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Show ItMefAds $&pe i - v r-7;.V-; "- v-'-v-'-; i f 1 4 fe,." (- :,; jt W ' .- o Above League oi Coast Guard Women placing a wreath before the monument erected In Arlington National Na-tional cemetery to the members of the United States Coast Guard who gave their lives during the World war. Below The cenotaph in Arlington National cemetery commemorating the 23 army chaplains of all faiths and creeds who lost their lives in the World war. - : s By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 7 HMOMAL day Is n day for . ileconitlnt' the graves of ivjt our warrior dead. Kstub-3 Kstub-3 l' Hslii'd originally in mpmory aVvf ' "lofe w'10 ll'st their &t m lives during the Civil war, TOW " llils ')ot'u ""i'o 'lie occn-sio" occn-sio" t0T 1'0c:,l""' those dlhers who died ill other 7 wars, and since 1U1S the day has had n deeper significance sig-nificance for more Americans than ever before. When we speak of our World war dead, we usually think of the soldiers, sailors anil niariues, the fighting men who gave their lives on the battleflelda of France or in the fathomless depths of the Atlantic. But there were others besides soldiers, sailors and murines who also served and died for their country, and It Is fitting that they, too, should be honored on Memorial day. The title of chaplain brings to the mind the picture of a man of peace rather than of a man of war. Vet, written in the annals of the great conflict con-flict of 1914 to 1018 is the record of more than one example of heroism In battle, of Indifference to danger and of unselfish devotion to duty by these "soldiers of the Cross." And In Arlington Ar-lington National cemetery stands a cenotaph which recalls the fuct that 23 chaplains of the United States army, men of all fulths and creeds, gave their lives for their country. On the bronze tablet afiixed to this stone marker are inscribed these names: Albert D. Bell. AurenusT.Howard. John G. Boone. Michael w. Keith. John G. Breden. John C. Kerr. Thomas M. Bulla. John F. McCarthy. Patrick P. Carey. Arthur H. Marsh. H. A. Choulnard. TimothyA.Murphy. YVilrlam B.Cornish. C. E. O'KIaherty. Walton S. Danker. Charles D. Priest. M'iHiam k Davitt. Wilbur S. Sewell. John A. Deaver. Daniel S. Smart. Harry Deiniau. Williamll.J.Willby. Herbert P. Doyle. Below the names is inscribed this epitaph for them : "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for bis frieuds" and "To you from failing bands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high." In Arlington also stands another memorial me-morial recalling the sacrifice of men who served in a branch of the United States service which Is too little known to most Americans. This is the stone obelisk, erected In 39'JS, In memory of the 192 officers and enlisted men of the "United States coast guard who lost their lives during the World war. The average American citizeu, perhaps, per-haps, thinks of the coast guard mainly main-ly in terms of its newspaper notoriety gained in chasing "rum runners," little realizing that its task of preventing the smuggling of contraband liquor Into In-to this country Is only one of the many services which it performs. For the coast guard has a record of 140 years of honorable service under Its proud motto of "Semper Paratus" (Always ready) in performing various duties. The coast guard was created by act of congress in 1915 which brought about a merger of the revenue cutter service, and the former life-saving' service. The revenue cutter sen-ice, to which the coast guard traces back, was established in 1790 during the second sec-ond session of the First congress upon the recommendation of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury. The Continental navy had been disbanded at the close of the Revolution and there was no organized armed force to protect the coasts of the new republic and to enforce the customs laws. In every war In which the United I States participated tie revenue cut- If ter service, ancestor of f.he coasi guard, performed brilliantly. During the War of 1S12 its vessels, assisted by small gunboats, protected our coastal coast-al trade from the ravages of the bos tile ships sent out by Great Britain, "the Mistress of the Seas," to harass our coast towns and our shipping. In the Civil war it had a part in both naval engagements and In blockade work. Thirteen revenue cutters co-operated with the navy and seven with the army during the Spanish-American war. One of these, the McCulloch, helped Dewey at the Battfe of Manila Bay and won special commendation from the admiral and another, the Hudson, took part In the action at Cardenas, Cuba. The officers and the crew of the Hudson were awarded medals by congress for their rescue work of the torpedoboat, Winslow, in this engagement. This fine tradition was carried on by the coast guard service during the World war. On April 11, 1917 President Pres-ident Wilson mobilized the coast guard and the lighthouse service under the command of the secretary of the navy for the express purpose of resisting the submarines, which it was virtually virtual-ly certain that Germany would send to attack our coast. How real that danger dan-ger was and the important part which the coast guard played In curbing the ravages of these deadly under-sea fighters was revealed for the first time two years ago when Little, Brown and company published William Bell Clark's book, "When U-Boats Came to America." In addition to operating in home waters, the boats of the coast guard sen-ice also served on the other side of the Atlantic. Six of its cruising cutters were sent abroad to join the naval forces in the war zone, principally princi-pally as ocean escorts working from England to Gibraltar. While engaged in this sen-ice, the Tampa was sunk by a submarine and 115 of the coast guard's 192 casualties were recorded as the result of that disaster. Chaplains, coast guardsmen they also served and died. But there is still awofhtr group whose sacrifices are too little known and whose mi.u-ory mi.u-ory should be honored on Memorial day. They are the 271 heroic women, members of the army nurse corps, who laid down their lives. Although none was killed in action, three were wounded wound-ed by enemy fire. Two lost their lives and one was serionsly wounded in an explosion in target practice on one of our transports at sea. A hundred more had a narrow escape from death when the transport on which they bad Just embarked had a collision in New ' 1'ork harbor which sent it to LLe bottom. bot-tom. But pneumonia and influenza caused the death of nearly ISO and overwork, exhaustion and poor living conditions accounted far the deaths of the remainder who gave their lives for their country just as truly as did any soldier who fell In the firing line. Three members of the army nurse corps received the American Distinguished Distin-guished Service cross. Here are their citations: Miss Helen G. McClelland, Base Hospital No. 10, for extraordinary extraor-dinary heroism in action while on duty with the surgical team at British Casualty Clearing Station No. 61, British Brit-ish area, France, August 17, 1917. She occupied the same tent with Miss Beatrice Maedonald, another reserve nurse, cared for her when wounded, stopped the hemorrhage from her wounds under fire caused by -bombs from German airplanes. Miss Mc- Clelland was horn in Austinhurgh, Ohio. Miss Maedonald, a New York girl, received the D. S. C. also. Her citation cita-tion reads, in part: "During a German night air raid she continued at her post of duty, caring for the sick and wounded until seriously wounded by a German bomb, thereby losing an eye." Miss Isabell Stambaugh, also on the staff of Base Hospital 10. a Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania girl, was seriously wounded while with a surgical team at a British Brit-ish casualty clearing station during the big German drive of March 21, 191S. not far from Amiens. Twenty-four women were given the Distinguished Service medal for exceptionally ex-ceptionally meritorious service to the, government in a place of responsibility. responsibil-ity. Here are their names and places of birth: Lillian Aubert, West Baton Rouge, La.; Cecelia A. Brenuan, Branchdale, Pa.; (Catherine Brown, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Sophy Mary Burns, St. Francis, Wis. ; Reba G. Cameron, Canada; Edna N. Coughlin, Kenosha, Wis. ; Alice H. Flash, Jefferson County, Coun-ty, Ga.; Annie V. Goodrich, New Brunswick, N. J.; Carrie L. Howard, Colusa, Calif. ; Grace E. Leonard, Newark. New-ark. N. J. ; Sayres L. Milliken. Browns ville. Pa.; Jane G. Malloy, Kingston, N. T. ; Edith A. Mary, Wadsworth, Nev. ; Adele S. Posten, Springdale. Ark.; Marie B. Rhodes, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Blanche S. Rulon, W'aretown, N. J. ; Lillian J. Ryan, Boyle, Ireland; Mary E. Sheehan, Truxton. N. 5 ; -Vena Shelton, Lexington, Ky. ; Catherine Cath-erine Sinnott, Middletown, Conn.; Julia C. Stimson, Worcester, Mass.; Ethel A. Sweet, Gesto, Ontario ; Dora E. Thompson, Cold Spring, N. Y. ; Mrs. Lynette L. Vandevort, La Salle, Ind. (a 1931. vefitcrn Niwppr Unloa.) |