Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
By DR.. Frank Crane

A very impressive ceremony took place in
October in Westminster Abbey, when Gen
eral Pershing, the head of the United
States Army, laid the Medal of Congress up
on the grave of the Unknown British Soldier
buried there.
This incident needs to be widely noted in
the United States.
There are two forces constantly at work
in our country, as in all countries.
One of these forces is Dissension. 1t is the
natural tendency of nations to suspect, dis
trust, and dislike one another. It is the
sentiment which is the little seed out OF
which war grows.
There are many agencies at work cult
waiting this sentiment among Most Of
them do it unconsciously and from what
they consider the best of motives. But new
ertheless they are steadily injecting poison
into the nation.
The other force is the spirit of Unity, of
Brotherhood 1t is the duty of all men who
have any sort of vision and who really de-
sire the welfare of the human race to pro-
mote this spirit as much as possible.
When the war came the allied nations
were drawn together in very strong and
wholesome sentiment of brotherhood. Every
effort should be put forth to keep alive this
sentiment. knd the act of General Pershing
is the kind of thing that helps in this direc-
ton.
This idea was expressed by King George up
on this occasion in letter. which he wrote to
the General. He expressed his heartfelt
good wishes for the International Confer
ence to be held at Washington, and his hope
that the statesmen who gathered there
would bring their labors to a satisfactory
conclusion. And he added these words:
MAY they do all that practical states
manship can achieve to perpetuate the COM
radeship of the war in the maintenance of
peace"
Tho same sentiment was expressed in
London newspaper as follows:
"Such an act of knightly homage as Gen
eral Pershing performed at the tomb of the
Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey
yesterday recalls the victorious comradeship
of Great Britain and America in the Great
War and strengthens with new purpose our
comradeship in the world peace which is yet
to win
And this ought to be the aim Of the popu-
latons, both of Great Britain ana the Unit
ed States to allow no bitterness to estrange
| them. For upon the unity of the two Eng
lish speaking governments depends the
peace of the world
OF course, the English government has
made mistakes, and the American govern
ment has doubtless done the same. They
are both human and it is right to criticize
them and to correct them. But to allow the
inevitable errors of government to make ere
mics of the two great peoples would be an
unspeakable calamity.
Sir L. Neutrality-suspicious., at the banquet
given to General Pershing, used these eIo-
quent words:
"A great forward step has been taken by
the summorng of the Washingto IN Confer
ence. May the same spirit of mutual accom-
mediation and fraternal affection as that
with which we stood together in the great
war animate the representatives of our ma
tions to carry out the high resolve, that our
dead shall not have died in vain
1t is to be hoped that the common sense
of the two great nations will go Forward in
this spirit and insist that Great Britain and
the United States shall go forward hand in
hand to fulfil the purposes of destiny.
And it is to be hoped that this will find
expression not only in words but in deeds.
General Pershing said in his speech on the
same occasion:
81, for one, have arrived at the conclusion
that the time for the exchange of compli-
ments is about over, and that all that now
! seems to be necessary is to reach some sort
Of understanding that will guide us in the
future"
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
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The cranberry crop is about four hundred
and twenty-five thousand barrels and now
all we need is the turkeys.