Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-26
Vast Opportunities Offered to
Those With Foresight to
Grasp Them.
GREATEST HOURS IN HISTORY
Thrilling Moments of History Nothing
Compared With Epoch aking
Events That Are Taking
Place Today.
BY FRANCIS TREvELYAN MILLER,

ing themselves TO young men VINO nav
the foresight to grasp them!
What an opportunity this very me
ment to be something, to be somebody
to make your life known and hear,
throughout the world. A year ago w
were unimportant even in our own lit
tie towns; today the whole world il
calling us.
We, who are living today, are livin.
In the greatest hours of the world.
history. Never before in the annals OF
mankind has the world been thrown
wide open for every young man to tes
his valor and prove his worth.
As youth, longed for the days
when great events were In the making
/ wanted to live when new civiliza.
lions were being born; when soul-stir.
ring heroes were treading the earth
when men were gods.
Dream Has Come True.
And here we are-in just such an
age. The dream has come true. Ro-
nance and chivalry have returned from
the past ages. Today we are all knights
setting forth on the grandest crusade
In the whole noble adventures of the
human race.
What would you not give to have
been soldier under Alexander the
Great in his conquest to destroy Thebes
at twenty-one, to conquer Babylon at
twenty-five, and to die master of the
world at thirty-three years of age?
Or of Hannibal on his march across
the Alps with his 10000 foot-soldiers,
$4,000 horsemen, and 40 elephants.
Or to have ridden with the helmeted
hosts of William the ConqueFor into
the battle Of Hastings when King Har-
old lost his life and his kingdom-and
England was born?
What would you not give to have fol-
lowed the heroic Joan of Arc into the
battle of Orleans--to save France?
Or with the duke of Marlborough
In the cavalry charges on the battle
ground at Blenheim?
Or with Washington and his victo-
rious army at Yorktown when Corn
wallis surrendered-and the American
nation was born-what a glorious mo-
ment?
Or with the duke of Wellington at
Waterioo-to have been one of the
soldiers who conquered the mighty Ma
poleon; to have stood at attention as
he passed down the lines into exile and
death at st. Helena?
What thrilling moments are these
and yet they are nothing compared
with the epoeh-making events that are
taking place today. And to think that
you are part of theml That you
are an important factor in their out |
come! That you can march to victory
with the mightiest armies in all human |
history!
Yesterday, you were unknown and |
there was no opportunity
for you to assert yourself; you We're
destined to live and die an ordinary,
nconsequential life. Today-the world
Is calling you.
The Trumpet Call.
/ can hear the beat of the drum.
And the call of the bugle. Thirty mil
ion men are ON the battle grounds.
Over their heads fly the bl0od-stained
standards Of the nations of the earth.
What a glorious vision--the strong
men of the earth in battle array to
storm the citadels of autocracy; to
rec the human race from despotism;
% carry the flag of liberty and democ-
'acy to all the peoples of the globe.
l can hear the trumpet call. 1t is
! can hear the cries of women and
children trodden down by the brute
leel of the invaders. can hear the
tngs blaspheme as their thrones totter
Ind fall.
can hear the voice of humanity
to-mel
Who speaks? Who tells me to turn
/ deaf ear? Who tells me / am
coward and fool? Think you l have
10 manhood within me? Think you /
I'm weakling or knave? Think you
have neither a human heart or soul
nor even a glimmer of reason within
ne?
Mother Of men, I hear you calling
ne!
Women and children of Belgium /
starving babes of Siberia Suffering
'olandl Weary Russia! Heroic
Chivalrous Italy! Noble
Britannia Bruised Roumanial My
cart Is bleeding for you. l see your
plifted faces and your outstretched
rms.
Men Of the earth, I hear the tramp
( your marching feet And / am COM [
to stand beside you, shout [
err to shoulder; coming, to be with {
GU the greatest moment in the worlds {
istory; coming to write my name |
nth yours on the pages of immortal S
~; coming, to save civilization; to
make democracy safe for the peoples I
t the earth; to be one of Gods no. O
lemen!
! am coming, comrades, coming. 4