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

LheTe is one young lad up there, deaf in ear,
both hands gone, blind yet he is studying law. He
has learned the typewriter, and he writes as fine
letter as any one of you can do with your sight
lApplause.1 They are all very much alive They
nave refused to be downed. They have tackled
their handicap with the same spirit and go and
dash that they bucked the stalemate 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
the world" [Applause.l
Here are some of the good things in the elo-
quent speech Of this blind legislator speaking for
the blind ex-service men:
I'VE 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-
csion and valor that forced from their wartrained
allies and opponents the admission that they had
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 hut give you
pause and force the thinking mind TO ask why
nation had produced such universal phenomena.
an touch with these wonderful men day after
day in whom herOism was as common as the dirt
under foot comparing them with the other sol
diery | impeed to ask myself what made
this vast gap in the fortitude courage judgment,
between human individuals of the same civiliza-
ton and the answer driven in upon me that
the difference lay in their greater soul power,
because at last God had reared a government
der which the soul that thing akin to Him. could
grow: government whose aim the develop
ment and fostering of initiative of the individual.
where they had freedom TO choose between right
and wrong: where any citizen could lire to the
highest Office in the land; where religion was un-
hammered their thoughts unresrained, where they
dared 10 thini1 ana fec )ut loud; where equal OPP
nortunitv was their hirthright, and no high wall of
,vcrhoten' is endured where each stands upon his
oxrn resources for what he is and what he can do.
and every man is the equal Of his neghhor where
tha Stars and Stripes from the towers Of our pub
lie schools speak the spirit Of America and beckon
her children to a heart Of understanding that can
discern between right and wrong.
at &c trre the allies furnished the guns, hut
America furn shed the soul that won the war.
tApnIausel Until that soul was lo"sed in combat
MON Tho hattie fields defeat of the allies was in
o,-,obIa Paris had been ordered evacuated Big
r2e-+bo shells were bursting everywhere in the
s+-aets CONSERVATION prevailed Lines ot refu-
raas were streaming from the city. "erInah
army headed by the Prussian Guard ana com
,nanded by the crown prince. was advancing Win
~ s,sodv nrecision Of coCkwork az the rate OF
fo,,- n FIVE miles day. German patrols hhd been
..-,-ed within SIX miles of Paris. The terrible
horrha-Irrent and onslaught NJ the shock troops
nod forced the French back and back until me
ce-rrors ginning possession ~ the heights ABOUT
re,1eor Wood had cleared the roads Tor eight
miles IN advance
.,,.t.n ,reIr march unres'sfed for several miles
,1 49,. prrss'rn Guard was ordered IN put on
limit a-oss uniforms with spiked helmets The
oG,csrs 1ecked themselves In dress rerniin WIN
s,o-cred bosom shirts The Germans had ne ''her
.to,,-r.- bur TINT they wero going riuwph"n'iy
,r.o pnr,s The French heiio'ed H. The EhsH'"
believed f. the BegiHns believed H. me i'',""9
believed IT, MI the world believed y. n-l "s ~
,-,oric,r regiments ia not believe H. The
go, - Stvtr marines the Ninth md twenty
.,'-d ,rfrntry N the Second division be NJ me
-as, a. bnrd were crowded Into trucks as close
~ 40 could stand and hurried in the night 10