Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-05
Heroes of Yesterday
 And of Today


 Details of the fighting of last Saturday,
 Sunday and Monday to crush the linden burg line from Cambrai to St. Quentin are just coming to light Greater valor and prowess and courage have never been shown by the human race since Joshua first set his hand to war People who have ar gued that the world was degenerating under modern conditions of society and industry are buried under the fall of all the logic of the structure they have carefully built. And after al there was a natural error into which to fall In the old times men crawled out of the cradle on to the back of war horse and were enured to toll, danger and hardship from their youth up. The use of arms was universal. All difficulties of transportation and labor had to be perform ed by the strength of the arm. That those times should have produced giants in strength and palladins in courage was per fectly natural. But none of the exploits and deathless deeds of the heroes of old excel those of the English, Australian, Ca nadian, French and American troops in that Cambrai-St Quentin sector the past ten days. Horatius, who held the bridge at Rome excelled the British sergeant who held the bridge near Sequehart in neither courage or execution upon the bodies of his enemies. Roland and Oliver at Ronces- valles those matchless heroes of French leg endary history, did not fight one wit better or die more greatly than did hundreds of their French ancestors at St. Quentin. Never fighting Saxon of them all of the old days of England's glory neither Richard of the Lion heart or Edward, the Black Prince, or Sir John Chandos or the Red Guards at Waterloo struck harder, dared more or killed as many foemen, man for man as have the men of the 10th English division on the Brevoir line or the Canadians north of Cambrai or the Australians and Ameri- cans at Catalet and Gouy. Scots who ha' wi Wallace bled, did not shed, or cause their foes to shed, a drop more of blood than the Scots who ha wi Douglas Haig bled this day and time. A thousand years from now men will tell the tale of the ides of SePtember-October, 1918, in France and poets will rhyme and minstrels sing 1t and their children will carry it on and yet on with shining eyes and voices that will never cease and the ears of the world will never weary of hearing the verse and the song and the tale.
 And the men who have wrought these deeds unexcelled, they are neither knights or men-at-arms, trained to war from their youth up, but are simply men from the shop and farm and store and office of the English shires and the American states. They are the sons of the average man. But blood will tell French and English tradition and pride of race carry them on; American institutions and society and the miracle breath of freedom keep the Ameri- can soldier abreast of his allies of an older race. And so 1t Is that those croakers who be- walled the decadence and degeneracy of the race are undone by the headlong valor and Titan deeds of the allied fighting men of today as they beat the Prussian fighting men back in the greatest, the most momen- tous and the bloodiest battles of all the history of the world.