The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-01
INTO THE OVERSEAS SHADOW

daries shows American fighting men
holding their footing on strangely
alien soils. AS it now stands army
units of the United States are at their
grim work in six countries, France.
Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy and
Belgium.
The swelling volume of their move
ment overseas has been so necessary
a response to the emergency of the
nations responsibility, so throughtly
implied by the original war declaration
and an entirely natural picture to
a people prepared by three years
observation of world war, that it may
take a historians prospective to vi
sualize completely the departure from
traditions and the smashing of preced-
ents that the movement involved.
Checking the six Ameican artillery
has been reported on the French lines
opposite Mulhausen, several miles
inside the border CT the German en-
pire. In Austria, the oliYo-Grab Uniform
supports italian sectors which swing
| 80 oh
American filters have manoeuvered
| over the Venetian lowiand where the
| Austrian drive was forced back this
spring. In Belgium, they have gone
over the top with Australians and in
France their forces in action now can
be counted by army corps. In Russia,
at yaldivostook and now on the frozen
reaches of the Thurman coast they are
putting disciplined force behind the
manifold manifestations of national
purpose. Likewise, in England, Scot
land, and ireland, they fill up the
school camps and prepare themselves
for action.
These men, drafted nearly all, are
the agents in the iar-flung jouneyings
of a nation whose military history has
shown more than one instance in
which volunteers, ordered to cross
boundary have sat down, private
end officer alike, to debate the con-
stitutionality of warlike expedition
to foreign soil. and still more instances
where military organizations have
successfully opposed national attemp-
Is to send them beyond their own state
lines.
Yet today, under the urge of the war
resolution which directed the ad
ministration "to exert all of it's power
and employ all of it's resources to
carry on war against the Imperial Ger
man government and to bring the
conflict to a successful conclusion"
Drafted men and volunteers have not
raised single protest of serious i'm
mort.
1t was not until January af the pre-
sent year that the supreme court for
merly construed the Constitution so
allow any sport of war operation the
nation desired carry on The court said
qf contentious opposing that View
that they were too frivolous for
motto"
Yet long before the decision the
first drafted American had falling in
battle overseas and legions more had
stre1med after him to every quarter,
Thus the historian has been given
almost, of the hurasian continent.
a large and interesting mile-post to
build in the future, but for the aver
age American, the news of the day
shown that this interest is purely alb
stract 1t having been definitely de-
cided upon due and formal considera-
ton ha a complete defeat of Ger
many was necessary to democracy
in the world, the nation has not even
remembered precedents of history or
Apparently, the men least inclined
traditions o. the past.
to consider that have hc5;.i. -. , soldiers
who have gone gravely but with good
cheer into the valley of the shadow
overseas, and there are making good
the purpose.
YOUNG MAN, BE MANLY
There are occaSions which come