, Wood
lawn Cemetery, the National Gene
terry, in Alexandria, Va, and St.
Elizabeth's Hospital.
Georgetown University has planned
to honor it's q war dead, with speeches
by Rev. Charles J. Lyons, S. j., presi-
dent of the institution, and students
representing the various classes. The
exercises Will be held at the law school
at noon.
Services at the National Cemetery
in Soldiers Home will be under the
direction Of F. E. Archibald, senior
vice department commander of the
ID. A. r.; c.. o. Howard, national
junior vice comma nder of the Army
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