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Show THE CITIZEN 6 V'1W The major general in command so misinterpreted regulations that he gave instructions which led to the killing. What were those instructions? Did they relate specifically to American officers? The sentry does not wholly escape punishment. He has been found guilty of deception in his testimony and will be restrained of his liberty for thirty days. When he was first questioned the sentry told a story which did not at all accord with Lieutenant Langdons dying statement. He represented Langdon as attacking him with a revolver and said that he fired in Whether he repeated this story at the trial is not clear. At all events Tokio admits the substantial correctness of the sentry is involved. future, generations of Englishmen and Frenchm4V;M those who went, down to death in unknown graves did theK' as well as those did, who survived to win their countrys praii, v an acclaim. But a monument to. Kendall would testify that ou& known were heroes; that if .we could but know it they u beyond the limits of mere duty and were even as Lieutenant; patriots who rushed into the. arms of death as a sacrifice toE; ii their countrymen and their country. they . say-to- . BY BAROMETERS FIXING PRICES , . self-defens- e. J, flDm The Southern Pine Association, against which Frank Nebett an Salt Lake, as special assistant; to Attorney General Palmer, hajttesi KiT . . be would to ascertain whether the sentry . was' an anti-tru- st It illuminating civil action, aS. the target of several .uded; prevaricating in the interest of superiors who had given him special barbed governmental shafts. instructions regarding American officers. Nor is it the. only lumber aspqciation which has been accus The incident is closed because the state department does not fixing prices. The federal trade commission and the departmtffip wish to go behind the official returns. In fact, it probably could justice uncovered evidence tending to show that other as,socufjgi':fey not go behind them with any success, for it has only the statement of had methods of Jgwii fixing prices at profiteering levels. fit it should see the to to Lieutenant Langdon .support ifdt question The dispatches say that the association has maintained a of is consideration of the courtmartial. Moreover, there the findings of communication among its members through which it conts$v of the and To accuse to the deny the correctness findings W5' peace. production in order to fix prices. Japanese government of deception would be an affront which might The system consisted of a barometer with three tubes, the belli. casus a create Secretary Colby probably argues that T1& respectively, orders, shipments and production. of is the to more than the country prestige preservation peace worth The barometers were sent to lumbermen. A note of explanMiiJlj be States it clear United that the which would gained by making ran, as nearly as we can recall, something like this : iliwj officers has determination its unalterable to an government protect When production is greater than orders and shipments.r8 of cost soldiers even the abroad war. and at tendency of, prices is to fall. When orders and shipments are greater than production, r GLORY OF OUR UNKNOWN DEAD will., rise provided that production does not increase in the ' ratio. fcewet An appeal to all that is poetic in patriotism w&s made by France The barometer system was described fully in the report oi'Cnw commission to congress and we assume that thisidW and Great Britain when they erected monuments to the unknown federal-traddead of the war. system to which the dispatches refer. The presumption is thatjj It has been suggested that the United States follow their example lumbermen took the hint and so restricted production as to as an inspiration to patriotism. Manifestly the idea is of more them and all the dealers to fix prices and fix them high. Venlt It is said that the association prudently withdrew the noteJpreili potency in France and Great Britain than here, for they number it is probabje that it and the barometer will figure in the trial. IMr.' a their unknown dead by the thousands. lllril The story which is just now being told of Lieutenant Oliver In Chicago they are throwing bombs at the laundries, but Julian Kendall, of Illinois, suggests an alternative. For two years this hero who emulated Nathan Hale was among our unknown the shirts come home the folks will think it just the regular s lur. asM of the manglers. dead. That his body, which lay so long between the lines at u. (j has been identified and the glory of his heroism revealed does Dr. Frank Crane says theres a time for cussing. And r not change the fact that for a long time he was a comrade of the ! A monument to him would be a monument to body who reads Dr. Cranes stuff can tell the time. unknown dead. them. The symbolism could be rendered clear by inscribing his The legislature thinks of abandoning the income tax and f story on the aere perennius of the shaft erected in his honor and in theirs. ling us off with an inheritance tax. We wont feel it so much. igl Lieutenant Kendall was in charge of a contingent in the jumpinof bfi trenches at Cantigny, where the Americans were waiting g-off Perhaps Warden Storrs is trying to. empty the prison and ton Th their first engagement of the war. Hearing significant sounds from with a clean slate. ilff No Mans Land, he went forward with an enlisted man to inves- The New York blizzard is said to have nipped the peach c tigate. They had not gone far when the noises became more distinct. Ordering the soldier to remain behind the lieutenant advanced. on Broadway. He was not seen again. No doubt his disappearance warned the nj that of Americans peril. At all events, they were fully prepared Caruso seems to be nearly back to the even tenor of hi?- way Mi po night when the Germans, seeking information, attacked in force. Driven back, the Teutons left several officers as prisoners in the The government is bragging about the air mail service at ntf hands of the defenders. From them it was learned that Kendall as if high flying at night were something new. just had been captured. g, t Although he was in uniform and. therefore, not in the category In Russia everybody is robbing the railroads ; over here 4 of spies, the Germans executed him when he refused to divulge railroads are robbing everybody. information about his comrades. A few weeks ago American soldiers came across the grave of Well boys, throw away your cigarettes and get pipes. oiic of the unknown dead. They uncovered the body and found it to be that of an American officer. A little later it was comTheres more moonshine in the cellar than on the roof pletely identified. d.ays. "A monument to such a hero would add a thrilling significance to the idea. It would svmbblize the heroism of the unknown dead. to produce milk synthetic3, Henry Ford says lie The monuments in Paris and London stress the simple idea of duty, Probably out of the 1922 model. of Langdons narrative. hb$-:bee- n - e r.p . Can-tign- y, i j -- 1 ! -- ! i r : is-goin- g m ; - 1 K |