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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CABOUyA Intimate Sketch of the Mah Who Has Beaten His Enemy’s Military Machine, f Cad or no hns.br,ought i'tii the' nt Italy tJi<I;ii 1 s: w ord of her groat goii- oraV hml the unspoken assurance of Ids faith in ultimate victory, every day mode nearer and more resplond.-. ent fnr flu* general believes In what might be called the contagiousness of faith, and the identification of the ldetv^ with the reality In ultimate achieve ment. > We believes that victory, ^be- fore materializing as a fact, musf-be potentially blazing os an absolute'cer tainty In the hearts o'f the soldiers Ttnd their leaders—In fact, must de scend from the loaders to the* mooses Rqme.—It is said Ip thj liytle‘Italian water town of i*allanza on the-border of thp iAigo Magglore, away up toward the Swiss Alps, where .Lombardy and Piedmont meet, that shine years ugo a learned German with a particular In terest In heraldry paused at soipe length before a weather-beaten crest "embossed In a quaint old-fashloped doorway, and observed to those In his companyt -v * "Remarkable — most remark uTiLe. The composition of^hls coat of arms points to a line of fate running In the same family from father Tb ^gocr, and , fo tremendous ochlevemeJMS to 'crown the family tree. I wouldn't pare to be pitted against the star of thnt fam- He Has Molded an Army That Drives Austrians Out of Alps Mountain# In Hardest Campaign of JVorld Conflict During Summer. as an Irresistible, joyoris'flnwdf truth. He believes thnt discipline is the spir itual tlnme of victory. Never for one fnstanf has lie doubted the ultimate Isrtue of the war; never once doubted NEED PLENTY OF GRUB 1 And he marched himself off, growl | count of personal conceit; but be- , cause lie considers himself ns an agent of necessity, an exponent of the Inevi table march of history. \ His will Is inflexible, beohuse he htiever seeks strength in tlife opinion of others. On the other hand, he never v mikes up his rnlhd until every aide 1ms beeu considered and every Item of the contention outweighed. After that , his conclusions are drawn,, and I anything thpt may follow .finds him i Unswerving. His Strength lies largely In.his absolute, naive unconsciPu'sness of anything that might disturb It; that, { In fact, would disturb another mam No useless anxiety In him ; no nerve* racking Impatience. ' ' ‘ Once, awny- back in 101 "Remarkable, .most remarkable!’’ > Rut it never occurred to him to ask the 4 name of the family who had once gone through the deserted gateway, nor, at the time, did his reflection strike his Italian host as nnytblug but, a freak of "kulfur.” Time has proved that the German was right f'df once. The star ami tin" oak tree and what nob that had struck his fancy so are the-crest of < the Ca- dornn, who come from poor but un sullied provincial nohliltv, with, two chief ideal*-^Drirtl-ng In the family: Faith In . OotL-irriiV'devotion to Italy'.- The present General Cadorna’s grand father was minister to King Carlo AT-- berto, who led the movement for Ital ian independence, granted the constitu tion to his kingdom Cth^h restricted to Piedmont and Sardinia), abdicated'-tn favor of his son when lie thought that such a course of action would help the formation of new Italy, and died an exile at Oporto. General Cadorna’s fa ther, Gen. Fount ItafTaele Cadorna, led In 1860 the Italian advance on the Iaonzo, which was cut short by diplo matic Interference and the subsequent of the Italian lands LSIh *f<>r t ly^nhuorf ruefc. i UhTH’.' k < ffftufrrthl Uul **AmvriG‘i Wi'anso.of tin brlpKlug tl^eiq h supply *tt ^iga if I'riuou Fitfr}a(;nzen<i of Russia cnridltjofis In Rti<sin. 3— Sentry mayor j of an Italian cltyisent word that liia. ^constituents had an Italian flag ready for Ooritz. Cadorna dismissed the ~sutf|ort with a whimsical sinilc. “Tell him to put if away In a drawer I for no\v.’ ; . Rut when, about ope-year later, Gf>- rltz \yns taken, the muyor received this rather cryptic telegram, from the general himself: “You may, now send along that ob ject. f’adorria."' Which rather reminds you of Dante’s famous answer about the egg OLD GLORY ROUSES ENTHUSIASM IN LONDON granting to Austria with salt, at one voaf’s distance. * • . J * V On New Year’s day of 1910, an ac quaintance sent him, %jth good wishes, the offering of a shaggy fur coat, and the general answered accenting “the fleece" as a .good omen “for tin* con quest of our ideal golden fleece,” and milled: “Rut then, you know, in. Ja son's'time there were no barbed-wire fences nor mther infernal devices, and it was possible to step mort* lively.’ Which, by the way, is a mighty good Trtr at 'the*'oToTmT-oYItros of the w ar.—1 .It is characteristic of the general that such a gift he mtiy accept with a, smile; but he definitely waives any lery regfmeht. Opportunity fpr experi ence In Infantry work was afforded hlra by his appointment as a major in the Sltty-sechnd Infantry regiment in 1883; but since 1892, when he got his Colonelcy, ho has been Identified with the Rersagllerl, ; thc •‘wideawakes’’, of the Ttailnn army., '* All these years were spent by him in active study of general military problems, as well as of Italy’s partlc- ular characteristics In - the military Mne. To this day his essay on. the Franco-German war of 1870 and his- pumphiet about tactics and. the proper uso of- Infantry In legitimate warfare are consulted by the exports to advan tage. as are his studies on tty* Italian collective . token or <)enihnstra.tioiw ■Knowing- bis affection dlwr -UU—native place,"‘and Ills regret at.Circumstances having compelled Ills father to part tlefjeid in France, with -the - family homestead, it wg .^pro posed to purchase and present to him the house'"“by -naTttmal subscript kin. He; stopped that,, arid desired the pro- ctvds tp he given to the home for inu- Ulated Koldiers hml victims of*the war.- Other dernopstrut Ions- were' slntfj«r.ly thwarted, hut it Is helj^ycd tlm.t-he will not refuse to accept a $word‘once ; owned by Garibaldi, since It Is planned to present ft to him “ut the cud" of-the war.” * If a general proves unfit lie Is “tpr- he seems to thrive on Ills work, and tO' gather■ ne>Vy/strength, as the days go and as time tests, it, in the' consulous- riess/thaf It Hi* good. L • • . Ifis^fnith .ill God supports his faitIv in victory. For he is a de j ply religious riihn, his/favorite, daughter, by the way, Is/g nun. nnd while such feeling mean.^a good.deal to human lives that • are intrusted to him, It helps him to request of them all the sacrifice that the higher ideals may require. ■It Is his firm conviction That "th sacrifice one life wantonly Is a crime; to tme a hiMulred thousand if neces sary is a duty." for the potnmnnder of a nation at war. “If necessary” Is his condition; and “if necessary, let It be done,” his slogan, jiisf iis the sjognn of the officers \vith heavy responsibili ties is: “Whih 1n doribt, go to Ca* ry carried before* a contingent of our fighting men roused usually phlegtfciatie .London to The ididtograph shows the-troops marching through the city and, Inset, the king and queen ACE” RAOUL LUFBERY CAUSES OF “STRATEGIC RETREAT’ boundary lands. These he knows to perfection, so thnt he hardly evej* needs to resort trt charts and maps for Mr plans; he hail It ail mapped^put/in his head, and the facility with which ho draws from his memory 1 the names and positions of intricate passes, v«l- foys, mule paths and roads is nothing short of marvelous. / • \Vhen he took ooniyrinnd of the^Tepth regiment of the Rersagllori, ho started to work on it after his Own mind, and brought It out in the grand maneuvers i:t/Splendid -form, practicing. In fact, on ,t|ie adversary forces that «nme t#pe of outflanking and stir- men who have the stuff. With such meo as the Italians, first values must have been developed during the war; find them nml,put them Pp." ' His ruddy, genln’1, opyp e<umteiiance, liis bo'ylsh'freedom of movement and gesture. Interestingly contrasting with flip whiteness.of hair and mustache}. his .clear, forceful voice and the dott nlte, resdlute^lhipgs that £ expresses, with-n breezy sense of VtfaTUy that is quite refreshing to the bearer, all come in.for a share in tin eximptiorial- X iUm.'il/n: tleipan warrior," who. as a young lli^u.- tenaiitrin 1^70 stood by his father uml helped him give lUwe-1<> liaiy, «>4id as rotlp, /the CArso -today. - Again, in 1911, e had attained his gencraiship then a mature leader of meo may t»r may not give Trieste to Rome In KU7, but w ill forever stand‘in the eyes of Italy and the light of the world ys.the.-trrie representjHivd of the rightCOTls light- "f T.atfn civilization agninst the barbarb 1 brutality of the Huns. "gnindes maneuvers,” the/^'.lue party against the Red, with all the strategic odds against his party, -and astonished all experts by the. working out of.a capital plan first; and when lid's fell through on - unforeseen cir <M n> ls irinccs, .by the-promptness.with which he sized up the new situation-mpl turned it <from once more to his advantage. Rut nbthing then seemed to point out the -magnificent heights to-v< ; hieh he was called. In fact, the breaking out of thb--European war dtF 191.1 still found him a'general on the list d>r the command of an army in case of war. And theTtnllan chief of staff was Gen eral . Pollio, vhoy by -the w ay, was blessed with on Austria-n ^ dlls, timely death/tva8 a good turn of fat** for Italy X<»r the king upjfdl.ntodjGen- eral Cujdorna ■ to his place. Gopural Cudornq, it may lie frankly stated now, found the Italian army in practtcally desperate conditions of, un preparedness. The way he wept to work and, reorganized ami. equipped It was as remarkable and ns brilliant an achievement as any of his most brilliant achievements Uy the fighting 41 no* In fact, It was only the'prepara ti on of 1914 that makes victory pos sible In 1917, H f e la the onLjFcommnnder In the al lied world tlfnt has retained his posl-** * lie even has^gorie the length of w rit- j i ing that "The art of war^Tmist he gov- ' einved clii/fly bycommoii sense pure ; iimi.siii]p1e." And by the study of war i on this basis lie has reached a' deep 1 1 knori U>dge of the world, on the prinel- I jvlb that “there Is everything in \vnr,*t" geology to -the human . heart." Given his simplicity'’and'directness <>f • thought r 'the* simplicity and directness [ nf his written words are PrinseqUePtlfti; l 4 and it may' fairly be said''that sinCO " the "Commentaries of Julius (*aeslft‘” ^ Itqly had neanl nothing to compare ‘ wit’ll tlb‘ splendid simplicity arid—the Imtln "line!’ of Tils .war bulletins. ^ ~ It Is whispered~nriiong those who, 1 know that, in the. early days of the ; 1 war, the task of grafting the daily coinmmfique had been Intrusted to a very brfllfniit Ttnliafn Jpurimllstlc of ficer, whose headline ran, “Gran Quar- j,; PUTS OUT FIRE IN THEATER ;Xy/>v Sun Antoiiio, Tex. - In -the voiirso of ' •• ^ ~ ^ the “1 l<i-lfi-ceiit“ tlieatriea-i i»erform-" »nee In a Houston ,strgah,;thcitfa‘r Sun- Another “sirategie' German ,reti rlny 4iftoyitooft.'-ftmi.■ <ifTtltft actors had Flankers. - A glance a t Uiefn 1 busy Rrl “died" and had *be<*n stretched oiyt trenches wfilj show the reason for. the i Upon the “copllng.board” vyitfi tlie con- •* i * 1 ^ ■ veu.tKuisii .candles' at bead and feet. After the action, which was somewhat QUALITY THAT WINS SUCCESS rapid, one of the nelnrx, alone, stood before the audb-nce anil sang.. Soon n candle fell from i.rs position and day burning op the .sin ef^tlmt lav over ;s from German Qft the*~nH way at the thing now.” Is the only n<tviee that ♦will materialize Into success. Don’t ask dad. Don’t fwa'tt^fdneybi' on op-" portrinlty. i’ltcfi In and Jail'a dozen times if necessarh-, so It ft ^ne with a brave heart, a. clean minil and the spirit to -work. Tlie boy. #ho relies on some one else If lmlfi a failure already.—Ohio - State ! No One Need Consider HirpseW a Failure Who Has the Merit of, Self-Reliance. :*nd’* person y •: ; , ^ —_ . ■ - . le commotion that quickly fob ’ T ll-i*would like to see. every'bdy lake civilians whittled, K ;j r red - ,riP the spirit of IUmlcy'.s lipes; and motioned the linger (C Not in any rash or botisttlil way^but I the tlanic.A soldier, however, out of a rrispect for TiLmself. A boy »d the- stage .rind-put out the must develop his own personality arid th his bare hands, receiving a put it to work dik^iin destiny. He cheer from tfi^ audieppe. j must ndt stand hack, depending on the singer continued his ^mg.. i l>p ° r Uncle Jobe, to givy liini a boost Lieut, ttaoul Lui'bery. premier “ace" tlie Lafayette escadrille, wlu) ha* brimgbt down more than a dozbn (Tur man airplanes. Recently he tmixb: seven flights in Uriedays ahd engaged In five aerial battles la a single day. * Talking Shop. A butcher of 'some eminence was lately in company with sevbraj ladles at-n game of whist, where; ttavfftg Just tlo^ mlghr stry, "kept 'Steadier Wa . i'ir»;? | ff*p , Ta r ii Job, throughouL the war, without ever an ostrich," Is not altogether lieaide the mark, for the ostrich will eat literally anythlug, including nails, and glass. They demand large quantities of gravel or other«gritt^ substances, and art. given a regular ration of broken boot and .shell every noon. >;'' *' i Wllenevfrhe adilresslng him, asked He uiust risslst hlmsoir. * as much as ^ hint of n breakd^rT \ either In the wholesale confidence that his country, his king, his army—and thq allies—have placed lp him, or, in v tbe lively, energetic, all-around quamy .of his action and command. Id fact. No Chance. Dingus—Ry the way, ShadbOl^, talk.- Ing of thoRe X-rays- 1 -Khadbolt* (sheering off)—No us»\ did boy. You’ll muke no x raise from me this time. • doesnlt he is'u failure. It muktfi no “Pray, ^lr v what is the fdlMce now?" difference how much f knowledge dr - ^Towhlch, ever mindful of his ocou- rmmey he has or how* high up- society - patlon, he-lmmediately replied: he is, if he hasn’t within trim the life r f “Madam, the best rump I - capoot pelling force *of his Individuality he sell lower -than ©he and nlnepohce a won’t amount to much. (torpedoed), and this characteristical ly Latin headllne was adopted: Cora- ando Supreme (Supreme Command), ^rom that day on. the communicato “Go at some- pound.' hllTMt t 6»*»> < I,-... K4