The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-01-12

or Sergt. Alvin C. York OF the Eighty-second d.
vision in standing off and capturing 1872 Germans
after his patrol was 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 off in the Argonne,
in refusing to surrender and holding out until
finally relieved. Doubtless many died In perform
ing deeds Of, unknown heroism, as no survivor
remained to testify" - ~ .u.f 49, ~ J.
Sergeant York, who got early publicity from the
war correspondents that made his name a house
hold word. killed Is 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 a
church elder and a conscientious objector In the
Tennessee mountains. He has consistently turned
8 down every proposition to make money out Of
his fame--$50,o00 and royalties estimated at $780,
SOOO from the mo.xng picture concerns; 81. 5OO 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 SEQ Bills
introduced in the senate and house In his behalf
have come to nothing. d
Lieutenant Colonel sWhittlesey is "gone west.
God rest his soul! He disappeared from the shin
In the night" a short time ago, en- route from
New York to Havana on the Toloa. His going
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war ended for others IL killed him. He was its
victim just as surely as If he had died with those
Of his Lost Battalion" who never came back ont
Of the 4Argonne forest. "Oyers There, he could saw
to- the enemy's demands for surrender. .Go r.
H-ltsr Over here he was forced to surrender ~
the sorrows Of the aftermath. He felt he had q
help all the wounded and crippled and diving and
jobless who besieged him for help. The .sUnknown
Dead funeral at Arlington was the last straw, He
broke under the strain.
Woodfill Is the only professional soldier OF ina
sthree-a Regular. or the United States army
The meaning Of the old Regular" song quoted II
that the Infantry Is the backbone of the army
York was q naturalrborn fghting man prepared for
a great opportunity BY ENVIRONMENT. Whittlesey,s
triumph was OF the spirit. WoodaIl Ii q profes-
sional soldier trained to deadly efficiency.
WoodflIs father, Al veteran of the Mexican ana
Civil wars, brought him up to be q soldier teach
ing him It'd use d rifle MT the age of seven. His
service IN detail, as furnished by the War depart.
ment, shows that he began III 1901 with three
years, service An the Philippines. He then saw
eight years service I'm Alaska. He served on the
4 Mexican border, won d commission as second lieu.
tenant md was assigned to- the SIxtieth infantry
of the Fifth division. His IA. il. service was
from July III. 1917 to October 81, 1910. Hts char
acter mark ii 'e'excellent'. without exception. usual
~ with the addition. aa model soldier He served
as private. corporal. lance corpora. sergeant ana
lieutenant and was discharged from hls a. EzFss
service ms captain His total active service at