East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-06-03
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
BY FRANK M. O'BRIEN, New York H

IN. York Herald.
Editorial That Won Pulitzer Prize for 1929
T HAT which takes place today at the National Cemetery
entombment only in the physical rather the
enthronement of Duty and Honor This man who died for his
any could be whose and deeds know He
really than the unidentified dead for can
are written their gravestones He-ths spirit whom
honor-stands for the unselfishness of all.
This of all monuments to the dead lasting and immutabe
So Tong the finer things of life the tomb OF the
and mind there be changing of values No historian
shall to modify the virtues or the faults of the Soldier He
has immunity for which kings might The
bring erosion to the granite but not to the memory of the I'm
known.
is weakness of humanity to ask the questions
that be nhis life Probably to whom
the Of the Unknown Soldier has appealed has not
days ceremony logger from the Penobsco? An orchardst
chnis from Connecticut? lad left his hoe to rust among
the Missouri corn longshoreman from Hells Ktchen Per
Virginia All that the tells of him is that he died
in battle All that the heart tells that woman loved him.
than that shall learn In this mystery in the
riddle of the universe the wise wonder but they would
know.
common the mions life of peace and honest struggle
with such small to most who try and at the
end the place on the hillside among his fathers Today to 40
honor at his last resting place the greatest of the age ia
statesmen from other continents the president the high
judges the legislators of his country and men
who like himself fought for the flag AT his bier will gather
the most group hsE & Ameca mas seen Zen nnu @
village hillside as lasting that of Rameses and as
inspiring as Napoeons
It is great religious ceremony this burial today The exa
taton of the namees bones would not be possible except
Belief Where Duty and Honor the wesprings of Vic
tory mankind feared that death drew black curtain behind
which lay nothing but the dark? So all in which the spark of
hope not died well believe that to whom the Soldier
mystery not mystery to him. They believe that
Arlington today merely few thousands
living but the countless battaons of the departed
Though dead yet he shall vethere is the promise
which hold when everything of this earth has slipped
away.
All impressive ritual of today would be mockey we
believe that out nfny which astronomers cannot
chart mahematicans bound the Unknown Soldier and all
glorious dead whom honor in his dust looking down
pon little spinning ball. conscious of reverence And
when noon strikes signal the of silent few
of those with barred head will lack conviction that the
rites at Arlington viewed by other than mortal Only
in that spirit may the Unknown Soldier and those who
like him, died for this Reublc
Unknown but not unknowng!
The club of Oregon in their annual convention being
held at Tamook condemn the attacks being made the
direct primary system they also suggest that henceforh
prchibon enforcement officials be chosen under the civil
Vice and not by the spos system Hats off club
they have of what is essential to good government
and the freedom express their convictions without qubbg
Mr. Daughery scarcely the to handle the graft
prosecutions he is adroit politician of the Mark Hanna
school but he acquired good reputation attorney
general