to the speakers' table upon a raised platform. And he was again to
bring that assemblage to its feet and fill that hall with its cheers.
This time it was for Alvin York, the man--as he talked to them about the
boys of the mountains.

Three days afterward, he entered the store of John Marion Rains at Pall
Mall. As all the chairs and kegs of horseshoes were occupied, he put his
hands behind him, swung himself to a place of comfort upon the counter,
and took his part in the battle of wit as the firing flashed amid the
tobacco smoke. Pall Mall was home, and there he permitted no distinction
between individuals.

This has wandered far afield as a biography of Sergeant York. It is but
a story of the strength and the simplicity of a man--a young man--whom
the nation has honored for what he has done, with something in it of
those who went before and left him as a legacy the qualities of mind and
heart that enabled him to fight his fight in the Forest of Argonne. The
biography no doubt will be written later. He has not planned for the
long years that lie ahead, but is following after a principle with a
force that can not be deflected or checked. The future alone will tell
where this is to lead him. This is really a story of but two years of
his life--the period of time that has elapsed since Alvin York first
found himself--a period in which he has done three things, and anyone of
them would have marked him for distinction. He fought a great fight,
declined to barter the honors that came to him, and using his new-found
strength he has reached a helping hand to the children of the mountains
who needed him.

PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT!
[Let him bear the palm who has deserved it!]

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