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PERSHING'S LIFE AIM 1S REALIZED Victorious Effort in A. E. F. Enough, He Said About Presidency Plea. (Continued From Second Page.) who bore himself in & way that made him appear an inch or two taller than he was. At 45 he could have fitted into his cadet uniform without bagging around the shoulders or being too tlnn.’ around the middle. He saw everything going on around him. He was receptive, but lpplrenlly not, bnumi certainly not fl with a winning Smile and an aye that lDoked directly into yours as he shook your hand earnestly. That smile could have won votes. It might have made him Representative Pershing, or Senator Pershing, if he had not gone to West Point. He had warm impulses. He could get quite ex- cited over some human thing; then suddenly the impulse would withdraw under cover of the smile. He was West Point, the soldier again, and also he had gone to West Point from Missouri. The dattos knew that smile. Take it g its face value and everybody could haDD) together: but behind it was shooting, and more shooting, in pursuit i the jungle. Getting Valuable Insight. ©On one of our Manchurian walks I asked him, “Are you learning much?” The Japanese staff kept the attaches lmited to a zone in the rear of the army and gave them banquets if not in- formation. “A great deal” he replied. “I'm get- ting bits here and there and patching them together. All invaluable if I were ever to command in the field—" the soldier’s dream, when the only action in sight was perhaps trouble in Cen- tral ‘America which a landing party of Marines might settle without giving the Army a chance! The Russo-Japanese War was a great training ground for generals. Of the American_attaches who preceded per- shing with Kuroki's army, Capt. Peyton C. March was _to be chief of staff m 1918 and Col. E. H. Crowder was to be provost marshal general in 1917-18. Of the German attaches Capt. von Hoff- mann was to be at Ludendorf’s right hand and Von Etzel was to command a German corps at Verdun, opposite Cor- vissart, who commanded the French. After 1 was back in Washington I Jearned that the lightning ‘of presiden- tial favor was to strike Capt. Pershing. President Roosevelt, who wanted to know all about any war from anybody who had been present, said to me: Roosevelt Saw His Merit. “We need some fresh blood at the top our Army. Leonard Wood and Pershing are the livest officers we have. I'm going to nominate Pershing to be a brigadier general. As his father-in-law, Senator Warren, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, that ought to help put it over.” So Capt. Pershing was jumped, as Maj. Wood had been, over all the officers on the list between him and his star. In years to come I occasionally ex- changed letters with Pershing. He al- ways sent Christmas cards to the people he had met on his travels. He never seemed to forget a name or a face. Lightning struck him again in the Spring of 1916. Francisco Villa, the bandit, sprang the bolt out of troublous ‘Mexico, when his band raided Columbus, N. Mex.,, March 8, 1916, and killed ‘American women and children. Brig. Gen Pershing was sent in command of retaliatory expedition to break up Vulll band. For a year, with 10,000 soldiers, he was encamped 100 miles beyond the Mexican border. I remember that in a letter he wrote me from Mexico, when I was in Prance in 1915, he said he didn't know much about the European e ki - xee f. e BApenan B & mes oty s it 1 « M. e &4 bt = ® : Ar ‘ \’ffif Lo Brviant (N - @ed o, * o Wik ki ¢(;le. > -t "B s R4 : T akew a A Loa v f “m i(‘._ o A By yviios ..,l-l- Vil el = "5* Lo thoa by 2 Lo Sy futy -l L s s Bt gy e G A7 = v ALD ALl Qg itl - aces Leeses 4 &. Q Srnast hee lnv lc"a“‘ f&-— Lorr . .»i,. £ u Beoe fegernc = e/flw., ,4/1<, 2 Co 7 % centns SE f-f/‘ //‘. 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EONa ‘My Experie nces in the World War.” draft of his 270,000-word story of the war in longhand, as this renroduttlon Dlmws WASHINGTON, § 8 My oI JANUARY 11, _1931—PART ONE. Fo bR, G Qore - face ,«-r‘..‘((,_ f e | | pE= peivet 7‘..{.” heeF i '/—»L’. Luir . —= s /ur.n/:a..u,?l@ el il Predls | : .7 7 e 4o mnn le » B0 Honilbgesi sl - o Gam A év(«'?s.,. D Kowe olis” f’?‘)flo—w—u$ Coppiciie Ar om T O Arisnis s s born ol Frtan Lrnd armg ) Coee g 4‘~ Sy | Y wle KAw-«. 114_, | G A - P e, Ot iy Gen. Pershing wrote the original although no denials could separate ll from its association with Pershing. | It was interesting to watch the | Pershing smile changing and develop- | ing with the man and his job in France. In one of his impulses, under its sunny light, he told all the news- paper men they could go with aim on one of his first visits to Gen. Petain. ‘We only had six cars at headquarters then. Either the chief of staff would be left without a car or some of the very numerous band of correspondents would have to stand on the running- | board of the general's car. Then came | & note from the general to me, as head | of the press division, that no newspaper | man at all was to go. With the candor of a Reserve officer, which made me dare to enter where Regulars feared to | tread, I went to him candidly: “It’s all right for you to let the news- paper men do something I have re- fused,” I said, “but’ when' you ‘tell them they can do something and then send word to me that they cannct it's going to mess things up and incidentally | make a lot of trouble for you in the future as they proceed over my pros- | trate body to act on the permission ' War, but was having troubles enough of his own. Suffers Personal Loss. It had been a long time since we had met. Meanwhile, Pershing had suffered & terrible personal tragedy. The bride he had taken to Japan when he was sent there as attache in 1905, together ‘with three of their children, had perish- ed in the burning of his home. ‘When next I saw him it was in Benator Warren's apartment in Wash- gngton, after Secretary Baker had sum- oned him to command the force we ere to send to Prance. He was 56 hen, 12 years older than when he was Manchuria. The steel in him had evidently tempered with age and ‘Tesponsibility. Then I saw him in the little office in the War Department, with his right- hand man, Harbord, going over the lists @s to the choice of officers in ioneer staff. Again I saw him crossing he gang-plank from the tug in New Work Harbor to the Baltic, to start on that mission whose end no man could guess or foresee. He was more West Pointish than any of the group with him. I was sure that if any of the officers already on board had a button unbuttoned he would see it. A reserve officer might be for- given for this civilian slackness, but not & regular—above all, not a West Pointer, “War Senseless,” Pershing Said. The next morning he and Harbord had all the officers on board at work on reorganization. Between committee meetings they were attending French classes the interpreters were holding. On the way across the Atlantic I re- member a picture of Pershing as he Jooked up from some papers he had been reading on the Somme battle. He had stopped plowing: he was surveying the landscape instead of the furrow How horrible and senseless it all is!” he said. “But the only way is.to get enough men and hit hard enough to win the victory and pit an end to it.” That old way, and the only sure way that man has found out of the vice of war Then he was back to the furrow, on the job plowing An audience with the King of Eng- 1and. gala performances at the French opera, madly cheering crowds of Paris- fans, great allied leaders gathered in honor of the man fresh from the Mexi- can sands—and his complaint was that these formalities didn’t give him time to work. Now he knew the grim truth of the allied situation, what a big job the Americans had in hand Meant to Build Wall It was not an American tradition for an American general who began & war 0 end it. And on this subject, as we walked up and down in the grounds of the Mills House in Paris, he said: “I don’t think about that. I mean to build in such g way that my successor will thank me for a sound foundation.” his | Pershing’s stubbornness! they received personally from the com- mander in chief.” Did Not Repeat It. “I've got it,” he saild. “I won't do it | .” ~ And he didn’'t. But some of | his subordinate generals didn't keep faith the same way. It was & small incident, but charac- teristic. The allied statesmen and gen- erals were also learning the Pershing smile, which, because of the power he represented, they had good reason to study with great care. That smile went to & meeting of allied leaders as if its | owner would be agreeable to anything, | but the impulses, before they commit- ted him definitely, reverted to West Point control and “I'm from Missouri.” He would think it over, and take his | time, too, while the allies talked of his procrastination. That “thin-lipped | smile” Clemenceau saw as a mask for “The standards for the American Army will ve those of West Point,” was inclused in cne of his early orders. All soldiers and officers out of civil life would be run in the mold for which he set the example. All must seem an inch or two taller than they were as they looked the Germans in the eve, shoulders back, drawn in at the waist, discipline, discipline! Spoke Sternly to Officers. Doughbos will be interested to know that they gov no rougher bawlings-out from top serzeants than some officers had from the commander in chief. Whew! There was an occasion when he visited aviation quarters in Paris unannounced. A captain passed him in the entrance without saluting. Pershing | caught him by the shoulders, whirled | him around and said: { “Don’t you salute your superiors?” And the inquiry was accompanied by sharp, short, biting words and a rivet- Ing glance. Thenceforth that captain must have been on the safe side by sa- luting all second lieutenants as well as | generals. After the earthquake, flood and fire passed through the aviation fices, all the chiefs, aides and clerks were standing stiff as Pershing and gasping for breath. Pershing could work his way along in conversational French, but in important interviews he depended upon an inter- oreter. If he understood what was being said, that gave the “I'm from Missouri” | canniness time to think over his replies, or irame further questions. Corrects Interpreter. I remember when he and Petain were | watching the 1st Division during a battle drill, and Pershing, stressing the im- | portance of the rifle in an offensive army, remarked: “They say that Prench soldicrs are so habituated to the use of trench grenades that they've been known not_to fire their rifles at Germans 50 or,80 yards away in the open.” says,” translated the interpreter. put in Pershing, “I said ‘on dit,’ dit. not Memories of him center in many in- cidents in the old barracks building at How would he develop? Would he grow to his task? Grow in ability to command ‘as his Army grew from 20.000, 100,000, 500,000 to & million? In those early days in the Rue Copstantine in Paris he was going over every detail meticulously. No_cablegram could go without his seeing it. He must read all papers before he approved them. “General, aren’t you overdoing it? gug):u;‘t you to delegate more su- look! to the details now while he sald, “so that later, when I can't, subol mnm will know how my mind works.” Famous Phrase Recalled. hen the words, “Lafayette, we are him, 1 had 1 ca o B Chaumont which| had been turned into | the offices of & anent headquarters. The light from the window shone into the faces of those who stood before his | desk, and who were expected to make what they had to say “short and quick,” In the race for promotion after the | Army was formed there was one general | who was particularly ambitious that hb subordinates, as well as he, should get | their share, and also of any of the decov rations that were in_sight. Once, l.hl.l officer entered, Pershing shot l! Could Be Caustic. “I want to know how many colonels and lieutenant colonels I've got to make in your lot to get this job done ly. Make up your list -tm" Lhn mnl If he were 4t mlhg of phrases, Pershing's satire s cul fl Point “I EER e )'.her board, on the everlasting subject of | . on which no two flyers and no erals scemed ever to agree. The memoers of the board started a discus- sion as they came into Pershing’s pres- ence. “I don't oring you here to argue out the thing before me,” he interrupted. ‘I want a decision as to program. You are experts and I'm not. You stay right here at general headquarters and make | out a program and then bring it to me, lnfl I'll orient it with the rest of my policy.” At the time of the German second Marne offensive, when day after day the Germaps were making such as- tounding advances and the American 2d Division was . hastening to -get across the Paris road, Pershing went over a big map on the-wall which showed the progress of the battle. Balloon Taken as Insult. “Look at the balloon they have blown into our lines in the fourth year of the war!” he exclaimed. He saw it as a deadly military insult. “They're great soldiers, the Germans, but T've got German biood in me, 100,” reflecting back to his Alasatian ancestry. He would fight in German and American fashion. At last his Army was going in after the weary months of training. Summerall with the first and Harbord with the second and crack French troops under Mangin did_the initial pricking Capt. Collins, who had been Per- shing's aide in ‘Mexico, remained close him.~ Capt. Carl Boyd, because of 38 Years of the same fair methods of pre- senting and selling. Diamonds This record has given us an invaluable reputation for fair dealing in DIA- MONDS. 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There was worry lest the general was overdoing it after Harbord was more needed elsewhere than at General Headquarters. A man who was so used to exercise was getting practically none when he was under such confining strain. One day I wrote an order in the reg- ular form from the commander in chief to the commander in chief—subject, exercise—commanding him to walk home instead of taking his car. The next day when I saw him in the hall he grinned and sald “I walked home last night.” But he didn't the follow- ing nigh! Out of the reserve strength . 935 F Street Tea Spoons Sterling Silver Y dozen %6 The Baltimore Rose Pattern in Sterling Silver This beautiful pattern is always in vogue and stead- ily growing in popularity. ans, 4 dos, $15 14 ans. 315 24 dos.. 39 B §]8 $10 DESSERT KNIVES, rs Y doz.. BUTTER SPREADERS, 1% dos PLATINUMSMITHS A. Kahn Jne. 38 Years at 935 F Street nf‘nh.h tough constitution he kept on .DHe was czar, his smthority final, un- disputed, over every man in American uniform in Prance. His was the power to fire and hire, to promote and demote. Many of his generals could not grow as he grew, and this surprised him some- times. Others broke down. “What am I to do with A—?" “Send him home!” Baker Stood by Him. “Then he will only howl his wmn‘s from the War Department steps. Baker | stands by me. He gives me full power. He has troubles enough of his own. Tl look after mine.” And Gen. A—— was sent forth in a comfortable limousine car on a long tour of inspection to write extensive memoranda about any improvement he thought would be valuable to the | organization as a whole: ‘Another general who had done very able work burst into tears in a collapse from exhaustion. He Was.sent to rest on, the Riviera. Agal fhings are going wrong there; that division is all balled up. I'm off to {straighten it out, " B—— (the com- | | mander) has got to g But B fin't g6, The warm tm- pulse prevalled. B—- was willing to be a figure head for his able young chief of staff. Again: “What will T do with C—2" It happened that C—— had been in the same class as Pershing at West | Point, and nobody at West Point ever | thought that C—— was a_Napoleon, although he had managed graduation. | It was hard work to break an old com- rade’s heart. “Yes, That's good. C—— can do| that ail right, and it will make him feel important, He'll like that.” Kept His Head in Power. The danger of so much power was| that it might go to Pershing’s head, as | it has to that of so many other eminent | men. It went to the heads of some of his subordinates, who' basked in | proximity to the military throne, after a train of quick promotions. But just | when it looked as if J. J. P. was getting | a little touched himself he would get his feet set !!flln in Missourian earth— | | that canny J. J. One afternoon & chm of section came | flaming into my room waving a letter he had written to the generalissimo of the allled armies for our commander in chief to_sign. | “But he won't sign it,” I said. | “Now that I'm getting over my mad a little I see that he won't. I'll go back | and write another.” | J. J. P. did not sign even that. He was marching down the stairs, with Boyd tripping beside him, to his car. | “He’s off to see Foch.” | And gossip at headquarters speculated | on what he said to Foch and Foch said | to him. “I used to go to the meetings with | the allied generals,” Pershing said, “and | listen to their plan. Now I go with my own plan.” Had Million Men There, This was about the time the United States had a million men in Prance, and Col. de Chambrum, French liaison officer with Ameriean headquarters, re- marked that if the plower kept on he would command all the allled armies in 1919. Once, I remember, when he came back from one of the allied meet- | ings, J. J. P. exclaimed: “I didn't swear this time. It wasn't necessary.” He was not a random con- | versational swearer, but on occasions he showed that he knew how, and in no| gentle tone. In the last days of the Meuse-. Al‘gcnne battle I remember him gray-faced, look- ing as tired as the Army was, and as | determined. It took more effort men to keep the shoulders back. “They're in now—my soldiers—and | look at them!” | | He had done the plowing, the harness- | ing, the sowing and reaped the harvest. When -the war was over and some one in & group around him mentioned | the presidency, he said: | “My country trained me as a soldier. | I have led an American Army to vic- | tory. That's enough for one man. We have had many narratives from | abroad. Now the great American EARLY STAGES OF A NOTED CAREER : Gen. Pershing as he appeared in Mam‘hul’h With him is Col. Palmer. Lower: Picture of the general when he was stationed in the Phlll”lm soldier’s story is coming. It starts in The Evening Star tomorrow. From Mr. Baker's papers and correspondence, and further research, I am writing the Secretary of War’s part for the Amer- ican Legion Monthly. I hope that one day we shall have narratives by the late Gen.. Bliss and from Gens. March, Harbord and Summerall, and some of The Montana 726 M Street N.W. Three Rooms, Kitchenette and Bath Reasonable Rentals Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door-every evening and Sundsy morning at 1l%c per day and 5¢ Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. HOME OF SMITH SMART SHOES Well, Folks: 1931 has started like a whirlwind!!] and now we have— Twelve Hundred $30, *35 and 40 New Suits New Topcoats' and Overcoats N R Nt ARMAN Buy ‘em on the po P \ll ar KI\I{mln Budget Plan — 1, cash, balance 10 weekly or 5 semi-monthly payments. 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