Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, September 27, 1917, Image 3
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.'
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