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Show I • ter • The Phantom Parade T HEY tell me that pink-cheeked aoldiera march 1 On Memorial day In the big l ' parade, In unlforma that are atlff with atarch, And with ahlnlng bu~ton and flaahlng blade, But I emile In a sort of auperlor way1 know who paradea today. I the bugle, frail and wildSOUNDS Frail aa the laat blue wlep of amoke That curia from the mouth of a gun defiled, To dance with the echoea the ehot awoke, And wild aa the acream of a welt of aoul Impaled on a phantom pole. ' • ly KLMO SCOTT WATSON 0 ONE knowa where be wu born. It may have been 1n Maine or In CallMinnesota might claim that honor, or Louisiana. But the name of the state doean't matter, after all. For he was an American. No one knowa In what outfit he Mned. It may hR''" hl't'n the Infantry, the eav.-.,. or the nrtllll'r:v. Or he m11y have WOnt the sliver wings of nvtnUoiL Bat tlte branch of the servlce deen't matter. He was a soldier-a 111hUnc maL :N'o eoe koowa where or how he died. It may htve been In Belleau Wood or at St. Kthlel, or somewhere on the Soame tltat he "got his." A hand arenade may haYe dealt him his death WOQDd during some trench raid or It may bave been a burst of shrapnel, or a bayonet thrust when the fighting was band-to-hand. But that doe11n't matter, either. The thing tOOt matters Ia that "he died fighting" and the tlag for wblcb be died was the Stal'!l and Stripes. No one knows his name. It may have been Smith, or O'Brien or Cohen or Schwartz or Smedjkl. Or Jt might haYe been Paul Two I..aBces-the name by which be was once known In the day school on some Indian rl'!;lervatlon out West. But his name and the :aatlonallty of his parents are not they rest In peace." Underneath Is a great vault of solid masonry, 80 thiD18 that matter. He now beara the proudest Dame that any man can teet deep and 200 feet 19uare, In which are stacked the humble pinebear. wood cofflns containing the bones of lt'a "'The Unkoown Soldier." the soldiers. Nor are these the only Five ~ars ago they brought his unknown dead In Arlington. It was bod7 back across the Atlantic and before this monument that the first on November 11, 1922, they placed It Corm&! Memorial Day exerclses-a.lIn a white marble tomb In a famous th<>ugh the day had not yet been thus eemetery near the nation's capital'>fflclally designated-wer e held OD a soldier home from the wars. Since May SO, 1868, u the result of the that time the great men of his owu famous General Ordera 'No. 1!, 1scountry have bowed their heads rev- sued '1Y Gen. John A. Logan, com. erently before his last resting place. mander of the G. A. R., calling tor To It Jtave come the great of other 'the strewing with 1lowers or otherIanda. A queen ot royal European wise decorating the graves of com· blOOd, princes, generals, admirals, radea who died In defense of their' 1tateamen, have laid their wreaths country." upon bla tomb. War In Its very nature Is a tragBut all of this homage Is as noth- edy, bu~ saddest of all things conlna co"'lpared to that which Is be- nected with war Is the tragedy of the Ing offered up In the hearts of au UDknown dead. For some soldiers Americans on May SO, 1927. For the war means moments vf exaltation In tomb ot the Unknown Soldier In Ar- the knowledge of a sacrifice worth Uagton cemetery Is a national shrine while, of heroism which will send his to which the thoughts of all Americans name ringing down the years and of are turulog on Memorial day tWs tender care of the poor shell of his year. It Is more than a symbol of body after the spirit bas fied. But to the 4,000 American soldiers killed In others It means privation, pain, the battle "over there" whose names and same exaltation, the same hel"'ism persooal hlstorlM were unknown. The but with It death, his name forgothonor paid to tht. one ot the 4,000, ten, and only a headstone marked lae whose Identity wm forever remain "Unknown" to show where this bft a m)'lltery, symbolizes more than a ot human wreckage was consigned Datlen's grateful remembrance of the to Mother Earth. thousands ef men wbo lost tnelr lives Conslder!Rg the vast armies which In tbe World war. It Is tke Incarna- the United States put Into the field tion of tbe spirit of Memorial day, a In the World war, there was a surday observed by a nation lr. w'lllch prisingly small number of unknown the word "united" In Its name has dead. Of approximately 40,000 Amera new significance, a nation pausing Icans killed In that conlllct only 4,1n gratetol remembrance of all the 000 were listed as "unknown" at the •14lers who gave their Hves In nil time the body of one of them, was the 'W1Irl In which their ceuutey ha.'l selected for the nation's highest hon~ver been engaged. And It Is here In 01'11 to be burled In Arlington as "The Arua.ton, where the UnknoWD Sol· UnJI:nov;n Soldier." Since that time d1er llleepa, that President Coolidge, persistent Investigation bas cut down u th• commander-in-ch ief of all the number until now the War deAmel'leaa IOidiers and tbe ftrst cltl- partment reports something over 1,HD of tbe land, wUI voice America's 600 still listed as unidentified. trlbate to her soldier dead on MeThe reason fer the smaUness of Dierlal da7 thl.s year. the list of unknoWD dead In this war The lrat memodal to the unknoWD lies In the simple little aluminum dead wu erected In Arlington In 1866. Identification tags which each man In It wu tile lmpreulve monument of the A. E. F. wore. Two of these tags, rough-bewa aranlte and poUshed each about the size of a silver half lllllrble (pk!tnred above) which hears dollar, were worn around the neck. the folloWlnl' lneerlptlon, "Beneath one suspended from the otber. On this atone tepose the bollea ot 2,111 each of these was stamped, In the unknown soldiers ptltered after the case ot an offlcer, his name, rank and war trom the 11eldll of Ball Run and regtment, corps or department, and the route to the R&PP&bllDBOCII:. Tllelr In the caee of tile enlisted man, his remains ceuld not he ldelltuled bat ume and serial number. rr the their names and deatlw are reeorded wearer was killed one tag was burled Ia the archives of their country ; and with him and the other was u~aally Ita grateful citizens hono.r them as of attached to the croea at the bead of their noble army of martyrs. May his grave. Whenever practicable a Cilicia Ranked High Clllda wu tbe JUUDe ot a maritime protbaee In t1ae eouthem part ot Asia Jlinor. It laJ betwee4 tho Medlter- IUleaD • • and Syria, aad through It f'UI the rreat blrhway trom S;vria to - . .-at. Tille pve Cfllcla great 'nwmemal tmpertaace- during I8Vel'81 1daeD tt ... part of ~ u 0 atreet, And the air grew thick with the muffled tread 1 Of a hoat of flickering, ahrouckd feet, And a column of ehadea floated overhead, Wan aa a ahaft from the paling moon At the death of an afternoon. AND the bra.... blared lntheatreet bel-, While an angel chorue welled Oft high, And burnlett.d eworda tlaahecl to a fro On the ground while gray ghoata lit the -ky . With the ftaah of a thouaand bannera j maned. Over gravea of a glorloua paat. 1 When you trade-in your used car for a new car, you are after all making a purchase, not a sale. You are simply ap·. plying your present car as a credit toward the purchase price of the new car. 2 Your used car bas only one fundam~ntal ~ basis of value; i.e., what the dealer who accepts it in trade can get for it in the used car market. 3 Your used car has seemingly different values because competitive dealers are bidding to sell you a new car. 4 The largest allowance is not neceesarily the best deal for you. Sometimes it is; sometimes it is not. 5 An excessive allowance may mean that • you are paying an excessive price for the new car in comparison with its real value.~ 6 First judge the merits of the new car in • comparison with its price, including all delivery and finance charges. Thm weigh any difference in allowance offered on your used car. GEN-ERAL MO TO RS ND from early morn till the aun wae low The thin, gray column filtered by, Untl! on a sweet, wild bugle blow It melted aa melta a reluctant algh. And my heart waa aahea that eomehow burned I1 With the glow of a light returned. A I I • cemetery was establlt~bea near eveQ I battlefield and each grave was marked THEY may tell me that plnk-cheekec ·~ car/or~ /)Urse and purjJose" with a tempo ..ary headboard glvtnr aoldlara march . the name, rank and name of the orCHBVROLBT ~ PONTIAC ~ OLDSMOBILB , OllLAND On Memorial day In the big parade ganlzatlon of the man burled there. In unlforma that ara atlfr with atarch BUICK ~ LASALLB , CADILLAC The company omcer was made responAnd with ahlnlng button and tlaah GMC TRUCKS , YBLLOW CABS AND COACHBS slble for this and be was requlr-M to lng blade. furnish the War department with a But I emile In a aort of auperlor wayFRIGIDAIRE-T N EUctrl& &/rltWt~ter sketch map of the gra~s. I ~now who paradee today! In contrast to the small number -B. A. Helmblnder, In the New York of unknown dead In the World war, 1 Tlmea. the record of the Civil war Is appall· 1 IN Gave Leuer Man His lng. There are eighty-three national Passenger-Is the train running cemeteries In this country where are Briel Hour ol Triumph late? buried 393,714 .Union soldiers. Of this 1 Porter--Yea, mum. I don't koow Great writera have bad "artistic connumber the graves of 153,414 are of any new arrangements.-L ondon science" to a degree that sometimes marked "Vnknown !" These totals InOpinion. caused them painful labors. In 1706. clude those who died In hospitals when Joseph Al\dl'lon, the En~llsh where ldE'ntltles would have been poet and essayist, was undersE'cretar;v easily estnbllsht'd. In the haste with of state he was gtven as a mntte~of which the country plunoged Into the omclal business the task of wrltfn~ to Civil war no system tor ldentlflcatlon Hanover that Queen Aane was dead. of the killed was adopted. After a batHe found It so difficult to express tle Pl'archin~ parties gathered up the himself satisfactorily tbat the lords of wounded and burled the dead In hnstthe regency were obliged to employ haarlem oil has been a worldlly dug pits., Since this work was Southwell, at that time one of the wide remedy for kidney, liver and usually done at night, these detach·• clerks. For hours Addison had bladder disorders, rheumatism, ments overlooked many ot the casnal-~ struggled In attempts to draft a suitties. Then the army marched awiiJ' lumbago and uric acid conditions. able message, but the h1st one seemed ll'nving thesE' bodiE'R to keep their · as Inadequate as the first, and In deSymbol of the Day lonf>ly "blvoun <" of the dead." spair he cast It after Its predecessors Arter the f'lvll war was over the Memorial day will ever remnln the Into the waste basket. federal g~ve~nment undertook ' the most tmcred of all our holidays. We Southwell stated the simple fact, as task of makln~~; a systematic search visit the last resting places of our CAr•SlJLF_S he was ordered, In the ordinary lantor the Union dead on many of the r near and dear loved ones, who In the guage of business, and It Is said,. he .Civil war battlefields. Hundreds of : peaceful avocation of life have quietly correct internal troubles, atlmulate vital then boasted of his superiority to Adskeletons were found but there wrur 1 slipped away from our sight, and In ora;ana. Three mea. All drua:giata. Insist dison In having readily done that no nuuk or tdentltlcatlon. It was 1 lo-ving memory we place our offering oo the ori&lnaJ genuine Go~ MEDAL. which .l_ddlson attempting to do had such "unknown dend" as these who / of ftowers on their low!y resting falled.-Kansas City Times. sleep beneath the memorial In Ar- places. We do not forget them In our Will Supply Home• • Ilngton. And they are only a few of busy working days, but on· Memorial By decree of the Italian government Then and Now the unknown there. In 1872 the War day we seem to come nearer to t.hem, one-third of the profits of the postal department marked 18,000 graves In 1 and the great peace Into which they administration. will be used In purThe traveler of a day gone by who 1 that cemetery with little marble ; have entered seeros to encompass 1 chasing and building houses for Its said he rode so fast he couldn't see headstones and ef this number 4.000 our hearts as we bridge the gap that employees and agents during the next the telegraph poles baa a son who bear the simple word "Unknown I" . baa come betwee11 us with our offer- 1 ten years. These houses will remain rides so fast that he tears them I I FOB OVER ZOO YEAR S l l I 'fhe Civil waslong not the on.e 1ling flowera. wblch addedwar to the roll only ot mls• Theyofare not Jest, they are not &'One, lng men, soldiers who gave their lives 'Tis only they have slipped away, f or t heir country and of whom no And put celestial garmelita on, To h•lP us keep Menforlal day. tr..ce now remains. Their last resting -Wisconsin Agriculturist places, unmarked, are scattered tar and wide over the United State-In 1 ~---------------,~ the West, where Indian bullet and I lance took their toll, as well as on 1 the battlefields of the South. llemorlal Da:v Is a daY for honoring their memory~ too, anli the tomb of the Unknown Soldier In Arlington, before which In spirit, at least, all Americans bow their beads In reverence on Memorial Day Is a monument to all American soldlera whG fought for the preservation of this "government of the peepie, for the people and by the pee. pie," even though all visible tracea of Its defendera has "perished trom the earth." l l_::th:::empir~opeir~tiy~oif~th~e=a=d~m~l~n~is~t~ra~t=lo:n:·~:;~d~o~wn::.~H§a;n;:o~v=e:r:H:e:r:a:ld=·=I='r:o:gr:e:s:si.l- 1 I Borglum . Memorial r.--------------- Clltcla wu Tarau8, wblcta was the birthplace ot St Paul. He wu, u be said, with pardonable pride In bls birthplace, a cltlsea ot ne mean city About 90 yeara before tlle missionary journeys of St Paul, Cicero, the famous Roman orator and politician, was appointed goyernor of Clllcla. and ot the adjacent Island of Cypi'UII. rarlly. Tbe tact that not all ef bt. parishioners have radlct.S did not keep Rev. Raymond Goaso, of the CouJ1'8gational church, trem delivering hie Sund11y eermon te bla fto<.it. The sermon tbat he had prepar..ct for de livery wftll breadcast thro~ thl' malla to memhera of h1s parish. Raorncelal Preacher Sbe-Do yoa mix much with so· clety? Be-Well, I lhoald 1ft)' so -I'm • dlveree la'tf)'er. 1feh t'he ad.f&Cili AD outbreak of ~~earlet tever at qt Pampbylla, ~· ancl Durham, Conn., made It advisable to fte prln~ cltJ • m.eooUnue ehurcll 18rvlcetl tempo- F A audden a whlaper cleared the things to unde rstan d abou t used car allowances • Two-toned and Stippled Effects now secured at email c:oat with Kiq WID Fmiah An lmportGitt Member The Gutzun Borglam Memorial to rhe Wars of A~ at Newark, N.J. ~tograph llbows tlle tront view, looking north. DJS'I1UBU'I'OR SALT LAICB GLASS & PAINT CO. SALT LAXB CITY. UTAH |