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Show BEAVER PRESS " I in SACRED SHRINE OF AMERICAN DEVOTION ON MEMORIAL DAY ARLIN I il II l a Mr mi raw - - Virginia. There the first Memorial Day exercises were held on May 30, 1868, after Gen. John A. Logan, commander-in-chie- f of the Grand Army of the Republic, had issued his historic "Order No. 11," setting aside this day each year for honoring the Civil war dead. The principal speaker on this occasion was Gen. James A. Garfield, later president of the United States, and at that time was inaugurated the custom of honoring the Unknown Dead, as well as those whose names are known. For the principal ceremony at that first Memorial Day celebration was decorating with flags and flowers a monument that had been erected to the memory of 2,111 unidentified dead found on the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. There, in 1921, was entombed the Unknown Soldier of the World war, to give the nation its most precious shrine. And there, as a crowning glory, has been erected the magnificent amphitheater of classic design in which the President of the United States on each Memorial Day speaks to the nation and for the nation in paying tribute to its soldier dead. Truly this is hallowed ground and Arlington is a hallowed name. Rich In sentiment, Arlington Is also rich In tradition and in historic association. Its story goes hack to the year lOti!) when Sir William Kerkt'ley, royal governor of Virginia, "by authority of King Charles II, by the grace of Cod and by the discovery of John Cabot," granted to Robert Hawser, a sen captain. C,0(X acres of land. Including the present site of Arlington, for bringing settlers to Virginia, llowser Is said to have sold his grant the very same year to the Alexander family for six hogsheads of tobacco. But they do not seem to have taken advantage of what was obviously a good ba.galn unfil 17:5 when John and Gerald Alexander asserted title under the grant made (10 years previously and their title was sustained. On Christmas tiny of 1778 Gerald Alexander sold two tracts on the I'otoinac to a certain John I'arke Custis. One of these tracts, embracing 1,100 acres and Including thp present national cemetery, brought 11, (XH) pounds sterling In Virginia currency. John I'arke Custis was the son of Col. Panlel I'arke Custis who seventeen-year-olhad married Martha Pandrldgo, the reigning belle of Williamsburg, then the leading city In the Old Dominion. Daniel I'arke Custis died In the spring of 17."7, leaving besides his widow, and their two children, John Parko Custis and Martha I'arke Custis, an estate valued at more than .fl(K),(XK. d An Historic Marriage. A little more than a year later a young oliicer in the Virginia colonial troops, who had distinguished himself at l'.raddock's defeat, came the Widow Custis. His name was George Washington and he and Martha Dandrldge Custis were married on January G, 17."0. Washington grew passionately fond of his two and when Martha I'arke Custis died on June U), 177;!, at the age of seven. teen he was almost Meanwhile her brother, John I'arke Custis, had become deeply smitten with the charms of Miss Kleanor Calvert, sifond daughter of Benedict Calvert of Mount Airy, Md., a of Lord descendant Baltimore His marriage took place In February, 1771. At the beginning of the Revolution young Custis promptly offered his services to his country and as an aide to Washington he served with distinction down to the siege of Yorktown. There, however, he contracted camp fever and before took place be was the surr-nd- er forced to leave his pest. He was removed to the home of his uncle Colonel Bussett, m i;ith.im where heart-broken- he died on November fi. 1TM, leaving his young widow und four sma',1 children. This second blow v:is almost as great a one to Washington as the death of Martha I'arke Custis had been. lie Immediately adopted as Ills own the two younger children. Meaner I'arke Custis and George Washington I'arke Custis. who were taken to Mount Vernon and placed in the car of Mrs. Lund Washing- - president h&ssJJSpV'-(3 Iff ' V ': a ; fi time. difficult births stretched over The th ree May iliw 4' W; UV 1 Arlington House, Built by George Washington Parke Custis on His Estate, Now Arlington National Cemetery. go with his state when it left the ton, whose husband was managing ferried across the Potomac to atfesg Union, although it meant the sacrithe general's property at that place. tend the annual When permanent peace came and tivals which Custis held, since the fice of everything which he held Washington again took up his resi breeding of merino sheep was one dear. On April 22, 1801, Colonel and dence at Mount Vernon he and Mrs. of his hobbies. A barbecue was the Mrs. Lee left Arlington for RichenWashington assumed Intimate and reward of those who attended these mond, where he Immediately active care of the two children, who festivals and "an oration by Custis tered the military service, first of proved of much comfort to them In was the. penalty" at least, that Is Virginia and later of the Confedtheir declining years. the way one of his descendants put eracy. From the date of their deIt. parture Arlington was occupied only Why Named "Arlington" a he was one of the by servants and soon afterwards Although commanded In 17!Mi, whnt are now the Arling of Union force troops men of his wealthiest day, Custis ton lands were allotted by the court was often hard Colonel lleintzelinan took charge pressed for ready by to the legal representatives of John cash. On one occasion he asked the of it. I'arke Custis who had died Res- bank to defer payment of a note for First Burials tate. By the law of primogeniture $(;.") and in 1S.'U he to the applied the estate descended to Washing Bank of the United States for a After the first battle of Bull Run, ton's namesake, George Washing loan of 512,000 In order to finance McDowell's army entrenched itself ton Parke Custis. It was G. W. I on Arlington Heights; the mansion a trip to France. There he proposed Custis who named It Arlington, aft- to go to obtain from ail was occupied by officers, soldiers Lafayette er the Custis ancestral home In of his on its gnunds and Revolutionary war papers were encamped Northampton county on the eastern and his personal recollections of two strong forts were built there shore of Virginia. AftWashington for a book on "The for the defense of Washington. George Washington Parke Custis Private Memoirs of the Life and er the battles of the Wilderness, M. C. Meigs orhad an Interesting career. From the Character of Washington" which Quartermaster Gen. time he was six months old until Custis dered burial at Arlington for all to write. proposed the death of his grandmother, Marsoldiers dying In the military hospiBesides aspiring to be the biogratha Washington, on May 22, 1S02, tals In and around Washington. The pher of his adopted father, Custis official records of such burials bealso had ambitions as a painter, a with May 13, 1S04, so Arlington poet and a playwright As the lat- gin been a burial place of soldier has ter he wrote such productions as dead of a for nearly "Launch of Columbia, or "Our Blue When the bodies of the century. Jackets Forever," "National Dream unknown soldier dead, buried beof Pocahontas, of the First Settlers tween the Potomac and the Rappaof Virginia," and an operetta called In Arling"The Railroad." "Pocahontas" was hannock, were reinterred ton It brought the total of Civil In Charleston and Columbia, played war burials there to 10,000. S. C, and "The Railroad" was proAs for the process by which Arduced at the Old National theater in Washington and also ran for lington became a national cemetery, it came about in this way: In 1S02, seven nights In Baltimore. by act of congress, a property tax Writer of Melodrama was levied in all the states for the gx. "Pocahontas" was criticized as be- conduct of the war. This tax totaled ing too melodramatic and Custis S02 for the Arlington property, and. wrote to a friend: "Melodrama Is all since It wns unpaid, the property-wathe go now, and even in historical ordered sold on January 11, plays you must sprinkle show and 1SG4. The government was empowpageant and things to please the ered to bid the property In and to George Washington Parke Custis senses as well as the judgment. . . . use It for educational and military he was continually under her guid- The play is In London In the hands purposes. The price paid was . ance and Influence or under the In- of Washington Irving ami John struction of his famous adopted fa- Howard Payne, who will under their In 1S77 George Washington Custis aide auspices bring it out on the Lee brought suit in circuit court ther. Perhaps no other American boy London stage. If successful there, for the ejectment of persons living ever had better advantages offered why, I may be considered here as on the estate. The federal governhim than young Custis had In his something of a dramatist." ment had rented out parcels of land a As child he met the all of But if Custis never became known to small farmers, while on one corday. great men who had taken part In the as "something of a dramatist," he Is ner of the property a village of American devolution, and when remembered for many other reasons. nearly 1,000 persons had grown up. Washington became President he One of them Is the fact that it was I.ee won his case in the lower court, was taken with him to live In New In his mansion on June 30, 1S.11, that and In 1SS2 the Supreme court upYork and later to Philadelphia. In his only daughter, Mary Ann Ranheld the verdict. The government both places he frequently came In dolph Custis, was married to a then had made Itself a party to the contact with the builders of the re- young lieutenant In the engineers suit and following the handing public, as well as the most cultured and retired element with which the first President continually surrounded himself. lie was educated along the most practical lines In the best schools of his day, forming the foundation for his subsequent taste for art and literature, and equipping him as well for the speaker's platform, which he delighted In filling In after years. Following the death of his grandmother, he made his home for two 1 ! . i. , years with his sister, who had marv. . j ried MaJ. Lawrence Lewis. In 1S02, In anticipation of his own marriage i I r i to Mary Lee Fitzhugh he began building Arlington mansion, or I.ee mansion, as It later was called. To this house, designed after the Temple of Theseus In Athens. Greece, A he brought his sixteen-year-olbride in 1S01 and for the next half century the "Sage of Arlington," as he beu came known, was a leading .figure In the life of the national capital. There were few men of note whom he did not know und few men who did not know him. He was popular with the people of Washington for The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington whise entertainment he generously threw the grounds of his estate corps of the United States army. down of th ' Mi .rcine court decision. Ills name wus Robert IMward Lee it agreed to 1V i,, open. They were glad to take advanthe SUilUKHI . .. ... tage of his hospitality even though and through that marriage the name i.iiu ti.M.eii as n j his compromise, he was regarded as something of an of another famous, Virginia family "... ,v ,..,-,- , appropriate,! became linked with Arlington. eccentric character. and turned ,)V(,r j ,,,, The approaching storm of civil After the close f ,iie Civil Relics of the Washington war war greatly troubled the mind of the , , Arlington i,,,,,,., r Arlington house became the re- master of Arlington but he did n.it as It became lwimhin I.ec,.,,, of W pository of a large and Interesting live to see It break. He died on Oc- association wit), collection of relics of the Washing-ton- s tober 10, pc,7. ,,)t of the Lost r;IHe. r,.,,,.,,,,,.,, which were given to him by Custis had bequeathed the Arlinghis doting grandmother, or fell to ton House estate of I!00 acres to sorted mansion. ,,, " ' t lias tieen res:,,r,,, his lot In the final division of the his daughter and at her death to household good or which he pur- her eldest son, George Washington completely furnished orlgi,,:,, nirrutiire, or .f;i 't dul rechased from less affluent posses- Custis Lee. Colonel Lee obtaiti.il nro.liw.t o, I. ...a u inem atui sors. These Include, among other leave from the army to go to Arling''Otltl.,. rnry articles mi th:,t v s t i. ton to settle the Custis estate and takes one tilings the bed In which Washinghack to the da vs u he,, ,. ton died ami the tent widen had (luring his brief stay there brought "Sage of Ariington" ruied there sheltered him during the devoluorder out of the chaotic conditions the hand of his tion. The latter was often pitched Into which It had fallen In the last daughter marriage ,o tn nian on the Arlington lawn for the awed days of Custis' life. lined to become one of the admiration of residents of GeorgeIt was Rt Arlington that Lee town and Washington who were made bis momentous decision to captains of nil time. 6 W..orn sheep-sho-nrin- three-quarte- s $20,-S00- W PtU series r.t i. Prevented the archeV ing an entrance Into th a rope had bep first limestone trance, Hassan's f by laborer. A sh bl? . nrofessor kin,..u the intense heat m? , none Bttomrsf ue?1fe' 'H discovery of mummy of m.in... :M the daughter of rw. the pyramid near 5 days 4 and The babies' names are, or were. Jose .Tpsiis. Arthur nriHl.m.e j.,,,,,, dd Car. men, Maria del Carmen, Socorro del Carmen. Maria de Jesus and Juana llamona. Here areTU 5. if. Ik-- A of Nicaragua the statement that a very poor woman on the "distant shore of Lake Nicaragua has given birth to seven babies." The mother, Sinforosa Mrs. Martinez, had a ill h till tc< N Hassan. Sacasa officially 4 r""5 Chefron of been announced bv? Another Mild Bad Man How to Avoid Thought confirms vr The discoverTlT" Egyptian tomb, burial place 0 THIS WEEK IF UdXJISN Digs I Six Babies in Three Days World's Greatest Terror By ELMO SCOTT WATSON THERE is one place in the United States toward which, more than to any other, the hearts of Americans turn on Memorial Day, it is Arlington national cemetery in I The seventh name was not telegraphed, for there was no seventh, as it was expected there would be. Five of the sextnplets are already dead. Only one, a girl, lives. What would population of the earth be If such births were the rule and all lived? At the opening of the Catholic press exiiibition in Vatican City, Pope Pius, for the second time within two days, cautioned the world against communism, which he called "the great terror which threatens all the world." Baking R 'till This actual scotin? tBiptom mi. "HI . . . " " -- " v L A ob K GIRL. show pereci scores when tJ ... J D.Liaa runner saniui Ft If 1 enly For the comfort of those that live cutiritS. everywhere in dread of final Communistic world conquest, It may be said that thus far nothing opposed to human nature lias ever succeeded. By the arrest in California of Thomas II. Robinson, Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll, Mr. Hoover and his brought Into the shadow of the electric chair the last of the group of dangerous criminals that have recently been wandering about tlie country. This "bad man," like others recently gathered In. shook with fright when he found the gun point ed at him, made no effort to fight When the guns are pointed the wrong way, "bad men" often change to good, meek and scared men. KODAK FILMSK ana 8 prints made 25o coin: rmrltlitl each. Write us now forpecil(-fto;,malllnsr supplies. It's easy iohiUum UON PHOTO SERVICE, to 38, J MMLm. AMBITIOUS MEN will be selected for our new hsttDiuK; ate spa re time trainiDfrMminiaiil ana all services to tbose wbtMur SCHOECK DIESEL SALT LAKE'S Stamp collectors have held a celr ebration, grateful to Doctor for a new kind of stamp. How many ways man finds to keep busy and at the same time avoid think ing! Collecting queer things, stamps or tear Jugs ; playing bridge, working cross-worpuzzles, playing solitaire, rushing to the far corners of the world to spend money usually not earned; going to Africa to kill big game animals. Those are some substitutes for thinking and working constructively, the only occupation worthy of a human being. ALTOMJ TRAINING, 1 NEWEST Eck-ene- Onr lobby la dellghtf! cooled dorlne tie gunaaK Radio for Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Bai d l J 88swj 1" J HOTEL Temple Mrs. James C. Canipe of Clovis, New Mexico, as a girl was not able to finish high school, but that did not discourage her. She waited some years. Then she Joined the senior high school class with her son and daughter-in-law- , and will graduate with them this month, Squarf $l.SOioS3M Rates Th Hotrl Temple SruxH highly de.iral.l, ulatc. .uprrmrly thoroughly fora un,lor.tnd w'!,! why HIGHLY among the most brilliant scholars. Chancellor Hitler, who was never married, nevertheless tldnks marriage a good Idea. Young Nazis, In the public employ, have been told that unless they marry by the tim they are twenty-siyears old there s something the matter with their courage and will power." mam lo tpprttUfmif can 01 Bill ". 1 ERNEST C ROSSITOJ W WNU x RIDE THE OVERLAND n A syndicate is formed to seek the "buried gold bags of Alexander the Great," containing at least In yellow wealth. Alexander the Great's ghost might be surprised to hear about that. Alexander was too busy to collect gold, and not the kind of man to bury it In a hole. PACIFIC laicouraged by her father, a li school -ti Kiri walked onto the wing of a small plane, prepare,) a first para ''""e Jump m feet. The t perceived ,iat the parachute cord had been pulled prematurely; pulled her back into the cockpit In tune t save her from death. Without requiring encouragement Mrs. Harriet o. n,,,.,,,., eighty-sl'W the ocean on the ),,;,rs Ilindenburg return trip. Tell that t' your friend ,.,, t() ,,,,,,,, f"U.nle sulTrage "because women are imt brave like men." fr 1,-rf- w, . r,.f , i ' ""t S.,p,p t:n, The leu,.,,, ,(i, ov(r UMf) "I'Hsie's ,,;,, WWf gie that palace again, but ho has boxes cold bars with him and has to a safer, hetter climate. Ue civilized world, whatever Its i.tmnlo toward the slavedeallng alleged descendants of Unix , ;"-eof Sh,.K mM "'JV-','" M"ss"l"' Proclamation Mavery throughout Ethi-"'- . where slaves have been the c'd"f ensh producing product. King ., 'l Solo-,"'",.,,"- Fntrf .WNlt sjmiiratg in0. forvlcB. 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