The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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THE RALSTON TRIBUNE, RALSTON, OKLAHOMA
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Vive
npHE land of sunshine and of song!
j[ Her name your hearts divine;
To her the banquet’s vows belong
Whose breasts have poured its wine;
Our trusty friend, our true ally
Through varied change and chance;
So, fill your flashing goblets high,
I give you, VIVE LA FRANCE 1 '
Above our hosts in triple folds
The selfsame colors spread,
Where Valor's faithful arm upholds
The blue, the white, the red;
Alike each nation's glittering crest
Reflects the morning’s glance,
Twin eagles, soaring east and west:
Once more, then, VIVE LA FRANCE 1
Sister in trial 1 who shall count
Thy generous friendship’s claim,
Whose blood ran mingling in the fount
That gave our land its name,
Till Yorktown saw in blended line
Our conquering arms advance,
And Victory's double garlands twine
Our banners! VIVE LA FRANCE 1
O land of heroes! in our need
One gift from heaven we crave
To stanch these wounds that bravely bleed—
The wise to lead the brave!
Call back one captain of thy past
From glory's marble trance,
Whose name shall be a bugle blast
To rouse us! VIVE LA FRANCE!
of Lafayette, pmutod to Franca In MM by the school children of America, stands In the cotut of the Leaves.
It to the work of the sculptor Bartlett.
Lafayette’s Name
Honored by All
Free Men
EPTEMBER Oth la the 107th an-
nlversnry of the birth of the
greut French soldier who was
America’s friend in her hour of
need.
Lafayette was a mere boy of twenty
when he left his young wife In Frunce
and nt his own expense came to this
country and presented himself to con-
gress and offered his services where
they would l>e best suited for the
cause In hand.
Lafuyette received his first Impres-
sions of the American struggle for lib-
erty while he was stutloned nt Metz.
Undoubtedly he was led to apply to the
American commissioners at l’arls,
among whom was Krnnkllu, through
his recollection of the loss of Canudn
to France. It was ut the same time
that he, an aristocrat, began to under-
stand the common people. Certainly
from the first moment of his landing
In America until the cud of his days
be was most democratic In his deal-
ings with all men.
When he appeared before Franklin
and Deane uml desired to offer his
■word to America he was dissuaded.
He was told that. In the first place,
there wns no ship to take him, and to
that he answered that he would char-
ter n vessel himself and at the same
time supply It and nlso take any com-
munications the commissioners had for
America.
Wen Commissioners' Sanction.
There wns no other answer to n per-
severing, courageous and generous
young soldier than to accept his offer.
He gladly embraced the opportunity
to lend his aid ami nlso Invited sev-
eral other dashing young Frenchmen
to accompany him.
He wns as good as Ids word, and In
due time he and his ship arrived on
thla side of the Atlantic. Congress
read with Interest his recommenda-
tions from Franklin, and they agreed to
the single proviso In Ids offer, which
was that he, on account of Ids posi-
tion. was to receive the commission
as a general officer and lie was to be
free to answer any summons of his
king. Hut nt the same time he stipu-
lated that he wua to nerve without
any emolument.
It was about the middle of April.
177T, that tha young uobleman arrived
Id South Carolina, and It wns In July
gave him his commit*
slon as major general, nlthough he was
then some weeks less than twenty
years of age.
Placed under the personal care of
Washington, the great commander In
chief soon became attached to the
young officer. The feeling of admira-
tion was mutual, and Lafayette until
the day of his death regarded his men-
tor and friend as the greatest Ameri-
can.
Gladly Gave His Services.
From the first he wns convinced of
the Justness of the American cause,
and he fought for It as If It were his
own. He not only served without pay,
but actually lent assistance to the
struggling colonies out of his own pri-
vate means. In all, he advanced about
j.e• s• t »««, »,,)
1757—LAFAYETTE—1834.
$140,OtK) to the American cause, nml
In those days that was nn Immense
sum of money.'
Less than two months from the day
he received his commission he was
In command of n body of troops in the
army that engaged the British nt the
battle of the Brandywine. The Amer-
icans numbered In all about 11,000 ef-
fective troops, although their totnl
number was about lfi.OUO, while the
British confronted them with an army
of 18,000 trained men.
Then, on September 11, 1877. when
he had Just pnssed his twentieth birth-
dny, young Lafayette, n tall stripling.
A received hla baptism of fire, lie
received more than that, for one of ht«
legs wns so badly wounded by a bullet
that he had to be carried to Bethle-
hem, where he lay for weeks, attended
tenderly by the Moravian sisters.
For n time Lafayette was under Gen-
eral Sullivan, and he saw mtprh hard
service. When the Rhode Island ciyn-
pulgn wns drawing to a close and
D’Kstnlng’J fleet and 4,000 French
troops were withdrawn. It became evi-
dent to those who thought on the sub-
ject that the patriot army was In a sad
quandary. It needed supplies and It
needed assistance In men, and it need-
ed the nllinnce of n powerful nation.
It was true that the badly clothed and
sadly supplied little straggling army
of the colonists could hold out for a
long time; but it was evident that
help wns needed if a peace was to be*
signed that would guarantee their lib-
erty.
Lafayette wns one of those who saw
that the patriots must have help. He
had been absent from home atnl hi*
young wife for two years, and he asked
for a leave of absence to visit France.
Toward the end of the year 1778 he
returned home nnd congress, although
It wns j*oor In resources, did prove Ita
gratitude by ordering Franklin, then
American envoy In France, to have a
sword made nnd presented to the dl
tlngutshed young soldier.
Made Victory Sura.
Lafayette returned again, and this
time France sent over an army and,
what wns more valuable, a fleet to co-
operate with It, nnd with these new
forces In the field against her the Brit-
ish began the final chapter of the war.
After the war Lafayette visited tha
United States nnd was everywhere re-
ceived with welcoming hands.
Toward the evening of his life the
great Frenchman wns In need, having
lost his property and having been oth
erwlse deprived of his patrimony. It
wns nt this time that congress voted
him money nnd lunds, which he sold for
$100,000, ami nt the snine time Invited
him to revisit the scene of his youth-
ful victories.
Ills tour of the country lasted four-
teen months, during which period he
visited each of the then twenty-four
states, nnd In every town and city he
wns the object of n splendid welcome.
He died In France In 1834 nnd there
wns general mourning nnd many trib-
utes to Ills memory In the Unlte<
States.
The present war lias caused hla natn«
to he Illuminated ngnln. for once mors
France nnd America are fighting a com
mon foe. but this time the countrj
which France helped to free Is return
tng to assist her In freeing the woiti
(fur democracy,
Louis Raemakers, the Dutch car-
toonist whose sketches of German
frightful ness have caused the kaiser
to place a high price on him, spent his
early years at Roermond, In Holland,
and afterward studied art in Amster-
dam and Brussels. Before the war he
was living quietly with his family In
Haarlem, the heart of tullp-land, where
he was contentedly painting the canals,
cattle and windmills of hla beloved
Dutch countryside.
Four days after the war began he
drew hla first cartoon, “Christendom
After Twenty Centuries.” He Investi-
gated the horrors in Belgium personal-
ly. Since then hla chief thought has
been of the war and how best to aid
the cause of the alllee.
From the outset hla works re-
vealed something more than the
humorous or Ironical power of the car-
icaturist ; they showed that behind the
mere pictorial comment on the war
waa a man who thought and wrought with a deep and uncompromising con-
viction as to right and wrong. The leading newspapers, first of Holland, then
of the continent and England,, reproduced hla sketches. Quick to recognize
the significance of hla work, the Germta authorities did all In their power to
suppress it
URGES VALUE OF SPANISH
Former Gov. Benton IfcMlllln of
Tennessee, now minister to Peru, who
la In the United States for a brief stay,
believes that Spanish Is the moat Im-
portant foreign language In use and
that It ought to be taught In nil the
higher grades of the public schools
and universities.
“Spanish la the most universally
used language,” said Minister McMlllln.
“Every one of the 20 republics of South
and Central America apaak purs Span-
ish except Brasil, and there It la most-
ly Portuguese. There la tha utmost
cordiality existing between tha South
American republics sod tha United
States, and the trade opportunities of-
fered American manufacturers and ex-
porters are tremendous.
“After the war we will have tha
greatest chance of any nation to mo-
nopolize practically all the trade with
South America. The relations between
Peru and the United Staten are not
merely conventional. They are exceedingly warm. The people of Pern have
the warmest sort of regard for our people, and there la every desire on their
part to extend the trade relations In every way with thla country.
»4ft , < i wr*c
WON FIRST AMERICAN DECORATION
First Lieut John Newport Greene
la on the records aa the first man to
receive the new American decoration
for valor In battle.
His home Is InTltauhton, Va„ and
hls parents are of English birth. Ad-
miral Reynolds of the British navy was
one of hls great-great-grandfathers.
In January, 1917, he went to
France and served six months with
the Norton-Harjes field ambulance
service. In September he was commis-
sioned second lieutenant lu the field
artillery, U. S. R. After six days’
training la an artillery school he went
to the front.
In December he was one of 47
men General Pershing recommended
for promotion and received hls first
lieutenancy. On March 1, while he was
on duty la a dugout near Tout, he was
struck by a hand grenade on the leg
and was called upon by one of the
enemy to surrender, but he shot the
German with hls pistol and drove off a number of others In the hostile attack-
ing party. For this brave conduct ha received the French Croix de Guerre and
the American Military Cross.
FIRST AMERICAN TRAINED ACE
Lieut. Douglas Campbell of Cali-
fornia has the honor of being tha first
aviator trained In America to reach
the coveted position of “ace." Ha
brought down hla fifth German air-
plane In a fight back of the American
lines, and since then haa added others
*o hls score.
Campbell never trained with any
oth«f outfit than the Americana, and
never did any air fighting before ha
arrived on the American front
Campbell la the aoa of the chief
astronomer of the Lick observatory,
neer Pasadena. Cal. Ha Joined the
American air service after the United
States entered the war and came to
France and began practice flying last
fall. He la twenty-two yeara old. Ha
Is the first to get the credit of being s
Simon-pure American ace. He brought
down hla first Bocbe on April 14, for
which ho waa awarded the Croix do
Ouerre. He brought down hla second
on May IS, third May 10 and fourth May 27. On May 28 he shot down a
machine, Mil Its destruction waa not socially confirmed. So ha loot, rra»t*d
•ut after Mother to nUi up hli rec.rS, gad promptly got It
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