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Idaho. t$awr Mzem-r I GASOLINE N With Power t ft Most Deceptive Ao, the eye, the coun-Serj coun-Serj often deceive us; but f ot all the speech. t- 'SATISFACTION J Hmttif an, fat I i!J!ggMES. fait Lak.. Ut jl DBUGQst FOB Benefactor 1 t 5ft? e.parrow famlly i 1' a capable 1 Educing ; -ETchangeT f ?? -why ro; 15 r. $5.00 Liberally ? k t. walism was j-Bostrlbutioa Bright, 4, '.-MOW,-.-... iri7iiniiiiiiirr:j iL-'l St M Li s A NAhon's Shrine Note: The following article was written tor Memorial Day in 1929.. Because of the number of requeste for copies of It which the author has received. It Is herewith reprinted. 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ' B ENLISTED in one of the regl-Illi regl-Illi I menta of "expert riflemen" which St ( tfle Continental Congress raised In 11 I the backwoods of Pennsylvania, and one fine morning In June, 1775, he marched gaily away to help "throw Tommy Gage and his lobsterbacks out of Boston town." He followed Montgomery and Arnold to Quebec and he starved and froze amid the snows of Canada that dreadful winter. He was one of the tattered remnants of that tragic expedition which finally staggered back homeward from Its heroic but futile adventure. Then, wearing the Continental Buff and Blue, he fought under Washington at Trenton and at Princeton, and In the summer of 1777 he was one of the picked men who went with Dan'l Morgan, "the Old Wagoner," to help repel Bur-goyne's Bur-goyne's Invasion of New York. At Saratoga the bayonet thrust of a Eesslan grenadier struck him down. What If the historians of the future were to call this conflict, whose din was now sounding faintly In his ears, one of "the fifteen decisive battles of the world"? What comfort was It to him to know If he could have known that he had been one of the pawns In the Ufe-and-death game of nation-making? For he was conscious, con-scious, only of the, torture of thirst as his life-blood life-blood ebbed swiftly away until death came at last to still his pleading cry of "Water I Water I" and to ease his pain-racked body. A great monument now stands on this spot which once witnessed the f'pomp and circumstance circum-stance of war" the surrender of a British army. But, nearby, the smooth, green sod gives no sign that the soil beneath holds the dust of a young Pennsylvania backwoodsman who had died in defense of American liberty. Who was he? . Just an Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution I . . BEFORE the Ink was scarcely dry on the enlistment papers which made him a private In the First infantry of the United Unit-ed States regular army, another boy, who had never before been beyond the confines of the rock-strewn acres of his New England birthplace, birth-place, was on his way to the western frontier, there to serve in a lonely outpost called Fort Dearborn. Here, it was as though he were on another planet, so far as communication with the world he had known was concerned. But somehow "he managed to survive through the cold, desolate winters and the hot, fever-breeding summers amid the swamps along the Chicago river. The summer of 1812 came and with it the news that we must fight Old England again. More alarming still, there was the threat of an Indian outbreak, for the oratory of Tecumseh, the great Shawnee, had been heard among the wild tribesmen throughout the Mississippi valley. val-ley. Then a courier, speeding along the wilderness wilder-ness trail from Detroit, brought orders to evacuate Fort Dearborn. ' ' " . One hot August day the retreat began. Southward South-ward along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, Capt Nathan Heald led his little army, all. too few In numbers for Its precarious task of safe convoy for the wagons where rode the women and children of the garrison. From out of the sandhills swooped the firece Pottawatomles. A short, desperate fight and the Fort Dearborn massacre was history. That night there was a hellish orgy in the Indian camp and the pitying stars looked down upon a writhing figure at the stake. What if this was one of the acts In the mighty drama called "the Winning of the West"? What if the future was to see one of the world's greatest cities rise on these sandy shores? Could that knowledge have been recompense for the fiery agony of this New England lad above whose unmarked grave the hurrying feet of Chicago's millions beat an endless requiem today? Who was he? An Unknown Soldier of the War of 1S12I a ""THOUGH some of his neighbors denounced Iit as "an unholy war" Into whlcb tresi dent James K. Polk was leading the na Kon, a boy on a middle western farm was one of Hi flrRt to rpsnond when on May lJ, the President called tor 50,000 rolunteers to drive the Mexican forces back across the Rio Grande. Ko h urn 9 mmnnr those who landed wltn "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott at Vera Crus and started toward the City of Mexico. To his parents back In Ohio came cheertui leners from the boy. telline of the rapid succession of victories won by the American army, assuring assur-ing them that the war was almost OTer and - - ' " Soldiers vlj;pi- 1 Monument totheUhkncwh- Civil war. dead He wrote such a letter the night before Scott's men stormed Chapultepec. After that his mother watched eagerly for the return of his father from the dally trip to the village store where he went to get the mail But every time the father shook his head sadly. Today in the environs of the City of Mexico there Is a little cemetery in which stands a small granite shaft bearing these words: "To the memory of the American soldiers who perished per-ished In this valley in 1847, whose bones', collected col-lected by the country's orders, are here buried 750." And so this Unknown Soldier of the Mexican war sleens among the seven hundred and fifty, far from his native land where flows "the Beau tiful Ohio." FORT SUMTER had been fired upon. In the North a mighty chorus was swelling from thousands of young American throats : "We Are Coming, Father Abraham" In the South the rollicking strains of "Dixie" were firing thousands of other young Americans to an almost al-most religious ecstasy. In the Upper Shenandoah valley of Virginia, a father was bidding goodby to his two sons. "Pray God, you two never meet in battle I" be -Said. .. . For one rode nortn to wear tne teaerai im under General Patterson. And the other rode south td become a member of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson's "Stonewall Brigade." Whether or not his prayer was answered, the father never knew. He never saw them again. Perhaps in some Valhalla two warrior spirits reminisce of Chancellorsvllle and Antietam, of Manassas and of Malvern HilL But there is no bitterness now In their tones as they call each other -Yank" and -Johnny Reb." The crumbling dust which once housed these spirits rests under a great monument of rough-hewn rough-hewn granite and polished marble In Arlington Arling-ton cemetery near Washington. On this monument monu-ment Is an inscription which reads: ..Tootj, thta atone reoose the bones or i.ui unknown soldiers gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run and the route; th"P-pahannock. th"P-pahannock. Their remains could not be MenU-K MenU-K - ta Aantha r recorded In fiea nut weir bui ... thPtr country and Its grateful niB nxtuncw - 9 citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace 19 ft ft m wit! fh- imrlmr of 1S98. A Colorado mlrer, I coming off the night shift, Joined a group 1 of his fellows gathered about one who held . ... v Am m rvanvar newmaner. One loos ai in JUS auu m ' . . ,t- vAiino nid th story : ' ar the screaming umuu -With Spain."- A month later he was on an army transport that steamed through the Golden Gate into the broad Pacific. The next year he was one of detachment which set out from a little Philip pine village In pursuit of a party of Moro raiders. There was a deathlike hush as they pushed on through the steaming heat of the Jungle. A moment later Its stillness was shattered by the sounds of men engaged In furious hand-to-hand combat bayonet against bolo a swarm of little brown men clawing at a group of swearing, desperately-struggling khaki-clad figures and at last bearing them down to earth by sheer force of numbers. A few months later, back in the Colorado mining camp which clung precariously to the rocky slope of the mountain, a band was play ing incessantly "There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight." For the troop of "our boys" was home from the wars. But out In the province of Sulu a rusted Krag- Jorgensen rifle and a webbed cartridge belt, al ready nearly hidden by the lush Jungle vegeta tion, marked the last resting place of one who didn't come home an Unknown Soldier of "03- 09. ft ft ft X TOVEMBER 11, 1922. In Arlington cerae- XI tery a great throng stood with bared A- w heads as a bugler blew Taps" over a new white marble tomb in which had been placed the body of a dead warrior. Who was he? No one can say. For bis la the eternal mys tery. The lettering on his tomb betrays no word of his Identity. It says simply: "llere rests in honored glory an American soldier known but :o God." He Is "The Unknown Soldier" of the World war. He Is the man "whom we have exalted out of humanity into sainthood." . Since that day ten years ago when they en shrined his dust In marble at Arlington and his spirit in the heart of America, men and women of every station in life have bowed their heads reverently In the presence of his last resting place. To it have come the great of other countries the queen of a European royal house, princes, field marshals, lord admirals, states men. None has been too great to pay him bom age. ' Orators and poets have tried In all-too-inade quate words to pay fitting tribute to his mem ory. Eut the only real trioute to him is tne un voiced one in the hearts of his fellow-Americans. To them be has given Memorial day a new meaning. For on that day their thoughts turn to bis tomb as the shrine upon which Is offered America's tribute to her soldier dead, and more especially to the Unknown Soldiers of all her wars. We cannot decorate their graves In accord ance with the Memorial day custom, for they are scattered far and wide over the face of the globe. Some of them fell before Indian bullet bul-let and lance on the wind-swept plains of the Great West. Some of them died In China, in Cuba, In the Philippines, In Mexico. Some of them -went west" on the battlefields of France and Belgium. So In alien soil they keep their lonely "bivouac "bivou-ac of the dead," and while we cannot pay them the same honors en Memorial day that we do to the others who gave their lives for their country, coun-try, we can offer up to them our tribute of gratitude by remembering on that day what they did even though we do not know who they were. by Watora Kwp.pr Cnioa.) MUCH OF INTEREST 1 IN MEXICAN r llNLo Among Them Reconstruction of America's Past. The discovery of an extraordi narily rich Mlxtecan tomb at Oaxaca should be an exciting event for Americans, Amer-icans, lu recent years a consider able amount of research has been done in Mexico and has resulted in extensive additions to our knowledge of the various preconquest civilizations. civiliza-tions. These researches have impressed im-pressed both Mexicans and Americans Ameri-cans with the dignity of the purely American tradition. Mayan, Toltec and Aztec art has come to possess a greater appeal than that of "the primitive" and with the new and live ly appreciation of modern Mexico (whose modernity, Indeed, has Its roots fixed so deeply In the rich and ancient soli) has awakened a more than merely archeologlcal Interest In all "finds" south of the Rio Grande. The more that is unearthed about these early peoples the more linpos Ins does their history appear. For they seem to have been greatly gift ed not only In such arts and crafts as metal working, stone carving, pot tery; textiles, etc., but In architec ture and even lu rather savage forms of political organization and social life. Even the religion of the Aztecs, Az-tecs, w hile spoken of by some writ ers as revolting, bas seemed to oth ers to be singularly Impressive. The Mlxtecan Indians are ranked as member of the Zapotec group and the Mlxtecan ruins at Monte Alban have attracted the attention of stu dents for some time. This latest discovery, dis-covery, the result of labors made possible by private contributions, and especially by funds given by the late Dwlght Morrow, when fully studied may take place among the most important In late times. The objects found In the tomb are of a late date the Fifteenth century, Just before the Spanish conquest, but in that respect they perhaps represent repre-sent the summation of a number of cultural strains and exhibit the successive suc-cessive contributions of the various masters of ancient Mexico. While their primary appeal will be to specialists they will unquestionably unquestion-ably have some meaning for laymen. As time passes the reconstruction ot the American past and the reclaiming reclaim-ing of the American heritage become more and more a significant work. The secrets of both of these things are to be found, If anywhere, in the relics of the Indians of Mexico and Central America -The more that comes to light about them and Is presented pre-sented for scholarly scrutiny and synthesis the greater the opportunity of eventually piecing together the full meaning of one of the most Important Im-portant aspects of our heritage, Baltimore Sun. . Hindu Trcaaur Ruby 1 The ruby, July's blrthstone, Is called so by the Hindus, who value It more than any other precious stone, the "Gem of Gems." Of a glowing hue suggesting an "inextinguishable "inex-tinguishable flame," it is held to be the emblem of true love and to bestow health, wealth, wisdom and happiness. Gas Logic , Heckling Alwayo ia Order The practice of interrupting Bpeakers with pertinent or Impertinent Imperti-nent questions probably has been going on since the first political speech, and the date of that is not of record. The word "heckle" was first used in connection, it Is be lieved, in the Loutlon, publication runch. In 1SS0. ' On Uae for Youngsters A large baking house ruined a batch of 400 dozen cookies because the batter-mixer put In salt by mistake mis-take for sugar. That's what comes of not having some youngsters around to lick the batter oft tha mixing spoons. Cleveland Press. Roman Paving The Applan way was paved with hexagonal blocks of lava, exactly fitted to one another, restlnjr on a substructure of considerable depth. There may still be seen important remains which prove Its excellent workmanship. , Not an Actual Rica Wild rice is not a true rice. The grains are longer and less rounded round-ed than those of true rice and the husk is Bomewhat darker In color. Wild rice is usually served as & vegetable, especially with game. Responsibilities "A mnn In your position," said the lady with a notebook, "Has to be both a politician and a statesman." "Frequently," assented Senator Sorghum. "And there are times when he must forget that he is either, and proceed to be a plain patriot." If love Is blind how can there be love at first sight. Salt Lake City's Tbwett Hotel T 1 mmm 1 4 M 3!rt!.::i ra :::: -?-.'," 'Ufa OTE TEfffPL SQUA 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Radio connection in every room. RATES FROM jfl.30 Juit oppsti'.t Mormon TabtnwcU ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. 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