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Show BEATTHE BOCAE DOQUETO LATER l t4nieclGenwjil8,',iir riot 'receiving ' as yet,:anifor vry .good reasons, any.t (lud or individual credit for winning thej vlctoriea that have ;crowned the efforts,) of the American forces, in connection With the .Allied armsjduririg the past few , idays. At some proper '.time In the future n they Will be given the praise that they de- serve;' meanwhile they are well, content to wait, and to go on performing unsung the valiant duty that lies before them. ' Even General Pershing, commander in c chief of .the U. S. armies abroad, is not - named in the reports as haying patftici-l pated in or contributed to the fine strat-c egy by which the tide offc enemy invasion , has been stopped and turned back. If he - may not be "mentioned in dispatches," it ' is quite plain that his subbrdihate major- generals, brigadiers,- colonels, etc., must ' be satisfied ior the present with the im-" personal, incognito or anonymous role assigned to them. It is far better, however, how-ever, to-be unknown and victorious, than '.to be advertised and exjloited and defeated de-feated like, ior instance, the 'notorious crdwn prince; -whose monumental !incom- I ?petencer has. done nearly as much to harm '.jthe Fatherland 'as ihave (the most" power- ' ful blows of his Allied antagonists. ' Nevertheless, there, are victories for whichkfull credit has .been already and unreservedly given to the" American com- j manderkrid' his associates and his .troops. These reliiteJto tthe successful organiza-.' tion of the innumerable activities behind thettie1 fr'oh.t-such as buildirig im-mensedocks, im-mensedocks, Jailr6id,4warehouses, train , ingveamps, repair. shops, supply de0pts, and the like. (Without theae,!battlee cannot can-not be won; vwithoutthem, armies cannot even exist. These ttriumhps 'having been .undisputablyachieved 'by the Ariierican off icers and men, -the. other! kin of Victories, Vic-tories, which these preparations -have made possible, will come along all sright and be , duly acclaimed, with the praise placed where Jt belongs, when we take over ov-er as a nation our part of the front and jare giyen;'the fuU responsibility of caring f or it. In thneantime, the. thrashing of the enemy in the, approved manner of the past four dayfcjaffords business enough and honor enough for all concerned in the performance.' There islnuch satisfaction alsoin knowing that the, enemy has at last awakened to a recognition of the fact that the United States "has arrived." Gen. von Stein and others of his class who keep far bagkfthe, Battle fronfcmay continue to prattie about' tthe insignificance insignifi-cance and inefficiency of 'the American reinforcement; 'but hislads on the firing line, like the former-New' York baker who was taken prisoner-yesterday ,Jcnow better. This sometimes bread makeKex- pressed the Reeling that -doubtlesa i pre- "vails in the,tranchf out of whieh Wwasj routedo .the.effwttthat-tW aiuir in the German(cakuIation was inpiHnt, the nurabffr.otfhtiiif AMricansiatl: at ltt4a millions of them.-nDeseret News, , .- 3 i 1 aMBl BBBBlfSBMSMBWi |