ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH, RICHMOND COUNTY, W. C.
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UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Continued From Front Page.
home from the wars.
"Alone he dies in the narrow cell
of white stone that guards his body;
but his soul has entered into the
spirit that is America.
'Whenever liberty is held close in
men's hearts, the honor and the
glory and the pledge of high en
deavor poured out over this name
less one of fame will he told anil
sung by Americans for all time.
Scrolled across the marble arch of
the memorial raised to the Ameri
can soldier and sailor dead every
where, which stands like a monu
ment behind his tomb, runs this
legend:
"We here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain."
"The words were spoken by the
martryred Lincoln over the dead at
Gettysburg. And today, with voice
strong with determination and ring
ing with deep emotion, another
President echoed that high resolve
over the coffin of the soldier who
died for the flag in France.
"Great men in the world's affairs
heard that high purpose reiterated
by the man who stands at the head
of the. American people.
"Tomorrow they will gather m ins
nimnsi in me siium-
he served in the highest place or
the nation, just as an humble pri-i
vate. riding in such state ahead.
had gone down before a shell or
bullet. For that dead man's sake
the former President had put aside
his dread of seeming to parade his
physical weakness and risked health
prbaps life, to appear among the
mourners for the fallen. There was
hand-clapping and a cheer here and
there for the man in the carriage,
a tribute to the spirit that brought
him to honor the nation's nameless
hero whose commander in chief lie
had been.
Log Road to Thumb.
"After President Harding and
most of the high dignitaries of gov
ernment had turned aside at the
White House, the procession headed I
by its solid blocks o f soldiery annj
the battalions of sailor-comrade?,'
moved on with Pershing, now flank I
ed by Secretaries Weeks and Denby,
for the long road to the tomb. It
marched on, always between the
human borders of the way of vic
tory the nation had made for itself
of the great avenue; on over the old
bridge that spans the Potomac, on
up the long hill to Fort Myer tint
at last to the gate of the great
cemetery beyond where soldier and
snilor folk sleep by thousands.
"There the lumbering guns of the
artillery swung aside, the cavalry
drew their horses out of the long
line and left to the foot soldiers and
sailors and marines the last
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-i... cDinii almost in the s
f ihr. now American shrine of i the
liberty dedicated today. They will stage of the journey.
Sk of peace; of tl urbing of the "Ahead, the white marble of he
hftvne of war They will speak of amphitheater gleamed through the
lie war in France that robbed this trees. It stands crowning the slow
3mf nf life and name and slope of the hills that sweep upward
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death to comrades of all
hy the hundred of thou-
brought
nations
sands. , .
"And in their ears when they met
must ring President Harding's decla
ration today beside the Hag wrap
ped, honor laden bier:
"'There must be, there shall I .;,
the commanding voice of a consci
ous civilization against armed war
fare.' "Far across the seas, other un
known dead hallowed in memory by
their countrymen as this American
soldier is enshrined in the heart of
. .i.; lout He in
America, weep ureu ---
...kac veins ran the blood ot Brit-i
Ish forebears lies beneath a great
stone in ancient Westminister Ab
bey: he of France beneath the Arc
de Triomphe, and he of Italy under
the altar of the fatherland in Rome.
And it seemed today that they, too,
must be here among the Potomac
hills to erect an American comrade
come to join their glorious company
from the river, and just across was
Washington, its clustered buildings
and monuments to great dead who
have gone before, a moving picture
in the autumn haze.
In the Amphitheater.
' People in thousands were mov
ing about the great circle of the am
phitheater. The great ones to whom
places had been given in the sacred
enclosure, and the plain folk who
trudged the long way just to glimpse
the pageant from afar, were finding
(heir places.
"Everywhere within the pillared
enclosure bright uniforms of for
eign soldiers appeared. They were
laden with the jeweled orders of
rank and merit, worn to honor an
American private soldier greater
than any there in the majesty of
his sacrifices; in the tribute his hon
ors paid to all Americans who died.
"Down below the platform placed
for the casket, in a stone vault, lay
wreaths and garlands brought from
Figures On Population, Debts and
Taxes Of Principal
Nations.
frmp ii mi men tiunuu . ' . wii'himh ii i u.tiitimt
fiipir nnnroval of the high Cnoianri't kiml nnd iruardcd b
words of hope, spoKen i .British soldiers. 10 inein cmuc
President. British ambassador in the full uni-
"All day long the nation poured fol.m 0 his rank, to bid them keepj
out its heart in pride and glory ioi these tributes from overseas sale
the nameless American. Beiore me aKainst that houi
first crash of the minute guns roar
ed its knell for the dead from the
oharimv of Washington monument,
Minve the ulatfonn Kathered the
men whose names ring through cur
rent historv Briand, rocn, ueaty,
SliaUOW Ol ITCBIMUB""" '(It-Ill llimuii ....., - i '
the neoDle who claim him as their . Balfour, Jacques, Diaz and others in
own were trooping out to do him a brilliant array of place and pow
honor. They lined the long road 01. Tliey VVPro followed by Baron
from the capitol to the nuisuie Kal0 from japan, the Italian siaies
where he slept tonight; tney noweu
like a tide over the slopes about his
burial place; they choked the
bridges that lead across the river
to the fields of the brave in Which
v,n io tha latest rnmer. !
"As he was carried past tnrougn "Down around the circling puiais
the banks of humanity that lined the marble boxes filled with distin
Pennsylvania avenue, a solemn,1 guished men and women, with a
reverent hush held the living walls, i cluster of shattered men from army
Yet there was not so much of sor-, hospitals accompanied by uniform
row as of high pride in it all, a ct nurses. A surpliced choir took
nride being beyond the reach of the : jts pjace to await the dead.
... i iL l.kt.
men ana omccrs, ny ine iwhuiw
from all countries gathered here for
tomorrow's conference and by some
of the older figures in American
u. 4 niii n wnlli beside the au-
lilt , ,v ....... .
1 titviac liinir funeral train.
ehmitimr nnd the clamor tnai
marks less sacred moments in life.
'Out there in the broad avenue
was a simple soldier, dead for honor j the big whit;
if tim flncr . He was nameless. No, theater. The
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Corteae Approaches.
Faint nnd distant the silvery
strains o f a military band stole into
bowl of the amphi
slow cadences and
mnumina notes of a funeral march
Harding Shows Emotioa.
"Mr. Harding showed strong emo
tion as his lips formed the last
words of the address. He paused,
then with raised hand and head
bowed went on in the measured,
rolling period of the Lord's prayer.
The response that came back to him
from the thousands he faced, from
the other thousands out over the
slopes beyond, perhaps from still
other thousands near the Pacific or
close packed in the heart of the na
tion's greatest city, rose like a chant.
The marble arches hummed with
the solemn sound.
"Then the foreign officers who
stand highest among the soldiers
or sailors of their flags came one by-
one to the bier to place gold and
jeweled emblems for the brave
above the breast of the sleeper. Al
ready, as the great prayer ended,
the President had set the American
seal of admiration for the valiant,
the nation's love for brave deeds
and the courage that defies death,
upon the casket. Side by side he
laid the medal of honor and the dis
tinguished service cross.
"And below, set in place with rev
erent hands, grew the long line of
foreign honors, the Victor a cross,
never before laid on tho breast of
nnv hul those who bad served the
English flag; all the highest honors
of France, Belgium, Italy, Tiouma
nta, O.echo-Slavakia and Poland.
Belgium's Tribute.
"To General Jacques of Belgium it
remained to add his own touch to
these honors. He tore from the
breast of his own tunic the medal of
valor pinned there by the Belgian
king, tore it with a sweeping gesture
and tenderly bestowed it on the un
known American warrior.
"Through tl e religious service
that followed and the prayers, the
swelling crowd tat motionless until
it rose to join in the old, consoling
words of 'Rock of Ages' and the last
rite for the dead waa at. hand.
Lifted by his hero bearers from the
stage, the unknown was carnci; in
'his flag-wrapped, simple coffin out
I to the wide sweep ol IhJ terrace.
"The hearers laid the sleeper down
Lu,. ii, n en n ii which had been
Washington, Nov. 13 Questions
of population, national wealth, na
tional debts, ratios of taxation to
and taxation since prior to the world
war-, figures as to foreign trade and
the war effect of exports and im
ports will all take an important part
in the discussions on limiting arma
ments.
To arrive at the relation of exist
ing tax burdens, the estimated na
tional wealth of the live powers may
be set down as follows: British Em
pire, 8180,000,000,000: Italy, $30,-
(00,000,000; France $100,000,
000,000; Japan $25,000,000,000 United
States, $350,000,000,000. On the basis
of 1920 direct taxation this repre
sents the following ratio of tax?s to
national wealth in each country:
British Empire 0.9 per cent; Italy,
1.6 per cent; France, 1-2 per cent;
Japan, 0.0 per cent; United States
1.1 per cent
Population total-; (estimated) are
as follows: British Empire, 400,
431,550; Italy 88,840,000; France 91,-
225,000; Japan 78,000,961; United
States 118,832,590 (including 12,11 i
121 in non-contiguous territories).
Against this the per capita of taxa
tion in 1920 is: British Empire,
$7.40; Italy, $12; France $13; Japan
$2; United States $33.
For the purposes of this calcula
tion, National debts are placed as
follows: British Empire, $46,735,-
318,000; Italy, $17,840,400,000; France
$41,683,020,000; Japan $1,703,500,000;
United States $23,9911,523,000. Batio
of debt to national wealth, British!
Empire, 26 per cent; Italy 59.5 per
cent; France, 41.7 per cent; Japan
7-1 per cent; United States, 0.9 per
cent. Batio of debt to population:
British Empire, $100; Italy, $459;
France, $458; Japan, $23; United
States, $202.
Increases in direct taxes between
1913 and 1920 were as follows:
British Empire, $423,073,000 to $3,
5 14,527,000; Italy, $113,430,000 to
$484,500,000; France, $188,070,000 to
$1,220,422,000; Japan, $72,454,000 .o
$170,520,000; United States, $1,349,-
841,000 to $4,000,000,000.
Changes in foreign commerce for
each power between 1913 and 1920
were: British Empire imports $6,
037,47.").000 to $14,092,690,000; ex
ports, $4,7H,K(M.(K)0 to $11,-487,025,000
Italy, imports, $738,519,000 to $3,
187,583,000; exports, $520,530,000 to
$1,565,4.14,000. France imports $1,
901,759,000 to $5,984,416,000; exports
$1,581 1,759,000 to $1,980,211,000. Japan
imports, $:iti,7i(,ooo to $1,130,156,-
000; exports, $;(15.20S,OO0 to $2,387,
723,000. United States, imports, $1,
813,008,(XKI to $5,278,481,000; exports,
$2,465,884,000 to $8,228,0 16,000.
rain helps plants, animals and peo
ple so does prayer help people.
Prayer bring showers of blessings.
I can't hardly imagine a person
trying to live a day without prayer.
Through it we show our intentions
and efforts to live right and in thin
manner is Christ going to bless us.
I consider it a duty and an obliga
tion of all christians to kneel in
prayer every morning and ask for
guidance and strength for that day's
task. Also at night we should
kneel again and confess our sins
and ifwe really confess in truth we
are forgiving. Of course we should
pray during the day at work or
whatever we are doing but these
particular times we should really
! talk with God.
NRVV CASTLE. Pa.. Oct. 8. From r think mothers and fathers
the snowbound mountains of Alaska ' should pray with and for their chil-
eoiton nelits ol .Minn ; ,i,en more. Uo you ever nonce now
PRINCESS OF ALASKA
WEDS IN NEW CASTLE
to the sunny
Carolina is a long way as the crow
tics, hut U)u made the journey when
a beautiful Indian princess from Yu
kon became the wife of a native
born southerner.
To Deputy Prothonotary A. S.
Love the aroriginec of the frozen
north gave her name as Princess
Musko-Deed-Kew-Wack-a-Doe.
The would-be bridegroom gave his
name as Edwaid Warden. He was
horn in
his line
years to Africa
some children are taught? Some
preachers' children are never taught
to pray. I know boys that live day
after day without a word of prayer.
Such a pityl I don't see how they
live.
Y need to prtty in order to know
how to guide our tongues, actions
and tasks. Boys are prone to go
wrong, cur e, gamble and many oth-
they
bp sins ure before them. If
North Carolina, but traces arc , mi under the influence of prayer
ge hack through tho mist of they are easily coaxed into sin.
May we pray more, pray as Christ
How love found the way to unite taught us to pray. We know it is
two hearts horn so far apart, in such 1 essential and so may we pray more
extremes of climate would be a long and be closer drawn to God. May
story. Suffice to say that Warden all the christian families in Rich
came to Newcastle a year ago. The i niond county begin family prayer
princess reached the United States tonight. May the parents pray for
through Canada about the same i themselves, their children and their
time. She joined a show, but didn't friends. It is a shame the way
like it. The record shows that some are living so may we pray for
them that they may see their con
dition. X.
Warden is 33 years old and prin
cess 24.
"More trouble
here than up h
said.
getting married i
my country," she
PRAYERS.
What is prayer? I wonder how
many of us really know. Prayer is
confession, supplication, thanksgiv
ing, and petitions, of all the essen
tials of a person's life prayer is the
greatest in my mind. Prayer brings
blessings to a person that he couldn't
get from any other source. Just as
A Lady in Chicago Telegraphs for
Rat-Snap.
Bead Mrs. Phillips' wire: "Youell's
Exterminator Co., Westfleld, N. J.
Bush $3 worth of RAT-SNAP." Lat
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arrived. It rid our house of rats in
no time. Just moved here from Pa.,
where I used RAT-SNAP with great
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Sold and guaranteed by Everett
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and by L. F. Fox.
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i, filln.l when .1.imi ninl tlm roll find mut- nlnepfl a little if t'le soil ot I' IMllCi
Hie Ol 1 ne uauuii in- um .. (,11." "i"' u.... , ----
last he passed over his home soil. ter of the muffled drums. The dust his UooJ helped iede. . i
But in France he had died as! "At the arch where the choir wait- from alien hands wn lmngie wnn
. i u., h, .-mwiif ...1 ii,. i, ntiiorioa nf the dciid iiis ihist ;is time mirches by.
fn flip, for the rtac and what it
means. They read the message of
the pageant clear, these silent thou
sands along the way.
"They stood in almost holy awe to
take their own part in what was
heirs, the irlorv of the American
lifted his casket down, and, followed
hy the generals and the admirals
Who had walked beside him from
the capitol, he was carried to the
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nunc Ol imnui. vu .......... r, y.v:
...,;,.rnri sinirnrs rhnntimr sol- For the Indians ot America, thief
iiin,iui;-ii ""'r' - - 1 - --- .1
einnlv. Carefullv the casket was plenty Coos came 10 can upon .
The Casket Lowered.
"The simple words of the burial
ritual wore said hy Bishop Brent,
flowers from war mothers of Amer
ica and Kngiantl were iuiu 111 iim
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the honors 'placed above the hanked flowers and Great Spirit of the red men with
, ll . . . -.1 1 1 .ni , .....1 i.tioni mill trihnl tomrue
sresturc and chant and tribal tongue
that the dead should not have cited
in vain, that war might end, peace
be purchased by such blood as this.
Upon the casket he laid the coup
stick of his tribal office and the
fi.Mtliered war bonn.M irmn ins own
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Khnwered on America's nameless the marine hand played sacred mci
son from France. odies until the moment the Presi-
"Army and navy and marines all , dent and Mrs. Harding stepped to
plaved their part in the thrilling their place beside the casket; then
spectacle as the cortege rolled along, the crashing, triumphant chorus ol
And just behind the casket with its the Star Spangled Banner swept the
"t - . . . r 41,.. .limniull ... 1 , ..i it. fWif fl (TH Til
ratte.l rrei.c. . eme. ' ' '"' 7,-. ,! , Tl,.. ll. casket with its!
flag, walked the I'resiueni, me cuos- A prayer, cmireu "" " t t , , lmvererl into
en leader of a hundred millions in erowd by amplifiers so that no word weight of honors was loweied into
whose name he was chief mourner was missed, took a moment or two, the crypt.
!?Sta bier Beside him, strode the then the sharp, clear call of the "A rocking bias of gunfire rang
man under whom the fallen heroV.glo rang 'attention' and for two out from the woods. . vn .
h3 lived and died in France, Ceii j minutes the nation stood at pame "The glittering circle of
nai irveu uhu . (iff , t Sa ute to the dead.
eral Pershing, wearing oniy ine mn- .0. . J " " , , . I ,m hhtiilt6A lholr nleS-
tt w-ns much as sae-e of honor and tareweii, again
had bad
io i.i.vini of vietorv that everx
American soldier might wear as his
only decoration.
"Then, row on row, came the men
Who lead the nation today or have
guided its destinies before. They
were all there, walking proudly
with age and frailties of the flesh
forgotten. Judges, senators, repre
sentatives highe. t officers of every
military arm of government and a
trudging little group of the nation's
most valorous sons, the medal of
honor men. Some were gray and
bent and drooping with old wounds,
thoucrh a mighty hand
checked the world in full course.
Three Vast Audiences Hear.
"Then (he band sounded and in a
mighty" chorus rolled up the words
of 'America' from the hosts within
and without the great open hall of
valor.
"P esident Harding stepped for
ward beside the coffin to say for
Ameri:a the thing that today was
nearest to the nation's heart, that
sHcrinVes such as tiiis nameless
bent and ?"n .Xv man. fallen in battle, might perhaps
some trim and erect as the day they, . unneceS8ry down through
won men wv ivi mine. 'i ,, i....
gladly in this nameless comrades
last parade.
"Behind these came the carriage
tho pniTiinar vears
"Every word that President Hard
ing snoke reached every person
they boomed out; a loyal comrade
was being laid to his last rest.
"High nnd clear and true in the
echoes of the guns, a bugle lifted
the old. notes of taps, the lullaby
for the living soldier, in death his
requiem. Long ago rome forgotten
soldier poet caught .its meaning
clear and set it down that soldiers
everywhere might know ivs message
as tiiey sink to rest:
"Fades the light;
"And afar
"Goeth day, cometh night,
"And a star
"Leadeth all, speedeth all
"Tn their rest."
The guns roared out again in the
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those came the carriage .. vnrt -H ,.hoii nniinnnl snlnte.
in which rode Woodrow Wilson, ,.v,aorwi1 linnn thousands in I "He was home, the unknown, to
also stricken down by infirmities as , Francisc I sieep forever among his own."