The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-09-14
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There is one young lad up there, deaf In one ear,
both hands gone blind, Yet he is studying law. lie
has learned the typewriter. and he writes as fine
a letter as any one of you can do with your sight
lApplausel They all very much alive They
have refused to be downed. They have tackled
thelr handicap with the same spirit and go and
dash that they bucked the staemate of the
trenches. and with yell Come on boys do you
want to live forever? sent the American spirit up
and down the allied lines to win the victory for
tie world" TApplausel
Here are some of the good things in the elo-
Quent speech Of this blind legislator speaking for
the blind eX-Service men.
1--WE have been accustomed TO believe the Euro
pean propaganda that everything overseas is far
far better than our home product that TO produce
a soldier up to European grade they must be
drilled year after year. But here were these raw
American boys performing deeds of Judgment de-
cison and valor that forced from their wartrained
allies and opponents the admission that they had
never seen heard the like
"A heroic soul here and there would have been
within the bounds Of expectation, but the constant
grade of the whole product of the nation drafted
and volunteers, with whom you came in contact
there on the death fields could not but give Won
pause and force the thinking mind to ask why a
nation had produced such universal phenomena
I'm touch with these wonderful men day after
uay' IN whom heroism was as common the dirt
under foot, comparing them with the other SOL
ulerE, was nlpelled 10 ask myself what made
this vast gap in the fortitude courage Judgment
between human individuals of the same civilian
ton, and the answer was driven In upon me thar
the difference lay in their greater soul power
because AT last God had reared government nm
der which the soul. that thing akin to Him. could
grow; a government whose aim was the develon-
ment and fostering of initiative of the individual
where they had freedom TO choose between ricbt
and wrong; where any citizen could aspire 10 the
highest office ,rio
hampered their thoughts unrestrained whore tbav
dared 70 think and feel out loud: where equal on
pOrtunity their birthright, and no high wall of
'VerbOten' is endured where each stands upon his
own resources. for what he IS and what he can do
and every man is the equal of his neighbor: whore
the Stars and Stripes from the towers of on, nph
lie schools speak the spirit of America and beckon
her children TO a heart of understanding that can
discern between right and wrong
1T is true the allies furnished the guns but
America furnished the soul that won the war
tApplause.l Until that soul was loosed I'm comhat
upon the battle fields defeat of the allies was in
evitable. Paris had been ordered evacuated Rig
Bertha shells were bursting everywhere I'm the
streets. CONSERVATION prevailed Lines Of refu
gees were streaming from the city. German
army. headed by the Prussian Guard and conn.,
manded by the crown prince. advancing with
the steady precision Of clockwork at the ratio ~
four to five miles day. German patrols had been
captured within six miles Of Paris. The terrible .
bombardment and onslaught Of the shock troons
had forced the French back and back until tbe
Germans. gaining possession Of the heights ebout
Belleap Wood, had cleared the roads for eight
miles in advance.
with their march unressted for several miles
ahead. the Prusslan Guard was ordered 70 n,t on
their dress uniforms with spiked helmets The
officers decked themselves in dress regnlio with
Htarched bosom shirts. The Germans Ind mo other
Thought fbav
INTO Paris. The French believed It. the English
believed It. the Belginns believed 1t, the italians
believed It. all the world believed It. But the bovs
Of four American regiments did not believe n The
Fifth and Sixth marines. the Ninth and Twentv.
third infantry of the Second division. being the
nearest a; hand were crowded into trucks as close
as they could stand and hurried in the night 70