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IMPRESSIONS OF GEN. PERSHING. Had Great Task and Kept On Job. Not Popular With Men. J. K Breeden. of Manning, who recently returned from France, has ^ written the following impressions of General Pershing, who returned to America last week: The United States army at home in a hundred camps, cantonments and posts reflects no single personality. Each outfit breathes the sp'rit of its v commander from the company to the division, and so there is a diversity of standard, perhaps according to the .capacity and inclination of commanders. But the American expeditionary forces?now enshrined with the immo-r+a was PprshinST His spirit animated it; his energy galvanized it; | his "will controlled it. I do not wish to be fulsome in praise, for this is not written with a motive of adulation; but the spirit and the personality of John J. Pershing was the spirit and personality \ of the American expeditionary forces. What would have impressed you most if you had gone to France? Task Was Stupendous. (1). The vast preparations of Uncle Sam. At Brest, St. Nazaire, or Bordeaux. At ^ivres and Is-surTille (just to mention two camps) you would have felt the pulse of the supply system. Ninetjr-four miles of sidetrack for Camp Williams at Is-. ksur-Tilie and a 132 miles of siding at' Gievres tell something of freight j handling. At Is-sur-Tille the army j built the greatest bakery in the world, j with a capacity of a million pounds j of bread a day; at Gievres was the.1 * vast refrigeration plant and enor-; mous stores of everything from C. C. j pills to horses and airplanes. Sev- j y eral thousand miles of telephone! wire throughout France?and the ? rest of the infinity of stuff?brought j two thoughts to my mind. One was s Uncle Sam's stupendous effort to get V everything needful across w^ere it could be transmitted by the alchemy of war into offensives and dead bo7 chea; the other was the dynamic personality of the commander-in-chief of the American expeditionary forces. I have never spoken to General p: Pershing, except to salute him stiffly in passing, but I never saw him even .at a distance, but what I admired was } that trim, soldiery figure, the clean, resolute face and mouth, the energetic walk, the guick, penerating eye, for Pershing knew no off days. He was always on duty, always carrying t the burden of commander-in-chief of the greatest expeditionary force e^er known. Pershing's problem was / greater tha^ that of Joffre, Foch, Pe tain or Haig. He was sole authority not only for more than 2,000,000 ' men, but these men were more than 3,000,000 miles from America. Furthermore, Pershing was responsible for everything in the American expeditionary force from the salts to the IflfintiftTl QIITlTllr Ho ha/1 oecsie+onfo ?-p ? ? ? --rr "v "?u i*jwiov.uulo, resourceful and capable advisers, but ttfe task was his and he was big enough to boss the job. But he wasn't 1 " so big, or so concerned with vast engineering projects or tactical disposirC 'tions as to be unmindful of small ir^ regularities. He regarded them as ,7 symptoms of disorder and was quick X to call for correction. A stickler for military courtesy and regulation dress himself he would not tolerate -?_ i ?? AALA a^A A AAAAA w tt |klau A we v u & kine < ; as w ' * are > timi i, < witi ?5 wea: ^ Coat Suits 4* Dresses X Coats X Skirts ........ ^ Waists ? Petticoats. Purs ? Big line of k X if ti 4 and * seni reas I KLA 4 X any departure from either. "Black Jack" was what is called in the army "hard-boiled." Discipline a Necessity. % What kind of army would we have had if rigid discipline had not been the rule?3,000,000 miles from home and in a foreign country, a land of people wholly different not only in speech, but in social attitude and temperament? The smart American doughboy in Paris, with his snappy salute was a good representative of American quality; and the American M. P.'s everywhere were, as an organization, the most capable lot of police I have seen. Behind it all was the watchful eye of Pershing. He once stopped his car to rebuke an officer for having a button loose, I have been told; and no one tried to divert him by attentions or side issues. but every officer waited to get a bawling out, if he did not have things ship-shape. Pershing was not the idol of the American expeditionary forces, nor Your Eyes , TestedandFit- <= ted Correctly BY A GRADILfl Reid'sJew BAMBEJ ?i / High Grade \ I Cigars and 1 I Delicious I V Candies J We Can Pleas The men who is parti he smoh.es is also part he gets for his loved < We carry the leading elly advertised cigars keep them fresh to ins We cadi furnish an candy in large quan . siorxs at particularly t Whether you spend .merely your time, wen Mack's D BAMBER IBER'S,, STISH TO ANNOUNCE THA >S OF READY TO WEAR G E HAVE DONE 65 PER CE ASON FOR THIS: THE RI !S OF HIGH PRICES, TE I THIS IN VIEW, GIVING R. REMEMBER, YOU CAE fill 11 rl ran 'c V 1 I I 1 UJ. VJLi ?J WW- tk/ IERE IS ANYTHING YOU MRS MORRISON, WILL I ) THEM DOWN ON APPRi SONS FOR THE SUCCESS UBER'S," t | was he popular with officers or men so far as I could learn. In fact I was surprised that he was not -popular but then he had to bear the whole load. And he went ahead without dramatic posing and without courting favor. The American expeditionary force ?now a glorious memory of stalwart I soldiers and chivalrous achievement j ?was an organization vast in its ramifications and under a great genj eral staff at Chaumont of one chiet I and five assistants, but no mechanic of organization or operation obscured the dominant figure of Pershing, quiet, tactful with the allies, strict, the'master organizer. Pershing has laid down his burden. He comes home deserving the admiration of his countrymen. Just received, a big shipment of men's suits. We can fit anyone, as we have any style you want. H. C. Folk Co. Read The Herald, only $2.00 year. lTE optician elry Store RG, S. C. se EveryTaste cular about the cigars icular about the candy >nes. I local and the nationand candies. And we ure their tastiest flavors. * y hind of cigars or tities for special occa attractive prices. a dollar, a dime, or a always glad to see you. 'rug Store G, S. C. 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