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GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING
by Frederick Palmer
(The American Legion)
I have commanded my country’s
army in a victorious war,’ said Gen
eral Pershing when I mention to him
the talk about him for the Presidency
as our troops were marching into
Germany. “That’s enough.’’
He was trained a soldier by his
country. He had done his job as a
soldier under his country’s orders.
Another kind of job was not for him.
Twenty years hence—and let up
hope that he will still be living and
vigorous at eighty-three—when his
gray hair and square chin rise above
a crowd I think that the cheers will
be even heartier than to-day.
Then time will have given the en
terprise of the A. E. F. in France
something of the majestic proportions
which will be accorded to it by history.
He was the organizer and the j
moulder of the A. E. F. The stamp
of his character was upon it in so
far as any one man can put his stamp
upon a vast modern army. At the
same time the stamp of the Ameri
canism of all who served under him
was upon him. It was this combination
which made the A. E. F. so strictly
American. As an American it was
his duty to get the best out of the
spirit of America in Avar.
To the soldier of the A. E. F. he
was remote, a man of iron, imposing
an iron dicipline upon the army. All
regulations and all exactions took his J
name in the words “by command.”
Washington, who never had as many
as 20,000 men in battle, was closer
to his men than the average division
al commander in France. Grant was
a familiar figure to the advancing
columns on narrow fronts in his day.
Pershing's soldiers could not see and
know the commander of an army of
two million scattered over France
fighting on other widely separated
fronts as well as on the long front of
the Meuse-Argonne.
Pershing must direct all; he must
be responsible for all. He must act
through subordinates who had been
jumped from civil life into war or
who commanded thousands in war
when they had not been commanding
hundreds in peace.
If failure came, however, if was
Pershing’s failure. His was the name
for a system. By the destiny of army
author-1y his was the personality in
the limelight whether ;r victory or de
feat. The A. E. h won. Atii'-r <• i
wo;;. He won.
lie was the or ly general we evei
had except Washington, who be r ;n
and finished a war in command. The
A. E. F. kept on winning all the time
from the start. All historians of the
A. E. F. as a whole or any part of
it, from base ports to the trenches,
will please keep this in mind. It is the
big fact, the unforgettable and now
unchangeable fact. This in spite of
our unpreparedness, and we may not
have such good luck next time if we
are unprepared.
To anyone who knew, in the days
when he was unknown, a man who
has become a great figure, that man
is always the human being. You think
of him in his qualities as a man among
men with his strong points and his
weaknesses. I happen to have known
Pershing when he was a captain, and
I mention this so that the reader will
get my angle of view.
Young John Pershing was at the
plow when he received word that he
was appointed to West Point and that
he would become an officer of the
regular army. I am sure that he was
plowing a deep, straight furrow. That
is the kind of a man he is.
“I’ve got this job to do,” he would
say, and it was hard to draw him
away on anything else whether play
or an inspection until he had that job
off his mind. And he had to do that
job thoroughly", no matter how late he
had to sit up over it.
As a companion on the march or in
•play he was right in the game with
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all his heart. He never let down
in discouragement, least of all when
he got mad. Most men who are
good fighters can get mad on occa
sion.
There was nobody from whom Cap
tain Pershing would not learn. He
was always on the lookout for more
information. He had a growing
| mind, when the trouble with lots of
men we know, it that they stop grow
ing mentally at the same time they
stop growing physically.
At fifty-six when Pershing took
command of the | . E. F., he was still
able to grow. The bigger the task
the more capacity he had for rising to
it. He struck his furrow deep and
straight from the start in France, and
the more roots and boulders he en
countered the stiffer he held the plow
handles.
Going to France with a little band
of pioneers, an unprepared country
behind him, the submarine menace
at its height in a crisis of the Allied
fortunes, he neved once let down from
that day to the end. He faced reali
ties. He met the realities with vis
ion. When the people at home kept
from the truth lest the Germans be
encouraged, were thinking in terms of
thousands he planned for an army of
a million men overseas.
Probably another General would
supercede him, as had happened in
other wars, but that was not his wor
ry. His duty was to lay such a good
foundation that his successor would
thank him for it. They might break
him but on that day that he yielded
the reins he would be found at the
plough and not making speeches or,
playing to the gallery.
Europe thought that we would send
over a mob of untrained men to fight
beside her veterans. Pershing was to
give Europe a surprise. He meant to
have an army worthy of American
manhood. The very fact of our un
preparedness and want of trained sol
diers required an iron dicipline from
the top. So we had it, sometimes
misinterpreted, but its purpose was
clear to Pershing ,irritating as it of
ten was. But he also imposed iron
dicipline upon himself as he kept at j
the plough sixteen hours a day.
In European armies officers mostly
come from the officer class to which
they are bom. America sent as her
commander the man from the plough.
In all his dealings with the allied
statesmen and generals he remained
John Pershing, plougher—also from
Missouri—and it was his directness
and simplicity which, through a sea
of difficulties, kept our army intact
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as an army, and fought it as an army
at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Ar
gonne instead of having its identity
lost and perhaps the war lost by mix
ing it as battalions among the allied
armies.
He was not only a soldier but an
ambassador at the head of the great
est embassy we ever sent to Europe,
i When our veterans marched into Ger
! many and our mixed regiment march
ed in the victory parades in Paris
| and London we had shown Europe that
I although we do not want war we know
j how to make war if war comes.
There were mistakes in the A. E,
j F. There always are in war. Mis
s takes are human. “Why did you march
that corps to the left and then back
| to the right without engaging it’ a
German general asked Grant. “A blun
der,” replied Grant. Grouchy as
we got, sometimes, with that “by com
mand of General Pershing,’’ we did
win that war, and he was our leader,
As I know John Pershing he is all
man and soldier. May he live to be
a hundred!
THE CHINESE may be slow in
many respects, and may have ways
that are devious and full of guile, but
for pure, unadulterated brains they
take the cake and the balance of the
bake shop. Yesterday on the battle
front of the rebel chieftain the army
ceased fighting when rain fell, rain
-hecks being issued, we suppose, and
the game being resumed today. This
shows that the combatants look on
fighting as a recreation and do not
allow their anger to carry them away.
How different from civih'zed nations,
where the rain would be dammed up
and the water used to hold the ene
mies head under.
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