A real American address by a real American was delivered at the high school auditorium Wednesday night when Hon. Burton L. French, congressman for the First Idaho district, spoke to his friends and neighbors, telling them what he had seen and learned while visiting the war zone in Europe as a member of the first congressional party to go to the war zone since the war. There was no carping criticism of the conduct of the war; no egotistical statements of how things could have been done in a better way; no pointing out of "costly blunders" by those in charge of the great undertaking. Instead of this, our congressman praised the "dough boys" who whipped the Huns; he praised the sergeants, the lieutenants, the captains, the officers higher up. He gave to each of these credit for the great victory won and he commended in the highest terms the efficiency of the Americans from the private in the ranks to the man at the head who provided for their every want.
He pictured the great warehouses and the enormous transport service required to supply our men and said that nothing had been neglected or overlooked. He pictured at one point a number of warehouses, that if placed in one would have been 50 feet wide, 30 feet high and 16 miles long, and this was filled with supplies for our soldiers. He pictured 4,000 beeves gathered from all parts of the United States, slaughtered, prepared and furnished to the soldiers every day. "Surely it must have been a great general who stood at the head of this work and directed it so successfully," said Mr. French. 