New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 5

$ .50 per week for 50 weeks totals $ 25.00 ‘DAILY HERALD, MONDAY. DFCEMBI Rz AT S T TN i TS AL b e e B T B T AT TONIGHT OIN OUR CHRISTMAS “SAVINGS CLUB CLASSES 1.00 per week for 50 weeks totals 2.00 per week for 50 weeks totals 100.00 5.00 per week for 50 weeks totals 250.00 50.00 plus interest plus interest plus interest plus interest ~ OURSIS THEONLY CLUB IN NEW BRITAIN THAT PAYS INTERE Assets $1,000,000.00 THE COMMERCIAL TRUST COMPA 274 MAIN STREET Open Evenings This _Week From 7 to 9 P. M., Except Tuesday CAMERON Don’t Forget the Old Hymus. In many ways I am a’ lover of chauge, but therd is & certain form ol newness, a certain abandonment of the old which: disturbs me whenever it comes to my attention. 1 veter to the desertion by the churches and especially by the Sun- day schools and Young People's so- cleties of the beautiful old hymns. The Sunday evening meeting of a young people’s society which I at- tended the other night seemed to me a typical example. During the service six hymns were sung. One of these was a fairly fa- miliar one (though not one of the old standbys,) another bore an old name but the music had beén changed be- yond recognition. The other four were distinctly mo- dern hymns with, ‘so far as I could sce, MNttle in either words or music to recommend them. The Gave It Up. ' They were all pitched so high that || the majority of the singers had to | y reque espe t the choir Vere al- young mem‘::rs ~ mgst maudin. Tuckoed Awsy in the Back of the Book ¥ up the hymn book and looked 8t through. Yes, the old hymns were listéd in the hmexmbut whhere d:; you supposs 1 found them when :ookedm:he- up? “lhleted away in the back of the book in small print. There were such fine oid trumpet calls s Onward ONeristian Soldiers; Holy ‘ Holy., Holy, The SBon of God Goes Forth to War; Ceme Thou Almighty King. There were my tender old friends, Jesus tover of My Soul; Lead Kindly Light; of Ag Sweet Hour of Prayer were Fanny . Crosby and Watis apd Charles Wes- ' Jey, thrust aside: pusied into the background; mede (in the pariance that befite the act) ‘to take & back % /i htis Huve S Bewt ot Oid and New "% I8 foolish and narrow to ‘amsume. = and not to be will- k fgr merit in the new. But a o my heart is sore for the slight to my old friends. I want them reinstated in their places, both in the books and the young folk’s hearts. I am willing that the best of the new should stand beside them but I am not willing that a hodge podge assembly of new hymns usually commonplace and sometimes cheap should elbow them into obscur- ity. NEWSPAPER STORY STARTED PERSHING Sisters Tell How General Decided to Have a Military Career ‘fl:e:oodhymmi Lincoln, Nebraska, Dec. 24.—It was & newspaper story that diverted John J. Pershing from his purpose to be- come a school teacher and started him upon the miMtary career which lead to his appointment as general in the United States army and Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in France. The story is told by Gen- eral Pershing’s sisters, Mrs. Butler and Miss May Pershing who are resi- dents of Lincoln and who have given to the Associated Press intimate views of Pershing’s character in his youth- tul days. It was while Pershing and his sis- ter, now Mrs. Butler, were attending the Missouri State Normal school at Kirksville, Mo., that his atention was one day called to & newspaper an- nouncement that examinations were to be held for appointment to the West Point Military Academy. Young Pershing asked his sister’s advice as to whether he should try for the ap- pointment and she advised him to do so. Then followed a short season of intensive study im preparatin. In a few days he was called before the examining board and, although improperly prepared, 'received the highest mark among the contestants and soon afterward was notified of his |appointment. Up to this time his ac- |tion had been a secret between his sis- /{tr and himself and it remained so un- til he was ready to start for West Point. On his way to the military academy he stopped off at the home ‘of his parents and for the first time told them they were to have a soldier in the famlily. As a boy, General Pershing, his sis- / ter says, was of a quiet serious tem- peraghent, assuming as the oldest of six children, many of the responsibili- ties of the family. He was wont, dur- ing his early years which were spent in Laclede, Mo., his birthplace, to manage one of the several farms operated by his fgther, John F. Persh- ing, a merchant and farmer of Lac- led. ohn,” Mrs. Butler said, “although of a quiet disposition liked a good time and enjoyed fun as much as any- one. Yet when he started anything he wanted to get the result and he ally attained that abject before he ga¥e it up.” While at the normal school at Kirksville, he was always in the cen- ter of student activities and never was content to be merely one of the crowd but wanted to be head of the movement. His personal magnetism and generally likable character quick- ly won him friends and supporters and soon he became one of the stud- | ent leaders. Atter having been graduated from West Point and having served with ! General Miles in a campaign in New Mexico against the Indian chief Ger- onimo, Pershing was stationed as mil- i ftary instructor at the University of Nebraska. His friends there remem- ber him as a fun-loving young man ‘who enjoyed music and dancing, par- | ties and other social activities and | who eppreciated a good joke. “Old Jack Best,” the veteran train- er at the University remembers Persh- ing *intimately. “He was the finest man that I over worked with,” said || Best. It's true he was mighty strict with his work but the results he got were s0 good that everybody he worked with loved him for it. When he was here he had a regiment the University could be proud of. I just. worshipped that man and everybody | around the University felt the same | about him. ' If any of you newspaper men get a chance to tell it to him, you just say that old Jack wishes him the | best of luck in the world and that he hopes he will beat the Germans all alone. < “Usually he was mighty dignified in his work but he had a way of get- ting next to new 1men,” contlnued Best. ‘The first time I cver saw him he walked right up to me, slapped me on the shoulder and said, “Well, Jack, they tell me you got along mighty well . with my predecessor. If you did, I am darned sure we'll get along just as well. ‘“The boys at the Untiversity got a surprise the first day Pershing drilled them,” said Best. “It had been their habit before that time to come to drill with shoes blackened or'not, just as they pleased. When Pershing took hold, the first thing he looked at was to see that all shoes were well blacked and that the heels looked as good as the toes. He was just that thorough- going in everything all the time. He was A-1 in every way and you can ask anyone who knew him if that isn’t the gospel truth.” 0Odd as it may seem in a fightng man, General Pershing’s one fad, ac- | cording to his sisters, is gardening. | His father was an expert gardener and the taste descended to the mili- tary man. Whenever he was on leave, he immediately would don work-day clothes, go into his father’s garden, seemingly enjoying the work over the vegetables as much as he enjoyed so- cial activities. The first time that General Persh- ing appeared in Chicago and was seen by nighbors, he was clad in overalls and was hard at work in a vegetable garden in the yard behind his father’s house in the southside of the ecity. There was some surprise among the neighbors that a man who then was entitled to wear the uniform and brass buttons of a captain should be willing to put them aside and hoe the but the incident is {lluminative o character of the man upon whe: country relies to lead the forces to viotory against the G in_Europe. The Cremo Brewing Co. | Wishes You a Merrs' Christmas and a Happy New Year | THE NEW AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR COMPOUND prevents water from freezing at a temperature as low as 10 degrees below = zero. Will not injure any parts of the cooling system, is non-inflammable and will not' evaporate. Can be used safely in all automobiles with the exception of the Knight or sleeve type motors. 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