--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young, Levi Edgar collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 2 published: 1917-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Levi Edgar Young, "A United States Soldier," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 2 (December 1917): 95–96.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2102unse start_page: 95 end_page: 96 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse publication_year: 1917 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # A United States Soldier 1 1 J 1 1 : = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 J > 1 1 M I ri I M 1 < M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! J M MM t 1 1 i < , i : i : 1 . 1 1 Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllll . 1 A UNITED STATES SOLDIER From an address delivered before the soldiers at Fort Doug- § las, Utah, by X,evi Edgar Young | The American soldier has been called to take his part in the greatest war of history. He is now en- listed in a cause that not only means his future lib- 1 erty, but the liberty and freedom of all the world. He wields a power over tyranny that will destroy autocracy and serfdom from the nations who have | based their economic, civic, and social on the lives regimes of feudal days. Old governments must go, 1 and be replaced by governments that are ruled by | the people. The American ideal is to prevail in all | the world: governments may only exist by the will and consent of the governed. No other soldier has 1 ever had this ideal to fight for as has the American; | at no other time in history has it been such a burn- ing and important thought to lay down one's life for. Entering the war for such ideals, the American | soldier should carry on to the field of battle a knowl- edge that he is fighting for his country the country — that has done more for the civic freedom and eco- | nomic liberty of mankind than has any other nation. He has therefore important duties. An American I soldier should have and maintain by proper living I a sound and healthy body that clothes a clean and healthy spirit. The body is sacred and must be | treated sacredly. He should realize that knowledge is power, and real knowledge is expressed in sound thinking and right living. He should have part in life with his God. He should have faith in the di- vinity of life, and that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world. He can have no spiritual life without God, nor can he fight the true battle for righteous- | ness without the knowledge that right makes might. .~ ^Tl J 1 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ] 1 1 1 1 ) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 ^ 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ) 1 1 1 1 > 1 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 M 1 1 ] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN NEW YORK HARBOR The people of France purchased this glorious symbol of Freedom, by popular subscription and presented it to the people of the United States in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. They presented it as a token of the sympathy and friend- ship that exists between the citizens of the two great republics, which came into being more than a century ago. From base to torch the statue is 151 feet in height. It is the work of the eminent French sculptor, Bartholdi.