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By ELMO (Released SCOTT WATSON by Western A world aflame with war, the thoughts of Americans on Armistice Day, 1940, inevitably turn to that November day 22 years ago when Wo rid War I ended. In Arlington national cemetery near Washington stands the symbol of our participation in that conflict-the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. One of our greatest patriotic shrines, it is not only a memorial to those whose graves in foreign soil are marked ‘"‘Unknown,"' but in a larger sense it is also a monument to the 50,000 who gave their ® lives in that earlier fight against the threat of dictatorial power. Among them were a few who, unknowingly, erected memorials to themselves which seem destined to be as enduring as the white marble of the tomb in Arlington. For they were the soldier poets who, before a bullet or shell fragment wrote ‘‘Finis'' to their careers, composed some bit of deathless verse which is now and always will be associated with their names. In 19386, when Frederic W. Ziv compiled an anthology of poems by poets who were killed in 1914 to 1918, his book, ‘‘The Valiant Muse,'' contained the work of 59 young Englishmen and Americans. All of these 59 are known to a few poetry-lovers; perhaps half of them are familiar names to students of literature; but to the English-speaking world generally four of their names have become as familiar as the names of famous bards who sang in earlier and more peaceful times: They are two Americans, Alan Seeger and Joyce Kilmer, an Englishman, Rupert Brooke, and a Canadian, John McCrae. Although each of the four wrote considerable verse, in each case there is one poem which is inevitably and invariably associated with the name of its author. To think of Alan Seeger is to think of ‘‘I Have a Rendezvous With Death,"' which was prophetic of the fate of the poet if not of the fate of the poem. Seeger was a young Harvard graduate who was studying in Paris at the outbreak of the war in 1914 and who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. Wounded in action, he was recuperating in a French hospital when he wrote the poem which made him famous. It was It may be he shall take my hand And lead me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breath; It may be I shall pass him still I have a rendezvous with death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When spring comes round again this year And the first meadow flowers appear. God knows ‘twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath. Where hushed awakenings are dear. But I've a rendezvous with death At midnight in some flaming town, When spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word and true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. IDAHO Largest and finest hotel in Idaho. Two hundred beautifully appointed rooms. Only fireproof cated hotel in heart ernmental and in Boise. Lo- of civic, govbusiness dis- trict. EXCELLENT FOOD MODERATE RATES MANAGEMENT OF VIRGIL G. MC GEE Union.) f I have a rendezvous with death At some disputed barricade, When spring comes round with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air. I have a rendezvous with death eu re brings back blue days and air. BOISE, Newspaper Back in service again, in 1916, Seeger was invited to write a poem and read it at the Memorial day ceremony in Paris which had been arranged for the American volunteers who had died for France. Seeger worked feverishly to finish the poem in time. Memorial day came but it brought no word to Seeger that his application for leave of absence to go to Paris for the ceremony had been granted. Later it was learned that a careless clerk had confused Memorial day with the other American patriotic holiday of Independence day and had obtained the leave of absence for that date. But Seeger was not destined to enjoy his leave on Independence day, for he had a "rendezvous with death" which he could not fail to keep. On July 4, 1916, there was a burst of German machine gun fire at Belloy-en-Santerre and "A one of the men who went down in the hail of death was the young soldier-poet. ; There is a touch of pathos in the fact that Alan Seeger will keep his rendezvous with death for all eternity in an unmarked grave. Several months later his regiment returned to Belloy-enSanterre to find that the entire landscape had been so changed by bombardment that not even the "‘scarred slope of battered hill'? where he died could be recognized and all efforts since then to identify the site of his burial place have been unsuccessful. Like Seeger, Rupert Brooke wrote a poem that was prophetic of his death and that contributed most to his fame. Those who BALLAD OF BARDS AND ACES. wonder in what star-flowered nook Young Alan Seeger sings his song- In what Elysium Rupert Brooke Breathes forth his music all day long. For from a world that fights with ron Does Byron dream of Freedom's sway, And Keats and Shelley join the throng; Where sings each bard of yesterday? I Say, where does brave Resnati soar Above the haunts of earthly men; Or where, beyond the cannon's roar, Great Guynemer rides forth again? Does Lufbery sweep some heavenly glen Like Phaeton of ancient day, And Vernon Castle meet them then; Where flies each ace of yesterday? -John M. McGough in the New York Times. knew this young Englishman remember that, so striking was his physical appearance and_ so buoyant were his spirits, it was "like a wind from heaven'' when he entered a room. Harriet Monroe called him ‘‘the lyric Apollo"' and his brother-poet, William Butler Yeats, said he was ‘‘the miost beautiful young man in England." But the world remembers him as the writer of this exquisite sonnet: THE SOLDIER Tf I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign eld is forever England. There shall be that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust which England bore, shaped, made aware; Gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. That In And A think, this heart, all evil shed away, pulse in the eternal mind no less, Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds, dreams happy as her day; And laughter learnt of friends, and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English haven. Out of the horror of the Battle of Ypres came. another poem which has made the name of its author famous. He was Lieut.: Col. John McCrae, commander of the medical department of Canadian Hospital No. 3, a McGill university unit. Innumerable times during the 16 days of that battle McCrae watched the burial of the dead and saw the white crosses erected over their graves. Then in the spring he saw the poppies trying to cover the tortured earth with their scarlet glory and he wrote IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place. The larks, still Unheard amid While in the sky bravely Singing, the guns below. fly, We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow, Loved and were loved-but, now, we lie fields! In Flanders Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you, from falling hands, we throw The torch-Be yours to bear it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though . In Flanders fields. &h poppies blow McCrae's poem was translated into every language spoken by the Allied forces. It became a symbol of the determination to ‘carry on'' and before its author's death in January, 1918, this Canadian soldier's neighbors, the Americans, as well as thousands of his fellow-Canadians and other citizens of the British empire had heeded his injunction to ‘‘take up our fight.'"" McCrae was stricken with pneumonia at his post of duty and died in a hospital in Boulogne. He was buried in the cemetery at Wimereux, on a sunny slope, facing the sunset and the sea, where red poppies grow among the white crosses, one of which marks the last resting place of John McCrae. The second American soldierpoet who died in France and whose name is best remembered because of one ‘poem was Joyce Kilmer. It is a curious fact, however, that it was written before he became a soldier and it was not a war poem. A graduate from Columbia university in 1908, Kilmer held various journalistic jobs before joining the staff of the New York Times in 1913. In that year Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse printed the poem which was to make Kilmer famous. It was TREES I think that I shall never A poem lovely as a tree; see A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A A tree nest that may of robins in summer wear in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Kilmer was paid $7 for this poem-a few years ago the manuscript of it was sold for $600. At the outbreak of the World war Kilmer was more sympathetic to the German side than that of the Allies because the former was more unpopular in this country. But he quickly changed after the sinking of the Lusitania and he wrote a poem about this event which was widely reprinted in both America and Europe. Called "The White Ships and the Red," it portrayed the arrival of a new ship among the ghostly hulks of the thousands of vessels that lie on the floor of the sea-only this ship, the Lusitania, was not white but red with blood. Joining the legion of the the Lusitania declares: lost, My wrong cries out for vengeance, The blow that sent me here Was aimed in hell. My dying scream Has reached Jehovah's ear. Not all the seven oceans Shall wash away that stain: Upon a brow that wears a crown I am the brand of Cain. Soon war, after Kilmer, and the enlisted America entered although the married father of three children, in a famous New York regiment-the "Fighting Sixtyninth." He became a sergeant and although he had opportunities for promotion, he turned them down because they would have involved leaving: his regiment for training elsewhere. ‘‘I'd rather be a sergeant in the Sixty-ninth than a lieutenant in any other regiment in the world,'' he wrote a friend. And it was as a sergeant in the Sixty-ninth that he died-on July 30, 1918, during the five-days' fighting for the heights near the Ourcq river. He had volunteered his services to the major of the battalion leading the advance because his own battalion was not in the lead. Having discovered a German machine gun nest in the woods ahead, he was sent with a patrol to determine its exact location. Two hours later, when the rest of the battalion aqdvanced into the woods, they found Kilmer lying, bent over a ridge, as if still scouting. When they turned him over they found that he was dead. He was buried near the spot where he fell beside his lieutenant who was also killed. Week) Act of Hayden-Cartwright June 18, 1934 ‘which provided for of all maximum elimination (1) cost per mile restrictions of formof all elimination (2) acts, er former restrictions upon improvethe ments within municipalities. Under the first amendment Utah's maxiaid, of Federal proportion mum is ap76.42 percent, (1940) now highways, but all per and mile, the under possible to with expeditiously ment of State roads second it its inception adminis-. has limiting total (4) tions, in 1930. An act of 1925 pro-| vided that in computing Indian lands public should domain on said forest, by the system Indian included area, The act of May 21, that the system of highways on which may be expended seven percent of the mileage be | 1928, provided Federal aid Federal funds' could exceed total highway mileage of within or other roads' national Federal re-} servations. There are approximately 150 miles of Federal highways in such reservations in Utah Since this date the most extensive changes in administration of reg‘ar Federal aid were accomplished yo Steel Die Engraved Car DeLuxe Box Assortments: 4 upo * ation wffic Designed and Styled by Mal BURGOYNE tinue . 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It was provided that reUtah in each calendar year. Pro-| payment of this advance, in the jects were limited to roads on form of deduction from regular which the mails were carried, and| Federal aid, should be made in five payments to fifty percent of cost! equal installments beginning in but not to exceed $10,000 per mile 1933. of construction, exclusive of bridges| A similar advance was made in over 20-foot span. Projects in the amount of $120,000,000 in 1938 cities of over 2,500 population could due to the continuance and severnot be approved for participation ity of the depression to be repaid in costs. This original act did not in ten installments beginning in provide for a correlated federal 1938, but by the provisions of the aid system of roads. The limita- Hayden-Cartwright Act of 1934, tion of participation to $10,000 per these repayment provisions were mile was revised by the act of revoked as to both emergency ap1919 to $20,000 per mile, that is to propriations, making them direct 50 percent of projects costing not grants to the States, except as to to exceed $40,000 per mile exclu- the repayment made in 1933, which sive of bridges-over 20-foot span. cost Utah $185,141.72, as indicated Of more important aid to the Westin the table by the reduced apern States were the provisions of portionment for that year, : the Federal Highway Act of 1921, | The National Recovery Act of which, while retaining the $40,000 per mile maximum, increased the 1933, in further aid to the States, percentage of participation in the appropriated $400,000,000 for highconstruction. These funds Public Domain States (States hay- Way could be used up to 100 percent of ing more than 5 percent of area in including preliminary unappropriated public land- by one- costs, engineering. Aportionment to each half of the proportion which such State was made seven-eighths in public land bore to the total area accordance with the Federal Highof the State. Thus, in Utah, where the public domain equals approxi- way Act and one-eight on basis of The apportionment to mately one-half of the State's area, population. each State was to be expended onethe ratio of federal participation half of the total on the Federal aid was raised to about three-fourths of cost within the $40,000 per mile System roads outside of municipalities, not less than twenty-five perlimit. A further notable change cent on extensions of these roads in the act of 1921 was the establishmunicipalities ment of a Federal aid system of through and not more than twenty-five percent on highways, forming a connected secondary or feeder roads on System throughout ‘the the United State system. States and upon which the Federal Provision was made for use of a portion of these funds funds were to be expended. This on landscaping was known as the Seven Percent or roadside improvement projects and System, as the maximum this has mileage since become thereon in each State was limited a standard requirement. This law and the regulations to such percentage of the total issued thereunder, and also those road mileage. In Utah all roads were computed in 1921 as compris- im connection with subsequent em| ergency appropriations, strictly ing 24,057 miles and the Federal regs roads, therefore, as 1684 miles. | ulated hours and Wages with the design of providing a wide Provision was made for labor succes| base and limited the use sive increments to the of malimiting | chinery on all projects constr mileage as the Federal ucted Toads | reached completion to the required with such funds. % * cities. Since al Quality in all the States. This method of ap-| portionment of regular aid has con-| tinued without change to the present time, due allowance being made periodically for variations that may occur in the proportions of road mileage and population. See Table D following for total appropriations and consequent ap-' the ; more improve- the and bridges SEND Greeting Cards Distinction proceed became tered through the highway departments of the States. Both regular aid and special aids are alike in that their aim and purpose is for highway improvement, never for maintenance, and payment to the ement States is made as a reimburs for work performed upon a predetermined percentage of the costs incurred, upon predetermined Fed-, eral approval of the location, ex: | tent and character of the work to) standard. In 1922 THIS YEAR plicable regardless of project cost, which sometimes exceeds $100,000 of regular Federal aid to the States varying in authorized been for each fiscal year, examounts cept as shown on Table D, during the years 1934 and 1935, due to the large appropriations of special aids during those years. enpermiting laws the Under largment of the Federal aid mileage one percent increments (using the official 24,057 total road mileage as a basis) were authorized successively in April, 1935 and November, 1936. the addibe done, and finally upon subse-| tional allowance ofWith 150 miles, on quent Federal approval of the, account of extensions through Fedconformity of the work done to eral reservations, the limiting milethe approved plans and specifica, | age becomes 2315.88, of which tions therefor. Federal payments 2288.96 miles have been designated, need not await final completion of a project but may be made from See Table G, time to time, following the State's Special Aid monthly payments to its contracThe first Congressional enacttors. Costs of rights of way are ment for special aid, an amendment never eligible for reimbursement, in 1930 to the Federal Highway Act, nor are the State's costs for surprovided for the use of special apveys and plans except for certain propriations to Public Domain special aids hereinafter described. States, on any main road through Regular Aid public lands, Indian lands, or other The first Federal law appropriat- Federal reservations other than the No contribution ing funds to the States for highway | National Forests. in project costs on the part of the construction was the Federal-aid State is necessary. The ratio of Road Act of 1916. A total of $75,-) 000,000 was appropriated, over a, apportionment to each such State is its proportion of such lands to period of five fiscal years, and sub-| sequently increased to $275,000,000. the total thereof in all the States The apportionment to each State) eligible for participation under the was one-third on basis of popula- amendment. This appropriation has been made for nearly every subtion, one-third on basis of area, and sequent fiscal' year, usually in the one-third on basis of miles of roads amount of $2,500,000 with Utah's with respect to the ratio of these separate factors in each State to share about $255,000. State ed pleat at each corner of the skirt also give a professional touch. I suggest tacking the slip cover firmly in place as shown in the sketch. If down or feathers are used to fill the separate cushion, make an inner cushion of ticking with a top and a bottom piece the size of the box top; and a straight threeinch piece around the sides. If kapok is used for filling, this inner cushion may be made of muslin. The cover of the separate cushion has corded seams to match the box slip cover. i Last in The second classification consists the to reimburse used of funds confor commission road State under d performe work struction Federal the with agreements Works Agency, through the Public Roads Administration. This second classification, which is the subject of this discussion, is also of two sorts, "regular" and "special' Federal aid; "regular" in the sense and ment establish initial of the historically long continuance of the principle of Federal aid to the States on a designated system of Federal aid highways within the State highway system; and "special" within the meaning of transitory or emergency Federal aid or aid for particular purpose, all of comparatively recent derivation, and not confined, necessarily to the Federal aid highways or even to Sw little feet made from Engineer a& The (Continued Statistical oa ‘chair. 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