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Show The program being Representative Sweet is entirely apart from the bonus measure. Mr. Sweet Includes the following: Enactment Into law of what la j known as Order 57, which permits bureau to rate men who are, have been, or shall be, inmates of or asylums during a continuous period of one year or more as totally and permanently disabled. To make provision that In no case shall the compensation of a .disabled ' man be reduced unless a physical ex- -' aminatlon shall have been made subsa--' quent to his last rating, nor until he shall have been given at least three months' notice, of the proposed reduction. To' provide that psychosis, neurosis, psychoneurosis, active tuberculosis, or chronic empyema developing within three years after separation from the service shall be considered to have been acquired while In the service. The present law limits the period to two years. To make more liberal provisions for the reinstatement of lapsed insurance policies, and for the Investment by the veterans bureau of Insurance premiums In' Interest-bearin- g obligations of the United States or In bonds of the federal farm loan bank. hoa-plta- addition to to consummate soldiers bonus legislation when congress reconvenes, additional legislation to promote the welfare of the World war veterans Is to be pressed. Representative Burton E. Sweet of Iowa, author of the law which centralized all soldier relief activities of the government In the veterans' bureau, is directing the program for further legislative relief. He has the cooperation of Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who worked with Sweet on the program of reliefs To date the government has appropriated $2,000,000,000 for care and training of the disabled ; has arranged for expenditure of more than $35,000,-00- 0 for construction of new hospitals, and created a separate veterans' bureau to supervise relief measures. WASHINGTON. In Jake Bargers Memory over Is Working O. K. TD EOOLLECTION of a fight a horse more than fifty years ago has just proved to be worth $50 a month for the rest of his life to Jacob Barger of Shawneetown, HI. Private Bargers case Is one of the most celebrated on the records of the pension bureau. It was pending for twenty years. Special examiners took more than 500 pages of testimony regarding his claim to a pension. They visited half a dozen states. Special bills providing for a pension for him were Introduced in seven or eight congresses. Representative Thomas IlliS. Williams of the Twenty-fourtnois district, in which Shawneetown is situated, finally got through a bill at QAkrrt's 4rFmnf the session just closed and President Hons. And If a man must fight for his country Harding signed It. ... it Is well lhat he fight best of all. The trouble arose from the fact at the that The tomb of the Unknown Yank although Barger served more Arlington theater attracts thousands who wish to than a year In the Union army, there - attest their adherence to all of which It Is the Is no record in the general's In one short year it has become a office either of his adjutant symbol. enlistment or disnational shrine, possibly an .International shrine. Some, of his former comrades The photograph reproduced herewith shows charge. recalled him. Others Tailed to readily RoInternational Crawford C. McCullough of the recollect him and some even asserted ta rlans placing a bronze wreath on the tomb. there was no such man In their outfit The full meaning of this homage to the Unknown Dead cannot be put Into words. But .President Harding, In his address at the burial last year, said some of the things that every good American feels : Mr. Secretary of War and ladles and gentle- men, we are met today to pay the Impersonal tribute. The name of him whose body lies before us took Sight with his Imperishable soul. We know not whence he came, but only that his death marks him with the everlasting glory of an American dying for his country. Todays ceremonies proclaim that the hero uuknown Is not unhonored. We gather him to the Nations breast,, within the shadow of the Capitol, of the towering shaft that hohors Washington, the great father, and of the exquisite monument OUGGESTED by the message of to Lincoln, the martyred savior. Here the inspiraPresident Harding calling for the tion of yesterday and the conscience .of today forobservance of Fire Prevention day, ever unite to make the Republic worthy of his the National Motorists' association death for flag And country. has been asked by the national park As we return this poor clay to its mother soil, service to transmit a message to the garlanded by love and covered with the decora- motorists of the country urging them with the governtions that only nations can bestow, I can sense to aid in of our people, of all peoples, that this ment at all times In Its efforts to prethe prayers v Armistice day shall mark the beginning of a new, vent fires in the national parks of the and lasting era of peace on earth, good will country, In that prayer. n To motorists possibly more than to among men. Let And other shrines In honor of the Unknown any other one class come exceptional Head' are being set up over the country. Ih, opportunities for service of this charstriking contrast to the surroundings in Arllng-- , acter, due to the fact that more than ten, that national cemetery where rest the bravest 70 per cent of the annual visitors of Americas brave, is a shrine In the. Mariposa make the trip In automobiles to these grove of Big Trees In Yosemite National park, playgrounds, which belong to all the . California, nt the other edge of the centinent. people, according to Cammerer, This Unknown Hero Tree, dedicated by the acting director of the national park American Legion, was old and great and stately service. It Is estimated that 1,200,000 before , the Declaration of Independence was persons have visited the parks this ' discovered America, year. This is an enormous increase signed, before Columbus before Christ was born. . It, with its companion trees, is the oldest and biggest living thing on earth. In the ordinary course of nature its span of life is another two thousand years. A fitting A SUPERSENSITIVE fused shell shrine ! The photograph reproduced shows Baron that will burst on contact with Rothschild of Brussels and Paris placing a wreath the cloth of an airplane wing, and a of laurel and Incense cedar. projectile that will pass that through 16 Inches of hardened steel T,lls us, 1, before exploding, are two of the wonsliould be perpetuated in durable monuments for ders of modern ordnance exhibited for the generations to come. members of the Army Ordnance assoThe war cost us much, but it also brought us a ciation, American Society of Mechanrenewed sense of nationality. Service under the ical Engineers and gociety of Automorace and traditive Engineers at the associations anFlag- - of men of tion drew them together as brothers in Americannual field day at Aberdeen proving ism. And it finished thq work of reuniting the grounds, Maryland. n The latest development in the North and South which was begun by the war. Attest the ceremonies at the ungun has a range of 26 miles. It veiling of the Grant memorial in Washington. A could be fired from the other side of of the Union leader unveiled Long island and make direct hits urn the splendid statue. West Point cadets and New York city. The gun would fire a Annapolis. midshipmen were much In evidence, projectile of more than a ton In side by side stood the commanders of the G. A. R. weight, which would go ten miles iuto and the Confederate Veterans. And General Carr, the air before coming down to- - the in the gray of the Lost Cause, caught up the Flag ground. Upon striking, this projectile of the reunited North and South and waved It could pass through 16 Inches of steel and then explode. This gun has been and cried so all could hear, He gave us this ! AmerBut he assured that every designed primarily for use In seacoast ican man and woman has one cpnnnon thought defenses against battleships. A similar gun, 14 Inches In diameter, on Armistice day. And Its the same thought that all real men and women have, though they come with gS length of 50 feet, has been mounted on a railway car for nse by from the ends of the earth, when they stand before that tomb' of the Unknown Dead In mobile armies. This gun has a range Arlington. It's this and It should he carved pn of 23 miles, firing a projectile weigh, that tomb: ing 1,560 pounds. You car. kill .them, hut you cant stop them ! Tills projectile would pass over the - "Carry- on, men, oh, carry on!" d The Briton cried. They held the lines? This Abbey grave Says, "Yes; they held and died." hard-presse- &2VT ; "They shall not pass! They shall not pass! The desperate Frenchman swore. And did they pass? This Trlomphe Arc Says "No! for evermore.. . Lets go! the eager Yankee said. And did he? Ask the Hun. Our answer is this nations shrine His grave In Arlington. . Three heroes lie, "deaths shining mark, In Theater, 'Abbey and Arc, With this to be of all men read: "IN HONOR OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD! . ; By JOHN ' J. D. S. DICKINSON SHERMAN PIRIT OF ARMISTICE DAT What Is it now? What is it to be? How will the coming generations the day. Is November 11 to be a day of national observance in America? Is it to be an Inter1 06-ser- national holiday? It is too soon to answer these questions. The World war is yet too close to us. Though the fourth .anniversary of November 11, 1918, is at hand, many war wounds are not yet healed; many war hatreds not yet assuaged. Yet the success of the Washington conference for the limitation of armaments gives hope for fhe Internationalism that does not destroy nationalism hope of the ages. ' Do you remember the splendid words of Presi-- . , dent' Harding with which he opened that conference?. Here are sonjf of them they are worth reading again and remembering: Gentlemen of the conference, the United States welcomes you with unselfish hands. We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquests. Content with what we have, we seek nothing which is another's. We only wish to do with you that finer, nobler thing which no nation can do alone. We wish to sit with you nt the table of international understanding and good will. I do not mean surrendered rights, or narrowed freedom, or denied aspirations or ignored national necessities. Our Republic would no more ask for these than it would give. No pride need he humbled, no nationality submerged, but I would haveNn mergence Of minds committing all of us to less preparation for war and more enjoyment of fortunate peace. I can speak officially only for bur United States. Our hundred millions frankly want less of armament and none of war. Wholly free from guile, sure in our own minds that w harbor no unworthy designs, we accredit the world with the same good intent. So J welcome you, not alone in good will and high purpose,, but with high ' faith. And the sight of Hughes and Balfour standing shoulder to shoulder at the conference strengthened the 'hope that America and Great Britain sire to stand for world peace. With the English-speakin- g nations standing together there can he ito second world war. Listen to Senator John Sharp Williams of Mis-years sissippi. about to retire after' twenty-eigh- t of service in congress, if you would know wliat of the English-speakin- g the standing-togethe- r . nations nienns to the. world: flie wa r proved that the age of chivalry has not that the gone, Burkes lament notwithstanding; average man is not ignorant of the truth of Robert E. Lee's injunction to his son: Duty is the These noblest word in the English language. things we found to be true of men from all over the world, but especially true of the men of the race. In they came, trooping, English-speakinthese sons of English mold, from Canada, from Australia and New South Africa, from far-of- f Zealand, from England, from Scotland lowland and highland In battle array from the stern mountains qnd sweet valleys of never conquered . g h Wales, from the States of this glorious American Republic, from all the islands of the sea, from wherever live the sons of the glorious race that speaks the language Shakespeare spake and thinks the thoughts that Milton thought, and dreams the dreams that Tennyson dreamt of this race which stands and has so long stood in the foremost tiles of time in , they came trooping to the rescue of ravished Belgium, of torn Serbia, of bleeding France, of expiring democracy, with eyes front and Gods unseen hand on their shoulders driving them forward in high emprize to do or to die. TJiey proved In the old land and In the new lands that those had cruelly . slandered them who had said their religion was the idolutrous worship of dollars, pounds, shillings, and pence. They demonstrated, on the contrary, that they had not changed in character, courage, heroism, or endurance from those of .their ancestors who demanded liberty at Runny-medor stood with the Black Prince at Ctecy and Ioitler3 or followed Richard of the lion heart, on the deserts of Syria and over the hills of Palestine, or summoned up their courage' with heroic Prince Hal at Harfleur and'Agincourt, or from those who fought and won religions liberty, with Drake and Howard as their ships met the hosts of the Spanish Armada and with the help of Gods winds sank it In. the North Sea, while their glorious queen, Great Elizabeth, hurled proud scorn at Philip and at Spain ; or from those who,., under Havelock, bearing the white mans burden. under the heat and glare of an East Indian sun,' entered Lucknow to the ninptlal strains of The Campbells are coming and saved its wounded men and famishing women and children ; from those who climbed with Wolfe the of Abraham and by his victory at Que. Heights bec completed the dedication of this continent to tlie English language, English literature, and English law, making it today the most priceless jewel I11 the crown of the races possession. These boys of ours proved themselves worthily descended front those who wrested our coasts and mountains and valleys from savage men and .vet more savage nature, and made of this continent the broadest domestic hearth on this earth, around which the sons and daughters of the race can now gather; worthily sprung from those who later at Lexington fired the shot which was heard around the World,' or with Washington starved and died and endured and prevailed at Valley Forge, or, finally with him at Yorktown carried jo iinat victory the cause of American and English civil and political liberty, inherited from their ancestors across the sea and reasserted by them here,, not only .for themselves, but sis is now dearly seen, for Englishmen in England Itself ami in every English colony; worthy of their fathers .who won witli Sherman and Grant or lost with Jackson and Lee, greatly falling with a falling state, and leaving fadeless names and uncouquered renown for themselves and their cause. Our boys, the descendants of all these your boys and mine proved the metal of their on the Somme, nt pastures at Chateau-Thlerry- ,' St. Mildel, and In the Argonne, and proved that they had in them the blood of all of. these, their glorious sires, and like them knew no count of self wift-- duty or country or liberty or justice or civilization called. Whut is now the spirit of Armistice day in America? This, at least, can be answered in part. Its outward and visible sign is honor to tlie Unknown Dead. This is of course a symbol for many tilings. Read into it tlie things you and yours did for vour country and you have at least a part of its 'meaning if you and yours did your best. The spirit of the day is In no small part a glorification of the Fighting Yank. But no Intelligent lover of peace need shrink from this. To be ready to fight for his country is the crowning touch of that service and sacrifice which is the foundation of society and the salvation of na- e. ... . J.J.CAXIt. - . -- Then the old soldier told the story of the fight between two members of the company over a horse. It was a terrific encounter, and Private Barger unfolded fhe story in such detail as only an eyewitness could have recalled. He even remembered the name of one of the combatants. The examiners made another round of the survivors. The story of the fight was confirmed, and when Representative Williams produced this evidence before the House committee on invalid pensions It convinced the members that Private Barger was telling the truth end was entitled to . a pension. Dont Bum Up a National Park Forest . - me-joi- A.-B- over previous years and mainly la due to motor travel, according to official statements. In his message to motorists Mr. Cammerer said: The very great number of motorists who will visit the parks In the fur ture should, and doubtless will, It, a patriotic duty to aid the government In every possible way in preventing fires In these preserves. Nowhere else, except possibly in the national forests. Is there such necessity for constant vigilance against tbs ooo-aide- fire evil. The government is doing all It cam to make these parks accessible tnd delightful for motorists and others. They come from every stats in tbs 0 Union, In the Yellowstone, of the visitors this year, 58,000 came In automobiles. These motor tourists should lead, therefore, in the education of their fellows as to the importance of observing safety regulations within the parks. Unfortunately, despite warning signs conspicuously posted, there are always some park visitors who will throw away a lighted match er cigarette or leave a camp fire unextinguished, and heavy losses and expense often result. One of the heaviest and eostllest fires in the Sequoia National park was caused by a camper failing to put out his camp fire before leaving the park. 98,-00- Uncle Sam Has Big Guns Up His Sleeve f'e 'ries widely-differin- 2,000-poun- d g , Spanish-America- - . 16-in- highest mountain In the world, in passing from the gun to the target. Upon striking the target It wmuld penetrate thirty or forty feet Iti the ground and then explode, making a crater 60 feet in diameter and 30 feet deep. To shoot thia projectile requires about 500 pounds of powder. d A bomb can be dropped from an airplana at a heightqpf 8,000 feet. It will take the bomb approxF-biatei23 seconds to come down. Upon hitting it will penetrate about forty feet before exploding, making a crater 50 feet In diameter. . ; A flotilla of such airplanes might be able to bomb the Wootworth building in New York city If It wero Inadequately protected with 2,000-poun- anti-aircra- ft guua. |