The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-11-01

Oh. English an the irish an the 'owln' seotties
The Canucks and Austrilee-uns an the airy French
poilu--
The only thing that bothered in all our staggerin
ranks
Was in ell would appen wen the 'Uns 'ad 1T
the Yanks.
@ HE United States Of America Is pre-
pairing an illustrated history of the
great war which will tell exactly
what happened when the Huns hit
the Yanks. In the meantime con-
fC@.r-yy.-..1 gress has picked out few sample
III Nssk/ II fighting YankS and awarded them
!9IT The Medal of Honor, not for doing
liz TIN Il their mere duty. but for 'cunspicu-
| I'D ILL., gus gallantry and intrepdty above
and beyond the call of duty" IN
cidentally, this list could be easily doubled and
trcbled Again: The names of American soldiers
who wear other American British and French
decorations are legion; six of the 1200 Americans
who fought with the Canadians awarded the
Victoria Cross the British decoration correspond
- u the Medal Of Honor. One out Of 15.4OO sol
:..slr1 81 action received the Medal of Honor
81 ..oti!d like sec the official citations setting
fb the acts of supreme courage of each Of these
HGuiiISIt Ifiuteu III iHit III every newspaper IN
t'ir land. would like TO see these citations made
into "A textbook and put into the public schools
l not bloodhrsty, but approve efficiency,
in killing Huns. And think such book
would be IN incentive to patriotism to every red
iootied American boy and gir-our future cit-
Zene.
AS IT is there is space for little here besides the
names Of The medasts Study the list and find
ont many interesting things for yourself.
You will note, for instance, that q are officers
ard 81 enlisted men. Nineteen paid the price
with their lives. New York leads with nine ILL.,
nois 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 efficient fighting of all the armies or
the word. Nevertheless, 80 of the medals go to
the men OF The National Guards; % TO men of the
selecve draft organizations, Ii to regular army
and marine units, to the tank corps and to the
ali service.
By divisions the Thirtietll leads with II medals;
II is the National Gaurd organization of the Caro-
linas and Tennessee. Second honors go to the
Tighty-nint division, which Is the selectve draft
uni OF wcs' ern Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska, Colo
rutlo sauth Dakota and New Mexico. The third
IL The Thiriythrd National Guard Division OF
Illinois. Fourth hon0rs go to the famous Second
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.
Scrgeari, Ellis q regular, put In whole day far
In advance of the first wave of his company re-
diclng n,achine-gm nests single-handed. He killed
many of the enemy and captured ten machine guns
and more than 30 prisoners.
Lieutenant Woodt, also regular, redneed
three separate machinegn nests. killin ID
least II Of the enemy with rife and pistol and
fually two with pick.
Lieutenant Luke. an eigsecnyear-old volunteer
aviator, destroyed Is enemy aircraft In II days
Wounded and forced to make landing. he killed
attacking Germans with his pistol until he fell.
Sergeant York was originally sincere conSci-
entious objector He was convinced from the Bible
that blessed are the peacemakers." So he went
over to help make peace. He killed "a of the
enemy with rife and pistol put whole machine
gun battalion out Of business and marched 13o
prisoners back TO the American lines.
Every possible kind of courage was shown by
these meialists Roberts, when his tank slid into
4 flooded shell hole. deliberately gave his life to
saye his gunner Blackwell gave his life In vol
unteer attempt to get through heavy Are with
message Whitlcsey is the go to hell' officer OF
Argonne fame, who would not surrender. Loman,
wears also The Victoria Cross. Legion OF Honor the
Medaille Mitaire and the Croix de Guerre.
DOM forget the cartoon in which the onenrned
nero and the potential hero who never got to the
firing line are each saying "You lucky gLJ!" And
don't forget the potential heroes. Their hearts
were broken.
Tn. Complete List.
Atkinson. Joseph B., sergeant, Company G, 10Th
,afantry. s0tii division. Atoka. Tenn
ALEX. Jake corporal. Company H. Isl Infantry.
8sd division. Chicago
A,;wcrth, Edward s., captain. Goth infantry 9th
ax,sioi, Crawford. WASH