The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-26

GUM, and as in France, and as later
termined the fate of despotism. A
field of Waterloo and | rejoiced that
there the despot of hundred years
ago, Napoleon, was overthrown So
I took pride in knowing that the Eng
| fish speaking people are today united
in defense of free institutions. Our
time was brief, but in that time we
visited the outstanding points of in
terest From Buckingham Palace to
the Strand and Picadilly and Trafal-
gor Square, we glimpsed city whose
people are so similar to our own and
yet in some ways so far apart, and
probably most of all in their rev.
erenee for rulers who inherit their
authority, and for visible tokens of
success conferred in titles for dis
tinguished service, and apparently re-
joiced over by the average English
man.
We visited the Tower OF London
with its awesome reminders of dark
days in English history We visited
st. Pauls and Westminster Abbey,
and in the latter among the tokens
tICClcu W Vic lIlCiuOIy VI ll0I anu
women of England, many of whom as
rulers or in civil life have given to
the world great service, we found a
We visited the House of Lords and
former as members of congress were |
admitted to the floor behind the rail,
that we might better observe pro- I
anoHinorc Tn IF no Of
Parliament Building / saw a large !
painting showing the Sailing of the !,
Pilgrim Fathers for America" and /
recalled that in the rotunda of the ,
capitol in Washington we have it's
companion piece "The Landing of the
Pilgrim Fathers"
We are now about to leave for !
home, and again | cannot fail to re-
cord the abundant and unstinted |
praise for those who have rendered
service for our country-praise that
we hear from all sides. The soldiers
of America on land and on sea, and
whether men or women have made
good. This is the verdict hear.
And from the soldiers we hear
praise of the American people for the
way they have stood behind them.
We hear praise for the Red Cross and
praise for every other organization
that has rendered such incalculable
service in furnishing comforts and
for those in health and
aid and care for the sick and the
wounded. Never in the history of the
world has there been such a generous
of the principle eve are
our brothers keeper" as now. Criti-
sism? Yes little, here and there,
3ut just enough to make us know
hat in spite of mistakes of some and
The misfit of others, for the most
,art our money that has been turned
,ver to the great organizations that
lave been looking after the welfare !;
# our boys has been well spent.
On our trip we have met many
IDAHO boys. Others have gone home.
And everywhere the soldiers of Idaho {
lave made good. Col. Singleton who i
vas the chief of staff of the division l
f which our boys were just part, {
old me that the men of that division c
we're the finest body of soldiers he t
ad ever met. Our boys saw all kinds t
f service. They lived in the trenches. '
hey went over the top. They fought
ghere fighting was most desperate. O
IN Idaho boy, the gallant Captain 9
tewart Hoover, named by me to a
Vest Point, was the first graduate .
f that institution to be killed in bat b
e in the present war. The history f
almost every battle will contain d
he names of Idaho men, and many
our boys have made the supreme
acrifice. All in all the record Of Il
laho's soldiers will constitute a bril- O
ant page in the history of our state. tt
Very truly,
BURTON L. FRENCH. Il
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