Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-03


one might say, super-studious. Out of
Morton's study have come results and
one of them is his promotion to the
| command of division and unquestion-
ably his chance to fight in France for
his country as division commander.
OF the is colonies who were pro-
NOTED to be brigadier generals two
were classmates of mine at the acad-
emy-David G. Shanks and Samuel D.
Sturgis. Shanks is q Virginian. He
is an outstanding mountaineer. l can
see his face and his tow head today as
they appeared on the day of his report
ing at the Military academy in the
year 1880. Shanks is one of the army's
favorites. He was popular as cadet
and there is every evidence of his pop
ularity in the army.
Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis is n
son of General Sturgis of Civil war
fame, who after the war, commanded
the Seventh cavalry. One of Samuel
Sturgis' brothers was killed under Gus
ter in July, 1876, in the fight with the
Sioux. Sturgis is an artilleryman.
young Choking and a man of extraor-
binary vigor
Bundy and Hale.
Omar Bundy of the class of 'S3.
who has just been made brigadier
general, distinguished himself in the
Philippines, particularly in the fight at
| the Crater. Bundy is 'far from tall -
being of stOcky and yet wiry con-
| struction. If the cadets in his day had
been as familiar as they should have
| been, perhaps, with certain lines of
poetic endeayor, Bundy might have ac-
! quired some other nickname than the
one which was given him, but the
| cadets knew little of Omar or of the
annexed surname, and so Bundy was
dubbed Bile" and today he is still
Bile" notwithstanding the fact he is
a brigadier general
Harry G. dale, now brigadier gen
eral, has the brightest pair of eyes that
the army possesses. Hale's eyes, if
sparkle means anything in the way Of
piercing quality, can look through the
mask of battery. 1t was Hale who
did such commanding work in the
drive after Big Foot's band prior to
the Wounded Knee fight in South Da-
kOta. In other ways than this Hale'S
| career has been most distinguished.
He is physically 1.-the and mentally
alert. He was a good fellow as a
cadet when knew him well, and can
find no one in Washington to say that
Ire has changed in the least in this
from the days of b0yhood.
Want 10000 Volunteers.
Things occasionally go wrong with
the calculations of the experts. There
was no war department man but
thought that as soon as registration
day was over the rush to enlist in the
regular service would be so great that
weeks time only would be necessary
to secure the young Americans needed
for the regular establishment.
About 10000 are needed to bring the
regulars to war strength. 1t is known
that the officials hold no strong hope
cured by July ID, but there will be con
tentment if, in existing circumstances,
10000 men can be enlisted for the in
fantry and 5000 for the artillery with
in the limits of the time fixed. Army
officers and many civilians with them
all over the country, with the approval
of Washington, are driving" to secure
recruits for the regular army.
Things have gone counter TO expec-
tation. Recruiting fell off after regis
tration day and in one way the army
officers think the falling off signifies
something worth while. The first
thought in the matter was that re-
cruits would rush to the regular army
because they desired to avoid being
known as conscripts. The heart de-
sire of the war department has been
to take from conscription everything
suggestive of compulsory service
Every effort has been made to let the
young men know that they would be
held in as high honor under the selec-
tive plan as always has been the case
under the volunteering system.
No Disgrace in CONSUMPTION.
Army officers believe now that young
America has given over the idea that
the new national army is to be looked
on as a cOnscript army after the man.
ner in which drafted men of the past
were viewed by the general public. If
~ in m Of
applying for service in the regular
army is due to the fact that no longer
is CONSUMPTION regarded as once it
was, the army officials will be not only
satisfied but grateful.
Recruiting for the regular army, it
is believed here, was quickened at the
first by the belief of the applicants
that they would see first service in
France. Now there seems to be a feel
ing that the regiments which first were
brought up to war strength will be the
first to go and that the regiments
which are to be filed by the recruits
of this and next month will not get to
the front much more quickly than men
of the National Guard, while some of
them may be held until the first or
PLANTATIONS of the new national army
which show themselves ready for serv-
ice are sent abroad under convoy.
Army men say that there never was
such an army in personnel as that
which the country will have when the
recruiting is completed.