The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-11-11
OUR THIRD ARMIsTIcE DAY.

At eleven o'clock on the morning
Of November II, 1918, the sword of
the allies was sheathed; the cannon
of the allies was silenced and Ger
many, cringing in defeat, trailing in
the dust Of ignominious failure, bent
low her head, and on Bonded knee
begged for mercy and for bread!
Thus ended the widest dream that
ever found lodging place in the mind
of an emperor, since that memorable
march of Napoleon's grand army into
the snowy peake of Russia, there to
be famished by fire and sword and
hungry wolves.
AS the instigator of the crime Of
that century pinned away to death in
the desolate wastes of st. Helena. so
will the fiend incarnate of Potsdam
pay for his mad flight into world do
minion and the rule of might.
Large bodies move slowly and his
punishment. has not yet been melted
out to him; living at present, prac-
tically a prisoner in the keeping of
the Dutch government, he will at the
proper time, plead at the bar of the
court of allies and a never varying
law of compensation will give to him
the whirlwind to which he has sown!
This is Armistice Day; we are. free
to think and well might we forget
the miserable wretch in Holland and
revert briefly to our own part played
SO heroical1y in the greatest of all
wars. 1t was the strong arm of the
allies; it was the undaunted bravery
and inherent patriotism of the Amer
lean soldiers that first turned back
the hordes Of helmetted Germans and
made the victory possible!
We can think of Chateau Thierry,
the Argonne and many other battle
fields and find glory in the thought
that here, the forces of right whipped
to a finish the troops Of might; that
here again was embazoned on the
pages of the worlds history the great
truth that once again America had
struck for liberty and for justice, for
freedom and for right.
And today, in the homes where
there is vacant chair, whose former
occupant sleeps in Flanders field or
the Argonne, there must come the
satisfying thought that this death has
not been in vain; that this life has
been sacrificed at the altar of ma
TONS creed and in the redemption
and the protection of a nations hon.
or.
To fond Mother and Fathers every
where today, whose hearts are bowed
In sorrow, whose thoughts are con
centrated around little mound in far
away France, we carry message OF
cheer. The lives Of their boys have
not been given in vain; they died for
the same reason that Washington's
ragged Continentals gave up their
lives one hundred and fifty years ago!
Brunswick can take a righteous
pride In this third Armistice day. Her
sons measured up to their full duty
and several of them rested be
meath the poppy clad Mills Of Sunny
France Her citizens responded to
every call; her great facilities were
used to build ships and to manufac
ture explosives; her people were free
OF pure and free Of heart and they
can with pardonable degree of sat
isfactiou this morning, feel that Their
duty to the government was always
and at all times full and freely per
formed.
So today let's enjoy the pleasure
OF the occasion. let's forget all else
and give ourselves to the delightful
pastime Of experiencing Armistice day
and all that It means to liberty. &c
nstice. In right and TO America.