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 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 -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