The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-08

striking distance of the enemy. As they passed
the reireating French they met with cries Of
You're zigzag; you're crazy. Sure death ahead
There is no hope; go back" But these eager
smooth-faced Americans who had never smelled
the smoke of battle not made OF the stuS
that goes back when the enemy is In front. I'm
perturhed, they landed in the mud and under
cover of the woods formed their lines and calmly
waited for the dawn, when about 5000 Americans
met and held and stopped five German divisions
tApplause.1 So fierce and unfaterlng the
attack that the enemy took II for granted that
there were unlimited reserves In the rear.
THE miracle was performed the march on Paris
stopped the oncoming hordes turned back, the
ChateauTherry drive began the destiny of civil.
lization cNnged. [Applausel
The soul OF America had won because II had
broken the cocksure spirit of the enemy had
kindled in the breasts Of the dropping allies a
morale that from end of the lines 10 the
other. For the supersoldier of the world with
tremendous advantage of numbers had been out
supered by few simple, modest unframed Ameri.
cans: and these same Americans were here in
great Numbers, and they were coming by the thou
sands The war could end in but one way At the
height of the Chateau-T hierry drive when the pail
of that terrible certain daily advance. when the
shelling Of Paris and the nightmare of air raids
was too recent 10 he forgotten not soul could
be found in the ranks of any army or I'm any walk
in life so base but he free admit that Ii was
the American soldier who won the war turned the
tide, 50 we'd them when they had their backs To the
wall Yet now when II is all safely over there
are those who ungrntefully say We would have
won, anyway They would. Ike HI. Applause
"Our boys were far from their homes II put
shame into the hearts of men who fighting
for their very hearth sides and families to
such daring and spirit in lads who needed spur.
II began June AZ Rellenu Wood and continued
through the Aisne-Marne drive. the Somme cam
paft Mihief lprpS- KS thFpuwh Mpugp.
Argonne clear up 10 November II. Six months
and The Job done.
Reared on American soil imbihinr her prln-
cipIes Of freedom. the American soldier did not
need years 81 Intense training He was used to
thinking and deciding In pinch, every man
an officer The intelligence of the American
equipped him understand the game quickly.
Heroes every one. they dared 10 move apart
twenty thirty fifty. sixty feet they dared night
alone and die alone. The average run OF the Eu-
ropean soldier has not the private initiative TO
fight alone and die alone. He fights best in mass
where he secs the form ~ his companion ahead.
feels the rub ~ the elbow Of his pal at his side
hears the tread Of his c"mrade In the rear He must
have crowd to give spirit and soul 10 do and die
The American soldier. because Of his individual
DEVELOPMENT has soul power that dares stand alone
The European must group this soul power 10 pro
duce the necessary courage. The American soldier
Is a lion who dares forage alone. Wolves hunt in
hacks TIE American soldier j. eagle who
dares soar aiof' In the awful s"lifudes swallows
hover In thousands. The American soldier dares
10 die right now. The European soldier tomorrow
ASK the German soldier or officer who won the
war and be VIII tell YOU that Il the Ameri-
cans That II was the Americans who advanced
into no mans lend without hesitation, and came
on with THAT logged determination that sharp
shooter mnchna-Eun nest ambush. hand grenHdes
rifles concealed mines gas shells curtains of FIRE
small and big artillery, the blasts Of hell Itself
could not stop TApplausel
1t is the soul in the breasts oE these boys up
here In the gallery that Is going 10 count II IS the
soul that measures the size Of the man. whether
IN the battlefield in the conflict of life and our
blind friends in the gallery have been tried and
found not wanting