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Show '1 HE UNKNOWN SOLDIER One of the impressive sights about the city of Washington is the tomb of the Unknown Soldier where a comrade in arms keeps constant vigil. The idenity of the buried soldier will never be established. Mis name, rank, creed or class will never be known. All that is or ever will be known concerning- him is that he was a member of the American Expeditionary Force, that he faced the issue on the battle front, that he gave the last measure of devotion to the common cause. "We pay homage at his shrine because he symbolizes all that we understand of faith, courage, devotion, patriotism, sacrifice sac-rifice and allegiance to the common good." The generals and officers played their conspicuous part in the World War, men and women at home did their might: but in the last analysis the war was won by the hard fighting, the sacrifice, sac-rifice, the sacred devotion to duty of the common soldier who fought in the trenches and faced the guns. So in these trying days the President, the Congress, our public officials may all do their part, do it brilliantly ; but in the days of peace if the Unknown Soldier, the "forgotten man," fails in spirit and practice to give his best, to bear with courage his heavy burdens, the social and economic battles of peace will be lost to the forces that fight against good government and the security of the Republic. The wisdom of the statesmen, the genius of leaders, the progress pro-gress of soldiers, are all eminently necessary and entitled to great gratitude and praise, but now, as in the past, no enduring victory vic-tory can be won for the progress of the race unless the leaders are backed up by the rank and file of the people. The obligation of mankind and of civilization to those who sarve in silence, who, Without material reward of public recognition, do their part, can never be measured. The world honors the man who has the genius to plan the skyscraper wit hdame reaching toward the clouds and whose ribs of steel withstand the fury of the storm, who designs the mighty bridge that spans the river on the chasm, but neither of these could become a material possibility without the heriosm of the steel worker, who with unparalled courage and with the dexterity dex-terity of a spider, moves swiftly about on narrow beams with the abyss of death yawning beneath him. One false step means certain cer-tain death. In the face of this constant peril he puts in place and rivets securely the frame of steel stretches the cable that supports sup-ports the pathway. No bronze tablet commemorates his heroism, no processions celebrate his deeds of daring, but without him all of these great engineering achievements would be impossible. These are typical typ-ical of the Unknown Soldier's service. If he fails to do his work honestly and conscientiously, disaster follows. Bryant S. Hinckley Hinck-ley in Utah Farmer. . r |