The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-01-20

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Of Sergt. Alvin G. York OF the Eighty-second d.
vision In standing off and capturing 1872 Germans
after his patrol literally surrounded and out
numbered ten TO one and Major Charles S. Whit
tlesey and his men of the Seventy seventh division
when their battalion was cut Oft In the Argonne,
In refusing to surrender and holding out until
finally relieved. Doubtless many died In perform
Ing deeds of unknown heroism. as survivor
remained to testify"
Sergeant York. who got early publicity from the
correspondents that made his name a house
hold word, killed % Germans In a few minutes
with rifle and pistol and captured several machine
guns and crews. Marshal Foch says he did the
greatest thing accomplished by any single soldier
during the World war" The draft found him
church elder and a conscientious objector In the
Tennessee mountains He has consistently turned
down every proposition 10 make money out of
his fame-S50000 and royalties estimated Mt $3.50.
600 from the moving picture concerns; 81. 500 a
week for 100 weeks from vaudeville huge endow-
ments from several religious denominations He
Is working to establish a mountain non-sectarian
school: has raised $4,000 by lecture and has
pledged $4,000 more When York was discharged
the United States government gave him 500. Bills
introduced In the senate and house In his behalf
have come to nothing
Lieutenant Colonel WhetIesey is gone west
God rest his soul! He disappeared from the shin
In the night" short time ago. en- route from
New York to Havana the Tooa. His going
carefully arranged. Three years after the
war ended for others II killed him. He was its
victim just surely as If he had died with those
OF his Lost Battalion" who never came back our
OF the Argonne forest lover There he could saw
To the enemy's demands for surrender go IN
Hill" Over here he was forced to surrender 70
the sorrows OF the aftermath. He felt he had 10
help all the wounded and crippled and dying and
jobless who hesieged him for help. The Unknown
Dead" funeral ut Arlington was the last straw He
broke under the strain.
woodhn Is the only professional soldier of the
three-a Regular" OF the United States army
The meaning OF the old Regular" song quoted IL
that the infantry Is the backbone OF the army
York was natural-horn fighting man prepared for
q great opportunity by environment, WhittIesey's
triumph Of the spirit. Woodhl Is profess
sionai soldier trained tn deadly efficiency
woodaus father n veteran of the Mexican and
Civil wars brought him up TO be n soldier" teach
Ing him to rifle at the age OF seven His
service In detail, as furnished by the War depart.
ment shows that he began In 1901 with three
years service In the Philippines He then saw
eight years service In Alaska. He served on the
Mexican border, n commission AS second lieu.
tenant and assigned to the Sixtieth infantry
OF the Fifth division. His A f. =. service was
from July Il, 1917 TO October 81, 1919. His char
acter mark Is excellent" without exception usual.
" with the addition "a model soldier" He served
us private corporal. lance corporal. sergeant and
lieutenant and discharged from his A. F. f.
service as captain. His total active service ut