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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF ""fl ji m T r; l Si .- I ! : . I V. ? W: - A '- ) u. i fc t I- jfrg flfakairom miimn '" 7?5tA AvJ VTJ l"''Trt.l,ill i MiriiMKim 3SIKfKsSS 71 i j y.tmw -X If 71fKMMt 8 I 4 "' "-TSS cyp K 9!B' C.rv'v- KfvV' jKSIbbHbk it7 Jt tle 9IIRnHplkfeiM0VswiHvBi jBaWFbaV &lW kbLs H VsH' utf a B tRVIDiliV -4?c Af rszottvte fi$. lnl! SteiMglliMsMffsffl r - ,. . i, s ; q r w k vt illesSSHHWsHRS I fjMaftaaMk(,SSMTiwflBKfHWjgwiai" tofeS 5 fe Two soldier dead, picked in the dark From out of the untagged grave, Unknown, unsung, without a mark Of fame or glory of the brave Genius or clod or knave, We know their all they gave; We know they died to save And one shall sleep beneath tin- Arc And one in Abbey nave, With this to be by all men read: "In Uonor of the Unknown Dead." J. D. S. Here to the Abbey, where all the greatest, All of England's greatest dead are put to lie Here to the Abbey bring we this latest One who for England knew how to die. Stanley Went. ItKAT IlIUTAIN ntui France cele brated the second unnlvcrsnry of the end of tho Orent War by pay ing tribute to the "Unknown Dead." In London the body of an unknown liiltlnh soldier wan buried In Westminster Abbey. In Paris the body of an unknown French soldier was laid at rest under the Arc do Trlomnhe. Who won the Great War? Was It tho British, the French, the Americans? Was It .Toffre, re tain, I'crshlnp, Foch? Wns It Bailor, ulnnnn, artillerist? jj All helped. No need to make comparisons. For it was the man In the ranks who won the Great War. And that Is what Great Hrltnln ar.d France are proclaiming to the, world by thus honoring the "Unknown Dead." For "Unknown Dead"' Is merely n symbol. For Unknown Dead" rend "Man In the Hanks" the common man who did his duty, offered his nil, won his fight or gave up his life and Is unknown, unhonored nnd unsung. No citation contains his name. No decoration is his. This Is the man who won the wnr nnd It Is In his honor that the ''Unknown Dead" nre burled with tho pomp and circumstance of state display. Nor need this man of the rank and file ever hnve reached the firing line. Many a potential liero never got to the front. Nor need this mnn thus honored ever have got Into the fighting ranks. Many n patriot wlro did his bit most loyally was rejected by tho recruiting officer. If he gave his country the best he had, he shares the honors of Armistice Day. In honoring the "Unknown Dead" the British nnd French give utterance to their recognitions that uemocrncy of service nnd of sacrifice which Is tho foundation of society nnd tho salvation of Vatlons. The ceremony is for the living even noro than for tho dead. Great Britain burled her "Unknown Dead" with the honors of n field marshal's funeral. Tho body wns that of a soldier, name and rank un known, selected at random from tho silent hosts At Ypres whether English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Canadian or Australian Is not known. It wns received at Bnulogno with the highest honors by French and British soldiers. The casket wns carried through lanes of sol diers at "present arms" to the British destroyer Verdun, Flanked by four French and six British destroyers, the funeral ship steamed across the channel to Dover, passing Into the harbor as can non from the fort roared their salute of nineteen guns. Other honors to which a field marshal Is entitled were paid ns the caskot was carried from the destroyer to tho special train for London. The historic "Padre's flag," used at Innumerable funerals after the fighting at Ypres, covered tho coffin whoso plnte was Inscribed: "A British Warrior Who Fell In the Great War, 1014-1018 .for King and Country." The lmmedlnte guard which escorted tho body on Its trip through the crowded and Bllent streets from the station to Whitehall was, composed ot 100 men of all services who won the Vlctoiia .cross. The "pallbearers were field marshals and admirals of the fleet, Including Viscount Douglas Haig, Burl Bcatty, admiral of the grand fleet, and Maj. Gen. Sir Hugh Trcnchard, commander of British air forces. BattnllonH of guards, with their. bnnds, and a few ofllclals made up the rest f the escort. King George was chiefs mourner, army officers if the highest rank were pallbearers and the high est officers of the church assigned the warrior's body to its final rest. - In addition, tho eutlre empire sent representa tives' to attend the services, nnd thousands upon thousands massed Into tho streets to glimpse the . plain cuken casket, swaying on Its caisson as It proceeded from railway station to abbey. Asldo from members of the roynl family, who included Queen Mary, Queen Mother Alexandra and Queen Maud of Norway, and a few ofllclals, the only witnesses to either ceremony were per sons who lost relatives In tho great wnr, Of all. the witnesses that packed Whitehall or crowded the abbey, a little band of approximate ly 100 women In the abbey received the most rev erent attention. They had been selected for the Matt of honor because each had lost her hus band and all her sons. Every woman In Bug- S land so beieft who applied for a place got It, but less than Imlf the other appli cants for seats wero buccessful, owing to tho lack of space. After tho 100 had been promised scats, the next to be con sidered were those mothers who lost their only sous, or all their sons, and then came women who lost their husbands only. They were given positions in accordance with tho price they hud pnld during tho wur. A girl who wrote she hnd lost nine brothers killed or missing wus given n ticket, ns was also a twelve-year-old boy who wrote: "Tho man In tho collln might be my daddy." As "Big BcnvV the great clock In tho tower ot the parliament building, began to strike the hour of eleven, King George, facing tho collln of tho unknown soldier, which was resting on a gun car riage, drew n cord that released tho union Jack draped about a ccnotnph In Whitehall erected to the "Glorious Dead," and after the last stroke of the hour, thousands of people, who crowded Whitehall as far as one could sco In either direc tion, remained absolutely silent for two minutes. During the brief services In tho nave of tho abbey the king stood at the foot of the grave, tho royal ladles and princes ranging themselves on cither side. Tho caskot was transferred from the carriage to the altar where the archbishop of Canterbury conducted the solemn funeral ritual. As tho coflln finally was lowered Into Its crypt, a battery of artillery in the adjoining St. James park, fired a .field marshal's salute of 10 pins the highest military honor accorded anyone out side royal rank. Official and civilian France pnld honor to the memory of the nation's sons who fell during tho Great War, the ceremonies lending a solemn at mosphere to the celebration of tho second anni versary of tho armistice. Paris, accustomed to observing Its victory days nnd national fetes with rejoicing, turned aside this year nnd dedicated the day to memory and recognition of the sacri fice by hundreds of thousands of dend, who are Bleeping In cemeteries along tho battle lines. Called from Its grave on the field of Verdun, the body of an unidentified French "pollu" was carried with pomp and ceremony through tho streets nnd reburled under tho Arc do Trlomphe. Tho bodies of eight unidentified French soldiers, exhumed from ns many sectors of the former bat tle line, from the Belgian frontier to the Vosges, arrived at tho Verdun cttndel tho day before. In a low casemate the eight bodies luy In stato that night surrounded by a thousand lighted can dles, while stern men and weeping women filed silently past. On a stund nearby wero trophies from the City of Verdun which were to bo de posited upon the coffln of thoe,unknown soldier chosen and to accompany the body In Its last Journey to the Arc de Trlomphe, thcro to remain throughout time. The trophies were the Croix do Guerre, the Insignia of tho Legion of Honor, the Mllltnry Cross, the Order of Leopold, the Dis tinguished Service Medals, sabers of honor pre sented by China and Japan, the Greek War Cross, the Italian Mllltnry Medal and numerous others.' One body was chosen from among the eight by Private August Thin, n nntlvo of Caen, Brittany, who was a volunteer during tho war. At tho re quest of Andre Mnglnot, minister of pensions, the veteran placed his hand on ono coflln and the veteran's choice was the "Unknown Dend" of a solemn and Impressive ceremony. In addition, France took occasion to remember that DO years ago the country, defeated by Ger many, owed Its very existence for a time to Leon Gambetta, who. took virtual control of affairs In Paris when tho city wns besieged by Germans nnd later succeeded In orgnnlzlng armies to contlnuo the futile strugglo against tho Teuton Invnders. The heart of Gambetta, which had .been pre served since his death in 1882, was fnurned In the Pantheon, the national shrlno of France. The procession formed In Plnco Denfert Ro chereau at 8:30 o'clock, the head of the column standing In the shadow of tho huge statue of the Lion of Bel fort,- which represents the spirit of the TAfV TO Ti fOU&? DAD city In olt'erlng bitterest resistance to the Ger uinns In 1870. ' First came mutilated soldiers and veterans of tho Great Wnr, then troops from Alsace and Lor rnlno and then colonials. General Berdoulat, gov ernor of Paris, followed, preceding lings used In the Into wnr, behind which came General Falqtie nnd staff, bearing artillery Hags, and General Derescas and staff, above whom waved cavalry standards. Faded nnd shattered (lags of 1870, recently re trieved from Potsdam and Berlin and carried by veterans of the Franco-Prussian war, escorted the car bearing tho henrt of Gambetta, who resisted desperately giving these very Hugs to Prussia In the hour of defent. A delegation of noncommissioned ofllcert. of nil arms separated this car from the 15T-gun car riage upon which lay tho body of the unknown soldier. President Mtllerajul nnd all members of his cabinet walked behind It, nccompanled by the three French marshals Joffrc, the hero of the Murno; Foch, whoso genius accomplished the final defeat of Germnny, and Petaln, whose defense of Verdun will forever live In French song and story. The procession terminated with delegations from the St. Cyr and Polytechnic schools, repub1 llcnn gunrds, colonlnl Infantry, Senegalese units, aviation olllcors, two batteries of 75'n and one of ir5's. As the procession entered Boulevard Salute MJchel there was heard In the dlstnwe.froni Hie forts surrounding Purls, the first shot of a 1(H) gun salute. " At 0:110 o'clock tho procession reached tho Pantheon, where President Mlllernnd made a short nddress. It then continued down Boulevard St. Michel and Boulevard St. Germain, cncslng the Seine by the Chamber of Deputies bridge. It circled Place de la Concordo, passing the statues of Lille and Strnusburg, nnd proceeded up the Champs Elysees. It reached tho Arc de Trlomphe at noon. Armistice day wns observed all over the United States and In many ways. No national cele bration was held and where the buglers blew taps to American dead It wns to the "Soldier Dead" and not to the "Unknown Dead." Secretary of War Baker wos asked to authorize the refuovnl of tho body of an unidentified Amer ican soldier from Franco for Interment In the planned Victory hnll, Pershing square. New York city, no refused the authorization. Mr. Baker said that If tho United States were to follow tho example of Great Britain nnd France such burlnl of an American soldier should he In the amphitheater at Arlington or In some of the government public buildings. Ho said that the removal of a body to the planned Victory hnll In Now York would set a precedent nnd that many other cities nnd towns would "not be contented to be denied the same opportunity to show rev erence nnd respect." Vhntever the result, an American precedent has been nlrendy set. In fact. Amerlcn pet It for the world. In Arlington rises a monument, dedi cated more than hnlf a century ngo with cere mony, on which Is this Inscription: "Beneath this stone repose the bones of two thousand ono hundred and eleven unknown sol diers gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run nnd the route to the Rappahannock. Their remains could not bo Identified, but their names and death nro recorded In the archives of their country and its grateful citizens honor them ns of (heir noble army of mnrtyrs. May they rest In peace. Sept. A. D. 1800." Armistice day seems destined to come to mean to the whole world what Independence day means to America. How bettpr express that meaning than through honors to the "Unknown Dead?" T5ie AMERICAN LEGION (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion Netva Service.) HONOR TO MINNESOTA WOMAN sflHlflB W JIB Dr. Helen Hughes Hlelscher la Chosen 8tate President of Women's Auxiliary of Legion. Approximately four hundred dele gates from all parts of Minnesota at tended tho first state convention of tho women's auxiliary of tho American Legion In Minneapolis. The ir e o 1 1 n g marked tho begin ning of the na tlonnl organiza tion of the auxil iary, which Is ex pected ultimately to bind together aimut ten million women, tho mothers, wives, sisters nnd daughters of for mer service men of the World war. The delegates nt the- Minnesota con ference represented nbout 0,000 Mem bers of the 113 units of tho auxiliary in that state. The convention adopted n stato con stitution modeled after tho tentntlvo constitution previously used by auxil iary units, nnd voted to "dcdlcato themselves to the cardinal principles of the Legion." Ofllcers elected were: Dr. Helen Hlelscher, president; Mrs. E. A. Lew is, first vlco president, Mrs. Myrtle Gets!, second vice president; Mrs. O. Jl. Do Lnurlcr, hlstnrlnn; Mrs. George II. Barber, representative on the na tional executive committee. Miss Paulino Curnlck, representing tho orgnnbntlon division of nntlonnl headquarters, addressed tho conven tion, outlining the plans and alms of the organization. Kansas members of tho women's auxiliary will hold their stato conven tion January 10 nnd 11, and other states nre expected to tako similar octlon In tho near future. WARSAW, POLAND, HAS POST All Members Are Ex-Service Men Now on Duty With the American Red Cross. A post of the American Legion with 40 members has been formed In War saw, Poland. ,A11 tho members nre ex service men who nre now on duty,. with tho American' Red Cross. The post was organised by Charles Phillips of New Richmond, Wis., hond of tho pub licity department of tho Red Cross In Warsaw, nnd has the following ofll cers: n. II. Hall of McDonald, Pn commander; Leo D. Rowe of McAUcn, Tex., ndjutnnt; Frank R. McKcnnay of Richmond, Me., treasurer. Commnnder Hnll, who served In Franco with tho Three Hundred nnd Soventh supply tftiln, Is chief of stores for tho Red Cross in Poland. Rowo, who was In tho medical detachment of medical supply train No. 412 In France, went to Poland a year ago with the United States army typhus expedi tion. Posts of tho Legion also are now being formed In Jerusalem, Palestine and In Peking, China. MOST POPULAR AT CARNIVAL Marie Balzarlnl Carries Off Honors at Contest Conducted by Windsor Terrace Post, Brooklyn. Miss Marie Balzarlnl of Brooklyn, N. Y.. whs votnd the most popular girl In a contest held during n week's carnival of Windsor Terrace post of the Amer ican Legion. Tho popularity con test, which Is be coming a favor ite puntlme among Eastern posts of the American Le gion, has been the means of boost dig tie iluauciul standing of several posts as well as affording amusement for the members and their friends. NO TIME FOR' "BLUE LAWS" Indications Are That Legion National Officers Will Not Take "Posl- tive Stand." "Blue law" ngltntlon Is apparently obnoxious to a large number of mem bers of the American Leglou, accord ing to expressions of opinion received In letters at national headquarters. National ofl'cers hove been called upon to take a "positive stoud," ..particularly against those w.ho would do away with the cigarette. "As Individual citizens und voters our membership can support or oppose what It sees fit," said one national of ficer of tho Legion, "so long as they conform to our national constitution. I think the veteran, however, la against Intolerance. Tho national organization of the Legion has no time for this con troversy, however. We-have our hands full la our effort to make Ufa what It stMuld be fer the disabled." NEGLECT OF DISABLED MEN Legion's Investigation Shows Lack of Attention to Men Who Suffered Terrors of War. Investigations by the American Le gion reveal shocking conditions of mis management nnd neglect In tho gov ernment's treatment of disabled Vet erans, according to reports of Uie Le gion's findings niarto public by F. W. Galhralth, Jr., nntlonnl commander. The Legion has launched n nntlon-wlde light for the correction of tlicso condi tions, which Mr. Gnlbralth has do scribed as "a blot nnd a disgrace on the name of our country." More thnn 20,000 veterans nro still In hospitals suffering from wounds nnd Infirmities suffered In their country's service. Many of them hnvo been thero since they were brought hnck from France, on tho hospltnl ships. Their number is increasing nt the rate of 2, r00 a month, due mostly to tho develop ment of tuberculosis mining men who wero gassed. Statistics show that more than D00.000 men wero dis charged with disability rated higher than 10 per cent. Experts agree that the peak In hospitalization will not coino for live or ten years. Yet, gov ernment hospitals nt present arc filled to overflowing and even contract ar rangements nro not being mndo rap idly enough to care for tho ever rising tldo of disabled men whoso conditions demand hospitalization. Certainly, there Is no lack of wil lingness on tho part of tho American public to do nil In human power to nld those who paid the price for tho vic tory. The same experts who estimate that the peak of the problem will not come for live or ten years say In the meantime $5,000,000,000 must bo spent In Its solution. Tho government has not been niggardly. Moro than $500 000,000 already has been spent Mis management Is tho gist of the Legion's charge. Lack of vision and foresight nnd tho ever-present governmental red tape Is blamed as responsible for the death of disabled men before nld could reach them, for tho Incarceration of disabled in Jails and Insane asylums, and the charity wurds or public hos pitals where they received the same treatment as paupers. In addition to its activities In advo cating reform In tho conduct of the government bureaus, the American Le gion has dedicated Itself to the tre mendous task of "humanizing" the dreary lives of 20,000 disabled huddles who are patients In the hospitals alt over the country. Every Legion post In this country hns been assigned to the definite Job of taking care of n certain hospital where former service men nre patients. Tho Women's auxiliary also will be mobilized to share In the work and civic and philanthropic organizations in the hospital towns will he enlisted. There Is also the dangerous possi bility that the hospital patients, re maining day after dny with no Interest other thnn their physlcnl condition, will become bitter against the (country which once honored them nnu which apparently has cast them aside. In several hospitals, Bolshevist agents hnve distributed Inflammatory litem 'turo by Ingenious methods, of which nn example Is the luclosuro of the printed mntler In bouquets of flowers. In ono case discovered by Legion In vestigators the propaganda wns en titled: "You fought for America aud what did you get out of It?" And In deed, It does boein that tho sick vet eran got Utile out of It except n short period of popularity, the consciousness of having done his duty aud a maimed aud diseased body. "The 2,000,000 who are their bud dies," said the Legion's national com mander, "and are banded together In tho American Legion, nro determined that the hundred million shall not for get. In this work of giving the dis abled man u fulr dcal(nnd making him content we shall ask tho co-opcratloa of every loyul American. We fought together and we will stick together." WOULD STEER SHY OF CAMERA KfcMt iL'. v:s m S5,K'VfiJ'w sr '.&Y -iiii - y. iV.,;5 T"v i T?t t-.Sfi.i .J ' iir,ys W 6 Colonel Whittlesey, Leader of "Lost Battalion," Backs Off From Mo tion .Picture Machine. Although Colonel Whittlesey, an ac tive inmiilMT of the American Legion. led tho famous "lost battalion through the Ar gonne nnd was one of the 64 Americans whe won the blue ro sette of the con gressional medal of honor, he told "Fatty" Arbuckle that he would be "scared te death" If placed before" a motion picture camera. "You can starve a man; you can wound, him with bullets," said Colonel Whittlesey duping a recent visit to a Hollywood movie studio with the port ly comedian, "but you can't dim his love for tho movies. Just a few hours a'ftcr my boys of the Three Hundred und Klghth Infantry had landed In a safe billeting area on being relieved from their perilous position, the whole bunch wero In a 'Y' hut watching five-reel comedy." M tAi " U tfitl In These Days. "Who's tho bow here?" asked a traveling salesman as. he stopped at a farm with a set of the World's Beet Literature In 12 volumes. "He s," replied the man at tho door wearily, pointing to the hired maa loafing hard In 'a field. "I'm only hie employer." American Legion Weekly. lie r-.t cn2&3i&' I