Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1931, Page 4

. PUTS HIGH VALUE ON PERSHING STORY Gen. Dawes Says Service Second Only to Command of Forces. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February 4.—Ambassador Charles G. Dawes gave the allied coun- tries, and particularly Great Britain, high praise for their services to Ameri- can troops during the World War in a epeech at an informal gathering of the London Pest of the Ameriéan Legion yesterday | Thé former chief of supplies of the A E. F. told the Legion members to | read the memoirs of Gen. Pershing Gen. Pershing’s book, he satd, was a | service to the American Army in | France second only to his command cf | the expeditio e. Address Ts Quoted. The Evening News last night gave considerable space to the Ambassador's remarks, quoting some of the passages From these it might appear that Mr. Dawes was minimizing the American effort, but this was not the impression of his hearers, who roundly applauded | his talk | Members of the post joked the Am- | bassador as he hasn't been joked since he became envoy to the Court of St James and he scemed to enjoy the ex- perience. Pressed to ¢xplain how, as a lawye he became a brigadier general of eng neers, M Dawes dec h examine had asked him only one question and he answered it so brilli that he was promoted immediately. Sources of Food. “They asked me.” he said, “what I| would do if I were asked to survey a | field or a section of trench. I told tiem I would send for a surveyor.” Recalling the organization of the American Service of Supply, he detailed the great difficulty of suppiying the A E. F. 3,000 miles from home and how of every 13 pounds of food eaten by American soldiers 8 pfinds had to be obtained from sources outside ~the United States He declared that it was in connection with this work that he realized fully the magnificent effort of Great Britain, France and other countries. and that he had never found it expedient to fail to mention this phase of allied co- oreration. MAY HONOR DESIGNER OF EAGLES ON COINS §. Tribute to Saint Gaudens in Form of $4,000 Toward Monu- ment in France Favored. U'- By the Associated Press. The man who designed the eagles on the $10 and $20 gold pieces will be| bonored by the Government, if the House Foreign Relations Committee has its way. . -It has approved the Temple resolu- tion to authorize a $4,000 contribution by the United States to the erection of 2 monument in France to the memory of Augustus Saint Gaudens, noted French sculptor. Creator of many famous statues, in- cluding one of Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Saint Saudens in 1905 aided in planning beautification of the Capital. He met President Roosevelt, who was interested in improving coin- age designs, and the eagles and figures of “Liberty” in the two largest gold coing resulted L e ‘The sculptor died in New Hampshire in 1907. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Slightly colder tonight, minimum temperature about.27 degrees; tomorrow fair, gentle to mod- erate northwest winds. Maryland—Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow fair, fresh northwest winds. Virginta—Fair tonight, slightly colder n west portion; tomorrow fair, moderate west winds shifting to northwest and | porth. West Virginia—Fair and slightly colder tonight; tomorrow fair, rising temperature in west portion. Record for Twenty-four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 40; 8 pm., 37; 12 midnight, 33; 4 am,, 32; 8 am., 31; noon, 48. Barometer—4 p.m., 30.22; 8 pm, 30.18; 12 midnight, 30.09; 4 am, 20.99; 8 a.m., 20.95; noon, 29.97 | Highest temperature, 48, occurred at noon today; lowest temperature, 31, oc- curred at 7:30 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 40; lowest, 36. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Low tide, 3:33 am. and 5:30 p.m.; hij e. 9:07 a.m. and 9:31 p.m. Tomorrow—1Lqw tide, 4:19 am. and 4:36 p.m.; high tide, 9:36 a.m. and 10:21 Today The Sun and Moon. Sun rose 7:13 am.; sun sets Sun rises 7:12 am.; sun | | 83 pin Tomorrow 33 pm. Moon rises 8:30 am.; sets 6:35 p.m Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour a: sunset Weather in Various Cities. 2 Temperatur Btations. Weather. 'DEMAND REPEATED | | Troops Continue to Land; in France in Need of | Training That Should| Have Been Completed. | ON PROGRAM IN U. S. | King of Belgium Forced | to Wait at Station While His | General Puts on HE progress of our preparation at home at this time (December, Uniform. 1917) was far from being satis- factory, as tests of newly arrived troops showed their instruction was not up to our standards in France It was evident that my recommenda- tions were being disregarded. This faulty training at home threw an ex- tra burdan upon us of training officers and men after their arrival 1 had urged that we should follow our own conception of training, em- phasizing the rifie and bayonet as the supreme weapons of the infantry sol- dier, and insisted upon training for open warfare. It will be pertinent to| quote my cable about this time criti- Cizing the policy of the War Depart- | ment as set forth in one of the train- | ing_pamphlets sent to me: : & T My opinion this pamphlet is not in harmopy with the recommendations contained in my cablegram in regard | to the training ' of divisions in the| United States. The first paragraph of the War Department document an- nounces that ‘in all the military train- | a division, under e ditions, training for trench of paramount importance.” “I invite attention to my cablegram | and repeat my recommendations con- | tained therein that intensive training| in all phases of open warfare be ac-| cepted as the principal mission of di- | visions before embarkation, ~trench | warfare and the use of special arms | being taught in connection with the assumption of an offensive from an ent..nched position. It is urged that future programs of training for di- visions in the United States be prepared accordingly.” Officers Were Scarce. The training of officers for the gen- eral staff, which also-necesarily had to be undertaken in. France, was well under way at the General Staff School at Langres, 40 miles south of Chau- mont, under the able direction of Maj Gen. McAndrew. The three months course of instrutcion was based upon our staff organizatio and was con- ducted by our own instructors, with two or three French and an equal num- ber of British officers to assist as lec- turers. The difficulty was the scarcity of officers available for detall as stu- dents. We were confronted with the task of building up an army of millions: that would require as many trained staff officers as we had officers il the whole Regular Arm# at the beginning of the war, To meet this urgent demand Washington was asked to send over in advance a small percentage of officers from each division for instruction, but only a few ever came. | Out of this first class of about 75 officers at the General Stafl School, most of them were taken from our meager forces in France. Unfortunately all the schools were short of student personnel, and it was not until the elev- enth hour, when new divisions began to come over under pressure late in the | Spring that any confiderable number of officers could be spared from our | forces in France for speclal staff in-| struction. Mcanwhile. our program of training in | Prance had become fairly well estab- lished under the immediate direction and observation of the training section of the general staff. Most of our officers were firm beljevers in the soundness of our doctrines, although a few continued to defer to the opinions of French in- structors, who were generally commit- ted to the theory that only trench train- ing was necessary. Phases of Training. Our schedule of instruction consisted | of three pericds. The first included | practice in the use of the various | weapons, with tactical exercises for | units up to the division over such ter- rain as might be available. The second | embraced a month’s tour in the trenches by smaller units with French regiments, | supported by their artillery. The third con-luded the: course with combined work of infantry, artillery and aviation | conducted in the training area, after which the division went again into the trenches under its own officers and as a unit in a French corps. The plan adopted of training with a | veteran division was fairly swecessful, constdering the circumstances, and would have been ideal if the model divi- | sion could have been American. The | objection was that the French were in- | clined to be too paternal and as a rule they went little further than trench fight:ng. Che fact that many of our own offi- were nol well grounded in first iples made instruction more diffi- Recent inspections had revealed manv < on the part of our officers and further confirmed reports regarding the inefficacy of training at home. Although T had suggested the estab- lishment of a training branch of the War Department under Gen. Morrison, with Gen. Blatchford as his assistant two of the best equipped officers in our Army for such work, the spirit of the recommendation was not carried out as Morrison was not given the neces- | OFFICE FURNITURE "oise 616 EStN. Brookland Coal Co. nc B. & 0. R. R & Mich, Ave. N.E Phone Decatur 0180-0181 Famous Reading Anthracite FOREIGN. (7 am., Greenwich time, today.) Statiors Temperature. Weathex. 3¢ Rain Clear Clear day.) [Paricloudy r Ge Stockhol Gibraltar. (Noon. Horta {Fayal). Azores... (Guirent obiéival e to Hamill Cles Part cloudy Clear Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 1'; cents per day and 5 cents Sunday. My Experience ary independence and authority that a | T O7C Suthority that a THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON s in the World War =Ry Gen. John J. Pershing Commander in' Chief of the A Pershing visits the King and Queen of Belgium. | director should have, so the training of | troops continued to be desultory. Qualifications of Good Officers. After all is said, however, the success 5f & military commander depends largely | ipon his practical turn of mind, whether | in planning and directing military ations in the field or managing the s of transportation and supply. ry science is based on principles > been deduced from the appli- cation of common sense in the conduct of military affairs. While high sound- | ing terms and learned discussions of principles and maxims often .enshroud | campaigns anG_operations -n mystery, | yet military genius is reaily the capacity | to understand and apply simple prin- ciples founded on experience and sound reasoning. | The necessity of professional educa- tion should not be minimized in the slightest degcee; it is, too, highly im- portant, but the best informed theo- retical soldier without practical com- prehension will ofien find his plans go wrong. To complete the qualifications sential to the successful soldier, there be added persistence, force and ersonal leadership. My diary notes the folloying: “Chaumont. Wednesday, January 2, 1918.—Both French and British pressing us for amalgamation, .# ‘Went to Marshal Haig's headquarters | Friday by rail, accompanied by Col Wagstaff, and spent the night. Motored | through "heavy snow drifts out from Etaples, gangs of ‘conscientious objec- | tors' opening up roads. Discussed with Sir Douglas possible shipment by and ‘raining of American troops with British. | “Visited King and Queen of Belgium and their army at Adenkirke on Satur- day.” Haig Gives His Plans. As we have seen, there had been some talk of the British providing shipping to ‘bring over American troops for training behind their lines. During, the evening 1 spent with Sir Douglas Haig, as noted in the diary, he pre- sented his plans for training our troops. His idea was to place the battalions as they arrived, one to the brigade, in | selected British _divisions, preferably | those serving on tHe southern part of their front, and fhen gradually to in- crease the number of battalions until the oivision should become wholly American. Sir Douglas was willing to place each | of these divisions under an American general as soon as they should become partly Americanized, or to do so from the cutset if more desirable, retaining the British divisional staffs and brigade commanders and staffs until the divi- sions should be at least half American, after which our staff officers and brig- adiers should gradually replace theirs He thought the sentiment against our | men serving under another army might be thus overcome. Haig's battalions, when released by Americans, would be broken up to fill depleated ranks elsewhere. In this way such units as they were unable to main- tain could be replaced by ours and an American Army built up to take its place alongside the British. Haig's plan contemplated that the British and American armies would both be based (T A LATIN proverb thas meansthereisnoreason for giving up a legiti- mate practice because it is abused. 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Any objec- tions the French might offer hf thought would be met by building up the Amer- ican Army between, the two. Besides, he said, this would provide for the exten- of the British front and meet the demands of the French, who claimed that they were holding too much of the line in proportion to their forces. ¢ Question Left Open. The appeal of this proposition was that we should be able to hasten our shipping program and bring to France a much larger number of men than would be possible with the tonnage then in operation. Hoping to commit | com tonnage, which up to that time we had not succeeded in doing. I did not offer serious objection_to the plan and even approved of scme of the features, espe- cially those pertaining to the earlier part of the proposed training, and for the moment the question was left open for further conference! | In all thgse discussions the British were bargalning for men to fill their | ranks and we were trying to get ship- ping: to carry over our armies. The dickering continued until the crisls caused both British' and French to realize that a lot of time had been| wasted I left British headquarters the next morning en route to the Belgian front Home “Just a . Minute, ALWAYS asks for tonians are learning “wash day” when SERVICE can be reasonably. ““MINUTEMORE” VICE thjs week? Call . ATLANTIC : B | prise Suggested by Mrs. 126 East Thornapple Street, Chevy Chase, Md. EEEEIEEREEREIEEENEEsENY Teacher’ “Haven’t I told you again and again that wrong to ask for a minute more?” “Why, Teacher, my mother ‘M UTEMORE,” and she says it is our Magic word, for it brings our laundry to us all ready to use, except for a minute more with the iron.” More and more Washing- does not pay to put up with Laundry’s MINUTEMORE Why not try Try Your Hand Write a short “Minutemore” movie showing the a.dvanlagu of this service. If we use it, WC.WI" pay you $10.00 for it. Editor, Home Laundry. WED F EBRUARY 4, 1931. to pay my respects to the King and Queen. As Sir Douglas was off to Lon- don my car was attached to his train | and we traveled together to Boulogne, where he boarded the Channel boat and I took a special consisting of my car and one other and procceded on my way. We were due at Adenkirke, my desti- nation, at a fixed hour, but to my sur- the train pulled in 10 minutes d of time. I was changing into best uniform—in fac on the right boot—when my aide, Col. B tuck his head in at the door of my compartment and said breath- lessly: “General, we have arrived.” Aware of Predicament. I knew it only too well, as the train had stopped and the royal band out- side was playing “The Star Spangled Banner” in the mournful cadence com- mon to foreign bands. It was an em- barrassing thought that I should be late. In another minute, when the orderly and myself were struggling, this FRED Storage—Packing Moving Por 30 years President and General Manager of' Kriew's Express Co. %5 NOW in business at J. 904 10th St. N.W. 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At my appearance the band started afresh and, as though they had just be- gun, ran through our national anthem rather more vigorously, cheered up no doubt at last to see me in evidence. A few months leter I had the courage to relate the incident in all its details to their majesties and they both seemed to enjoy it immensely. After inspecting the escort in com- pany with the King, he and I drove to their residence, where the Queen, in her most gracicus manner, received us at the entrance. We had & very enjoy- able luncheon, which Boyd thought was quite gay, especially when I became bold enough to air my dreadful French After lunch, King Albert, much to my surprise, said he wished to bestow upon me the Order of the Grand Cordon of Leopold, and as I hesitated, saying that we were not permitted to recelve foreign decorations, he insisted that I should acccpt it conditionally, which, of course, was the only thing to do. Boyd was decorated also. Impressed by Simplicity. In the afternoon, the King, with his chief of staff, took me to his general headquarters and then to the front-line trenches, explaining the disposition of the limited force with which their posi- tions were held. It consisted of only the six divisions which had stubbornly re- tired in 1914 in the face of overwhelm- ing odds. It was then being recruited by Belgians escaping from within the German lines at the risk of their lives. While driving with King Albert he related with much amusement some in- cidents of a recent visit by a party of our Congressmen, and inquired whether it was customary in our country for them to be on familiar terms with the President. He said that some of them had called him Albert and one had slapped him on the back, saying: “King, you're the right sbrt of fellow and BANDMASTER KEPT IN'FRANGE BY CHIEF Pershing Intervened }n - Be- half of Veteran Soldier With German Name. DALLAS, Tex., February 4 (N.AN.A) —A Dallas man who is closely follow- ing Gen. Pershing’s story of America's participation in the war is Col William Herzog, director of R. O. T. C. bands in the Dallas high school Col. Herzog's interest is accentuated by the fact that but for Gen. Pershing's | friendship he might not have had his own full share in the struggle over- | seas, and because of a friendship dating to the time when Pershing was in command of the Amerjesn ?orcvs on the Mexican border. Met General in 1914. “I first met Gen. Pershing just be- fore Villa's raid on Columbus, N. Mex., | in 1914,” Col. Herzog said. “This’ was erybody in America admires you.” I explained to him that our Congressmen were more or less privileged characters at home and they only meant to be friendly. As a matter of fact, I think lh‘elr familiarty did not offend him at all. During my brief visit I was particu- ! i by the extreme sim- ome life of the King and Queen, living there, as they were, in a very modest country place within sound of the ene; guns and almost within range. The Queen often went into the trenches to cheer the troops, and the fine bearing of their majesties through it all made them the outstanding heroic figures of the World War. 'Tomorrow—Pressure put on President | Wilson for merger of our troops with French and Briitsh. (Copyright, 1931, in all countries by North American Newspaper Alliance. rights reserves. including the Reproduction in whole or in met Amerfcan u Tepresentatives at Fort R'iss to an accord in ous reiations with Mex- ico, which ‘accord the Columbus rhid nullified. T served under Pershin‘kh the 6th Field Artillery . as band rector then and later on the border. ; ;‘v."i;‘enrnm‘ \World Wax drew Amerios into the foreign fleid I went to France with the 1st Division, still the Bth Artillery. After a short perd of training at the front the units to which ‘I v attached were to Chaumort, American headquarters, where I directed verious musical ore ganizations in the Army and assisted in forming the iarters A E. P, Band, composed of picked musicians from the entir dit‘onary forces. Persenaily Compii “It was While at sout that Gen. Pershing Yemembered ouy 5 lendship. An effort was being made # have al officers and soldiers in the A. E. F. whose names were of German origin, or whose ancestors were German, sent back to the United States. Having been in the Army 25 years, I was one of those feeling the injustice of . such a movement. Without solicitation on my part, Gen. Pershing by order stop- ped the attempted procedure, so far as Bandmaster Herzog was concerned, and I remained in Frange until after the armistice. “I directed bands playing for the conferring of decorations upon Gen. Pershing himself and other soldiers, and was personally complimented by the commander for this work. I also directed for Gen. Petain, who under- took to show our American musicians how properly to play ‘“The Marseillaise.” * (Copyright, 1931. by North American News- per Alliance.) Chamber Group Meeting Postponed. 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