The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1919-09-25

Oh the English an the an the owlln Scotties'
The Canucks and Austriee- an the airy French
The only thing tina. bothered us in all our stasserin
Was wot in ell ~ould appen wen the 'Uns 'ad 1T
the Yanks
HE United States of America Is pre-
pairing an illustrated history of the
WI great war which will tell exactly
Va what happened when the Huns hit
~ the Yanks In the meantime con-
fC-71--yy-T-,0o gress has picked out u few sample
lii SNhlD i | fighting Yanks and awarded them
(S5#@ the Medal of Honor, not for doing
III nv Il their mere duty, but for "conspicu-
| C.. W...:) Gus gallantry and ntrepdity above
>------ and beyond the call of duty" In.
cidentay, this list could be easily doubled ana
trpbed. Again: The names or American soldiers
who wear other American, British and French
decorations are legion six Of the 12,OOO Americans
who fought with the Canadians were awarded the
Victoria Cross the British decoration correspond
ing TO the Medal Of Honor One out of 1900 sol
diers In action received the Medal of Honor.
| would like to see the official citations setting
forth the acts of supreme courage OF each OF these
rs medalsts printed in full in every newspaper In
the land would like to see these citations made
into a textbook and put into the public schools.
/ am not bloodthirsty, but approve efficiency,
even in killing Huns And think such a DOCK
ID
blooded American boy and grl-our future citi-
zenS.
As it u.s. there is space for little here besides the
names of the medallsts. Study the list and find
out many interesting things for yourself
You will note, for instance, that II are officers
and 81 enlisted men, Nineteen paid the price
with their lives New York leads with nine; llli-
nols is second with seven, and California, Missouri
New jersey South Carolina and Tennessee share
third honors with six each.
Military experts have long regarded the Marines
the most efficient fighting men of all the armies OF
the world Nevertheless 80 Of the medals go 10
the men of the National Guards % to men OF the
selective draft organizations, 13 to regular army
and marine units, 2 to the tank corps ana 10 the
dir service.
BY divisions the Thirtieth leads with IL medals;
II is the National Gaurd organization or the caro-
,n,s and Tennessee. Second honOrs go to the
Eipbtv.ninth DIVISION which is the selectve dratt
INIT of western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colo
RADIO South Dakota and New Mexico me thiru
ls the Thirty-third or National Guard DIVISION Oh
Illinois Fourth hOnOrs go to the Famous oecohu
division of regulars which includes the marines
while fifth place Is shared by the two New YORK
divisions the Twenty-seventh and the seventy
seventh.
Sergeant Ellis, n regular put in whole day far
in advance of the first wave or MS company re-
ducinr machine gun nests singe-handed lie kilied
many of the enemy and captured ten machine guns
and more than 90 prisoners.
Lieutenant Woodh also n regular reuuceu
three separate machne-gun nests killing at
teost IL of the enemy with rifle ana piston ana
finally two with pick.
Lieutenant Luke, an eighteenyear-od volunteer
aviator destroyed 1S enemy aircraft In IL days.
Wounded and forced to make a landing, he killed
attacking Germans with his pistol until he FELL
Sergeant York originally sincere conscf
entious obiector. He convinced from the Bple
that 'blessed are the peacemakers.' SO he went
over to help make peace. He killed "a OF the
enemy with rifle and pistol, put whole machine,
pun battalion out of business and marched lo2
prisoners back to the American lines.
Every possible kind of courage was shown by
those medalsts Roberts, when his tank slid into
a flooded shell hole, deliberately gave MS Ire 10
save his gunner Blackwell gave his lie III VOL
unteer attempt to get through heavy hre WIN
message Whittlesey is the go to nell omcer oi
Argonne fame who would not surrender. Lohai
wears also the Victoria Cross, Legion or Honor the
Medoille Millitaire and the Croix de Guerre
Don,t forget the cartoon In which the onearmed
hero and the potential hero who never got 10 the
6ring-line are each saying "You lucky guy Aho
don't forget the potential heroes. Iheir hearts
were broken.
The Complete List
Adkinson Joseph g., sergeant, Company " lio'i
infantry S0th division, Atoka, Tenn
.Aiiex. Jake, corporal, Company Ii, l3lst infantry
$3.50 division, Chicago. -,
AI,worth. Edward S. captain Goth Infantry OIL
division, Crawford. Wash.