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Show THE "DOUGHBOY OF IDAHO" Striking Statue Recently Selected by State's War Memorial Commission, Commis-sion, Is Lifelike Study. It's a fur cry Indeed from the stiff-Becked, stiff-Becked, primly dressed recruit which flooded America after the armistice as tho sculptured representation ot the American fighter to tho shirt-alceved, shirt-alceved, delightfully Informal "Doughboy "Dough-boy of Idaho," recently selected by Tho atato's war memorial commission to ymbollze Idaho's contribution to the World war. The statue, work of Avard Fairbanks, Portland, Ore., ana Salt Lako City, Utah, artist, Is the most lifelike study of the A. E. F. Infantryman Infantry-man as the Boche saw him thnt Amcr- f&mw mL m IV " bPSM IT L I evsiV LW M& " " Lm LHH i ' 1i -i i , i.n i .in f i r i I. v v. " Statue Adopted by Idaho. icon artists have produced, according to both the ex-lnfnntryman and those who havo sought to Immortalize htm In bronzo and stone. Tho Idaho commission has ordered that nil counties of the state have memorials nllko In character with the addition that Mr. Fairbanks' "Doiiirli- boy" bo tho main feature of each county's memorial. Tho American Legion Le-gion of Idnlu has been warm In Its commendation of tho statue and Mr. Fairbanks has returned the compliment compli-ment by Informing tho service men that: "I nm convinced that the American Amer-ican Legion can be n tremendous power pow-er In education and In honor and In the glory of our grent government. I nm Indeed enthused with the loyal stand on Americanism which the Legion Le-gion Is holding out for." |