The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
FIGHTING MAN FINISHES
TASK; CIVILIANS DUTY
BEFORE HIM
(By C. M. Morrison)

tBy y. NJ. M0rTISOHD
There was time not so many years |
ago when all over the earth America !
was regarded as a country that would |
not fight under any circumstances.
There were a good many Americans
who feared the same thing. They |
awaited with wrath and bitterness in
their hearts against the time OF our
testing. They knew it was coming.
But the world impression was that
we were turner's of the other cheek.
That we were lily-blooded, lavender
scented pacifists, Joined to milk-white
flags and chalk idols.
Mexico believed it. There were ma
tions in Europe who thought that
they knew it and they proceeded to
act accordingly. They whispered up
and down the earth that we were
nation of money changers, OF dollar
chasers, of commercial grubbers and
money diggers without spirit enough
to know when we had been given a
deadly insult.
A lot of water has run under the
bridges since that far off day, The
Allied nations know US for what we
are worth now. The hats of the
world are off to the Yankee fighting
men. They were first-class two
handed scrappers. They gathered in
the cherished decorations, England
honored them, and France and Italy.
The American soldier has been CIV
en- a place of honor with the first.
And as to what the Hun thinks Of
him, you can draw your own conclu-
| hn1 OF V11Hnn.
dorff's command, his pet Bavarians,
his idolized Prussian Guards, failed
to stop the men from overseas.
Along last summer the st. Mihiel
salient was to be reduced. 1t had
held up our Allies for years. 1t was
a thorn in the side of fair France.
We were given ten days to do the
Job and we put it across in three
DAVIS. That action set the standard
for the American fighting man.
The Huns were amazed. They
were not accustomed to an enemy that
would charge machine gun nests,
barebreasted and in the open, and
take them, too. We upset the old war
', ideas. We refused to fight trench
warfare. Fighting from bitches was
entirely too comfortable and leisure
ly to suit US. We had nasty job
on our hands and we knew it and we
wanted to get over and done with
, Therefore we speeded up things when
we hit the line. And we hit the Huns
: so hard that between US and the
. French and British they were ground
; to pieces and battered so badly that
, there is no heart or courage left IN
the nation that is now in danger OF
, falling inc the hands of the Bolshe-
! visits.
: The history of the war will show
that wherever Americans fought or
the land, on the sea, in the air, or UNI
der the sea, they fought as Americans
y should. Coolly, viciously, with sort
E of reckless cautiousness that got the
I results.
:. And we made the Hun quit anC
II quit cold. In the face of 100000 o.
I, the sort of boys that you and
b know, the regiments of the Imperia
= Guard, the "Iron Brandenburgers,
: the Prussian Guards and all the res
g of them, quit. When we hit them a
e Chateau-Thierry, that was the begin
n ming of the end for the Hun. His da.
= was over. His sun was about to turl
toward its setting.
IS The world may not have known !,
e, then. We didn't know it over here i
l. America. We were all set for lon
l. war-one of the sort that would dra
u through the years. But we had alres
is dy shown them that we would figh'
lie and that no army that ever trod sho
N leather would fight better or harder.
lie Those boys in khaki who amaze
h the world by their bravery and scor
e. of danger, who CALAMITY offered an
Ig freely gave their lives that civilizs
ID ton might abide on earth Throughout
st the ages, set American right befor
~ the eyes of the world as nation G
y fighters.
n The opinion of the world has bee
al completely changed as regards ou
fighting ability. And now the rest
the world is to change its opinion
another respect.
America was known before the wa
ell as the nation of extravaganza an
ly waste. But when the crux came civ
IS, ilian America gave as good an accour
I'd of itself as did the military, Purs
f. strings were opened, and avalanche
I'll of gold poured into the Treasury an