The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-04
Former Soldier is Buried with Military
Honors from ST. Mary's Catholic
Church in Catholic Gene
terry.
EULOGY AT THE GRAVE
John S. SprowIs Delivers Tribute to
keokuk Boy Who Made the
Supreme Sacri-
fee.

Military funeral services for Phi
vate Arnold Schmieg were held Sun
day afternoon from St. Mays CaIho-
lie church, in charge of the keokuk
post of the American Legion assisted
by the Knights OF Columbus and other
patriotic organizations. The services
at St Mary's were in charge OF the
Rev. George Giglinger, assisted by the
Rev. James 81. Dunion.
The procession moved from the
undertaking pariors of J. ]. Crimmins
and Sons at two o'clock, with the sol
diers, Knights and members Of the
family marching in the procession be-
hind the Keokuk Concert band AT
the church the guard of honor enter
ed with the body while the band play
ed The Rosary.
Following brief services here the
procession moved to the cemetery,
where the last military rites were CIV
en-, including taps and the firing OF
the volley over the grave.
The pallbearers included Bernard
Conn, r J. Vieth, Martin Roam, Thorn
Is Dolan, George L. Kranse, G. L
Bode, Charles Hagmsier and T. j. Gus !
tin who accompanied the body here !
from New York
Tribute at the Grave.
The eulogy &C the grave was given /
By John s Sprowis, who said:
-1fy friends, we stand today in the !
presence OF a supreme sacrifice. Ar !
mold Schnieg has given all that any /
man can give for his country. In the I
presence OF such sacrifice, We stand /
with bowed heads and humble hearts,
and consider how small indeed was
our contribution 10 the common cause
during the war. For some OF you, the
sacrifice took the form OF year or
two years absence from your homes
and fresides, priVations and suffering,
il may be, even wounds For others II
took the form Of denial at home, the
giving up Of many things IN order that
all might 90 TO those at the front For
the mothers and wives, II was the
days and months of anxiety, Of watch
ing for the word that would tell that
those dear to them we're safe, OF
dreading the message which might ten
that the one dear to them would never {
return home again But now for rs,
those days are past, and how trivial I;
seem all that we sacrificed when conn :
pared with this sacrifice. For what :.
shall a man give in exchange for MS g,
life?
.'But. there is something that man +
can gain in exchange for his life For I
it is out of sacrifice that progress I
comes, out of death comes life. The d,
fruit of sacrifice is conservation We {
have not heretofore had with us the /
visible presence of our dead Their {
passing in France, three thousand I
miles away was fra1gtt with sorrow ]
to US, but we knew so little Of the cir =,
curnstances, that all was shrouded in i
the mist Of distance. But We stand I
here today in the presence OF our
glorious dead, and with US rests the '
decision as to whether or not the
death of this boy shall have been in :
vain. If we go away from here with 7
new spirit of conservation to our coun- ;
try and its institutions, then will his
death have born the fruit Of conse- @.
Grafton When Lincoln stood on the :
field OF Gettysburg, he expressed it ,
better than it has been expressed else
where, when he said J:
cit is for us the lfTing-rather TO ,
be here dedicated to the unfinished +
work which they who fought here have e.,
thus far so nobly advanced 1t is +
rather for us To be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before US, ,
that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for I
which they gave the last full measure
of their devotion; that we here high
" resolve that these dead shall not
have died, in vain
1T then; rests with US to Say wheth-
er or not the death of Arnold Schmieg
shall have been in vain Are We go
ing to take from this spot today in =
creased devotion to the great princi-
pies of right eousness and peace, which
were the principles for which this boy
gave up his life? Are we going to
catch the torch from his hands:
In Flanders fields the peoples grow,
Between the crosses row on TOW, :
That mark our place; and in the sky