The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-29
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
IN MANY COUNTRIES
World War Brought Smashing
Of Cherished Traditions Of
Uncle Sans People.

Washington, d. C.-The war map,
with it's trench lines struggling athwart
international boundaries. shows Amer
lean fighting men holding their footing
on strangely alien soils. AS 1t now
stands, army units OF the United States
are at their grim work In six countries:
France, Germany, Russia, Austria, It
ally, and Belgium.
The swelling volume OF their. move
ment overseas has been so necessary q
response to the emergency or the ma
tons responsibility, SO thoroughly i'm
piled by the original war declaration,
and so entirely natural a picture TO q
people prepared by three years OBJ
servation of world war, that It. may
alize completely the departure from
traditions n the smashing Yof prece-
dents that the. movement. involved.
Checking the six; American artillery
has been reported on the French line
opposite. Mulhausen. several miles in
side the border Of the German empire.
In Austria the olive drab uniform sup
ports Italian sectors WHICH swing
around the toe of Lake Garda, and
American fliers have Unanswered oyer
the Venetian lowlands where the Aus-
trian drive was forced back this spring.
In Belgium they have gone over the
top with Australians. and in France
thcAA III oSSiOu INV Cdh 10
counted by armyscorps. In Russia. at
V~ladivostok and now OF 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 tho
agents In the far flung journeyings OF a
nation whose military history has
shown more than n instance in which
volunteers. ordered to cross q bounr
dairy, have sat down--private and offi-
atty of a warlike expedition to foreign
soil, n still more instances where
militia organiztioans have successfully
opposed national attempts to send them
beyond their wi state lines.
Yet today, under the urge Of the war
resolution which directed the adminis-
tration ito exert all of it's power and
employ all Of its to carry on
war against the imperial German gov
eminent and to bring the conflict to q
successful conclusion" drafted men and
volunteers have not raised a single pro-
test Of serious import.
1t was not until January Of the pres
mally construed the constitution to al
low any sort OF war operation the ma
ton desired to carry N. The court said
Of contentious opposing that view that
they were too frivolous for notice"
Yet long before the decision the first
drafted American had fallen in battle
overseas and legions more had streamed
after him to every quarter, almost. Of
the Eurasian continent.
Thus the historian has been given
a large and interesting mile post to
build In the future; but, for the average
American, the news of the day shows
that this interest is purely abstract.
1t having been definitely decided, upon
due and formal consideration, that a
complete defeat of Germany wes nee
essary to democracy in the world, the
nation has not even remembered prece-
dents Of history or traditions of the
past.
Apparently, the men least inclined
to consider have been the soldiers who
have gone gravely, but with good cheer.
into the valley of h shadow over
seas. and there are making good, the
purpose.