The evening world. Newspaper, July 1, 1918, Page 12

f ee P ° Y We SA ,) AW \Y +a MONDAY, JULY 1, 1918 Pornelius Vanderbilt Won His High Military Rank Notwithstanding His Wealth ant in the New York National Guard Seventeen Since Received Has Been Won by Hard and Per- ORNELIUS VANDERBILT to be a Brigadier General of the Wilson on Saturday, made as it was upon the recommendation of Gen “Oh, yes,” the unthinking may say, “Vanderbilt gets a high office because eareer of Cornelius Vanderbilt will be justified if it shows that New York's of competence, departing not at ull from the rule of promotions in the convert himself from a civilian to a Brigadier General. During that time tive posts in the State's militia army and prepared himself by long study A purely popular interest attaches Is First of the House of Vanderbilt to Wear a Mili- tary Title--Began His Career as Second Lieuten- Years Ago, After an Examination in Which He Passed 100 Per Cent.—Every Promotion He Has sistent Study and Work. By Robert Welles Ritchie r( National Army.” This was the nomination sent to the Senate by President Pershing, commander of the American expeditionary forces in France. It has significance beyond the ordinary. be’s a multimillionaire, Put did it.” If there were no other reasons for writing it—and there are several good ones—thia review of the soldierly rich man travelled no royal road to preference. The honor of high com- mand has come to him only after long and assiduous effort and as @ reward United States Army. : It has taken Mr. Vanderbilt seventeen years, almost to the month, to has passed through the coarse and fine screens of the National Guard, geen duty in active service on the Mexican border, filled important exeeu- ‘and incessant application to fill the high post that is now his reward. Cor melius Vanderbilt is no “tin soldier.” | t the fact that Cornelius is the only ‘one of the name who ever has won 0 military title. Commodore Vander Bilt enjoyed a title derived solely from his interest in yachting. None @f the family aside from the man who now is addressed as General ever @howed interest in military affairs, | ‘The Now York papers on Sept. 21, $901, found a novelty to play strongly fm their columns, Here is the way Tee World broke to its readers the mews that “the richest Lieutenant in he world” had actually won his @houlder bars: “Lieut. Cornelius Vanderbilt proved fest night he can spell. He also @reved his ability to write and read. “Young Mr. Vanderbilt was before) fe Brigade Board for examinations te qualify as a Second Lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment, and he passed the ordeal with flying colors | “The richest Lieutenant in the world made a food start by appear- - img ten minutes ahead of time. Ho came in modestly and greeted the as- gembied officers. Hoe carried a mack- fwtond over his arm and wore a dark gait, tan shoes and a straw hat, (This the necessary, but very sketchy, | @escription of a millionaire Lieuten- east demanded by city editors in those Gays.) “Mr. Vanderbilt was marked 100 per emt. and was congratulated by the board. He will sfon have a chance of | promotion to Captain @ Vanderbilt was then a slender man ottwenty-cight, smooth shaven, boy- It was not until February, 1907, that Lieut. Vanderbilt was unanimously elected to’a Captaincy of Company F of the Twelfth. In the mean time he had been an aide de camp on the staff of Gov. Higgins, But that sort of soldering—gold lace and epaulets and standing round to look pretty did not appeal to Cornelius Vander- bilt. He preferred to dig into the maze of military organization and executive office. In May, 1912, Major Gen. John O'Ryan, then commanding the N. tional Guard in the State, appointed Vanderbilt Inspector General, with the brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 4 | Four years later, when President Wilson surprised the Nation by sud- denly ordering ghe mobilization of national guardsmen along the Mexi- | } can border, Vanderbilt, with the rank | of Major, was mustered with Gen Ryan's entire staff into the national | service, He went down with the New | York contingent to fight the sand, the heat and tho “chiggers" tle fauna of Texas len, near Brownsville ‘There for a hostilit characteris at Camp McAl- in the face of what seemed actual commencement of Major Vanderbiit learned more about the handling of troops in the fleld and under conditions of war fare thin Capt. Vanderbilt or Lieut. | Vanderbilt had known in fifteen years of armory floor drills. A Colonel's commission was his reward upon his return to New York | ist looking ia wen io cetlcate healiA) When the United States enterca and far from robust sighed bet the great war, in April, 1917, Col @eesed a mind keen kaif ciate: |derbilt took his examinations set- by gary and be threw himse the Regular Army and passed; many heartedly into the work of 1earnlDg | roiow oMcers of the guard failed. He how to command men. t encape | W# Put in command of the 224 En-| Zdeut. Vanderbilt could not esceP®! gincers, whose armory was at Wost the avid eye of the sorecre rrr, | 168th Street and Fort Washington | Qe the occasion of bis firs' Radars Avenue. On Aug. 30, when the 22d| qnse with Company G at drl Polos | Engineers, first to go of all New floor of the armory, the ee DK York's men of the 27th Division, month, tho papers found still rine | marched down Fifth Avenue to re-| fmterest in the rich man belie? me jcelve the city's hysterical goodbys, @ier, Tho }'ttle speech he made for, {CO Vanderbilt rode at the head fore his company was quoted the fol- |“ yy -ing the weary months of train- . lowing morning ing at Camp Wadsworth, in South . TL can assure you all fants, have | Carolina, Col. Vanderbilt's contingent | enjoyed my first drill exc pele busy at road making and kin- @rough I am really a recruit and have | aro4 engineering works to make the muuch to learn of the military url. T) Kamp sanitary and acceasible, It wag | | Jotned the Twelfth because it has {he | predicted long before orders came | S second of being a reliable, duty doing | not two months ago that Col, Van-| command, and Company G is one Of | Gompiit's engineers would be the first ee dest companies in the regiment. T | of the 27th Division to ship for France. staf do my dest to keep up the record |1) was the crack organization of eanfi foo! eure all you men will do the | wa deworth. | eaume.” Just when Col, Vanderbilt sailed for Van- The Stages in Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Military Career IN SEVENTEEN YEARS HE HAS RISEN FROM THE RANK OF SECOND LIEUTENANT TO THE BRIGADIER G PERSHING. ~ BRIGAD! G 1919. ER > I CAPTAIN ~ This Article Is All Off if It Is Warm To-Day June Would Have Been a Poem as Usual if It Hadn’t Had Cold Feet—Summer Has Sure Been Flat-Footed in Stepping Out—Unless July Stakes Us to a Little Sun#- shine We Ought to Have the Price of Admission Refunded Plus the War Tax— Debutantes Must Have Knitted So Many Sox They Knitted Us Plumb Into Next Winter! BY ARTHUR (“BUGS’’) BAER. . by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) order to make us buy coal and ice at the same time, The world has R being sewn up in a deadlock for a yard of hours, the jury been so busy shuffling the kinks and qucenks out of the democratic ani) Oxure! wilether the war is reaponeible for the weather or deck that summer also seems to de lost in the discard, swtiatiax tA. weahien’ te chamonalble for The war Auseiy, We The girls handed us a laugh when they busted out in an epidemic ; ‘ of summer furs, but now we know that they were wiser than an owl have got ‘am doth on our mitts. We can fire the jury, but It’s @ corru with two sets of thinks, The only thing foolish about summer furs 1s gated job firing the war of the weather. that there hasn't been any summer, June 21 was the first day of suminer. And il ivoks like tL ty all that frapped weather in June waa another symptom To-day is July, all righto, by the almanac, but when you toss your of Hohenzollernian dealing from the bottom of the pack. The chief eye back on that stack of cold chips in June you begin to suspect that janitor of one of these U tubs might have waddled down to the home the old calendar 1s a forgery. Can't tell yet whether July 1s going to | office of the Gulf Stream and turned on the spigot. The first stanza of be a base hit or not. But it 1s the consensus of metropolitan and | June was colder than the vest buttons on a walrus. The rest of the suburban opinion that June was a foul ball. | month was cooler than the ears on Rameses the Twice. As a summer Summer has eure been flat-footed in stepping out. The only reason | {"eene totlowing year, when the Twelfth | rrance is not to be revealed ‘went to its annual encampment near | pocontly published in ‘Tho Evening + PeekskiN, T4eut, Vanderbilt Wid a5) wWorg revealed the fact that the \quuch work as anybody and a little |; ronyport carrying himself and his ‘\btt-more than some. He learned bY | troops was thrice attacked by sub- making mistakes. | marines during the voyage to Fran “Col. Dyer roasts him god and | aa fiard,’ was the secret confided to re-| LOGIC WITH A FLAREBACK. } porters by one of his fellow officers, GERMAN merchant in London | “pat be likes It. That's what we'ro IA had insured his house for here for; to make mistakes and get | £400, ‘The house burned down A letter | month, June tangled itself up into a fine Wish of spaghetti. June sure why the jury doesn't turn in a verdict of stupid in the first degree is got the pewter medallion. that they ‘ain't sure whether the cool weather {s last winter or next | Unless July stakes us to a little sunshine, we ought to have the winter. This summer is something like the malarious lad from County price of admission refunded, plus the war tax, A Palm Beach suit Mayo who was told to take a course in whiskey and quinine pills. We cortainly looks unique with the pockets full of blizzards. And nothing are eight weeks attead with the whiskey humidity but four weeks is quainter than a straw hat loaded with double-barreled icicles behind with the quinine sunshine. Kinda thought that the debutantes were knitting too many Looks like the weather man has hooked up with the coal man In 1 | sox. | exed down for them.” Tt was at this |and the insurance company's repre- that the young officer estab- | sentative came to him and said Nshed once and for all his broad de- | “Your house was old and dilapi- mocracy. It ruffled him when his |dated; it was not worth £400. We will campmates approached him in an at- |Bive you £300—or build you a bigg. r| person Knitted eo much that they plumb knitted us right into next winter. The Housewife’s Scrapbook | TE maximum allowance of wheat | at present should be one and & half pounds a week for each The patriotic housewife will | weather dish can be made by Dining nuts and rice, Boil half a of rice, melt one and a half table spoonfuls of fat, stir in one and com Hollandaise or drawn butter sauce. Have cold slaw or sliced tomatoe: mashed potatoes and peas with bake fish, |lightness beat the wiites until very light and the yolks until thick and colored. | 4 5 jand better house." in le : ps titude Ad ppl Fayed art The merchant Was very angry: he! use less. Macaron|, spaghetti and fa-| half tablespoonfuls of flour and add| Te remove the objectionable sane as, called him “Corney” won his instant |wanted the £400. However, ho even rina are wheat products and should| one and a half cups of milk (or milk|f Mutton or beef drippings when! 1) nseeving ice try keep- affection. tally thought it wise to take the! ; am ; ie crust beat them to a " > 3 not be used as substitutes, and water), Stir over fire until it| ng the butter tn a bow! of Vanderbiit was a First Lieutenant | £300. Whereupon the insurance man, 5 vegetal thicke Miz the boiled ric bh th one teaspoon baking pow- |/28 th of water in 1904, the Twelfth went with |With the pertinancy of his kind, sug-| ‘To #ave meat eat vegetables, They | thickens, Mix the bolled rice with | et siice of half @ lemon Cover the butter with a pioce of mus- van. ‘rep Phat ila hosted that. having settled that litte} are plentiful and comparatively |a cup of chopped peanuts and the| °F 4 i alt ¢ lin thal adkeaa Gf winohvehould raat in other regimen rom New York to \matter satisfactorily, the merchant! cheap. Two pounds of meat, includ-| sauce. Seuson with a teaspoon of| ipo po} Jiscard the water! the wate he out asel Rcines, ecesmement at 3 papery etry lie p To doi! fish and discard the water|the water in the outer vegsel, Manas- usiness with them.| ing poultry, is the weekly allowance| salt and a quarter teaspoon of | i, ful, Jt will make an appetiz- Yes, it vos. eas, during which the Battle of Bull | Was his life insured? ‘ould he insure Bun wae fought over again to give V28,his wife's? No, W it? No. Why not? {Re oMcers training in manoeuvres.| ‘J vill tell you why not,” he re Here correspondents observed Van-'plied. “I insure my wife for AerdOt, coat off and perspiring pro- | Ven she dies you come to me to say: |Your vife was old and dilapidated, «fesety, while he worked with bis men ‘ghe was not worth £400. Ve vill giv ™ Coweming 4u0r camp equipmmi 7OU £200-—or @ Higger and better vite, £400. | paprika, ed bak ing dish and bake twenty minutes, — = | Vegetables with a strong flavor, |such as cabbage and onions, should be To simply thicken a mixture eggs ai CFB | cooked in a large quantity of water, need not be beaten sepafately, Beat : s rod only until the yolke and whites ere | Have the kettle uncovered, 44 svpelising wai weil mined, When used io-areaie Daked t eS per person prescribed by the Food Pour it into a gr Administrations, and this should con- sist of pork, bacon, ham and sausages rather than beef. Nuts contain good body building material and make a good substitute seer heel, ing soup or chowder To set brown or tan color soak the article to be washed for ten minutes in a pall of water to which has been added a cupful of vinegar, Black or black and white goods should be spaked in strong salt water for be sorvsl with tex minutes hefore washing. rs San sacs MONDAY, J “Sure Cure for ULY 1, Slackers--- 1918 Just Send Them to France,” Says Lieut. Credo Harris “When They See How Boches Declares Author of War ot 3 emile on his lip and the wh: the lips of a newl as one of twenty-4i _ six months ago. found the need so and did any jobs i scheduled nwo terday. haps will not be allowed to return to “T have seen Americans going in and out of the trench: Lieut. Harr “I have been in thelr dug- outs and encampments, for only part told me. of my time was spent in Paris, and I Was sent to nearly all sections of the front during my stay in France, 1| have talked to our boys in the hos- pitals. the infantry, the marines, the aviation| service, the ambulance corps, the en- gineers, is grit clear through. Even) when the men are wounded, their one thought is to get out of the frospital and get back into the fighting. Ana| the French adore them. | “In Paris, just before I sailed, I saw a little group of Uncle Sam's boys in khaki passing down the street. Two Frenchmen, beaming, turned to look after them, and one waved bis arm in a ‘hurrah’ gesture. ‘Tis sont les aces!" ihe exclaimed gleefully to his com- panion. To the French, Every one, whether he is in} all of us,| whatever our branch of service, are ‘ace high’—the best there is.” ‘Then I spoke of Lieut. Harris's war book, “Where the Souls of Men Are for it unravels the psychol-| ogy of an American slacker whom the war turns into a hero, Starving in a cellar he finds a little Belgian girl? whose parents have been murdered by Germans, who has seen the bayonet- ing of her baby sister because she| whimpered aloud from hunger, and who is trying to protect two other, small children. "she says simply, “do not know me any more. ‘he things they have seen quite put| |out their minds.” Job, Lieut. Harris's study in coward- ice, goes Berserk when he hears the! child's tale; single sentries, captures a squad of fourteen Germans and drives them into the| American lines at the point of his rifle, | | forcing them to carry on their backs | the starving children and nine wound- {ed Tommies. | “If there 1s a slacker left in Amer- |ica,” Lieut. Harris observed soberly, “the thing to do with him is to take him to France. He has only to see how the Boches have treated the little |children of France and Belgium to | want nothing in the world but a fight |with Germany. There are hundreds of | children in these two countries who {have lost thelr minds becaume of the Jhorrors through which they have | passed, besides other hundreds mur- | dered and physically mutilated, ae: © is one thing for which a |decent American man cannot stand it 1s the abuse of a little child. Do you wonder our men are eager to get }at the Germans? Tho Captain of a certain American company remarked | Calling, handed kills two} one night to one of the Sergeants | {that he wanted a couple of Boche prisoners, Some of the men over-| | heard the conversation, Before an order was giv they disappeared. | An hour or two later they came in with six Germans, whom they had plucked out of the trenches opposite ‘We did have seven,’ the leader of the arty explained to the Sergeant apol- logetically, ‘but one started cutting up while we were crossing No Man’s| Land and we couldn't bring him in— we had to leave him there | “There was a certain Tommy who was very fond of visiting one of the American abris in the front line of trenches. He had a peculiar name, about which the men good-naturedly kidded him. He said that only two persona in the British Isles bore that name. One night the Sergeant joined |the group, remarking, ‘Bad news, boys!" “You don't mean the Germans are going to quit?’ anxiously inquired one American “Then the Sergeant read them an old newspaper account of the sinking of @ hospital ship, and before he| thought he popped out the name of a eit] victim whichavas the sameas-that inspection. nothing worth talking about, and compares himself to the British Tommy who, when rebuked for “grousing” fwems €8 he cleaned up his officer's tent, remarked gweetly, “Blime, eir, I werent grousin’; I were just sayin’ to myself that by pol ishin’ the leg of this table I am winnin’ the war.” near to actual fighting,” laughed Lieut. Harris when I talked with him yes Nevertheless, serving as a stretcher dearer, he was so severely wounded that he must have a second operation in this country and per- Have Treated Little Children They'll Want Nothing in the World but to Fight,” Book About a Slacker Who Turned Eager Warrior. By Margugrite Mooers Marshall HE American fighting man goes to it with a glint in bis eye, @ ole-hearted abandon of one who puts his foot on the rail and orders a big beer!” The comparison, perhaps, will not please our Prohibition friends, but I think {t both reassuring and vivid, and it comes direct from France on y returned American, Lieut. Credo Harris, of the American Red Cross. Lieut. Harris 1s a Kentucky @tthor who went over X inspectors for the Red Cross some When they reached France they great that they simply pitched ta n sight, instead of sticking to, their Lieut. Harris insists hee did “I've come about as the war zone. \ LUT. CREDO Harris of the Tmmy they all knew —hisets- After gne moment of dazed an Buish, before they could stop him, that man was out of the abri and over the top into no man’s land with a bag of bombs. ‘You stay here, boys, American Sergeant. ‘I started thi and I've got to look out for that chap.’ “Is it an order? asked one of the ‘0, I'm not giving any orde pifed the rgeant. And, of course, every man jn tho abri followed him through the Ame an wire, Because they knew it better than the Tommy they soon caught up with him and put him in the middle of their lne To sum up, they forced a Germait raiding party against its own barbed wire, and, the Sergeant told me, tossed bombs as if they were tossing apples. ‘How many prisoners did you take? 1 asked. ‘We just didn't see anything that looked like prisoners when we got through,’ he answered grimly. “And yet there's no swank about the American boys,” Licut, Harris continued earnestly, ‘Tho swank is in the stories of some of the corre spondents, ‘There's ono man—he writes for a New York morning news paper—from whose columns you gath- er that every time an American sticks his head over the top forty German die of heart failure and the rest beat t back to Berlin, What actually nap when that American head shows itself is that forty Germans aim at it and the rest start in its | direction M. The Australians, the Canadians ind’ the Americans are fine natural fighters, with # tradition of borde warfare and the inborn knowled, of how to fight on their bellies, We no better t the others, al though, on the other hand, they ere no better than we “Like every one else who comes from France just now,” Lieut. Harris concluded earnestly, “I bring two messages to the people at home, The first is to send men, men and more men, The second-—artd this comes from own fighters already there—is to stop han our alien enemies with kid gloves and use brass knuckles!" os THE LOST ART, HB four-ye 1 had just been AL reproved at the table, He con- Bey cheerfully, though unanswe father, Af ter some minutes of soliloquy he turned to his rn her and remarked: “Your husband doesn't talk very much this noon, does he, mother M—