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Show THE DISPUTE OVER MILITARY AND NAVAL DECORATIONS fT , now trouble is on over the award lals and decorations to military and heroes. The, "navy department to have done well by relatives of :retary of the. navy, but no one else astisfied. The war department has ited 30 civilians, 43 captains and luber of generals and colonels, ev-luple ev-luple of corporals but not one of the imons of private soldiers we trans-?to trans-?to Europe, or the. several hun-housandthat hun-housandthat were under fire, has eemed worthy of special distinction t iuiuess a job of this kind can be thor-ughly thor-ughly done, it ought not be done at all. Vho, is to say which of the f ifihting men terformed, during the war, a "specially ieroic part? Every man. who walked in-5 in-5 thehell of modern war in Europe with-ut with-ut flinching or running, was a hero. Ev-ry Ev-ry man who fell at the front is a hero, erhaps beyond any man who escaped rith lus lite. There were thousands of cts of signal heroism that escaped notice Certainly the awarding of distinguish-d distinguish-d service medals' to' noncombalants hile so many thousands of fighting men ;o unrewarded, is an act of ingratitude nd of bad ta3te. The service of no non-" non-" obatant in war time is equal in self sae-,'iico sae-,'iico to that of the humblest man who e!nl over the top into the face of death ) offer 'the last full measure of devo-on" devo-on" to his country. If the practice of conferring medals : id. deorations is to be followed, such ) mors should be awarded only upon some t ed basis for conferring such distinctions ; id the whole matter should be in the 1 inds of an, impartial jury of award, sur- l., , funded by no favorite and under the iii- " " ' iLiehcd'Ofno particular individual or 1 foup. The public refuses to become much e:c- t ' i ted' over the disputes about distribution i military and naval decorations, begs be-gs 1 sving th? whole matter to be largely one ' 1 i personal rivalry. There would be no I i eat grief in the country if all the medals t ad decorations were chucked in the f ifcan and all the heroism displayed by Z&j horican soldiers in the world. war be "m WJjrnized without invidious distinction. m' 'ftnal Republican |