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THE REPUBLIC A N-RECORH GACF OKLAHOMA
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LUMBERJACKS READY FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE
He's the general in
command of the first
division of Ameri-
can soldiers that has
gone to the rescue of
heroic France
NOWN to his men variously as
“Fighting John” “Kitchener”
Pershing and “Black Jack” the
man who commands the first American
division In France Is the Ideal type of
American soldier The grim lines of
his mouth Indicate the qualities which
have made him successful In war The
Peyshlng smile when It Illumines his
face hints of those other qualities
which have endeared him even to his
foes
Major General Pershing — he won his
two stars for the conduct of the expe-
dition Into Mexico — Is a chivalrous sol-
' dler He Is the type who fights relent-
lessly until he has beaten his enemy
and then helps him His fellow offi-
cers say that he attained his present
rank because he “soldiered hard” and
It Is a pretty good sign that he has
fairly won his rank when he Is so gen-
erally well thought of by the officers
over Jhe heads of 862 of whom he was
'advanced from the grade of captain to
that of brigadier general by President
Roosevelt
The Ideal American 6oldier
General Pershing began to be the
Ideal soldier on the day he entered the
United States Military academy at
West Point He graduated as senior
cadet captain which Is the highest
rank which can be attained at the
academy
He was Immediately appointed sec-
ond Heutenant In the Sixth cavalry
and under Gen Nelson A Miles plung-
ed Into the thick of the fighting against
the Apaches He had not been In the
- saddle a full year when General Miles
complimented him In orders for
“marching his troop with pack train
oVer rough country 140 miles In 46
hours bringing In every man and ani-
mal In good condition”
In Mexico General Pershing more
than lived up to the record of a dash-
ing cavalry leader which he establish-
ed as a second lieutenant In 1887
The campaigns against Geronlmo
taught Pershing his first lessons In real
war The kind of fighting he learned
from the Apache and Sioux campaigns
stood him in good stead when he
tackled the Moros How modern
armies fight or did fight previous to
the present war he learned In Cuba
and as military attache and observer
with the Japanese armies In their war
against Russia
In 1880 the young Lieutenant Per-
shing won commendation again from
General Miles when as commanded of
Troop A of the Sixth cavalry he took
ten men rescued a band of cowboys
who had been captured by one hundred
hostile Indians captured a number of
horse thieves who were among the In-
dians and returned with his party to
Fort Wingate without having fired a
shot lost a single man or killed' an
Indian That Is typical of the man
ne Is the true American soldier He
does not kill when he can win with-
out it
The experience Pershing gained
fighting Geronlmo and other Apache
chiefs caused him to be sent to the
' Dakotas In command of the Sioux
scouts In the wars against the rebel-
lious Sioux After this period of fight-
ing he became military instructor In
the University of Nebraska where he
took the degree of LLB and In the
early nineties he was sent to West
Point as an Instructor
Valor at El Caney
When the Spanlsh-Amerlcan war be-
gan the young lieutenant became res-
tive and begged to be sent back to the
line He was assigned to a negro
regiment and won commendation In
orders for his work at El Caney A
' more substantial reward for his valor
came after he was sent to the Philip-
pines In the form of a captain’s com-
mission It was In the Philippines that "Black
Jack” Pershing did his greatest work
and won glory for himself and the
American army A little more than
ten years ago the United States faced
a tremendous problem In the Philip-
pines Almost Incessant warfare hod
existed between Christians and Mos-
lems In the archipelago since Magellan
' was slain during the voyage In which
Europeans first circumnavigated the
globe ‘Spaniards British and Ameri-
cans so far had failed to settle the
problem Its entire weight was shift-
CONDENSATIONS
Thousands of Mohammedans know
he Koran by heart
Vienna reported a saving of $142000
rorth of gas under last year’s new
I roe schedule
A Frenchman has obtained a patent
or h process of bleaching and drying
pa weed for packing purposes
A substitute for cement used In
ome parts of Turkey consists of a
ilxture of linseed oil slaked lime and
tton fiber
BT
ed to the broad shoulders of the then
Captain Pershing and he straightened
under the burden and carried It to the
end '
In 1899 he became adjutant general
executive officer of the department of
Mindanao and Jolo In this capacity
he studied the Moros and the Moro
problem He tried in every honorable
way to conciliate the native chiefs and
judges or dattos but the Moros would
not take the word of a white man
Later they learned that' Pershing’s
word was never broken '
Finally after studying the question
from every possible viewpoint he de-
cided that the only way to subdue the
natives was to prosecute a campaign
against them Washington coincided
with this view and Pershing went Into
the jungle
Every foot of the way through mud-
dy roads little better than jungle trails
where guns and caissons sometimes
sank hub deep and had to be raised by
planks and levers through insect In-
fested forests - In an atmosphere
fraught wrlth fever and malaria he
had to fight against crazed Mohamme-
dan warriors who believed that to die
slaying Christians Insured them of a
life in heaven with a white horse to
ride and beautiful houris to wait upon
them i
Against odds like this the expedition
fought and cut Its way to the Lake
Lanao country where the Moros had
gathered in force
At Bayan Captain Pershing gave the
rebels their first taste of American
fighting The battle resulted In a bril-
liant tactical victory for our troops
and the expedition pressed forward
Destroyed 40 Forte
The sultan of Macolod one of the
most powerful of the native rulers re-
fused to surrender With a battalion
of Infantry a squadron of cavalry and
a section of guns Pershing moved
against him and threatened to demol-
ish his fort unless he gave in
The sultan was defiant He dreamed
that his stronghold was Impregnable
In two days It was a memory and the
American troops had received upon
their bayonets the last maddened
charge of the Moro band The Ameri-
cans had two men wounded
One after the other 40 Moro forts
fell under Pershing’s assaults and the
Island of Mindanao was at peace two
Americans having lost their lives
Then the Pershing smile succeeded
the fighting grimness of his face and
the Moros became his friend They
made a datto of him and they submit-
ted to his judgment In their legal dis-
putes and the United States made him
military governor of the department
For this work he was advanced to the
grade of brigadier general although
862 officers had priority over him
For a time Pershing was relieved of
his Philippine duties because of ill
health but the Moros of Jolo continued
to make trouble and he was sent back
to subdue them as he had the rebels
of Mindanao It was a bigger task
and one the magnitude of which has
seldom confronted a regular army offi-
cer except In time of actual war
Pershing picked a command of mea
every one of whom he knew down to
the last private He loved them all as
children and they loved him as “Black
Jack” and “Fighting John” Pershing
There wasn’t a man under him whose
face the general didn’t know and whom
he could not call by name
The Moros — men -women and chil-
dren — had taken refuge and fortified
themselves In the crater of Bud Dajo
an extinct volcano on the Island of
Jolo Pershing announced to his men
that he was going to drive the rebels
out of the crater If It took ten years
to do It
There were 600 Moros everyone of
them Imbued with the faith that each
Christian he slew would be his slave
In the Moro heaven lurking under the
rim of the big hole In the top of the
mountain -
Guerrilla Warfare
The addition of a band of Filipino
scouts brought the American forces up
to about one thousand men Every
Inch of the way from the shore of the
island they had to fight against the
hidden enemy
Outposts were stabbed In the night
by naked savages who wriggled
through the tall grass without a sound
Pickets and patrolling parties were
fallen upon and slain by beast-men
who swung from the branches of tropi-
cal treerf and palms like panthers but
the relentless column cut Its way fur-
ther and further toward the heart of
the Moro stronghold and at last spread
In a thin circle around the base of the
ancient volcano
Several times reconnoltering parties
of American troops crawled to the rim
of the crater and observed the dlsposl-
There are 14000 acres of land
apart from public gardens lying Idle
In London
When keeping the yolks of eggs for
a day or two drop them In a little
cold water It will prevent hardening
More than 90 per cent of the alcohol
and alcoholic drinks that are made In
the ' Philippines are xlerived from the
sap of palm trees
rAtr undercovering of cotton flannel
Or felt made to fit the dining table Is
desirable It prevents noise and the
doth may be laid more smoothly
tlon and numbers of the Moros without
being seen
At last General Pershing announced
that If the Moros did not surrender
within fonr days he would storm the
position Two days later ninety of
the men came down the side of the
mountain and surrendered Hunger
had shattered even Moslem fanaticism
and thoughts of heaven had given
away before the pangs of empty stom-
achs They were disarmed and set at
liberty The same afternoon 150 more
men and women both straggled into
camp and gave themselves up By
nightfall almost five hundred of the
Moros had thrown themselves on the
mercy of the Americans
When the Four Days Were Up
At the end of ( the four days General
Pershing ordered an advance The
crater Itself was found to be deserted
but a band of almost one hundred men
had hidden In the Jungle They tried
to break through the cordon of troops
on the east side of the mountain and
so fierce was the fighting that Captain
Barber was wounded by a shot fired so
close to his body that It burned his
clothing-
Those of the band who were not
killed were driven back into the crater
and although they attempted several
times in the night to break through
the line not a man escaped AH' the
available troops surrounded the piece
of jungle In which the Moros were
hiding and It was only a question of
time before they would be annihilated
At this juncture an aged datto ap-
pealed to General Pershing declaring
that he could persuade the rebels to
surrender Always willing to spare
bloodshed where It was possible Per-
shing told him to do his best but
made It perfectly plain that the sur-
render must be unconditional
For two hours the datto paced back
and forth In the jungle calling In the
native dialect to his people At last
they answered and he persuaded them
to surrender Only forty-five were
left They marched down the moun-
tainside and laid down their arms sev-
eral automatic pistols among them
and were sent to Jolo where they
went aboard the cutter Samar and
were taken to Zamboanga and spent
some time In the Calarlan' prison -
It broke the back of the Moro pow-
er In the Philippines The dattos new
er became a menace again
Became Major General
In January 1916 having endeared
himself alike to the hearts of the Fili-
pinos and Americans In the Islands
General Pershing returned to the Unit-
ed States and was placed In command
of the Eighth brigade of the regular
army with headquarters at El Paso
There he remained until the Villa raid
on Columbus N M when President
Wilson placed him In command of tho
flying punitive expedition Into Mexico
That this expedition did not turn out
to be more punitive was not General
Pershing’s fault
General Pershing was under orders
and In communication with the war do
partment al) the time and the way In
which he handled the Mexican problem
met with the full approval of President
Wilson Pershing can be a diplomatist
as well as a soldier
General Pershing’s men regard him
In the most kindly manner ' Were be
In command of French troops they
would doubtless call him “Papa” Per-
shing as they do thd great marshal of
France but he Is over American boys
and to them there Is more endearment
In the terms “Black Jack” and “Fight-
ing John”
Color Glass by Heat '
A process has been perfected in
France for applying colors to glass
by heat so that Btalned glass win-
dows can be made without fastening
many pieces of glass of different hues
together
Rabbit Has No Protection
The game laws In 28 of our states
Including Alaska do not protect the
rabbits Most farmers refuse to pro-
tect the rabbit whose “taking ways”
have proved anpoylng
Group of New England lumberjacks -ready to embark for Europe to prepare timbers for the trenches of the-
allies - Ten units have been recruited for this work and are In the charge of Daniel A MacKay of the Northwest
mounted police shown at the right 1
FACE MANY PERILS
Life of Stretcher Bearers at the
I Front is Not an Easy
One
PRIVATE FENTON ENVIES THEM
But He Changes Hla Mind After Trip
to No Man's Land aa Volunteer
In Placo of Main
Bearer
By PATRICK MAC GILL
(Special Correspondent of the Chicago
Dally News)
London — The battalion was resting
In a village far behind the trenches
and Fenton newly out discovered that
a rest Is a period of sweat and bard
labor Then the month being May the
sun shone as only the sun of France
can shine and of course Fenton roast-
ed He got up In the morning at six
o’clock brigade time and formed up
with the other men ontslde his billet
These men were generally Inclined to
take a gloomy view of things at that
hour and vowed that brigade time
skipped two hours at night and found
theip again when on parade’ That was
the beginning of a day which might be
called fairly strenuous and Fenton
who was (till new to things wondered
what it was all for — since It wasn’t
fighting — - and whether everybody
worked as hard as he did
Now among others who lived In his
billet there were two men and these
men seemed to labor little They had
no bayonets to burnish no rifles to
clean no ammunition to carry When
other men' went out they stopped in-
side and they were in when Fenton
returned from paradq Once when he
was engaged in a mimic attack on a
wood he came across these two men
in company with several others and all
were lying In the shade of the trees
smoking cigarettes and listening to an
address which the M O was deliver-
ing Fenton had been hard at work
all morning His legs were tired his
shoulders ached the sweat poured
down his face In tiny rivulets He had
no time to He In the shade How he
envied the stretcher bearers t
They Had an Easy Life
It was Fenton’s first spell In the
firing Une and the trench In which he
found himself was a comparatively
quiet one but In bad repair so no end
of work had to be dona there Para-
pets had to he built saps had to be
strengthened wire entanglements had
to be laid and so on In addition to
tasks Uke these there were ration
fatigues water fatigues and fatigues
for carrying up ammunition and Fen-
ton was a good willing worker and
while he labored he watched the two
stretcher bearers and decided that
they bad a very quiet life One of them
was a thickset man of medium height
who seemed to be always laughing and
smoking cigarettes His name was
Rogers
“An easy job yours” said Fenton to
him on the afternoon of the second
day
“Not so bad” said Rogers with a
smile “Next time there’s a vacancy
I’ll let you know”
On the following day the British at-
tacked captured a German trench and
held It Some men a few of the most
reckless spirits went a bit beyond the
trench but were forced to fall back
again leaving a number of wounded be-
hind them on the ground It was then
that Fenton ensconced In the trench
saw the stretcher bearers at work
saw them going out Into the open field
of danger tending the wounded and
carrying them In not only to the
trench but hack to the dressing sta-
tion at the rear
The way was onfc of peril but the
men knowing their duty never hesi-
tated Once twice three times Fen-
ton saw Rogers and his mate pass
across the trench' carrying the limp
figures of the wounded on their
stretchers And Rogers always bore
on his face a good-natured smile: He
' seemed to be enjoying his Job
When darkness fell Rogers came In-
to the trench but his mate was not
with him
' Wanted a Volunteer!
“I’ve lost him” he said “and I want
somebody to take his place a volun-
teer There’s only one more wounded
man out In the front now so I want to
get him In Who’ll come with me 7”
Til go” said Fenton and be went
Rogers seemed to be very weary On
tho way out ho came to a halt seroral
TO HELP (MINDED
times and once' even he sat down
"I’m a bit tired” he said “But I’U
soon buck up1 This man’s the last
then TO have a rest”
They reached the wounded man and
In the dark It was Impossible to dis-
tinguish his features He was breath-
ing heavily and his face looked very
white
“He’s unconscious” said Rogers
“He’s on the stretcher my mate help-
ed me on with him then he got hit”
“Is he dead your mate?” asked Fen-
ton Rogers pointed at something dark
which lay on the earth near the
stretcher
“My mate” he said In a low voice
Then "You take the head Fenton
and I’ll take the legs they’re Ughter
and I’m a bit weak”
The Journey was tortuous The bul-
lets whistled round the men’s legs and
once or twice the bandies of the
stretcher slipped from Rogers' hands
Then both men would halt for a sec-
ond draw breath and without speak-
ing a word continue their journey
They got Into the dressing station
about midnight and then Fenton dis-
covered two things which' caused him
to open his mouth In wonder The
man on the stretcher was a German
They had risked their lives to succor
the enemy And Rogers was wounded
When his mate got killed he himself
had got hit In the shoulder with a
shrapnel bullet
IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR
THIS SOLDIER TO MEND :
Paris — The French army
probably contains the oldest sol-
dier In the world a private
named Montsarrat whose age Is
eighty-one years He was over
two years In captivity after be-
ing taken In Belgium by the Ger-
mans They finally decided he
was harmless and liberated him
As soon as be arrived In Paris
however he enlisted and Is anx-
ious to seek vengeance
HUMAN ADDING MACHINE
New York has produced a six-year-old
human - adding machine who can
give Instantly the totals of formidable
columns of figures and who Is nnable
to distinguish one figure from the
other He Is Samuel Jungrles the
thirteenth child ef Mr and Mrs To-
bias Jungrles of New York
His peculiar gift was not revealed
until a week ago when It was discov-
ered by some of his companions of the
neighborhood Since then physicians
and psychologists have examined him
and have pronounced his feats as
"marvelous”
In addition to Tils wonderful powers
In adding up sums be has a most re-
tentive memory and can remember the
problems someone has given him days
after be first worked them out
PLAN NEW TYPE
FIGHTING PLANE
Will Sacrifice Speed to Weight of
Broadside and Invulnerability
EXPERTS INDORSE PROGRAt!
Orville Wright Inventor of Airplane
Says Conflict’s Quick Termination
Lies In Air Inferiority for '
8ome Combatant
Washington — The principal con-
tribution of the United States to the-
allles’ military operations will be ttv
evolution of an entirely new type of
fighting airplane
This prediction was made by a high-
ranking officer of the navy -In
common with many of his asso-
ciates this officer believes that not
only the allies but Germany have work-
ed on a fanlty theory In trying to per-
fect aviation They have sacrificed ev-
erything possible for greater speech
The result Is the ultra-fast machines
used by the belligerents on the west-
ern front are vulnerable to a high de-
gree despite their armor
While many fast machines will bo-
constructed in this country In addi-
tion to the training airplanes now be-
ing turned out it Is believed probable-
that In carrying oat the program an-
nounced by Howard H Coffin chair-
man of the aircraft production boards
and backed by President Wilson ancK
Secretary Baker much time and money
will be expended In the development
of a new type of fighting plane 1m
which high speed will be sacrificed to-
weight of broadside and Invulnerabil-
ity '
It Is predicted the armament of the-
new type of American airplane will)
be as heavy as the navy one-pound
rifle The plan Is to make aircraft
capable of a wider radius of action
than those In use by the allies which
must be aimed at the enei machines-
In order to make their machine guns
effective
Wright Indorses Move
Orville Wright who with his broth-
er Wilbur Wright built and flew the-
first man-carrying airplane strongly
Indorsed the program for the develop-
ment of aviation In this country on a
broad scale
“Whea my brother and I built an
flew the first man-carrying machine”'
he said “we thought we were Intro-
ducing into the world an slnventlom
which would make further wars prac-
tically Impossible We thought gov-
ernments would realize the Impossi-
bility of winning by surprise attacks
and that no country would enter Into
war with another of equal size when
It knew it would have to win by wear-
ing out Its enemy -“Nevertheless
the world finds It-
self In the greatest war in history
Neither side has been able to win on
account of the part the airplane has
played Both sides know exactly what
the other Is doing The two sides ars
apparently nearly equal In aerial
equipment and unless present condi-
tions can be changed the war wilt
continue for years
Must Blind the Enemy
“However If the allies’ armies ars
equipped with such a number of alr-
plunes as to keep the enemy planes
entirely back of the Une so that they
are unable to direct gunfire or to ob-
serve the movement of the allied
troops — In other words If the enemy’s
eyes can be put out — It will be possi-
ble to end the war This Is not taking
Into account what might be done by
bombing German sources of munition
supplies such as Essen which Is only
about 160 miles behind the fighting
Unes But to end the war quickly and
cheaply the supremacy la the air must
be so complete as to entirely blind
the enemy -
“The program laid down by the nlr-i
craft production board If carried out
will obtain this result”
Mr Wright Is now engaged In super-
intending the building of the big four
squadron aviation field for the war de-
partment at Dayton o
Costs Him $4300 to 8ell Rum
Burlington Vt — It cost Sollmnn
Zeeklnd just $4800 to sell one bottle
of Uquor here Sollman has a saloon
but under the law he Is not allowed
to sell anything to be drunk away from
the premises He broke this law j
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