The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-01
Walter WinchelI
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sergeanta" .. York stopped him dead in his tracks. 'They have fewer clothes on 'ena in Paris" was his reply.
 While in the army, he assiRned e25 of his 9S0-a-month pay to his mother He never mentioned either his expoit or the honors iie received in France to his mother or fiancee. Both learned of his hero- ism only through others York was known as ''The Singing Elder 2 because before the war he wes a leading psalEnster in church and On Sunday mornings taught Sunday school.
 Shortly after York's adventure in the Argonne, newspapermau twitted him about killing twenty live German machine. e.gvuners. What do you suppose your pastor will say when he hears of your ex. ploit2" the newspaperman asked.
 What can he say?" York re- piled, Blessed is the peacemaker' !"
 The bitter irony: York started out as a conscientious objector and be- came the wars greatest hero Today he is on his communitys draft board.
 Ten of the privates and non- commissioned officers who partici- pated with him in the Argonne ex- ploit are portrayed in the film :. Each received a cash payment of $250 .. What has become of these ten World War heroes? h. surance salesman, orange grower, Army colonel, truck driver, mill worker, honky-tonk waiter, night Watchman, barber shop porter, re- tired veteran and one Is making $5 3 week salvaging tin foil and brass from the Philadelphia dumps. What Price Glory, etc!
 Before the war, York worked on a highway that was under construc. ton in his state. His pay was $1.65 a day for ten hours work. That same road is now named '"The AL win c. York Highway"
 The sergeant didn't even know that America had entered the war until four days after it happened. It took that long for newspapers to be delivered to his town from the nearest railroad station While York was showering himself with glory in France, another American, Gary Cooper, was growing up in Montana. York saw Cooper on the screen in after years. and he gave Jesse Lasky permission to film his story, he made 1t conditional that Gary Cooper portray him in the picture.
 Sgt. York knew about the wave of the future" long before barbar- ism was given that fancy handle, and he had no use for 1t. Fourteen years ago he wrote: Before the war, because I hadn't read many books, I was kinder ignorant of many things that people in the out- side of these-here mountains were arguing and Quarreling about. I had never heard tell of this racial SUI. periority and never even knowed there was such 8 thing. jest sorter imagined that people were more or less alike and that there were good and bad and all kinds among peo- pies: and my experience in the World War bore out this belief of mine Tn my platcon there were Greeks, Italians, Poles, Irish, Jews and a German, as well as a few mountain boys and some Middle West farmers They was jes American soldier boys to me and that was all; and I would be a heap bothered if I was to try to make up my mind which of them was the best. didn't find out then, and I'm-a-telling you I haven't t found out since, that jes because a man comes from some particular place or country he's any beter'n anybody else"
 In the thrillm- film of his adven- tllrous career, this repartee gets a wow Some of the doughboys are discussing the hero's capture of a small army of Germans -. !. Did you hear about York captlr- ing 132 soldiers all by hirnself?" says one doughboy.
 How did he do it?"
 "I guess" is the retort, ''he rnust've surrounded them"