New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1919, Page 5

Crawford Cooking Range FRUIT JARS FRUIT JAR RUBBERS A. A. Mills 80 West Main Street Telephone 381 Plumbing Heating Tinning GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING Of all the people glad to see Gen- eral Pershing come back home again this lad is the ‘“‘gladdest.” He ought to be. For he's Jack Pershing, only son of the general, and who went all ' the way to France after the war end- ed just to tell his dad how proud he was of him. Since Jack’'s mother died he has been staying at ' his aunt's bome in Kansa EATON BICYCLE CHAMPION. Newark, N. J, Sept. 8.—Raymond Eaton of Newark, N. J.,, won the pro- fessional bicycle championship here yesterday, clinching the title when he finished second to Eddie Madden in the two-mile championship race at the Velodrome. Eaton's point ad- vantage cannot be overcome by the other riders regardless of the outcome of the five-mile race to be rua off later. Banquet Will Be Tendered to Service Men on Evening of Tuesday, September 18. A welcome home banquet will be tendered by the First Baptist church and congregation on Tuesday evening, September 16, to all of the boys who enlisted in the World War. An interesting program will be provided. The Tempo quartet of Hartford will be present and the dinner will be served at 7 o’clock. The boys will be guests and tickets for the dinner to members of the church and congre- gation, with their friends, can be pro- cured from T. A. James or members of his committee. As the gost of the tickets covers only the caterer's charge per plate for the dinner, any contributions covering the additional expense of music, etc.,, will be appre- ciated by the finance committee— W. H. Judd and E. R. Hitchcock. The first meeting of the Men's Brotherhood for the fall season will be held in the chapel, Tuesday eve- ning at 8 o’clock. On Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock the church night service will be held. NEW BRITAIN DAILY PERSHING'S LIFE 1S EVENTFUL ONE, American Commander Ranks With Nation's Foremost ‘When congress confers the perma- nent title of general upon John J. Pershing he is the fourth man to hold that coveted title in the army of the United States. The other three were Grant, Sheridan and Sherman. As the central American figure_ in the world war, with the single excep- tion of President Wilson, so much has | been written about Pershing, and his life and history are so fresh in the public mind that it is difficult to tell the average American anything new about the man who commanded the great army on the battlefields of Eu- rope. When some of Pershing's friends speak of his rise to a position of great military importance in world annals, they refer to a story quite commonly told of Charles M. Schwab, the iron- master, who is said to have remarked to his old Scotch gardener, a friend of his childhood: “You never expected to see me in this place, did you?” And the gardener is said to have re- plied: “You never expected it yourself.”” , Was Always Hard Worker. As late as the time of the Russia- Japanese war in 1904, Pershing, over 40, still was a captain in the regular army. His associates say he never grumbled, but always kept plugging at his job. Reams and reams have been written about how he took a promi- nent part in the pacification of the Philippine islands and how President Roosevelt made him a brigadier gen- eral, jumping him over the heads of exactly 862 other men who were sen- iars to him on the service roll. When Pershing took the expedition to Mexico after the bandit Villa, he became the only living officer in the American army who had com- manded any body of troops so large as a brigade in anything approaching actlon. It is true that the late Gen Funston commanded more than a bri- gade on the Vera Crux expedition but Funston’s troops never got into action. Graduates From West Point. From the time Pershing graduated from West Point in 1886 he had full share of active and valuable service in the army. Like his classmates 'he im- mediately was plunged into the In- dian wars. He entered a campaign against the great Apache, Geronimo, who for many vears had kept the great southwestern country almost closed to immigration by his skill and bravery. It was in those campaigns that many young American army offi- cerg received that special training evolved in combat with the wily sav- ages which proved of peculiar value in certain phases of the highly modern warfare in France and Belgium. They were taught the art of scout- ing, of trailing and of perfect self-re- Hance in the school beyond the ken of any European soldier and many a mlidnight raid by the Americans into No Man’s Land doubtless found its in- ception and clever execution in the brains of one of these one-time Indian fighters of Pershing’'s type. Was in Indian Campaign. It ig recorded officially of Pershing that at the beginning of his career, for instance, he was complimented by General Miles, his commander-in- chief in the Geronimo campaigns, for “marching his troop, with pack train, over rough country, 140 miles in 46 hours, bringing in every animal and man in good condition.” TUntil he reached command rank Pershing al- ways was a cavalry officer and the records of the war department show more than one honorable mention for | his conduct during his ten year's service in the department of Arizona. In the Spanish war, as an officer of | the Tenth Cavalry, he was promoted for gallantry at the battle of El Caney to be a major in the volunteer army and after a short detail in Washington in the bureau of insular affairs wa sent out to the Philippines as adju- tant-general of the department of Mindanao and Jolo. That was the turning point in Pershing's career. He began to take | his profession of arms more seriously and to display the powers of concen- DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WELL,PANSY. | UNDERSTAND You TooK A VACATION WHWILE WE WERE | AWAN - PM ELAD You DID AND HOPE EL oY You WAD A GooD TIME AND ARE MiSSUS DUFF IF 1 HAD A BIG g PEELING PR (powik OF GIN- punitive | ROYAL WELCOME TO I AMERICA GIVES P LEADER OF A. E. F. tration upon difficult problems that stood him in good stead in the great campaigns that were to follow in Eu- rope. Attracted by his earnestness and soldierly qualities, General Leon- ard Wood, who was his superior offi- cer at the time, elected Pershing to organize and conduct a campaign | agalnst the Moros who for centuries had successfully resisted all attempts of the Spanish army to subjugate them. Honored By Roosevelt. Tp to that point something parallel may be found in the c of Wood and Pershing. Each had made brilliant reputations as Indian ! fighters and each had been picked by | President Roosevelt for extraordinary promotion because of their high promise of military ability. Roosevelt had made Wood a brigadier general in 1901 and he made Pershing, then a captain, brigadier general in the absolute consternation of old lines | of the army because it involved the “jumping” of both officers over many hundreds of their seniors. { Pershington justified the confidence that Wood had imposed in him in his Moro campaign. There was a sultan of Bacalod with unknown thousands of followers intrenched in the marsh- es and mountains of the tropical islands behind heavy forts of palm wood, logs and giant creepers and thorn bushes woven into what was supposed to be impregnable defenses Pershing had made a study of the conditions and so well had he organ- ized his little force consisting of a bat- lion of infantry, a squadron of cav- Iry and a section of artillery that in two days the Moro's strongholds were cleared out and the Island of Min- danao was soon placed under Persh- ing’s military governorship. 1906 to | B When he returned home in 1914 he | but a siort rest in San Trouble began on the Mexican border and he was _sent there in command of the Eighth Brigade, charged with the special duty ning down or driving off Villa His expedition penetrated many miles into Mexico and army officers believed that the ultimate capture of Villa was pre- vented only by recall orders from Washington where the authorities de- cided that they were unwilling to con- tinue a military polic tain to involve the United States in regular war with Mexico When Pershing was chosen to com- mand the American forces in France, he took with him many of the brown- ed and hardened veterans of his Mexican campalgn and these men formed the nucleus of the famous First Division of the American expe- ditionary force. Tragedy of His Life. A terrible tagedy had come into Pershing’s life during his Mexican border service through the loss of his wife and three of their little children who were burned to death in thelr home at the Presidio, in San Francis- co, during his absence. His life became hard and stern; not towards his soldiers, however, but in the regimen he imposed upon himself and in the objects he had marked for attainment. He threw himself into his work with a passion that commanded evidently seeking relief from < private grief in public service. It ras sald of him in France that he was never tired; he could be called upon any hour out of the twenty-four for consultation or direction without com- plaint on his part, in contrast with was given Francisco. of run- ! some of his famous colleagues in the ! entente armies. Pershing believed in teamwork; he knew that whatever success the Ger- mans had attained was through their unified command of the armies of the | Central powers. So he was not only willing but anxious to see the same principle adopted by the Entente ar- mie He sank his private ambitions and freely tendered the services of the | last American soldier and al his army equipment to Gen. Foch at the most critical point in the campaign. There is said to be no doubt that his example | affected the other commands and went a long way towards bringing about tae unification of the Entente armies un- der Gen. Foch It was not until Pershing was cer- tain that the plans he had made with the assistance of his own staff for a successful campalgn into Alsace-Lor- raine had behind them the support of a sufficient number of American sol- diers that Pershing felt justified in teking complete command of an im- portant sector of the line of battle with the full assent of Marshal Foch and with the result that the American army broke the morale of the Ger- mans and brought the war to an end. 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