| Show The Hour Is Big With Destiny Sate Safe j L Word Is Unconditional SUrre F 1 American Al Army ill y I Is s C Credited rc 1 d Vi With l Saving Paris Parisi i From Frol l Huns Hulls t. t UT of a full heart the hc lover lo o of 0 OUT OUT-o liberty can pay n n. tribute of a admiration ad- ad and affection to our American Ameri Amell can soldiers In London and in inFranco 1 Franco ranco no tribute is needed for their fame is in every mans man's mouth The Tho o of thought have trumpeted their deeds from front the housetops and your our boys have come into their own Not o that the American sol soldiers have hn much to say for themselves for they believe o it is not the thing to talk about auy any battle or victory in in which the they had an m important part We e expected expected ex ex- our our soldiers to be bo loyal open brave e adventurous to the tho point of I Ir r recklessness gifted also with certain I forms o of picturesque profanity in mo- mo of extreme indignation b but t tho 1 4 who ho expected to fin find the Uc characteristic characteristic character character- of reticence simplicity nn and restraint re ri 7 Let us confess that our two million American boys bos arrived in in 1 France at a n moment when ben the thc issue issue was trem trembling ling in the tho balance The British after four years of such fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing as no arm army ever cr endured were worn and war weary whilo while Franco France had buried a It million four hundred thousand sol soldiers The rhe Americans were ere young oung fresh hard bard as nails m an and there was no DO pack too hea heavy no hours too long no machine gun sun nests too dnn dangerous Between tho first great assaults that carried tho German arm army within sight as ns It were of the English channel cities cit cit- Ics ies and the battlo of ot Chateau Thierry when the tho Germans were within some thirty odd miles of Paris and with a glass could as they claimed Beetho see Bee tho the Eiffel tower tho allied forces fluttered suffered suffered suf suf- casualties of over o and the Germans far more And In that cal cal moment tho struck tho the Hun line Their stroke was tho the stroke ot of a thunderbolt ort Oil the second da day the Hun column reeled broke fled northward You Americans camo came Just justIn In tho the nick of ot time said Bald a British officer to mo In the hotel of ot the French capital they saved ved Paris Paris 1 only r ore More than Paris Paris' was the answer an- an they also paved France And France only They helped us save the the- channel cities and England I hate to think of what would have havo happened hap hap- but for tor the coming of ot the Amer Amer- cans Wo We were at the very end of at our resources they saved aved not only France and England but civilization and the Christian religion Who uttered these words Worde an American No Xo they were wore spoken by a a. British officer He spoke r In fn tho the pint of Justice and generosity een von even though he us It was AS France and Great Britain that bore bon the tho heat and burden of ot the day for three long IonS and bloody years yeara Evermore Evermore Evermore Ever Ever- more the chief glory for tor th the th victory goes to the bravo brave bramen men living and dead French and British who fought through 1914 and 1916 1915 and 1916 before we wo unsheathed our sword to protect the Belgian man who had fallen among thieves Our Array Army In la France Prance Today w we have two million American boys In France of ot whom more than are aro at the front or In reserve resene We sent soldiers overseas 0 durIng during during dur dur- ing September and wo we have transported transport transport- ed six tons of ot food tood and equipment for tor each boys boy's support for one year ear Tho rho backbone of ot tho the American expeditionary expedition expedition- ary Rry force torce Is the tho business organization In the French coast American depots at St St. Brest Bordeaux Bordeaux Bordeaux Bor Bor- deaux Marseilles It took Los Angeles twenty years to grow from a a. few and Fand and to half haIr a a. million but In a few feYo months we built at Brest rest a a. ma magic lc city for men During the Spanish war we sent troops to Cuba but we wo have landed American troops within forty eight hours houra at lt Brest In Inthe i tho the transportation and supply departments departments departments depart depart- ments of France and England are Americans leaving for attack On September 7 the tho supply de department department department de- de Issued 4 rations On that day there thero were supplies In tho the mill military tar depots for tor men for forty five days with several convoys conos I Ien en route loaded with provisions Think of at one of ot these magic cities built b by American engineers with warehouses stretching along afonS' the shore for four and anda a a. half miles mlle In those warehouses are arc stored In piles tons of or tinned vegetables moats meats pork and beans thousands of or tons of ot dried prunes L I Newell Dwight Hillis successor to Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott in PI Plymouth 3 o church N. N 3 Y noted writer and Chautauqua lecturer has just returned from r ro the battle battlefront rout in Europe z with a story o of thrilling interest It will mill sti stir stir- the blood o of ever every man al and d r woman orn l' l who reads it A more timely y or thrilling call to the man manhood h hood and womanhood o of A America has not been published zed is r i in L recent months The article is reproduced herewith through the courtesy o of the Manufacturers Manufacturers' Record f dried peaches prepared l fruits coffee corree chocolate chocolate- Under one ono great tea toa sugar warehouse wo saw scores of locomotives tives The Tho group sroul of ot workmen In that one warehouse had set act up 11 00 locomotives locomotives locomotives tives and cars We e now have havo In ht France orders or for equipping tho the railways railways rail rail- filed tiled or In ways was with supplies already alread process g of ot filing 2900 American en engines on- on gines and freight cars If It you will wili Imagine these theao five coast const cities at atthe tho the ends of or your our five fingers all with lines that me meet t In your our wrist nt at a point nam named d Tours the central supply city and then put tho the other wrist on Tours nn and let tho other five fingers spread out toward Chaumont on tho the east with tho the last finger at the Chateau Chateau Chateau Cha Cha- Thierry front on the west you ou will have havo a rude rudo map mal of ot the wonderful transportation system wrought out under under un un- un- un der dor General Atterbury General Haygood Haygood Hay Hay- good and business men like o Dwight Morrow Colonel Dawes and hundreds of other great Americans who are givIng giving ing lug their talents to this work Many of you ou have havo wondered how your our son was nas to bo be fed when his regiment at St. St pushed forward nine miles between 3 o'clock In the tho morning and dark that night In your our anxiety you ou have hn said How can ho live IIvo In that front trench How can tho they bring food tood up to him Had you OU been on the spot you ou would have found t close be behind behind behind be- be I hind the tho first t group of ot boys In tho the thoI front trench are American soldiers carrying carrying car car- telephone wire and when tho the I darkness fell on that front trench the signal service boys bos telephoned back giving the exact location and keeping pace paco with the signal service boys and only half haIr a n. mile behind are tho the men with the soup kitchens and the hot foods Xo No matter wh where ro your our son eon Is Is pushing forward right behind him In Inthe inthe the tho deep trench come boys bOs laden with food and hot coffee cortee and when hon 12 lZ o'clock strikes and 4 o'clock comes or 7 o'clock the food arrives Not all heroes carr carry guns The wedge ed o that splits that tou tough h log has a sharp edge edgo but also a thick head If It our army Is tho the cutting cutting- edge the tho organization Is the tho wel weight ht that drives It through The Saving Saline of ot Paris Parl Men Ien of ot weight and Influence abroad sa say that our American army helped save Paris Four years of fighting have leave brought the French soldiers to the point of ot exhaustion The array army that stood between Paris and md the Hun was equal to the German army of ot attack until the Huns wore ore strengthened b by nearly half halt PL a million fresh troops re released ro- ro leased from the Russian arm army When the spring spring- offensive began they pushed the French back five miles and then moved forward not like a a. glacier but buta a a. flame Clame of fire on and past Noyon Noon and Ham on from to Chateau Thierry and were within some thirty miles of ot Paris In that hour tho the whole world stood trembling and nd expectant Paris seemed doomed to pillage and loot One half million some fa say eay a million million mil mu- lion women and children were sent away out of or tho the city Great crises bring out the latent Qualities of ot men That hour when all seemed to be lost exhibits the splendor and nobility of ot the French souL Never Xe were the great men of ot France more dignified nor re re- re strained What It If tho the Hun did destroy destro Paris What If If like tho the vandals of or orold old they did smash the statues es cut I tho paintings Into ribbons blow up tho the monuments palaces cathedrals for the I deu development of which the Hun was In Incompetent Incompetent incompetent In- In competent Had not Paris Parke been de destroyed do- do during the French revolution 1 And devastated by the German and the Communist France Is not marble I canvas nor stone Franco France Is a spirit within Let the tho Hun sma smash h tho the marbles mar mar- bles France bles-France France will carve new ones onu Let tho Huns slash the pictures the pictures the sons of France can paint b better ones Lot them bomb buildings whose whoso fra fragments ments are tho the despair of ot German architects architects architects- the genius of ot France Franco will make mako a new Paris to rise out of the ashes In that temper the men of ot Franco France met the crisis For no statement can b bo more mistaken than the one of or that Boston Doston authoress who wrote In a New cw York I magazine last summer about the tho death of or the old France because all the ions eons of ot tho the upper classes os had been killed and only tho poor remained The upper classes did something something- for France but the sons lions of tho the peasants did far tar more On tho the Belgian frontier lived a n stone stonemason stonemason mason mixing mortar and laying brick I and out of th the quarry came camo Rodin the t. t i. i j t. t W r t t N S i 11 pf 4 t w I Iti tt A I Jf t. t t lm t I t Lj tf tt S' S i t. t fl i t i I t If i tj 4 r t I i t I t j t Ii rt I IW I W- W r 1 f 1 t 11 J tt ii J l- l lf f m 1 k I I 1 II Jo tt f VIM M rI D I greatest sculptor since Michael An Angelo elo and Phidias Out on n. n little farm In Brittany a a. peasant tenant went forth to sow ISOW and reap Ono One day hl his son Jean dropped tho the hoe and went up to Paris and Millet lIllet leaped to the fore fore- front And what shall one say of Rousseau Housseau and Corot his dl disciple of or orthe the tho great dramatists essayists and novelists no of tho the statesmen and tho the save that the peasant class In Infield infield I field and vineyard and tho the working people In the shops have contributed an overwhelming 0 proportion of ot l leaders to o tho the most glorious epoch In French history II Trance Not ot Tiled DIed White While What France bled white I The old r franco ranco gone Gono To kill tho the genius of ot France th the tho Hun will have to slay fort forty millions of or folk folkl France was never BO so glorious so serious gerlous so 80 divinely In Inspired Inspired inspired In- In I as M In that hour therefore inthe In I tho the early summer Bummer when the tho Germans I saw Paris a n glittering prize Just within with with- In n their reach and exclaimed What a n. treasure-house treasure for tor looting One with with-I hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred thousand American boys bos marched up to the battle front at Chateau Thierry They stood tood side by side with I tho the young young- and old French soldiers worn ivorn with the tho months of or fighting lifting their own pack often orten thc they carried carried car- car ried led the pack of year old French boys Los The Germans sneered at tho the I ung young Americans as ns Goliath sneered at it young David Stopped dead In his I victorious progress tho the German went Into nto a rage raKe Ho lie flung a n. thousand soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers against a n. point where Buns Huns had lad been victorious tho the da day before and tho the wall of ot steel did not yield In his ils fur fury one company after arter another of or Huns was sacrificed There Thero came carne a moment when the American boys bos climbed over o tho the heaps of or dead and und wounded Huns and took look tho the first step forward orward toward Berlin Tho The audacity of ot an offensive seemed scorned Incredible They went straight across the field not creeping forward on their faces but standing upright pushing back th the Hun luns search searching Ins out tho tiro machine gun I nests back five miles ten miles and da day after day night after night un- un hastening and when the first phase of at the struggle was over the he Huns were fifty miles away awny and the beloved city was safe sate Tho The sulphurous sulphurous sulphurous sul sul- stench passed from the tho air The Tho sun aun cleared Itself of ot black clouds Men fen who vho loved the b beautiful and tho the tine fine arts breathed freely onto once more moro France Prance and America went from the ut uttermost uttermost uttermost ut- ut of ot pain to tho the uttermost of or joy loy Tho The American boys bos mado made only one blun blunder er In tho the entire battle A A. of Courage First thc they Increased their casualties fI fIby by rushing with heads head up and standIng stand stand- Ing InS Into machine gun Kun nests neste when the they should have havo used caution and often orten crept their fac faces s. s meeting cunning with strategy And second on the morning mornin at nt 11 o'clock when their officers commanded them to re retreat retreat retreat re- re treat back half a mile that tho the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans might bo be lured forward Into the deserted trenches while at precisely ly 11 tho the engineers flung lung their gas bombs I Into vory very trenches to destroy the Germans Germane some Borne of or the soldiers did lid not und understand the strategy Refusing to retreat they WON were s caught b by the destructive destructive destructive de de- ag agent nt that was planned for their enem enemy Tho Tito Canadians made the same mistake at nt their entrance Into the war and the American boys bos learned for the tho first time to use the word retreat but tho the blunder and Insubordination were In a sense Renso noble and praiseworthy for without that spirit you OU cannot win victories Wo We saw one of these vcr very boys bos with his leg blown off oft and the tho surgeon Burgeon sawing six Inches from the the tho bone hip Joint When he ho that tho the bone seemed loose the doctor pulled the tho bone and tho the two Inches came camo oft off Are you OU suffering much pain paint I said to the tho young soldier Not very much much much- Then looking up liP his cy cyrs cyr's ys H flashed lashed as aa ashe ho he said And blank And blank It it t was worth UI IU That spirit Is 18 unconquerable It will end within a n. few tew weeks by pushing pushInG pushIng push- push Ing the tho Germans German out of or Franco ranco and Belgium and th this thlu American spirit |
