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Show Responsible for Idea of "Unknown Soldier" Perhaps no movement has ever appealed ap-pealed more strongly to the imagination imagina-tion of the world than the suggestion of bestowing honor on the dead who died for their country by paying homage hom-age to the "Unknown Soldier." Vet it was not till the American advertising clubs visited England this summer Hint the name of Ihe man who conceived con-ceived this great idea was made public. pub-lic. Rev. David Itailtoti, vicar of Margate Mar-gate parish church, a modest parson, originated this now internationally adopted ceremony after he had ofii-dated ofii-dated at the burial of so many unidentified uniden-tified dead on the battlefields of France. It took months of persistent hard work on bis part to persuade the Britislv. government to adopt his plan, for officialdom never understands human hu-man nature or its needs. David Rail-ton Rail-ton deserves a niche, too, in the temple tem-ple of fame, though, his work done, he prefers to remain an unknown soldier. |