Show When Doughboys Ended Germanys Germany's Dream o of Power By THOMAS J. J DICKSON President First Division Society of W Washington Chaplain General of the Military Order of the World War From the Kansas City Star Some twelve miles mlles from Verdun there Is a hogback mountain about a ay y thousand yards long Once there was wasa a little village named Vauquois is on the summit It probably was Just aha a n hameau ha neau of thatched straw and har hardly l had reached the dignity of ofa a n village Like LiI the nest of an eagle Vauquois rested high above the sur surrounding rounding country It was as an eagles eagle's nest for th there re an eagle defended her brood In the epic cycle of world changement from monarchies to re re- publics Vauquois vanished d as as a drop of ot dew In the ocean of time The mountain stands forever the Sentinel of Verdun Vauquois mountain Is the rendezvous of the Unknown Soldier In this chambered chambered cham cham- Temple of Silence e dauntless valor sleeps sleeps sleeps-sleeps sleeps In a n winding sliest sheet of rose leaves of oak leaves eaves of f fla la laurel rel leaves No bard can sing sins his lay No poem tells the story of his triumph Perhaps this Is Just as RS well Let his story rest In the Chancery of Heaven known to God alone unto t that Day when He shall muster those who Rho ho fell in n holy cause S Subject for a Hugo Vauquois mountain baffles bames description tion tron Our language must be recast If It Victor Hugo Hug could write page after pane page pa e about an old Iron cannon that rolled from side to side of a a ship If f fc be c could could- change hange Iron Into Into flesh flesh flesh- and endow It with all the faculties of lIf life what would he have said had he stood on Vauquois mountain and seen human hunan hu hu- man nan flesh turn turn to steel and warm blood to acid had acid had he stood on this m mountain for centuries while wave wave u after wave broke at his feet Yes tidal waves of t flesh and blood that for hundreds of years have broken tir ken on this Gibraltar 1 If It the mountain fell Verdun would fall tall I The Sentinel of Verdun Verdon was faithful unto the fullness of time then fel fell Before he touched the ground round he w was s caught in the arms of ot the Americans The world changed from monarchies s sto to republics Who did it Search your h histories Who Vho were these Americans From every ery banquet of Information the Inquiring In In- quiring soul of m man an returns hon hungry ry and unsatisfied And And here Is a story that should be on the lips of every child thUd that loves loes to gaze on stars They were mc men men- with wim an ancestry I AS of old there were giants In n those days Forty years ago there were two distinct peoples on this earth One tribe was ms of that region staked by by Art It was preparing to conquer and dominate laminate the world Meeting Seemingly Impossible Thousands of miles mlles away across a great ocean mountains rivers plains barriers reared by Nature Nature another another r strain was preparing for th the r of citizenship It would seem In to all human probability that the earth was as large enough for tribe and strain to live and move and have their beIng be be- tog lag apart arad and aId forever They would when the poles of north and south BOuth met The greed reed for ever eve has been dominant In the heart of man Caesar Alexander Attila Gen hz Khan Omar mar Tamerlane Louis XIV RIV and nM Napoleon More battles have b been n rou fought ht near noar th the River Rhine than any flay place on earth and on a piece of ground not nit much lar larger er than Texas In la the Franco Prussian war war more more than fifty iffy years ears n ago the ago the o-the the Prussians easily CaRny captured Paris They rolled their ir guns ns up and down the Champs I I sees They marched ben bei bennt be- be nal n wm s a Arc i de reared b by Y Napoleon In honor of his victories Everywhere the thought was domInant dominant dom dom- a thought that afterward burst forth In n son song It was Deutschland bland uber Alles AUe l I In their daydream of ot empire they saw the time coming when pilgrims from Arctic's remotest shore and caravans from Sahara's burning sands would d take their costliest tributes and reverently lay them at the feet of ot mighty Germania Two Places Not Captured In th that t war wa there were two places the tho Prussians did n not t capture Belfort and Verdun A great lion carved In stone Is the emblem of pf Belfort t. t In the eloquence eloquence elo elo- quence of pf silence appreciation finds voice by painting Verdun In letters of ot gold old When the World World war war broke the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans remembered the sentry who had halted them on the march to greater empire The finest army the broad empire empire em em- pire of ot the Central Powers could muster muster muster mus mus- ter was thrown against Verdun Sacrificed Sacrificed Sacrificed Another army Another sacrifice sacrifice fice flee I I D Days s 's of effort passed to weeks and weeks t to months and months to years An Irresistible force met ac ar Immovable Im ii movable object Human e effort ort locked In an embrace embra e that knew no breaking In this s seeming eternity the Sentinel of ot Verdun walked his post In despairs despair's desparr's despairs despair's de de- sparr's darkest hour he called All AllIs Allis Is Is' well l All An is well Vauquois mountain sto stood d as the most Indomitable r redoubt doubt In t the e most tremendous tremendous tre tre- line of defense ever built bunt by byman man the man the Hindenburg line Other lher places were strong Over Oer other places the tide of battle ebbed and flowed Verdun Is where human effort froze Thus Thus far and no farther They shall shaIl not pass Where the Eagle EaDIe Struck A short distance from Vau Vauquois mountain mounta n Is the town of Montfaucon RIghtly nightly named Hawk mountain Eagle mountain Line after line of ot defense was back backof of ot Vauquois mou mountain an The Hagen stel ung The he Volker The All AU formidable The Argonne forest with the screened gun nests Look at a map of ot the region of of Vau Van Vauquois mountain You wo wonder der why the Germans did not pincer off oer the s salient Uen and easily capture Verdun Be on the ground when the he firing c ceased ased It Is a wonder there is an American soldier alive fo tell the tale The massive works that works that tur turned ed the fair face of ot Nature Nature Nature Na Na- ture Into the side of a battleship J Day of Destiny September 26 1918 the knell of empire empire empire em em- pire was struck I The poles of north and south did meet An Irresistible force ground to dust an Immovable ob ob- Forty years cars of preparation to dominate the earth came came to naught Forty years e rs of ot preparation for the of ot citizenship makes this date forever glorious September 26 20 will be e placed on the calendar of nil all a l of e earth rth On this date a division of American national guardsmen guardsmen guards guards- men men went forward to take Vauquois mountain and anything else that stood In its way In a few h hours urs the mountain moon mona tain talO fell tell Terrific shock i Their lines wavered The fhe guardsmen rallied Again Agan forward I 1 Volker taken Town after town restored to France t. t On the field of valor the MI Missouri Mis sour Tiger and the Kansas Jayhawker are ore mounted to highest posts of ot equal honor with the Sentinel of ot Ver Verdun un Y s Y Yd d y I Their Souls Go Marching 0 On |