Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1919 — TRIBUTE TO YANKEE FIGHTER [ARTICLE]

TRIBUTE TO YANKEE FIGHTER

Magazine Writer Describes the “Doughboy" as AU the World Has Come to Know Him. George Pattulli. a magazine writer who has been with General Pershing’s army in France, has paid a tribute to the American fighting men that is worthy of reproduction in every county in the United States. Says Mr. Pattulli: “The American soldier is about the finest human specimen on top of the earth —rough and ready, grumbling, never giving up; always able to laugh, even at his own plight; a holy terror in a fight; ruthless to an enemy capable of resistance; generous to a fault 'to a beaten foe; hating hobody, fearing none;’with backbone enough to storm hell, and the gentleness to win a child.” France knows this, England knows it, even Germany has a hazy idea that a Yankee doughboy is a combination of an angel from heaven and a devil from hell. Isn’t it about time for Americans to realize the worth of their fighting sons?—Exehange.