Evening star., 1916-06-29
Works After Dinner, Too.

If longer conference than usual is
desired it may come at luncheon or
later in the afternoon when he returns
from his ride, which he takes regu-
larly every day. Then more work will
dinner and then some after dinner. If
he goes down to the lines. or perhaps
to confer with Gen. Joffre in the one
car which alone of all the cars carry
ing STAFF officers and generals along
the roads flies the British flag, the rou-
tine for that day is broken,
Like Gen. Jofre he sleeps long hours.
A rested mind is a clear mind for great
responsibilities. Like Won Hindenburg.
he never reads fiction. When reading
has not to do with his profession it is
of serious books and monthlies and
Ypres when it was touch and go with
disaster, he slept as soundly as Joffre
during the battle of the Marine At
crisis OF the retreat from Mons he re-
marked as quietly as if he were giving
a direction to an aid I'VE shall have
to hold on here for awhile if we all die
for it," There is never any fustian
about these modern scientific soldier
organizers. Again during the retreat
when a certain general became some
what demoralized Sir Douglas took
him by the arm and walked up and
down with him in silence till he was
over his At of nerves on that terrible
August day. Those who work with
prolonged silence of telling kind. He
has temper. but does not let it get
past his lips. they say. He has. too,
keen sense Of humor. with a Scotch
flavor.
The impression he leaves on a caller
is that of leader without illusions;
soldier who sees with a soldiers logic;
who is not afraid to be patient.
In your civil war, he said, 1T was
case of raising armies of unframed men
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with US the small nucleus of regular
officers who survived the retreat had
to train even larger forces to meet
military machine which had had forty
man, but in organization must We make
ourselves superior to our powerful
enemy. The training of battalions and
the manufacture of guns in England
and their transfer to France represent
ed only the first stage of real prepara-
ton for our task. Here they must be
organized into divisions. corps and
armies under the actual conditions of
warfare before they could become
worthily effective a whole in any
stan training. reinforced by experience
in the field. must remain excellent, how
ever exhausted he becomes Every day
he grows weaker and we grow
spirit of our officers and men in learn
ing we are accomplishing what seemed
the impossible to many soldiers at the
outset Of the war. Our cause gives us
strength: for we are fighting for civili-
zation. Those who have looked to US
for victory will have their patience
rewarded
lieutenant in the trenches knows
as much of when the blow will be
struck as corps commander or staff
department head. quiet order from
that quiet room and then the struggle.
which by the token Of the commanders
strong chin and imperturbability he
will carry through with unbending res
olution and Scotch "canniness."
Being a good Scot. he goes every Sun
day morning to little wooden Presby-
terian chapel which has been erected
on the outskirts of headquarters town.
where he sits in the company of Scot
tish officers and soldiers during a good
Scotch sermon. and a long one, too.