Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 3

GOOD PAYS HOMAGE TOMOTHERSOF U. 3. Warm Tribute Is Given in| Ceremonies at Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Featured by national ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in | Arlington, tribute to motherhood was | paid throughout the Capital yesterday. ‘The keynote of Mother’s day ‘x\s‘ sounded at the Arlington ceremony by Secretary of War Good, when he paid homage to mothers for sacrifices made when they sent their sons into battle ; and which they continue to make. Fol- lowing Secretary Good's remarks, hun- dreds of American war mothers and members of the Congressional Club. under whose joint auspices the cere- mony was held, placed floral tributes to the unknown mother upon the tomb ©of her boy. Good Pays Mothers Tribute. Speaking of the work of American soldiers in the World War, Secretary! Good said: “They went to France because what they heard from your lips, what they | saw fn your eyes, what they felt beat- ing in your mother hearts commanded | them to go. They had the courage to fight to the end because of their trust in you. You taught them that the strength of all government of whatever form, lay in the last measure in the spirit of the people; upon the love of natfonal Institutions; upon their deter- { mination to sustain those institutions. ‘The power of your persuasion lay not only in the truth of your teachings, but the boy's conviction that what he heard drom you could be only the truth.” Continuing, the Secretary of War de- *clared that when the guard is L'hln[ed and the men salute the tomb, lhey salute for the Army and for the Na- | tion the mother's sacrifice, the mother’s | love, the mother’s patriotism, the mother’s struggles to make the boy, the man, the soldier, true to all that she cherished, and her courage that Kkept him true.” The amphitheater ceremonies were | ‘roncluded with_the playing of “The | Star Spangled Banner” by the United States Marine Band and the benedic- THE EVENING where they paid tribute to America’s Unknown Soldier. The American War Mothers, many of them gold star mothers, journeyed to Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, This scene shows Sergt. Frank Witchey, who sounded taps when | the Unknown Soldier was buried, on November 11, 1921, again sounding taps yesterday, after the mothers had placed wreaths on the tomb. —Harris-Ewing Photo. MOTHER MEMORIAL | SITE DEDICATED {Universal Alhance Formall Takes Over Ground Donated | by Capt. Calhoun. With appropriate Mothers' day exer- cises, a five-acre tract of land in | in the National Press Building, by Mrs. | | Clarence Crittenden Calhoun, president | | of the organization. Senaior Royal 8. Copeland of New | York, chairman of the child welfarc | {Sectiun foriine alliance, paid tribute to | | the purposes of the organization and the memorial. Other speakers included Rev. J. Hillman Hollister of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, Rev. Father Thom&s G. Smyth of the Church of the | Blessed Sacrament, Rev. Henry T. Cooke, rector of All Saints' Church, Chevy Chase, and Rev. F. C. Reynolds, Benediction was the Washington Dr. | Federation of Churches, Boy Scouts Sound Bugle Call. The ceremonies were opened by Boy Scouts in the four corners of the lot | sounding the call to attention by bugle. | | | of the tract. It was announced that an ancnymous donor had contributed enough limestone to build the first structure. 1926 F 4 oui 1924 Ford Tui Chevrolets. Fords 850 up HILL & TIBBITTS Open Sund: Evenings 301 h St STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929. BAR TO NAME OFFICERS. | . Wl" Rogers | Ninth Annual Convention to Be S .Says: ' Helg Tonight. The Federal Bar Association will hold |its ninth annual convention in the | auditorfum, Interior Department Build- | ‘mu, tonight at 8 o'clock. Officers will papers. Right at Baltimore, Friday, elected. in the big race, I bet on four horses, | Nelson T. 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