The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 01, 1918, Page 6, Image 6
SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY.
Young West Pointer is Accomplishing
Wonders.
* Those who profess to believe that
the so-called "swivel chair" warriors
who occupy desks at Washingtdn are
all rubber stamps should study the
career of Hugo St. Johnson, who has
risen to the rank of brigadier general
at the age of 37. He is the
youngest brigadier since Civil war
times.
Johnson was born in Kansas in
1881 and appointed to West Point
''from Oklahoma. He entered the
military academy in 1900. The story
is that he narrowly missed securing
the coveted admittance to the academy
because he was only an alternate
and it was discovered that the
other boy had falsified his age and
was really over the limit. Presentation
of this evidence to the young
man caused him to withdraw.
In 1903 we find Johnson a second
lieutenant of the old 1st calvary, pa
trolling tne border in tne soumwesu
It was 1911 before he advanced to
first lieutenant, for promotion in the
army in those days were slow.
It is said that Gen. Crowder, also
an old calvaryman, and now judge
advocate general of the army as well
as provost marshal general, recognized
the inherent agility of the
young lieutenant. At any rate, he
induced him to take the law course
at the university of California in
1915 preparatory to assuming the duties
of judge advocate under General
Crowder. Johnson secured his A. B.
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degree at the university and completed
the three-year course in eighteen
i months. ,
In 1916 we find him on Gen. Pershing's
headquarters staff in Mexico. In
1917 he was back with Gen. Crowder
in the judge advocate's office. When
Gen. Crowder was assigned the great
task of raising an army by the draft
he took with him to his new position
his brilliant young administrative of>
ficer. Gen. Crowder in hi9 report
gives Johnson credit for working out
the registration plans and- draft reg
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which Johnson prepared on knotty
questions came to the attention of
the general staff, and the young captain
who meantime had become Col.
Johnson, was being closely watched
by those "higher up."
When the pinch came in March and
the war department was reorganized
with a division of purchase, traffic
and supplies, Johnson was seized
upon as the ideal director.
It is around this young brigadier
that a wonderful machine revolves.
The shipment of troops overseas
would be impossible without the supplies
of guns and other equipment
keeping Ipace. It is Johnson's work
to co-ordinate the vast war industries
of the country so as to get the sup
plies, get them on time and get them
to the docks ready to be loaded onto
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\ the ships. Any one who thinks this
is not a man's size job ought to see
General Johnson go through one day's
performance.
If a great order for steel comes
from General Persuing to be manufac- I
turea into ordnance in France, Johnson
has to see that there is not the
^slightest hitch in getting it turned
out at the mills and getting it "over
there." If it is locomotives, steel
rails, horses, uniforms, in fact every,
thing, it is Johnson's, particular responsibility
to see thaivit gets there,
3,nd all this involves scores of other
problems. He must see that the
ears at the factories to get the material
to the seaboard and that the
ships are in port to start the material
overseas. It was principally
Johnson's genius for organization
which made it possible to equip and
maintain three army corps in France.
J Meantime, rumor has it that more
than one cable has come from Gen.
Pershing asking that the former cavalryman
be sent to him. His administrative
ability is known far and
wide in army circles and more will
be heard from him before the war is
over.
In his spare moments Johnson
writes books of western life for boys
/and indulges his talents as an amateur
playwright. But he won't have
any more spare moments until the
war is over.?New York World.
Utilitarian Art.
A lady who saw that her servant
girl seemed to take a certain interest
in the objects of art in her parlor
said to her: "Which one of those
figures do you like the best, Mary?"
"This one, mum," said Mary,
pointing to the armless - Venus of
Milo. /
"And why do you like the Venus
best?"
"Sure, it's the aisiest to doost,
mum," answered the girl.?Brooklyn
Eagle.
A Poser.
The Doctor?"You should diet?
eat onions?they are the secret of
life."
The Patient.?"Yes; but how do
you keep it a secret?"?Medical
Journal.
2 POUNDS SUGAR PER MONTH.
Hoover Takes Off Pound the First
of August.
Washington, July 25.?The American
republic was asked by the food
administration today to go on a
sugar ration of two pounds per capita
monthly, beginning August 1, to
meet a world shortage in this commodity,
and to care for immediate
demands of the Allies and American
military forces.
The American public is at present
on a three-pound per capita ration
monthly, under a request issued by
the food administration a month ago.
f i An in rr timH hn trnl n n_
XAVJ uociiuiu i aiiuuiu^ *v 111 uu ?uiuutary
at present, but public eating
places will be required to observe
new regulations effective August 3,
permitting the use of two pounds of
sugar for every ninety meals served,
instead of three pounds under existing
regulations.
Unless the consumption of sugar is
reduced both by householders and the
public generally, the food administration
gave warning today, supplies for
Belgium, the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.,
Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army
and other organizations working for
the welfare of American military
forces in Europe cannot be maintain^
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NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. j
Notice is hereby given to all and!
singular the creditors and other per-j
sons interested in the estate of Mrs.:
Laura C. Dowling, deceased, that the!
undersigned Executors of the will j
Af +Vi a coir) ^ aoao onrl 11 am f V?a 1 V?
vl tug ouiu u^v/^ao^u) n in \jll tuu 1 u LUL ;
day of August, 1918, file with the
Judge of Probate for Bamberg coun
ty their final accounting, and at said
time will ask for Letters Dismissory j
as such Executors.
MRS. LINA DOWLING NEAL,
N. P. SMOAK,
Executors of the last will and testament
of Mrs. Laura C. Dowling,
deceased.
July 12th, 1918.-8-8. '
SHERIFF'S TAX SALE.
In accordance with the executions;
to me directed by G. A. Jennings, |
treasurer of Bamberg county, I have j
levied upon and will sell to the highest
bidder for cash, on Monday, August
the 5th, 1918, during the legal j
hours of sale, the following describedj
lots in the town of Denmark, county j
of Bamberg, and State of South Caro-1
lina, said lots to be sold for taxes!
due and owing the said county and
State by John Stephens:
Lots 13 and 14 in Block No. 23;
lots 15 and 16 in Block 23; lots 3, 4,
and 5* in Block 57; lots 25, 24, 22,
21, 29, 19, in Block No. 52;, also lots
Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in Block No.
24. All lots on line of South Bound
railroad company.
S. G. RAY,
Sheriff Bambere Conntv
July 15, 1918.
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