The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-04-04
UNIVERSAL ARvy
FIGHTS THE HUN
REMARKABLE SCENES AS MEN
FLOCK TO FRANCE FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF GLOBE
BUSY PORTS WITH VESSELS UNLOADING
Food Conditions in France Better Than
In Germany-AIlies Are Defying
Submarines
BY II. G. EVANS.
Copyright 1919

Paris, Yesterday / stood at a
French port and saw ships coming In
from the seu-ships bringing fighting
crusaders from North and South Am
erica, from india and Africa, from Asia
and from the Orient, from the islands
of the sea. Fighting men from the
four corners of the earth are converg-
ing in France.
Every day they come by the thou
sands. Within two hours | saw land.
ed American soldiers, sailors, aviators,
carpenters and mechanics; dusky war.
riors from India and Algeria; Poland
ers from many countries; Scandinavia
ans, stalWart descendants Of the old
Vikings; Russians who know that Ger.
many is gripping their country with
bands of slavery. and who are denied
the opportunity to fight on their own
frontiers; Frenchmen and Britishers
who have been abroad and are return.
ing to their home land to take up arms.
These men every n a verile fight
ing machine, come individually, in
groups, in army units. Every day, al
most every hour, similar sights have
beer witnessed for months at all the
French ports-and will be witnessed
in the months to come until the mill
tary force or Germany is broken.
There is no parallel in history for
this movement of men. The only
movements akin to it were the ad-
ventures of the crusaders in the days
of chivalry and the massing of the
ference. however: With the crusa-
ders and the Pilgrims went the old
and the halt, the women and chill
dren. Every n coming to France
today is a selected man. selected for
his physical prowess, for his
strength, for his ability to shoot, for
that courage which enables him to
put the bayonet to the uses for which
it was made.
This conveyance on France of the
virile manhood of the world mean
but one thing: Germany cannot escape
the wrath of an enraged civilization.
With the armies of fighting men
come an army of servers, unarmed
soldiers, who will stand behind the
men behind the gun and by his side.
They will do for the boys in the
trenches the things that officers can
not do, that governments cannot do.
These servers are the representatives
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. They have learned that to serve
is to save. They propose hat when
our boys go clean Owe the top they
shall go over the top clean. 1t is an
unselfish service, the like of which the
world has not known.
"And only the Master shall praise us,
and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money,
and no one. shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working
and each in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees it,
for the God of Things as they are"
There are other armies Of men 60
ing down to the sea in ships from
the sea-ports Of the globe. They are
merchantmen who are emptying the
graneries of the world into France.
The harvest of the husbandman. the
product of the factories, the coal and
iron, the copper and petrol from the
four corners Of the earth, from
Greenland's icy mountains, from In
France.
Four years ago Hamburg, Germany,
was Europe's largest seaport. More of
the products of the world were brought
to Hamburg for distribution than to
any other European port, and more Of
Europe's exports were shipped from
Hamburg than from any other harbor
in Europe, Two years ago ! was in
Hamburg. 1t was as ~lifeless as a coun-
try village in Iowa on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
Every sea-going ship in the great
harbor was anchored fast, and had
been since the war began. Not a for
eign vessel sailed the waters OF the
Hamburg harbor. Only fishing
smacks and river freighters were in
evidence. The Of Ham.
burg like the glory that was Rome's
is a thing of the past. Her outlet to
the North Sea. the mouth of the