The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-04

much of the time during the past yea
and was in close touch with the battl,
front and especially with the par
played by the American troops, t,
whom he gives great credit for stop
ping the Germans in their onrush t.
Paris, has given to the world {
splendidly written description of thos,
stirring scenes. His article follows
why the Tide Was Fated to Turn
These are soul-stirring days. Tt
live through them is a glory and 6
solemn joy. The words of the poet
2 resound in our hearts: Goods in his
heaven, ALPS we'll with the world
Events have shaped themselves in
accordance with the eternal law. Once
again the fundamental lesson of all
history is borne in upon the world
that evil-though it may seem to tri-
umph for a while-carries within it
the seed of it's own dissolution. Once
again it is revealed to use that the
God-inspired soul of nan is uncon-
querable and that the power, however
formidable, which challenges it is
doomed to go down in defeat.
A righteous cause will not only
stand mistaken through trials and
discontinue, but it will draw strength
from the very set-backs which it may
suffer. A wrongful cause can only
stand as long as it is buoyed up by
success.
II The German people were sustained
by a sheer obsession akin to the old
time belief in the potent spell of "the
black arts" that their military mast
\ ers were invulnerable and ~invincible,
that by some power-good or evil,
they did not are which-they had
been made so, and that the world was
bound to fall before them.
The nation was immensely strong
only as long as that obsession remain
ed mistaken. Wit hits destruction
by a series of defeats which were in
capable of being explained as "stra-
tegic retreats" their morale crumbled
and finally collapsed, because it was
not sustained, as that of the Allies
was sustained in the darkest days of
the war by the faith that they were
fighting for all that men hold most
sacred.
To those who were acquainted with
German mentality and psychology, it
had been manifestal along that when
the end foreordained did come, it
would come with catastrophe sudden
ness.
Where the Tide Turned.
1t is the general impression that the
tide of victory set IN with Marshal
Foch's splendid movement against the
German flank on July 18th. That
movement, it is true. started the ir-
resistible sweep of the wave which was
destined to engulf and destroy the
hideous power of Prussianism. But
the tide which gathered and drove for
ward the waters out of which that
wave arose, had turned before. 1t
turned with and through the supreme
valor of our marines and other Ameri-
can troops in the first battle at Chat
~eauIThierry and at Belleaus Wood, in
the first week of June
The American force engaged was
small, measured by the standard of
numbers to which we have become ac-
customed in this war, but the story
of their fighting will remain immortal
am in it's psychological and strategic
consequences the action will take
rank, / believe, among the decisive
battles of the war.
/ am not speaking from hearsay. II
was in France during the week pre-
ceding that battle, the most anxious
and gloomy period, probably, of the
entire war. What I am about to re-
late is based either on authoritative
information gathered on the spot, or
on my own observations. In telling
it, nothing is farther from my
thoughts than to wish to take away
one little from the immortal glory
which belongs to the Allied armies,
nor from the undying gratitude which
we owe to the nations who for four
Misunderstanding years, with superb
heroism, fought the battle of civil
zation-our battle from the very be-
ginning, no less than theirs-and bore
untold sacrifices with never faltering
Just Before the Tide Turned.
On the 9th of last May the Ger
mans broke through the French posi-
ton at the Chemin des Danes, a posi-
tion which had been considered by the
Allies as almost im~pregnable. They
overthrow the French as they had
overthrown the British two months
earlier. Day by day they came nearer
to Paris, until only thirty-nine miles
separated them from their goal. A
few days more at the same rate of
advance, and Paris was within range
OF the German guns OF terrific de-
structive power. Paris, the nerve CEN
ter of the French war industries, not
but the very heart of France, far
more to the French people in it's
meaning and traditions than merely
the capital of the country; Paris in
imminent danger of ruthless lombard
like Rheims, in possible danger
of the conquest by the brutal in
vader, drunk with lust and with VIC
AS one Frenchman expressed
it to me: "We felt in our faces the
very breath of the approaching BEAST
And whilst the Hunnish hordes
nearer and nearer, and the very
oar of the battle could be dimly and
,minously heard from time to time in
Paris, there were air raids over the S
lily practically every night, and the
shells from the ~long-range monster t
guns installed some sixty or seventy S
niles distant, fell on it's houses, places {
md streets almost every day. ]
They were not afraid, these superb S
nen and women of France. They do c
lot know the meaning of fear in de- +
ense of their beloved soil and their S