The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 25, 1919, Page 3, Image 3
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
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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
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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
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army "hard-boiled."
Discipline a Necessity.
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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
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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
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ramifications and under a great genj
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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.
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The regular fall examination for
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the court house in Bamberg, S. C., on
Saturday, October the 4th, 1919, beginning
at 9 o'clock a. m.
Teachers holding second and third
grade certificates are urged to take
this examination.
The usual subjects will be given as
follows: Algebra, arithmetic, English
grammar, pedagogy, geography,
physiology and hygiene, history, civics
and current events and agriculture.
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