The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-23
U. S. TROOPS IN
FRANCE TO PUT
THING THROUGH
America Will Live Up to Her
Great Reputation in War,
Saws Irwin Cobb.

II believe that the Germans have
made their last advances and there
are 1,400, 900 reasons in France for
that belief" said Irwin Cobb, humor-
ist and magazine writer. at Chautau-
qua Thursday evening. Cobb has been
on the battle fronts twice. once at the
outbreak of war in 1914 and again in
1918. He returned to the United
States from France two months ago.
When I have seen this civilized
warfare, so cruel, so brutal and so
necessary" he said, when l see these
boys bearing themselves bravely at
the front before danger and discom-
fort, l want to tell my fellow Ameri-
cans that the courage and the gallan-
try and cheerfulness never wavers
and never lags. A grim determine
ton permeates the highest general
down to the lowest private to put this
| job through.
when we were with truck train
| (and persons need not think that truck
| drivers do not have hard time be-
cause they do, the truck was shelled.
| The sergeant reported seven wounded.
We hurried to administer TO them,
, but we only found five men. We con-
| cluded that the sergeant in the excite
| ment had counted incorrectly so we
moved on When we had reached
Montdidier and were returning we
saw two figures staggering up the
road covered with blood from head to
foot They had torn their shirts and
/ baadaged their wounds with them
With their ans dripping with blood
they feebly raised their hands in sa
lutte to the officer and reported ''fit for
duty" You can't whip nation that
sends over whelps like that. No ma
, ton ever sent nobler or more fitting
specimens of manhood than we are
sending.
No nation in any war ever had bet
ter allies than we have in this war.
, Nations Made Over.
The nations are being made ovel
in the fiery furnaces Of this war
Italy, Belgium. wearing the marks o.
so many sacrifices. Britain trans
formed from the slothful old Grand
mother to the splendid, military Bri
tain of old, and the land that ha(
buried one million and a half men, two
million wounded and disabled. anC
yet a land, MANNED and bruised, brok
en- and drained at every point for fou
years, STANDS ready with what is lief
of her to fight on until those object!
which we want to do away with arr
terminated-France. If we maxi
ten thousand sacrifices to every on,
that we have made now and ther
make ten thousand more we will still
have given less than France.
Il shall never forget the sensation
that came 10 me when a shell burs
in a place in which had been stand
; ing just a second before. Three of us
all writer's, were present and unde
the eyes of some officers. We conclud
ed that it would be unwise to run
that We would stand there as an eX
ample of fortitude. Then We dis
cussed the n after and decided that 70
our own sakes, but for the sake O
posterity and for the sake of litera
ture, we had better move away. How
, ever, l do not want You to think W
ran, but l shall admit that we passe,
some persons who were running
was on this occasion that l discovere,
i, and proved that fat man after h
has lost that precious commodit
called wind, can keep on running jus
the same"
saying, The first American privat
to win the Croix de Guerre in thi
war with a complexion like the bottor
of coal pile. His name was Henri
Johnson. Four negro regiments ar
| now holding front line trenches an
no soldier j.: more apt or quicker /
| discipline. The word niger" whic
has always left a sting in tie heal
will never = can anything after tn,
war but true American"
Americans Show Breed
Il had an opportunity TO see hoy
, these men of ours would act In a
emergency before I reached the so
of France. I was on the sister ship c
the Tuscania, the only American tran:
port ship loaded with troops to
sunk by a submarine. The men o
board the Tuscania We're raw troop.
, and some of them had never been o
board ship before, but when the
knew that the ship had been strucl
they drew up in company formation
of their own volition, and as the
stood there waiting they sang "Wher
do we go from here boys"
"On another occasion, volunteer
were asked to go out on a dangerou
duty going through barbed wire an
into shell holes. The officer askin
for volunteers said, "All will not com
back, perhaps none Of you will com
a back. Every one who will voluntee
= will please step one pace forwar
= Out of those S34 Ohio kids, 834 too
. one step forward.
y Hundreds volunteer to do this 80
y OF thing and men sob because the
< have not been assigned to duty. TIL
y is the sort of thing that Uncle Sa
x can do in an emergency.
n Germans Sent to Slaughter
The Germans were sent out like ca
a tie to the slaughter At one time
N saw field piled twelve feet high wi,
~ Germans and l am sorry that did n,
n have the pleasure Of seing the boz
' OF the German kaiser stretched O,
n on top as fitting ornament.
n Il am proud that my country alor
x with her allies has contributed to IL
N last ounce of red blood and enere
and money to make this world a
n place for people to live in. We mu
< kick the last vestige of mania out
N Germany. We must exterminate II
a divine right of epileptics to rule ov,
human beings.
with ALL hor faults tboro 49, A..