Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-21
GLORY OF THE MARINES
Sailor Soldiers Have Won Universal
Admiration,


will cheerfully admit, is due to good
publicity work." good advertising; but
advertising, there are authorities
enough to prove. never effected great
success without merit behind it, and
it is through sheer grit, courage, fight
ing ability, that the Devil Dogs" have
made themselves beloved and admired
Throughout the Allied natiops-and
among the nations-and among the
first, If not the first In the hearts of
their countrymen. From their exploits
under Decatur. down through their ex-
periences in our own day in the BAHIA
mas. Africa, the Fiji Islands, China,
the Philippines, the arctic, Nicaragua,
Mexico. Haiti, to "the greatest victory
of the corps" at Chateau Thierry. their
deeds resemble the imaginings Of Da-
mas"
The holiday issue of The Marines
Bulletin, their own particular maga-
zine, contains tributes of sufficient
length and variety to make UP short
history Of the famous corps, from its
earliest recruit to it's latest casualty,
Isaac F. Marcosson contributes these
bits of frst-hand observation, which
may stand as an Introduction to "The
Glory of the Martinez:
No man can touch. Americas part In
the war without knowing that the ma
rines have been on the Job. Long be-.
fore I reached the A E. r. in my in
cessant war-wanderings. the valor of
this remarkable organization had be-
come a sort Of tradition in France. The
first news Of them came to me when
was with the British forces in France.
A young lieutenant said to me:
What sort of people are your ma
rines?"
''Why?" / asked, =
"Well, ! have heard that they are
las you Americans say-'some fight
ersI'"
AS a matter Of fact, both, in the Brit
isk and the French armies and more
especially among the latter who served
side by side with the marines at Cha-
teau-T -Thierry, I got one long and con-
tinuous chorus Of praise and admira-
ton for them,
Whin / finally had the good fortune
to see the marines in action, and later
through the circumstances of my in
vestigation of the service of supplies
came to know the former commander
of their brigade, Major General Har-
bord-I felt as II I personally knew
these men who had so gallantly and
so stedfastly maintained the highest
traditions of a branch Of the service
that is in itself a synonym with cour-
age.
1t may interest Americans to know
that the marine brigade incurred both
a hatred and a fear on the part Of the
Germans only approached by two 9TH
ed English speaking units In the war:
the Australians and the Scotch High
landers. The Germans called the Aus
tralians Hell Terrors'; they dubbed
the Jocks the. Ladies from He'll, and
for the marine brigade they reserved
the particular apprlation of Devil
Dogs" Oddly enough, those three tpyes
of Nfghting men weie the most congo
NAL of the English-speaking soldiers.
Between the Australians and the ma
rines there was peculiar lsinship born
of an impetuosity and an utter dis
regard of danger that they had in
common. / have often seen marine
and an Anzac walking hand in hand
throug some little French town singing
the songs of their own country and
presenting such an Illuminating and
energetic example of Anglo-Saxon re-
lationship as to remain always as one
of the most delightful recollectiens Of
the war.
/ was up in the Chateau-T -Thierry sec
ton not long after the marines stem
med the great tide and registered
themselves as q real bulwark Of civ
ilization. The truth of the matter Is
that Chateau -Thierry is the ifull
brother of the battle OF the Marne,
not only in its significance to the
rest of the war, but to the fate of the
world. If in that fateful June, 1918.
the Germans had not been checked at
that immortal town which will forever
mark one of the high tides Of marine
valor, Paris would have fallen. Paris
was to France in the Great War
what Rome was to the rest of the
world in that other day of the bar
barian. But the Hun was stopped and
no obstacle that blocked his way was
moro heroic or more tenacious than
the barrier Of blood and sacrifice
reared by the marine brigade.