The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1918-07-20
FOR A COMMON COUNTRY.

There is buried in til. sol OF
France somewhere, two young mer
whose service and death is of more
than passing interest to this section oi
the country. One, Private j. L. Ora.
ham, the son Of Mr. and Mrs. w. T
Graham, who was citizen of Gulf
port, and the other, Lieutenant Ed
ward Hines, Jr, whose father has
large local interests and who is re
garded as one of US.
Mr.. Graham, % years Of age, en-
listed April y, 1917, as a private in
Company 2, 28th Infantry, and sailed
from Hoboken June 10th, 1917, for
France, and was killed in action in
s'rance May 20, 1918.
Mr.. Graham-w was young man who
had never enjoyed any of the greater
advantages of life, than being the son
# a>good father and mother, and nev-
er had any Of the advantages save
hose given by the schools of Harrison
county, but when the call of his coun-
ry came he enlisted and went forth in
defense and has given all that he
rad to that country-his life.
Mr.. Hines was q young man, but
Il years old, who volunteered and
Who sailed from an ATLANTIC port on
Une 4, 1917, for France. He was a
rraduate Of the First Officers Train
ng School at Fort Sheridan, Ills. He
,ad just concluded his course at Yale
Iolege, and every effort was made by
,hysicians to keep him from going
into the army because Of heart condi-
5ons. However, he ignored the ad-
ice of physicians and gave up all
the bright openings in this countrv
and went forth TO do his all for his
,ountry. On June 4, 1918, he gave
Ip his life in the base hospital in
rance for his country, of a disease
contracted in the trenches.
MIR. Hines had al the advantages
hat wealth, position could give him,
I'D it is idle to say that his father,
Nth his means and his position could
rave secured an easy place for his
roy, bat the son refused any such
ventures or offers and declared that
is place was at the frnt, And thus
! is, side by side, the rich and the
7oor alike in this war are giving up
heir lives for liberty and freedom.
4 gentleman told us a few days
ago that he stepped into restaurant
n Gulfport and heard two laboring
2en, sitting just across from him,
discussing the death of young Lieu
serant Hines, when one said to the
other: 'The death Of that young
nan is a great lesson and a great ex-
ample" It is true that he was no
more than was the son of hundreds
and thousands Of men who haVe>gone
D the front, but it is true that his
Sather, with his means and with his
position, could have put him in an
easy place. This young mans death
gives the lie to what the demagogue
and the montebank in politics have
been preaching for years, that the
tich care nothing for the country ex-
cept to exploit, that the poor man
seeds the country in tin~sy of peace
ard fights its battles in time of war.
TO this, in times of peace, no ans
yer could be made, but the death of
roung Mr.. Hines is a complete and
perfect answer to any such talk. He,
ike the poorest man, in the country,
has given his life for Liberty and Ci-
gilization.
And surely this has been one of the
results of this war. The rich and
he poor have WED with each other
4 other in doing all, daring all an
lying for their country if necessa-
y.
These two young men, represent
ng differen psitions and stations
n life answered the call of their
country as volunteers, and these two
heroes, buried somewhere in the soil
Of France, both surrendering all they
1ad, will not and cannot be forgot
ten. They have left to their parents
aad to their country priceless heri-
tage, and their example will be emu
lated by thousands of others in Ame-
RIGA before this war is over.
Let US, who will remain at home
and unable to serve in the ranks take
a lesson from these~goung men and
give all we have Of time and means,
sacrifices wherever necessa-
ry, and counting it pleasure, for the
good of our common country.