Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-02
NATIONAL WARMAP
SHOWS YANKSBUSY.
IN SIX COUNTRIES.
tBy Associated Press)

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE war MAJ
18th its trench lines stragcllnl
.thwart international bounuare'
.hows American fighting men fo!dn&
.leir footing on strangely alen soils
rs it now stands, army units OF th'
United States are at their grim WORK
IN six ountries-France, Germany
Russia. Austria, Italy and Belgium.
The swelling volume of their move
ment overseas has been so necessary
a response to the emergency f the
nations responsibility, so thoroughly
implied by he original war dcclara-
iion, and so entirely natural pic
ture to people prepared by three
years observation of world war, that
It may take historians perspective to
\ ;sualize completely the departure
rom traditions and the smashing of
precedents that the movement IN
volved.
Checking the six American artll-
lery has been reported on the irench
. ne opposite Mulhausen, severa! mis-
inside the border of the Germran en-
pire. In Austria, the oblive-drab uni
orm supports Italian sectors which
swing round the toe of Lake Garda,
and American fliers have mancuvered
ever the Venetian lowlands, whert the
.ustrian drive was forced back .hls
ring. In Belgium, they have gone
yer the top with the Austria alians, and
France their forces in action now
{ IN be counted by army corps. In
: .ussia. at Vladivostok and now OH the
oxen reaches of the Murman coast,
ney are putting disciplined force be-
md the manifold manifestations OF
ltional purpose. Likewise, in Eng
nd. Scotland and Ireland, they fill
the school camps and prepare them
Ives for action.
These men, drafted nearly all, are
ne agents in the far-flung journeyings
of nation whose military history
mas shown more than one instance in
which volunteers, ordered to cross a
have sat down. private and
officer alike, to debate the constltu-
tionalny of a warlike expedition to
foreign soil, and still more instances
where militia organizations have sue
eessfully opposed national attempts
to send hem beyond their own state
lines.
Yet today, under the urge OF the
war resolution which directed the ad-
"to exert all of its power
ard employ all of its resources to
carry on war against the Imperial
Geyman government and to bring the
conflict to a successful conclon,
drafted men and volunteers have not
raised a single protest of serious i'm
port.
1t was not until January of the pres
ent year that the Supreme Court for
mal!v construed the Constitution to al
low any sort of war operations the
nation desired to carry on. The court
said of contentious opposing that view
that they "were too frivolous for no
tice."
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 tn Eurasian continent.
Thus the historian has been given
a large and interesting milepost to
build in the future, but for the aver
age American the news of the day
shows that this interest is purely alb
stract. 1t having been definitely de-
cided, upon due and formal considera-
ton, that complete defeat OF Ger
many was necessary to democracy IN
the world, the nation has not ever
remembered precedents Of history or
traditions of the past.
Apparently, the men least inciinec
to consider that have been he soldiers
who have gone gravely, but with gooc
cheer. into the Valley of the Shadow
overseas, and there are making goot
tn purpose.