The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-08
YANKEE COURAGE
PRAISED ABROAD
PEOPLE OF FRANCE INSPIRED
BY FIGHTING STRENGTH
OF AMERICANS
AMERICA WINS CONFIDENCE Of WORLD
This Intimate Story Of The American
Victories Thrilled Allied Nations
Shows Where We Stand
By H. c. EVANS
Copyright 1879


Headquarters American Army, in
France-''U. S. troops drive Germans
across the Marne!"
"Yanks capture a thousand Ger
man prisOners.'
"U. S. Marines hurl back foe in
hand-to-hand fight"
Americans capture twenty machine
guns"
"Over 100000 United States troops
in France"
why limit our army to five mil
lion men," asks President Wilson.
For days the Americans have
faced torrents of machine,gun fire,
shrapnel and ~high-explosive shells.
They have passed through the sever
est tests. Four times in two weeks
they have gone over the top, hurled
the enemy back, held the captured po-
sitions and taken prisoners and
guns"
Such are the newspaper headlines
lIldl ldNt NlCNtliiNui VI LIN ho''>N
every American on French soil 100
per cent in the estimation Of the
French people. BY nature the French
are hero worshippers. They think
more of men than measures. There's
always some Napoleon who is their
idol. Just now their lido is the Amer
900, .N1Iinr Co 1nnn did MO hnGlfafa
about entrance into the war, and so
slow seemed our preparations afte:
entrance, that the French became
doubtful.
On one or more occasions, after we
had taken over front line trenches,
the French insisted on d~isplacing our
army with their own troops when the
line was threatened. There was ap-
parent doubt in the French mind as
to our boys fighting ability. This was
known to the boys and 1t irritate1
them. For months they were waiting
an opportunity.
The opportunity came and all
COuDlS dlt ulSp'liVu. iIOhI
to Verdun, from Brest to the Alsacian
front, all France is ringing with
praise for the achievements of our
men. Nothing else could have so
heartened France. Nothing else could
have so stiffened the determination Of
her own troops.
nave spent a few days here at the
headquarters of the American army.
There is no buster place on the globe,
nor is there any place where so i'm
portant business is daily and hourly
being transacted. Upon the shoulders
of Gen. Pershing mt his officers here
rest the veal or woe of civilization.
Everybody believes o that the
United States is to be the determining
factor in the war. Our government
has lines of communication from
these headquarters to every town and
city, to every wheat field, to every
factory, to every taxpayers pocket in
the United States. From here a sur
vey of his continents is made. Crop
reports from all America and Europe
are eagerly watched. The reports of
ship building by the allies are daily
considered. The capacity n move
ments of the merchant ships of the
world are noted. The business of war
is diversified. Behind every man with
a gun are several other men. In adj
dition to the flyer there are sixteen
other men to every airplane. The
general work splits into many depart
ments and divisions, production, con-
struction, supply, transportation. Sup
plies must be stored at many points
and forwarded daily. Great camps
must be organized, engineering and
repair shops built. hundreds of miles
OF railway tracks laid, hospitals and
warehouses and locomotive shops
erected. Uncle Sam has given his
best men to this work. Here at army
headquarters are found as capable, ef-
fcient men as America affords. Emf
nent physicians have foregone their
lucrative practice to take charge of
hospital work. Architects and engi-
neers whose income was designated
by FIVE and six figures are working
night and day for the salary of a lieu
tenant. a captain or a major. Cap
tains of finance and business are do.
ing likewise. Thanks to the generos-
ity of congress and the folk at home.
there's no lack of money. That ever
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