Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. €, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929. BRIGHTWOOD HOLDS, 1 Patriotic Groups of Washington Open Pay With Parade as Tribute to Heroes. Memorial Day Is Observed at| Battle Ground National Cemetery. Memorial day exercises will be held | this afternoon at Battle Ground Na- | tional Cemetery at Brightwood, ing with the sounding of Assemb; 3:15 o'clock. after which the Stars and Stripes will be raised on the flagstaff | in the center of the cemetery and sa- | Juted, under the direction of Capt Herbert Turner. The assemblage Will sing “The Star Spangled Banner, accompanied by the 3rd U. S. Cavalry Band. under the lead- ership of Loufs S.-Vassel, followed by the reading of the Orders of the Grand Army of the Repubiie by Jehn M. Kline. The band will render the selection, “Operatic Masterpiec followed by John Clagett Proctor, vice chairman of the Memorial day committee, intro- ducing Df. Charles V. Petteys, past commander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, chairman of the exercise: ‘The invogation Will be pronounced by Rev. Daniel L. Snyder, followed by the rendition 6! “Beautiful Isle of Some- where,” by the Battle Ground Quartet, 'fimposed of Mrs“William W. Wallace, rs. Thomas H. Mullenberg, L. F. Ran. dolph and Edwin T. Boylen, accom- panied by Harry Wheaton Howard. John M. Kline, jr., United Spanish War Vet- erans, will recite “The Star Spangled Banner.” after’ which. Mrs. Mullenberg and Mrs. Wallace will sing a_duet, “Whispering Hope,” and John Clagett Proctor will reciie an original poem. The quartet will_sing the selection, “Beneath the Laurels” and Theodore Hardy will deliver “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.” followed by a tenor solo by L. F. Randolph, “Just Before the Battle Mother.” Representative French of Idaho will be the orator of the afternoon and at the conclusion of his address the band will render “Gems of Stephen Foster” and the little school children will deco- rate the graves in the cemetery, under the supervision of Mrs. Angus Lamond, jr. The assemblage wi g “America” and Rev. William L. yo will pro- nounce the benediction. ~Taps will be sounded by & bugler and.a salute fired, concluding the exercises of the after- noon. - The G. A. R. committee in charge of the exercises is composed of Dr. Charles V. Petteys, chairmai John Clagett Proctor, vice chairman; Dr. J. A. Bal- lard, Maj. Gen. John M. Clem, Fred- erick A.-Dillon, Dr. Henry A. Johnson, John M. Kline. Capt. Prank Lockhead, Col. John McElroy and Col. O. H. Old- royd. The guests of honor include Maj. Gen. Lansing H,Beach, Commissioner Ladue, Representative John C. Box, Maj. Gen. John M. Clem, Capt. U. 8. Daniels, Mayor Ben G. Davis, Takoma Park, Md. Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis, Commis- sioner Daugherty,”Capt. Alonzo P. Fox, Senator Frazier, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d: Prof. R. L. Haycock, Col. Guy V. Henry, Representative Ira G. Hersey, M Gen. I. W. Ireland, Blaine Le Msj. E Brooke Lee, Coi;‘E.HM.NMl!rk ham, Representat] alter H. Newton, Th:‘c ore W. cheyg. Commigeioner Taliaferro, Brig. Gen. H. O. Williams and Representative Frederick N. Zihl- man. The executive committee is composed of John Clagett Proctor, chairman; Charles W.-Ray, vice chairman; Dr. Charles E. Rsph. secretary: Elmer Johnson, treasurer; William McK. C] ton, Maj. John DCIZ:‘ Henry E. John M. ¥ Mrs. ‘Lamond, §r.. Dr. Charles V. Petteys, Washington Tu%};v.i. Lucius #. Randolph and Harry L. Slyv. Y 0AK HILL SERVICE HONORS HERO DEAD @. F: Wijliamg Delivers Eulogy at Exercises Attended by Patriotic Groups. Memorial day exercises were con- ducted in Oak Hill Cemetery under aus- pices of " patriotic organizations and their special committees for the occa- sion today. George Prancis Williams, local attorney and auditor of the Dis- trict Supreme Court, was the principal speaker, impressing the assemblage with ‘words remindful of the significance of the occasion which the Nation is today celebrating in honor of its hero dead. Invocation was delivered by Chaplain Charles S. Davis, and the exercises were formally opened by William B. Wells, senfor vice commander of the ‘William B. Cushing Camp, No. 30, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, presiding. The text of the order creat- ing Memorial-day-was read by Past Commander ‘of the Cushing Camp John F. Hauck. The remainder of the program in- coln's “Gettysburg Address, Tecited by Adelbert A. Taylor: the sing: ing of patriotic songs, and closing prayer by Junior Vice Commander of the Cushing Camp Joseph H. Beckwith. Besides the Cushing Camp.. the or- ganizations co-operating- for the exer- cises with their committces were as follows: George E. Killeen Post of the Ameri- can Legion; Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War, Albert E. Westrater, com- mander; Auxiliary No. 4 to the Sons of Tnion Veterans, Miss Urilda Wallace, president general committee; William B. Wells, Joseph H. Beckwith, Predrik A. Pernald, William Rosser, John F. Hauck, W. “H. Ruthledge, Dr. A. A. Taylor, J. Clinton Hiatt, John L. Bate- man, Charles §. Davis and Frank A. DeGroot. HOLY ROOD CEMETERY SCENE OF EXERCISES R. F. Downing Deliyers Memorial Day Address Before Patriotic Organizations. Rossa F. Downing. local attorney, was the principal speaker at impressive Memorial day exercises held in Holy Rood Cemetery today under auspices of several patriotic prganizations, with Al bert E. Westrater, commander of Wil- liam B. Cushing Camp, No. 30, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, pre- siding. Tnvocation was delivered at the exer- cises by Rev. Henry P. White, repre- eenting the Veterans of the World War. A copy of the order setting aside a day 10 be celebrated in memory of the Na- tion's dead wag read by Past Com- mander of the Camp P. A. Fernald President Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Ad- dress” was recited by Miss Helen F. Downing, department president. Auxil- iary to the Sons of Union Veterans. Benediction was delivered by Rev. Dr. White. i The exercises were under auspices of the Cushing Camp; Auxiliary No. 4 to the Sons of Union Veterans, Miss Urllda Wallace, president, and the George E. Killeen Post. No. 25, American Legion, Bernard 5. Buscher, commander. Dog Safe Guide in Traffic Maze. NEW YORK, May 30 (#)—His mas- ter's “eyes” have been tested success- fully on one of the busiest street gor- ners in the world. In a demonstration & 20-month-old Shepherd dog guided blind man through the maze of trn(»l Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Mrect, | fewer than | tions and women's auxiliaries, for whom { Union: Paul J. McGahan, American Le- __(ontiniied from First Page) led the parade, which opéned the day here, timing their marttai music to accommodate the uncertaln steps of score of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. who marched first among the veterans. At their head was Department Comdr. samuel G. Mawson. Marching Units Present. Following the men who fought more than 60 years azo to save the Union were vounger: men and women, who since have engaged in armed conflict to preserve it. The United Spanish War Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars were ‘represented by large marching units, as were the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, the Indian War Veterans and the American Veterans of Helleni¢ Descent. Bands, drum and bugle corps | and marching units of Boy Scouts par- | ticipated. Forming on Pennsylvania aven near Fourteenth street at 9 o'clock, t parading organizations promptly maved, along the Avenus south of the Treas- ury, thence north on the west side of the Treasury to H street, thence cast 1| Thirteenth street and south to B street. There special cars of the Washington- Virginia Railway Co. waited to conv the marchers to Arlington. . The Overseas Drum Corps of the Vet. erans of Foreign Wars organization shared honors in the parade with the drum and bugle corps of Costello Post,! No. 15, of the American Legion, and & corps of Victory Post, No. 4, of the American Legion. Colored veterans were well repre- sented. The Colored Community Civic Center Band headed their section, fol- Jowed by colored veterans of the Spa ish-American War, the World War, se eral nurses and a corps of colored cadets. | ‘Thousands waited patiently on the green slopes for the appearance of the | President and guests of honor, to be| signalized by the stirring call of assem- | bly, sounded by a trumpeter of the| United States Marine Band, at 1 o'clock, | marking ghe start of the procession into the white marble amphitheater. Their spirits responding to the mar- tial notes of the Marine Band, the de- tachments of veterans, old men in uni-| forms of blue and younger ones in olive drab, followed their banners through the entrances to assemble in privileged seats in the great open-air arena. Typical of democratic ceremonies, men in humble walks of life mingled in the audience with high official digni- taries, and the uniforms of officers of the Army. Navy and Marine Corps lent color to. the scene. President Hoover was to be accompanied by members of his Cabin Prominent among the in- with the United States in the World War, and members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Included among the special guests were the visit- ing group of European journalists here under auspices of the Carnegié Founda- tion for International Peace and -offi- | cers of the various veteran organiza-| seats were reserved. 1‘ Mawson to Open Meeting. Following an overture by the band, Samuel G. Mawson was”to call the meeting“to-order as departmental com- Hosea B. Moulton, past deE;tmentll. commander and president of the Memo- iwas to preside and conduct the’solemn, inspiratioBal services, 3 f Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of | American Univers! was _invited to pronounce the invocation. Then was to | follow the presentation of the colors| under direction of Capt. John Middle- | ton, Color Bearer Hazard Wheeler and color guards in the uniforms of their organizations. As the colors were to join in the Pledge of Allegiance. | Gen. John ‘A. Logan’s historic order establishing Memorial - day,- which re- sulted in enactment of the national hol- iday into law by Congress, read by _an?, G, Yaden, departmental com- nder, District of Columbia United | program, followed by the singing of | “Sleep, -Soldier, Sleep,” the official song | of the Veterans of Forelign Wars, by | Mrs, Elsie Jorss Reilley, Federal Auxili- | ary of that organization. Following the tradition at all memo- rial services, Lincoln's “Gettysburg Ad- dress” was to'be read by Harlan Wood, department commander of the Ameri- can Legion, after which Herman Fakler was to sing “Ye That Have Faith.” Hoover to Deliver Address. President Hoover was to be presented at this point of the program by the presiding officer and deliver the Memo- rial day address. His voice carried over a Nation-wide radio network to million:s of Americans. At the conclusion of the President's address Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl was to | sing “The Re lonal,” and then Rep- resentative C. lis Moore of Ohio was ' to speak, tking the place of Senator | Dale of Vermont, who was unable to| be present. 5 | Another vocal selection, “There Is Noi Death,” by Miss Jeanette E. McCaffre: and the singing of “America” by the audience, the Marine Band accompany- ing, were next on the program, and the | exercises were to be brought to a solemn | close by Rev. V. O. Anderson, depart- | ment chaplain, Veterans of Foreign | Wars, pronouncing the benediction. ‘The ceremonies in the amphitheater were under the general -supervision of the following committe Hosea B. Moulton, S8amuel G. Mawson (honorary member), John Middleton, G. A. R.; James G. Yaden, U. 8. W. V.; Frank Lockhead, Charles H. Rejtley; V. F. W.; Harlan Wood, American Legion, and W. W. Bateman, Army and Navy Union. Official Committees Listed. ‘With all veteran groups in the Dis- trict represented in various capacities, the officlal committees on the Memorial day exercises were announced as fol- lows: Press—James E. Maynard, chairman, United Spanish War Vetcrans; W. L. Peake, vice chairman, Army and Navy gion; Howard S. Fisk, American Legiol C. O. Howard, Army and Navy Unio Mrs. Margaret Logan Tucker, Dames of | Loyal Legion, and O. H. Oldroyd (hon- ‘orary member), Grand Army of the Ri public. Reception—Samuel G. Mawson, chair- man, Grand Army of the Republic; Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, vice chair- man, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Maj Gen. John L, Clem, Grand Army of the Republic; James G. Yaden, department commander, United Spanish War Vet- erans; Capt. Frank Lockhead, U. S. A., department commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars: Harlan Wood, American Legion: Edwin 5. Bettelheim, jr., Vet- erans of Foreign Wars; Watson B. Mil- ler, American Legion; Fred Kochli, de- partment commander, Disabled Ameri- | cans of the World War; W. L. Speelman, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; W. L. Peake. national commander, Army and Navy Union; Mrs. Mary D. Lightfoot, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Byron W. Bonney (honorary member), Grand Army of the Republic. Flowers—William F. Franklin, chair-! man, American Legion; Michael J. Dowd, vice chairman, Army and. Navy Union; Mrs. Margaret Burns, Ladies’ Auxiliary, United Spanish War Vet- erans; Mrs. Mary E. Killeen, Gold Star Mothers; Mrs. George N. Thompson, | American Women's Legion, and J. A. NATION'S WAR DEAD HONORED -IN MANY MEMORIAL SERVICES| Is | Foreijgn Wars; Harlan Wood, American | vited guests of honor were ambassadors | and ministers of foreign countries allied | | knowri” Soldier of the World War. mander of the G. A. R.., then introduce | rial Dayg Corporation, . who ithereafter | dipped thousands of voices were ready y; Spanish War Veterans, was next on the g | president James S. | Alice Grau, .| Auxiliary, American Legion: Mrs. Mur- McDowell (honorary member), Grand Army of the muhllr Invitations —James G. Yaden, chairman. United| panish War Veterans: Frederick C. vice chairman, Veterans of For- Wi Dr. Charles V. Petteys,| Grand Army of the Republic: John M Kline, Grand Army of the Republic; s H. Rellley, Veterans of Foreign s; J. Thad Baker, American Legion: | U. S. Grant, 3d, Sons of Union Veterans | of Civil War; J. Clinton Hiatt, Sons of Union_Veterans of Civil War: Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel. Dames of Loyal Le- | gion; Herbert O. Allen, Veterans of For- eign’ Wars, and John M. Young (hon-| orary member), Grand Army of the Re. public Speakers, music and program—Charles | H. Reilley, chairman, Veterans of For- | eign Wars; James A. Burns, vice chair- | man, United Spanish War Veterans James E. Yaden, United Spanish War| Veterans; Frank Lockhead, Veterans of | Legion, and Frederick Shortsleeves thonorary member), Grand Army of the Republic. ! Supplies and printing—Charles H. Rellley, chairman, Veterans of Foreign | Wars;. James A. Burns, vice chairman, | United Spanish War Veterans: Ben L. Fuller, Ameri Legion; Fred B. Liv- ingston, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Jud- {son C. Knappen, Army and Navy Union, | § . 'A. Johnson (honorary mem- ‘ber), Grand Army of the Republic. Finance—Arthur H. League, chair- man, United Spanish War Veterans; E. D. Godfrey, vice chairman. Grand Army of the Republic: Charles H., Reilley, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars: Harlan Wood, American _Legion; Thomes. Mason, | American Legion, and Jolm McElroy (honorary member), Grand Army of the Republic. | Ushers—James W. Lyons, chairman, Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War; | Chester M. Reich, vice chairman, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, and L. H. Shep- | herd (honorary member), Grand Army of the Republic. Auditing—E. D. Godfrey, chairman, Grand Army of the Republic; James A. Burns. vice chairman, United Spanish War Veterans; C. H. Rellley, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Frank J. Young (honorary member), Grand Army of the Republic. Transportation—Col. O. H. Oldroyd, honorary chairman, Grand Army of the Republic; Watson B. Miller, chairman, American Legion: Thomas G. Mason, | vice chairman, American Legion; I. H.| | Horton, _secretary, American__ Legion; | Daniel Foley, United Spanish War Vet: erans; Frank G. Thomas. Disabled | | American Veterans of the World War; | Charles N. Hess, American Legion: D. H. Evans, Sons of Veterans: H. J. | Photes, American Veterans of Hellenic | | Descent: Howard S. Pick, American Le- | | glon; John Allen, Veterans of Foreign | | Wars, ‘and Frank Heisle, Veterans of | Foreign Wars. Unknown Heroes Honored. | Before the amphitheater exercises began, separate services were conducted at the Tomb of the Unknown Union | | Soldiers of the Civil War, near Arling- ton Hou: and the Tomb of the Un- The procession of veterans marched first to the resting place of the unknown | Union dead, shortly after assembling in | Ariington. Veterans of the G. A. R., | the Woman's Relief Corps. Daughters of Veterans, Ladies of the G. A. R. and all auxilieries joined in the brief, but impressive, ceremonies at _the tomb. It was banked high with flowers. The committee on decorations at the Tomb f the Unknown Union Soldiers com- prised the following: Campmittee Members. Mrs. Charlotte M. Cary. president Woman's Relief Corps, chairman; Anna 5 president O. P. Morton Corps: Julia West Hamilton, Charles Sumner Corps; " O'Brien, president Burnside Corps; Anna Horn, president Lincoln Corps; Margaret Marsh, president Kit Carson Corps: E. Helen Temple, Phil Sheridan Corps; Mrs. Myrtle J. Ehler, president S. Grant Circle, Ladies of the G. A, R. E. . Ow president William McKinley Circl May Lightfoot, Abraham Lincoln__ Circls Mary Sit: Parker, president William Beck Circle Virginia White Speel, president Dames of Loyal Legion; Agnes S. Barnard, president Legion of Loyal Women; Ellen . Meyers, president Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent; Helen F. Downing, presi- dent Department of Maryland; Ursula Wallace, president Willlam B. Cushing Auxiliary; Louise Watson, president Warren G. Harding Auxiliary; Carrie E. Nolan, president auxiliaries, Spanish War Veterans; Catherine Huhn, presi- dent Admiral George Dewey Auxiliary; Eva Ducker, president Gen. Emmett Urell Auxiliary; M. Gertrude Keyes, Avxiliary, president John Jacob Aster Auxiliary; Helen Kennicutt, president Gen. Nelson A. Miles Auxiliary; Kath- erine Baum, supreme chief ruler Lineal Soclety, Spanish War Veterans; Mary A. Rink, chief ruler Temple No. 1 Mary Shanahan, president District of Columbia Chapter, American War Mothers: Mrs. George G. Seibold, president Gold Star Mothers, American ‘War Mothers; Mrs. Hollingsworth, Na- tional Capital Auxiliary to Foreign War Veterans: Mrs. Frank Thomas, Equal- ity Walter Reed Auxiliary to Foreign War Veterans; Mrs, A. M. Grant, presi- dent Federal Auxiliary to Foreign War Veterans; Mrs. Thomas Fawcett, presi- ‘dent Potomac Auxiliary to Foreign War Veterans: Mrs. Walker, president Vic- tory Unit Auxiliary, American Legion Mrs. Amos Pries, president Henry C. Spangler Unit Auxiliary: Mary K. Kil- leen. president George E. Killeen Unit president lia L. ray, president Costello Unit Auxiliary, American Leglon; Miss Gilbert Cone president Sergt. Jasper Unit Aux. iliary, American Legion; Margaret Hood Robbins, president Woman’s' Overseas Service League; Mrs. Edward Camp- bell Shields, president American Wom- an’s Legion of the World War. Thence to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the World War, many of the G. A. R. men joined with ex-service men of the late war in three separate services. The first of these, conducted: at noon, was under auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department Comdr. Frank Lockhead presiding. At 12:15 o'clock Harlan Wood, department commander of the American Leglon, presided at the' exercises for that organization. The Disabled American Veterans, under Capt. Fred Kochli, de- partment commander, followed next in paying tribute to the Unknown Sol- dier. Floral wreaths from the three | organizations and many others were placed before the tomb. Nurses Remembered. | Meanwhile many individual posts | were conducting similar ceremonies be- fore the graves of departed comrades in | arms and former commanders. The Jane A. Delano American Legion Post | paid tribute to the nurses who died in | service and are buried in the nurses' section of the National Cemetery. Exercises also ‘were held before the grave of Gen. Benjamin Platt Runkle | during the morning under the auspices | of Sigma Chi Fraternity. | One unusual service. was that con- | ducted by the United Daughters ot the | Confederacy, who unyelléd a bronze tablet in memory of Ann Carter Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The | ceremony took place near the long leaf pine tree, planted some years ago as a tribute to the Confederate leader's daughter. After the dedication, the organization visited.the room in Arling- ton House in which Gen. Lee was married. The scencs enacted at Arlington were being duplicated during thé morning at varfous cemeteries about the city and other exercises were arranged to take place during the afternoon. Thejmemory JUSTICE SIDDONS PRAISES PLANNERS i Georgian and American architecture Designers of Vision Played Part in Early Development of Buildings, He Says. Most fortunate for the National Cap- | ital, city planners and designers of vi- sion and real capabilities played a prominent part in the early develop- ment of Federal bulldings here, Justice Frederick L. Siddons of District Su- vreme Court declared at noon today at Memorial day ceremony at Congres- | sional Cemetery in recognition of the ervices of George Hadfleld, designer of the original outlines of the present Dis- trict Courthouse. Justice Siddons spoke at one of four | services held under auspices of the | Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to pay tribute | 1o the memory of early planners and designers of “Government structures nere and the general Capital plan, Col. U. S. Grant Was Speaker. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. executive officer of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, spoke at Arlington Cemetery at 10 o'clock this morning in appreciation of the services of Maj. Plerre L'Enfant, as creator of the Fed- eral City plan now being brought to a state of remarkable materialization. ter then went to Congressional Ceme- tery, where Justice Siddons culogized the work of Hadfield and where also Alexander B. Trowbridge, Washington architect, spoke in commemoration of the work of Dr. William Thornton, de- signer of the Capitol Building. | Justice Praises Building. Justice Siddons praised the Court- house Building as being one of the finest examples of its period, with its blended with the classic, seen in the Tonic columns and the portico at the front. Built originally as the city hall of Washington, it is fitting that this structure should be the crowning fea- ture of the new group of magnificent municipal buildings to be erected to the south, on either side of John Marshall place, the speaker pointed out. The architects also held brief services at Mount Olivet Cemetery, near the grave of James Hoban, designer of the White House. famous rroclnmntion. ‘when commander- in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, designating May 30 as Memo- | rial day, was signally honored at the | United States Soldiers' Home National | Cemetery, which the Members of the Associated Surviv of the 6th Corps, Army of the Po- tomae, under Dr. Charles V. Petteys, president, conducted a business meet- | ing at Battle Ground National Ceme- ?S'l Memorial services followed at| Congressional, Holy Rood, Oak Hill, | Glenwood, Prospect Hill and St. Mary’ Cemeteries also were the scenes of ex- ercises, Meanwhile many organiza- | tions throughout the city either were | canducting services during the morning or will do so this afternoon. | Visit Barry Monument. | Exercises at the Commodore Barry | Monument in Franklin Square were | arranged at 3 o'clock under auspices ! of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Anclent | Order of Hibernians. mP‘olXowing these | exejcises the group will proceed to the Nuns' Monument, Rhode Island avenue and Connecticut avenue, where similar exercises will be held at 4 o'clock. Patrick J. Haltigan of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will be master 6f ceremonies at both exercises and wreaths will be placed upon the two monuments. Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts and for- mer Representative O'Connell of Rhode Island will be the speakers at each event. Mrs. Ellen Ryan Jolly will place a wreatn on the Nuns' Monument. as will | also Miss Agnes C. Regan, national | secretary of the National Catholic Council of Women, and Mrs. Mary Horan of Pittsburgh. national president | of the Ladies’ Auxillary of Hibernians. Aboard the U. 8. 8. Gramus, which left the Navy Yard at 10:30 o'clock, members of the Admiral Robert E. Peary Ship, No. 427, Veterans of For- eign Wars, scattered popples upon theI waters of the Potomac as the vessel steamed down the river. T. V. Temple- ton, captain of Peary Ship, was master of ceremonies. Grant Ts Speaker. ‘The crypt of the Shrine of the Im- maculate Conception at Catholic Uni- versity was the scene of an impressive mass attended by hundreds of wor- shipers. Very Rev. Thomas J. Shahan was the celebrant. Two separate serv- ices were conducted during the day by the Washington Chapter, American In- stitute of Architects. The first was held in Arlington National Cemetery, at which Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, was | the speaker, and honored Maj. L'Enfant, planner of Washington. The other was conducted at Congressional Cemetery as | a tribute to Dr. Willlam Thornton, architect of the Capitol, and George Hadfield, designer of the District Court- | A house and Judiciary Square. At Georgetown University School of Law the senlors of the two departments assembled in the law library before a | bronze memorial erected to the memory | of 54 Georgetown men who lost their lives during the World War. The prin- cipal speakers were Rev. Thomas B. Chetwood, S. J., regent of the school, on behalf of the faculty, and Maj. Basii | Duke Edwards, an honor graduate of West Point, whp spoke for the Army. Donald Andrew Rock, president of | the afternoon senior class, presided. and a senior from each class, Willlam Francis Graham and Robert’ Granville Burke, spoke for their classmates. | Francis Joseph Ludes, secretary of the | morning class, read the roll of the dead as & bugler sounded “Taps.” A committee of students who are of- ficers in the Reserve Corps of the Army acted as a guard of honor. They were Lieut. J. Herbert Walsh, Lieut. Duford A. Lynch Lieut. Willlam A. Zale- sak, Lieut. Jullan T. Cromelin. Mem- bers of the law faculty, including Dean George E. Hamilton and Assistant Dean Hugh J. Fegan, attended with the stu- dent body. Next Sunday other memorial servires are 1o be held. At the Washington He- brew Congregation Cemetery at 11 o'clock, Vincent B. Costello Post of the American Legion will conduct exercises in honor of all Jewish veterans of the | District who sacrificed their lives in former wars. The speaker on this oc- | casion will be Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson, retired, and the Mourn- ers' Prayer or Kaddish will be said b Rabbi Willlam Rosenblum. A squad of Marines will fire a salute in honor of the dead. ‘The South will have its day, too, next Sunday. At 3 o'clock in the Confed- erate section of Arlington, where are | buried many men in gray picked up from the battleficlds around Washing- ton, services will be held jointly hon- oring them and Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States, in | recognition of his birthday anniversar; Gen. W. L. Wilkerson, brigade com- mander of the United Confederaic | Veterans for the District, will intro- duce Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Ala- bama as the orator, Music will be furnished by the Marine Band and flowers will be placed on each South- ern grave. From the Confederate sec- | tion, the veterans and Daughters of the 'Confederacy will proceed to the | grave of Gen. Joe Wheeler and the | Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where | floral The exerc sec- | tion will be under auspices of Camp 171, assisted by the Southern Me- | morial Association. Daughters and ! Confederata distribution of tickets ' of Gen. John A Logan, who issued the Children of the Confederacy, z i Upper—Members of the Grand Army of the Republic in the vanguard of the units participating in the Memorial day parade. Lower—Veterans of three wars in line, Ieft to right: Sergt. Francis Cole, 13th Infantry, 1st Division, World War; John H. Keating, Spanish-American and World Wars, and E. D. Godfrey, Civil Var. | PERSHING URGES FEELINGS ON “As Long as | Have Twof Good Legs I’'m Going to the Cemetery,” He Says. S. G. Mawson Feels Duty- Bound to Carry on Work “We | All Started Together.” 1 ' | Half a century of parades and cere- mony has served only to enhance the charm of Memorial day for Samuel G. | Mawson, 83-year-old commander of the | Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic. “As long as I have two good legs.” h= sald, “I'm going over to the Cemetery | on Memorial day. When it gets so I can’t go over, I want to be there for | good and all.” When the Civil War started, Mr. Mawson, then still in his teens, en- | listed in Company M, 6th New York | Heavy Artillery. He served the full period of the war and re-enlisted at | the outbreak of the Spanish-American | War. Among First on Cuban Soi During the latter war h: st | sergeant tn charge of the Marine guard | on the U. S. S. Marblehead. He co manded the first armed guard to land on_Cuban_sofl. ! Comdr. Mawson is one of three men | to serve two successive terms as de- partment commander, and for seven years he has been at’ the heall of the Phil Sheridan Post. He lives at the Chastleton Apartments, Sixteenth and R streets. T could tell a lot about Memorial ays,” he said. “Some of them have been good and some indifferent, but. good or bad. there's something about the day that makes it different from all the others. Not “Cranky Old Men.” “There are a lot of folk that think we are a bunch of cranky old men who put on an old uniform and march | in the parade on Memorial day just | to show off. Others think we aye just | a lot of stiff-necked fools who would | rather kill ourselves than admit we | are not able still to do the things we used to do. But they're all wrong, | and Tl tell why. | “A_few years after the war, when the Department of the Potomac was | first, organized, its membership ran up into the thousands. Some of the men were old buddies—men I had louxhtJ‘ with side by side during the war. G. A. R. COMMANDER DESCRIBES | MEMORIAL DAY SAMUEL G. MAWSON., —Star St Others were strangers to me, got to know them all. First Memorial Parade Cited. “I have in mind the first Memorial day parade that I took part in. I was then only one of thousands of Union veterans, nearly all of them young and | in the prime of life. Maybe we didn’t fully appreciate the full significance of Memorial day then; perhaps it was something of a lark. “Year after year I marched and with each year there were fewer of us. Year after year I have gone over to the cemetery and put flowers on the graves of men who were marching with me the year before. “Last year there were only 20 of us able to turn out for the parade. There won't be that many today. is gone. Conldn’t Stay Away! “Marching on Memorial day is not | merely a question of pride with me; nor is it one of conceit. I put on this uni- form and turn out for the parade be- cause I couldn't stay away if I wanted to. There's something down inside that urges me on. It's not all sentiment. and it's not all pride; I feel in & way as though I'm duty bound to carry on | as best I can the work we all started | together. Perhaps I'm living in the past, but memories are about all an old man has.” A first edition of Goldsmith's poem “The Traveler” cer®ly for $1,950. s sold in London re- GOLDENEERG'S “At Seventh and K" The Dependable Store Eyes Examined Free! Genuine Kryptok Invisible Bifocals (Far and Near vision in one pair of glasses.) Sold regularly at §15. Special price. Fine Quality Lenses for Far or Near Vision, fitted to Specially Priced Yyour eyes. at $3.50 Use Your Charge Account ‘Optical Department—Main Floor Photo. | but I soon | It won't be | so many years now until the last of us | * PEACE N ADDRESS 'American War Dead in Bel- leau Wood and Other Ceme- i | Sy | teries in France Honored. | | By the Assoclated Press. ; PARIS, May 30.—Americans have a | solemn duty in striving “to find a way | whereby nations may settle their dif- | ferences other than by force,” Gen. |John J. Pershing | said today in a moving tribute to the war dead at | Memorial day serv- ices at the Belleau ‘Wood Cemetery. | Memorial avy, which began with gray mist, soon be- came one of sun- shine. Nearly every | American in Paris attended cne of the many services held at the various churches. The graves of every American ier who died in the Great War were decorated and a prayer said over them in-arms or grate- Gen. Pershing. Whether lying in thousands grouped in the magnificently kept cemeteries at | Belleau Wood, Romagne, Fere-en-Tar- denofs, Thiacourt, Bony and Suresnes or | sleeping where they fell along the slopes | of war-torn hills, deep ravines or, thick | forests, all were remembered. | Ten Major Ceremonies. id ‘Ten major ceremonies marked the | day. 7 | Arranged under the auspices of the { American Memorial Day Association, | founded in 1920 for the decoration of | American soldiers’ graves abroad, care | was taken that upon every “scattered | grave” there rested a bouquet of Flan~- | der_popplies. | "Dean Frederick W. Beekman of the ‘Amencln Church of the Holy Trinity, | the chairman of the association, and | Col. T. Bentley Nott of the American embassy staff, honorary chairman of | the American’ graves decoration com- | mittee, with the assistance of the | American Legion, the American Graves | Registration Services and the initiative | of private American citizens residing in | France, had perfected the arrangements | and Decoration day was celebrated with | all the religious and military pomp the | fallen heroes deserved. . Comdr. Stephen S. Szlapka of the | Paris Post, No. 1, was in charge of the ceremonies at Suresnes, at which Nor man Armour, the American charge d'affaires, presided. A large number of French and American dignitaries were present. Alsne-Marne Graves Decorated. Gen. Pershing, Julian M. Thomas |and some American Legionnaires deco- rated the graves of American soldiers | who fell during the Aisne-Marne drive. | The American Legion sent delegations | to_other American cemeteries. To the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery at Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, led by Al- | bert B. Cudabec; Oise-Aisne Cemetery |at Seringes-et-Nesles, near Fere-en | Tardenois, Dr. Joseph William Cochran; | St. Mihiel Cemetery at Thiaucourt, | Daniel P. Gibbs; Somme Cemetery at Bony, Clifford B. Church. Church ceremonies were held at the American Cathedral Church of the H Trinity at 10:30 and at St. Josepl Roman Catholic Church at the same | hour, the two congregations merging at 11:30 and marching to the Arc-de- Triomphe, Where a wreath was placed {upon the Tomb of the Unknown | Soldier. | Col. Prancis E. Drake was in charge |and at the cathedral, while Herman Huffer, jr., former commander of the Paris Post, No. 1, of the legion, looked | AUTO of the ceremony at the Arc-de-Triomphe | OBEDIENGE 10 LAW MEMORIAL TRIBUTE Representative Garber Speaks at Congressional Cemetery Exercises. Obedience to the Constitution and the Nation's laws is the best way to do Thonor to the dead, who perished that they might live, Representative Garber, Republican, of Virginia, declared today in an address that featured Memorial day exercises at Congressional Ceme- tery. Patriotlc exercises were held under direction of S. F. Hamilton, junior vice department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, assisted by Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, United Spanish War Veterans, Dr. Ed- ward C. Barstow. commander: Stuart Walcott Post, Col. James S. Pettit Camp, No. 3, United Spanish War Veterans, and Columbia Post, No. 833, | Veterans of Foreign Wars. | "“We should remember on this ap- | propriate occasion that it becomes our duty to pay proper allegiance to our | flag in days of peace no less than in | the trying hours of war by mnot only | obeying the Constitution ~which it Tepresents; but that we must also charge ourselves with the duty of ad- | vancing that same obedience in society | generally.” said Mr. Garber. “Personal rights and privileges must yield to | social rights and social welfare. In our social order, in the march of civiliza- tion, the rights and welfare of the individual must always be regarded in their relation to the rights and welfare of the large groups: and so it should be sald that all of our personal rights become related rights, and our obliga- tion to society grows very clear, | Spiritual Vision Needed. | “It we would do proper honor to the | memories of our sleeping loved ones | today, we must catch a new vision of the spiritual ideals that brought courage and sacrifice to the hearts of those now silent in death. | “It is ours to live and make real the | ideals for which they fought and died. | And so, as we do honor to the memory | of our sacred dead, may we remember to live for the principles for which they | died. = * There is a ‘patriotism , of peace no less important and no less | compelling than the patriotism of war. { If the roses which we bear today e: | press feebly the homage in our hearts | for those who fought and fell to make | the world safe for democracy, we must | live to make_that. democracy safe for | the world. If our brave boys fougnt | for their devotion to an_ideal, then that ideal must find expression in da: ‘nrmg;lce," Representative Garber as- | Mr. Hamilton was attended by his | grandsons, Frank and Steven Beach, | Boy Scouts. With Mr. Hamilton cn the general committee were: Dr. Ed- | ward C. Barstow, commander H. W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, United Spanith War Veterans; J. W. Ryan, commander i Col. J. Pettit Camp, No. 3, United Spanish War Veterans, vice chairman L. S. Taylor, superintendent of cem: | tery; Past Comdr. W. P. Davis, chair- |man of standing _committee; Past | Comdr. William H. Barstow, chairman | of decorating committee; Charles Wise, | pssistant leader, United States Na | Band, ‘chairmian on music: John Hart, | commander Columbia Post, No. 833, | Veterans of Foreign Wars. Program of Exercises. | ‘The program for the exercises, start- | ing at 10 o'clock, follows: | Presentation of colors by United | States sailors and pledge of allegianc invocation, Rev. Edw. 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