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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER F>, 1921 MAGAZINE TRIBUNE INSTITUTE MAGAZINE BOOK SECTION Sfew fltotK TRIBUNE INSTITUTE Stifcan* BOOK SECTION ¡PART V. «FOURTEEN PAGES SUNDAY, NOVEMBER f>, 1921 PART V. FOURTEEN PAGES AT THE SHRINE OF AN AMERICA'S Unknown silent -. UNKNOWN Soldier, SOLDIER eotsfoitex of thousands of mothers Drawings by C B. FALLS f Verses by ARTHUR CHAPMAN »¦"wenty-ßve yards, this officer went out ahead wh«.»e sons are In unnamed graves in of his first line toward a machine Fra:u?e. «"ill be buned in Arlington gun cest( and worked his way around its flank, leavin-j gptterj on Armistice Day, Friday, Nov-em- a two soldiers in front. When he grot within ten ir of the it ceased resting in state for a yards gun firing and four ci After day and a the I night ander 'he great dome of the national enemy appeared, three of whom were shot by Lieutenant Woodfill. The an offi¬ Cspit-'.¦. (? Unknown Soldier, who might have fourth, cer, rushed at Lieutenant who at¬ jjed tn Beiieaa Wood or at Chateau Thierry, Woodfill, tempted to club the officer with his rifle. After or in tr-v Argoane or the St. Älihiei salient, a hand-to-hand struggle Lieutenant Woodfill or who perhaps fell at some lonely outpost, the killed the officer with his pistol. His name of which never will figure in company history, thereupon continued to advance until «nil be ».arned to the nation's great Valhalla. shortly afterward another machine nest was en¬ '.. on foot gun ¦fresidei Harding, and accompanied countered. by the members of his Cabinet and other offi¬ "Calling on his men to ciais, w march with the funeral follow, Lieutenant cortege. Woodfill rushed ahead of his line ir*. the Former President Wilson, if his health face per- of heavy fire from the nest, and when several -jiiis, wil ha\e his place at the cemetery. For of the enemy appeared above the nest he shot two by Presidential proclamation, them, capturing three members of the crew basine»3 and pleasure wiil be suspended every- and silencing the gun. A few minutes later .jrher'- throughout the nation. Men, women this officer for the third time demostrated con¬ and ,-. ildren, in whose behalf the Unknown spicuous daring by charging another machine Soidit*- gave his Ufe, will pay silent tribute gun position, killing five men in one machine not aio to this one but to man, his 2,0U0,000 gun pit with his rifle. He then drew his comrades, who re¬ fighting without thought of volver and started to jump into the pit wh«m persiana, reward assumed the burdens heavy two other ganners, only a few yards away, war in of of defense iiberty. turned their gun on him. Fr-i », England and Italy have honored "Failing to kill them with his revolver, he their inknown soldiers. The United States grabbed a pick lying near by and killed both has h .ped. through its personal representa¬ oí them. Inspired by the «exceptional courage tives paying tribute to those fallen heroes. displayed by this officer, his men pressed on to Xow from the far corners of the world will their objecttive under severe shell and machine come:- tributes to America's Unknown Soldier. gun fire." From every state in the Union where there Woodfill was mustered out of the war army are mothers who have had no word of the as a captain. He re-enlisted in the last regular resting places of soldier sons there will service, in which he haa b-seu twenty-tyo ccme which years, prayers will indicate that some and regained his pre-war rank of of comfort has been sergeant. degree found. For among Representatives of every branch of all those tha mothers there will not be one who American fighting service will be ¦will grouped not have the thought that perhaps her about the last resting place of the Unknown son, whether he be from Maine or Illinoi*** or Soldier at Arlington. The Marines have Ca:.."":rnia, or from the heart of the as Soutn, is chosen their representative to act as pall¬ rest : g at Arlington beneath all the honors bearer Gunnery Sergeant Ernest A. the Janson, that world is ready to heap upon the tomb who wears the Congressional Medal of Honor -if 7 Unknown Soidier. for conspicuous gallantry at Chateau Thierry. A two weeks ago the unknown soidier One of the most touching tributes will be an hg earth-stained coifin in a flag-deco- from British mothers, who have expressed a ratec* room in the City Flail at Chalons-sur- desire to honor America's unknown hero. Marne. Three other coffins were in the room. Mrs. William Henry McCudden, of Kingston- The coffins had been brought there from the on-Thames, mother <of Major James Byford four American military cemeteries at Bel- McCudden, K. C, who brought down fifty- leany, B *.ny, Thiacourt and Romagne. seven German airplanes during the war before The selecting of the Unknown Soldier from he was killed in July, 1916, has been chosen to take to in ur was made a simple and at America a memorial wreath for the the same time a beautiful task. A stalwart grave of the Unknown Soldier. Mrs. McCud¬ Ame: -geant, who had fought in all den lost three sons, a son-in-law and two in the American olfensives and who wore two nephews the war. -wound ¿tripes, walked slowly past the coffins, France's Unknown Soidier is buried under -"".. e n the adjoining room a French infantry the Arc de Triomphe. England's representa¬ bar.i day« : a funeral dirge. In the corporal's tive of its unknown dead in the great war is hand waa a cluster of white roses. resting in Westminster Abbey. Italy has Twice the soldier paced the length of the buried its Unknown Soldier at the Altar of the Fatherland, which has been room besi ie his sleeping comrades whom none erected near the monument to Victor might ever call again by namo. Then he King Emmanuel. When *he idea of similar tribute to gently placed the roses on the coffin of the paying America'§ Unknown Soldier was one i as to be honored not only by this brought up many thought that the hero should be «sntire m :: r», but by alt-its allies. buried at some s»pot where his memorial would The c tfin was borne from the room by six appeal con¬ stantly to thousands. It was other r: n-commissioned officers while the suggested that the burial place be near some square in the sergea: ; at attention. It was placed in business heart of New York or that the a casket sent from this country bearing the City, ins Unknown Soldier be buried in front of the main "Ai stairway of the Capitol at Washington, wn American soldier, wrho gave but his life ii the war." Congress finally directed by resolution the great ceremonies that have been The cher coffins, after the Unknown Sol¬ outlined, selecting Arlington Cemetery as the resting dier ha been chosen, were borne away place. Unknown? About 2,000 soldiers and sailors of the to be reinterred in Romagne regu¬ manently / have come back to my mother*» land.. / have come back to my mother's land, i have come back to my mother's land, For I to lar army, navy and Marine are to be Cem<--- I tea» too belong them.Mothers All. Corps long, long, ateay. Where the yellow pine glades arel Where the 's like distant drums. From assembled at » surf the seas to the and one battalion At ti request of the American authorities She shade» her eyes with a blue-veined hand The plains of sage. Washington, cypress flutters, by warm breeze fanned. And the fishing craft make bright the strand From the hills that rock to the snowslide's of the National Guard will the .'..-. as as In the sunlit upland day fall be taken frotn my was simple possible. A And the rose scent floats afar; And a comes. To the desert look» at kindly neighbor gray-lined with age. New York and And my saddle, my horse, my gun. There's a plash nars on Pennsylvania. The plan con¬ representing the Paris post of the of quiet stream» For such is the way of the village folk And my tomb shall vibrate with messages For my haunts were not the stroum. And a templates the selection of not to exceed Ame....¦.-.'¦¦ two of French bright-hued bird has flown When a woman is left alone. All couched in that mother tone threa Legion, companies My Western mother ha» murmured: "Son!" Like those that colored my youthful dreams It's of me they talk, when she doffs her cloak, Which stirs the heart. who »Tiembers of the American Legion from every """Mers md a guard o£ fifty men from the So why am I called Unknown? Ere Ah, then, says they called me the Great Unknown. So why am. I called Unknown? That / have returned Unknown? state in the Union, according to the number of Amer::- army on the Rhine were present. .roops sent from those states. The Governors A brief bute was paid by General Duport of the states are to such ÍMoi the French and in the afternoon appoint representa¬ army, tives, and the Governors themselves will tak« to« r :f Chalons their respects as paid part in the ceremony. to body lay in state. It is planned to bring to Washington a! On ¡lowing day the body was taken accepted "in order that Britain may thus fit¬ sound over his For until nineteen Medal of Honor men, wai to where it started its final grave.
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