Show A Gori us Privilege i p each day of incidents of the war vi reminds rc- rc minds us 15 of the imp important p j part rt American meriea meije e tr nary fortes fon-es played in the fi fighting lot For instance r e herc is is an interesting bit about Pi i z German machine guns which had been masked ked kC ro on their riS' riS right t as the Americans entered the town opened up ui with a n. ferocious chattering as the ceno cen- cen d ter o of 01 the town a readied reached Shells from German Genoa guns on heights height north of Fismes also were prodding prodding prod prod- ding cling in the area of the American 2 advance Hl For lor seven cn hours the battle hattle for Fismes mc raged At the end of that time a 1 flanking party p of Americans American hind had wiped out the enfilading machine guns American shells had silenced the lie nearest German guns and nini was held heM in token that the Manie i pocket was turned inside Out ont and anh another step stCl toward victory achieved cd I We Ve c could not have ha bought that victory with wilh money moncy yet et it was American money advanced nel by hy the government government government govern govern- shells and it was ment that bought hought the guns Hns and tho the our intrepid men behind the guns gulls uns that did the busi husi- ness Th This s is s hut but a sample of oC all the tho other lesser hesser i vic victories tories until came the final one when the German guns were sile silenced for good a awl let us hope forever forc Wo We V 0 cannot buy huy victory victor hut but what a u blessed lessed thing tiling it is we arc each one pr privileged vile ed to pay for it achieves the time victory vie vic The boy who goes oes to college and tory called education could not have bought ht success in ill advance ad hut but how w willingly Iy he lie pays pay hack back the tile obligation to his father in after years when his earning power is established The rhe foreign born clement of our population population tion ion who came to Utah in earlier lays days were mostly moth brought here un under er a n system by which money adI adI ad- ad I I j I vancel them out of a fund with the expectation thie they and had opportunity l- l arrived ell would o ld repay it after they I to produce it out of the soil oil of the tree free or earn it otherwise other other- wise wie by lV the sweat of their brow They could not buy their freedom in iii n nance advance ance What hat a phi privilege e they esteemed esteemed es es- es- es teemed it to pay the mone money back Those perilous da vs are arc still fresh in our minds when our sons sons son and brothers were mixing mixing- with the lie enemy ill in in red burial and some of them alas falling one blent and every ery red blooded American native nati or foreign for for- eign born horn will now esteem it a privilege to walk up to the Victory booth hooth and say I I 1 could not buy the victory victory vic vie tory which our boys bor won over O there but its it's a a. grand and glorious to help to 0 pay for it Bl Ja IB |