Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-01-05
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
THE SECOND IDAHO
C. J. LisIs Takes OFF His Hat to Gem
State Troopers After Seeing
Them Pass in Review.

- j. LfSle. OF Hlcnrleid- well known
former newspaper man. present mana
zine writer. and southern Idaho resi-
dent. paid tribute today in an inter-
view to the soldiers of the Second
Idaho regiment after he saw them pass
in review. Mr.. Lisie is in Boise with
Mrs. Lisle and their children for a
few days. This Is what Mr. Lisle
said:
You can't tell offhand just what a
soldier is going to look like. The same
general shape and color of uniform
may cover a lot OF types of men.
There are young men in the Second
Idano-boys with hardly suggestion
Of fuzz on their faces. and with
cheeks that bloom like girls.
Touching elbows with one - these
boys. may be herculean ~. ,ner
woodman. broad of shoulo.< wit .
black beard that shows baeF oY +
under the skin; with che sank i1 IN r. Z,
with the exposure Of two
and with strenuous nftN. fved deep
into every line of his bli essny figure.
But you can't ten Just which of these
was or is the better soldier-indeed,
there isn't likely to be any better
where all are good.
Courage Like Gold.
THE one thing that makes the SOL
dier lies below the surface: it is in
the heart and soul. If courage were
entrusted only to the broad shoulder
ed. strong armed man. it would be a
sorry enough worid-there wouldn't
be anything left for the women and
not given bulk and stature But
courage is like gold--it's wherever
you find It. And some of these rosy
checked boys make soldiers such as
would conquer the world. In the end, |
the great Civil war was won by boys
in their teens; the south that lives in
the military annals of the world was
defended by boys One doesn't have
to be big of frame OF hairy of face
TO be soldier
unfshing Military Precision
"The six months sojourn In the
southland has not taught the Second
Idaho an unfailing military precision
on the march. There was hardly a
company that did not have anywhere
from one to score OF men out of
step to the beat of the music. That.
however. is matter merely to De
laughed at. The manifest fitness of
the boys was the one great overshad-
owing impression. Rosy checked and
black jowIed, tall, short. fat, thin. old
young-they swung along with the
easy grace of men who can march
and march-and march-and fight a
good fight at the end of the longest
road Some machines work smoothly,
without much power; others make a |
tremendous clatter. and some of the
exposed parts of the mechanism look |
awkward enough But the chief eni 4
of all mechanics is to do the work;
and if the Second Idaho isn't the
primest fighting unit of all the state
troops that have visited the border.
appearances lie like the truth itself
The easy swing Of that marching step
would carry such troops wherever men
could go.
Here's to Second Idaho.
when Robert Bonner. the great
1orseman, owned Dexter, the then
greatest trotter in the world. he Of
'ered $4,000 for horse to match
IFS peerless animal. Some curious
,erson wrote in to ask Just what sort
II horse he wanted for that money
what color. age. sex. and all that
5onner was quite explicit: Il don't
are a d. about the age, color.
sex; don't care how
many spavins. how many blind eyes.
low many broken legs that horse has
the only thing I want is a trotter
hat can trot with Dexter And that's
he way soldiers are chosen-the army
rants men who can fight and who can
asst long enough to get where the
lighting is good. And II the Second
daho doesn't fulfill those prime milf
airy requirements. there is no body
f troops In America today which can.
iere's to the Second 1daho.-Capitai
Jews