The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
One of Most Popular Young Men Ever Reared in Bir- mingham Makes Su-
 preme Sacrifice
DIED FROM WOUNDS
 RECEIVED IN ACTION
 IS BRIEF MESSAGE
News Spread Over City With Greatest Rapidity When It Reached City
 Yesterday Afternoon
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

By HUGH w. ROBERTS In defense of the liberty of the world. Mort Jordan has died.
 Yesterday afternoon came this message. to Mrs. Jordan:
 1T regret to inform you that Capt Nor timer H. Jordan, Birmingham, Ala. died July 31. from wounds received in action. HI P. MCCAIN, Adgt. Gen. That was the laconic message. Thero is no doubt, however, that when the time came, Mort Jordan, at the head of his 1 men, threw himself inte the hell ot shrieking shell and received the hurt as he would have received it, bravely, nobly, in defense of flag and country. For he was the knightliest soul who ever died so young.
 Captain Jordan is survived by Mrs. Jor- dan. a son who bears his name, and daughter; his mother, other relatives, who at home and on the front have taken prominent rank, and more friends than the average excellent fellow numbers in the allotted space of three score years and ten. Maj. William Jor- dan, brother, is at the front. His sis- ter is Mrs. J. A. Levert.
 NEWS NOT UNEXPECTED The terrible news, as horrible news Is wont to do, hurled itself with remark able celerity into the homes of Birming- ham. Grief was universal, and as deep as love. No man or child withheld the tribute of a tear. For Mort Jordan was known of everybody, and everybody in- cluded him among his personal assets. staked ir the battle against the German dream Of world dominion.
 curious development was the fact that the death was not unexpected. So many friends kneW-but dared not whjs- per-that he was to die. It is Mort Jor- dan's type that dies. It is the man who. imbued with love of a noble cause, filled with determination that that cause shall not perish from the earth-the chivalrous man wno holds his life, when placed hy honor, as nothing more than a whispering wind Or a vagrant cloud pays the cost of victory, and lives thousand years. If is such glory as this that does not
 stale or grow dim in the lapse of time. Mort Jordan's friends did not indulge in that griel which comes from the depth I of some divine despair. It was more a grief tempered and consoled by know- | edge that the man yielded his life on the altar of his country; that he died in s'Ip- 1 port of his flag, in defense of right and {, righteousness, in behalf of truth and l justice, and in opposition to the embodi- l ment of all that is foul and iniquitous in l the breast of beast, or the heart of gov l ernment.
 HIS BOUYANT NATURE l Mort Jordan was born in Birmingham nearly 37 years ago. He was rollicking 1 but manly and courteous school boy. A: | the University of Alabama he was an ir | telligent student, but more fellow of l laughter and song and noble speech; art full, mischievous, devilish. He had the 1 mentality which is prone to high thought. | the soul delighted by talk of knight'y
 deeds. He had the spirit, the joy of life, the daring and dash which attracted and bound as friends all those with whom he | touched.
 Following his college days, he equipped himself for the medical profession. Sub sequently, he practiced and was married. But he declined to settle down into grewsome grind for business honors and profits. He was forever in touch with | events-with the moving finger writing I the tale of life. There was no surprise, 1 therefore, that when the call came to
 arms, he was among the first to respond. 1 With .other Alabamians he followed the | trail which led to the Rio Grande and ! the borders of Mexico. There he longed, but in vain, for opportunity to strike a valorous blow for his country, to en- gage in that lofty and chivalrous pur- l suit for which his blood bounded and his heart eternally craved." When the world knew that nothing in honor could prevent the entrance of the i United States into the European war. Mort Jordan prepared with seriousness, with a fiendish perseverance, with a terrible determination to do his share in sustaining and enhancing the honor and glory of his country, and his people.
 HIS DEATH FORESEEN Sometime before the departure of the
 Rainbow division for the fields of France, Captain Jordan was ordered to Washing ton. An August afternoon we returned /, to Birmingham. I became enthralled with the spirit of the man-not with the spirit which had driven him grimly to prepare to perform his lion share, but that which found expression in his love of country, his loyalty to country right or wrong his hatred of the fundamental ioea foisted and bruited and fastened on part of the world by German macifi- nation and militarsm.
 Here was an complication of Amer ica aroused!
 He talked of American intrepidity, but in glorious manner, more of American gallantry and chivalry He was certain
 of the power of Americas mailed fist,