The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-11-17
The Funeral Of An
Unknown Soldier

Ore zen 1"o,.v hest articles ever written
~, The subject. 1t is good because II
- t,11etand1 The News has the VISION .
% ~TeW as the backbone to BRING X
fn,+h, We are too prone to preach 70
Lo-,Setons in great style, yet fan 20
-o,-forTn. It is a beautiful tK1DuVe 70
X ,1nnlown soldier and the Wounded
ch;eftain who gave all but his lie IN
tho cause of righteousness ana 1fee-
Sono. The article follows:
"Well, thank God, they nave 1ouIlu
one ms not discredlted Dy the War
~. ito aftermath. They are burylng
- y: ~ A rIinoton today, and it is en-
+i1,alv appropriate that all the dlgnl-
tar;es should turn out for his funefal:
for It is quite certain that none OF
+Io oreat men who will follow ms
cornse as long as it is above GROUND
hae q reputation as stainless as the
1,3E1own soldier. None of the catas.
tronhes that followed the cessation OF
hocfilities can be laid to his charge
None of tn elamentable defeats, the
failures and the treasons OF peace |
we're his fault. He died in line OF
duty, and his renown is unspotted. ~,
1T is a magnificent corSege that VIII
follow the unknown soldier TO mas
tomb today. The ceremony Will pc as i
impressive as the genius OF TINS peo77
nle knows how to make it. A General
IF the Army will be chief pall-bearer,
assisted bv general officers of lesser
rank and flag officers of the navy. The
coffin will actually be borne by SIX
heroes whose valor has received the
grateful recognition of the nation, as
attested bv the stars and crosses on
their breasts. The chief mourner will
he the President of the United States,
and with him will be great judges sf7d
lawmakers from the other branches
of the government; and. among the
mourners will be the ipateSaEad haggard
man who was con1Enander- cnae1
when the unknown soldier died. The ]
generalissimo Of all the allied armies !
will stand at attention and salute as
the dead man goes by; and Admiral
Sir David Beatty's hand likewise will {
snap to his forehead in honor of this
common soldier. He will go to his
grave through long lines of soldiers t
and sailors standing at present \
arms" The flags in all the city will v
come to half mast, all the bells Will
toll his requiem, and the great guns Il
Of every fort and every warship will v
thunder salutes that will resound from :.
the echoing hills of Virginia. Il
Cali this in honor of one dead
all of it a sorry farce!
"For what else but farcical can one
.all this pomp and circumstance with
which the nation surrounds the burial
IF this me1, when in its daily LIE the
nation shows that it despises 'the
hing for which this man laid down h
lis life? For what did he go forth q
% die? Surely not to shake a crazy F
,mperor from his crazy throne. Surely
lot for craven fear on the part OF
,ation that never showed fear before.
Most surely not in order that our
,reat business houses might add un-
old millions to their staggering
wealth. We all know that what he
yt.lt out for was to fight war. He
,as told that the soul of his country
1as sickened by the horrors that at
icted the world, that America had
worn before her God that this thing
Aould cease, no matter what the eos
D herself; and in cause like that he
ound it a proud thing to stride into
ne Valley of the Shadow of Death.
$50 they are burying him at Ar
ngton today, fUld great is the lamen-
alton raised by the nation that has
aserted the cause for which he 2
,ught. Bah! It would have been bet
sr to have shoveeld him into shell
ole and left him there; because at
asst he freed the soil Of France from
lvaders, and that work not even the
ultures that gather on the field when
ne battle is over can befoul.
's'Then we should not have had this
srrible burial that is taking place 1t
Ar1inaton today. For they are bury -,
lg more than the unknown soldier
here. Thew are burying the dead
opes Of millions of people who believ-
4 the nations leaders when they said
was war against war. They are
Trying the aspirations of those who
ought. to erect upon the ruins that
ne war had left the enduring citadel
f peace, the parliament of man that
Mould Danish war foreevr. They are
urging the belief of other nations in
ne righteousness of America, the be-
eff that nerved them for the last
esperate effort that won the victory.
hey are burying our lost ideals, they
re burying our broken promises.
nd there, on the land that once be-
'nged TO the stainless Lee, that am
hitheater whose columns raise its
racefm architrave to- heaven is
plendid, cN1cila cenotaph to our hon
that is dead.
"1n all the stately, empty pageantryI
mere lS but one small CLEAN of hope.
'ver that tomb, also. will sound the
rgan-music of st. John: ''I am the
esurrection and the life. saith the
ord. He that believeth on mel
houoh he were dead. vet shall he
we" Even in this nation. that snemst
o ne dead to all it's great aspirations
Z the nast there are those who he -
'eve: Just now the field where tie
, re ~ nght was fought is silent save
, %, me tras snarllng of the iackals. Har-
ny ~ IRA traouces the dead, Hearst and