Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-17
IOWA TROOPS IN
FRANCE LUCKY
WILL BE oFFIcERED BY ARMY
MEN WHO GIVE SOLDIERS
GOOD CARE.
GENERAL MANI COMMANDS
DIVISION or GUARpsMEN
Soldier From Ground Up and Fights
With the Men and Not Over Them
Served With Pershins In Mexico
General Macarthur, Son Of Noted
Soldier, to Be Chief Of Staff.
[By E. G. Dougherty.l


Washington, Aug. 1.-THE soldiers
Of the Third Iowa infantry the first
troops that will go to France, will be
well-officered.
The full roster Of brigade and resi-
mental commanders has not been given
out, but announcement that Brig. Gen.
william A. Mann will command the
new crack national guard division, and
that Maj. Douglas Mac Arthur will be
his chief of staff gives assurance that
the men at the top will he just the
sort Of men the Iowa fathers and Iowa
mothers would pick, if they had the
choice, as the men to take care OF
their boys in a strange land
General Mann, who by the way,
headed the list Of brigadiers promoted
to major generals by President Wilson
Tuesday, is a soldier from the ground
with the men and not over them
For the last two years as chief of
the militia bureau OF the war depart
ment he has come in most intimate
contact with the newspaper men. Cor
respondents from the four corners of
the country have made daily visits in
his office, for i'm all that time there
has been some national guard activity
in their States that required watching.
General Mann, head over heels in the
work of reorganization of an UNDER
disciplined army, was never too busy
to answer questions. No red tape and
no petty censorship would close him
up. There was a steady stream Of
newspaper men calling at his office
after his promotion to congratulate
him.
With Pershina in Mexico.
Before advancing to the rank of gen.
eral officers Mann was colonel of the
Sixth infantry. He went into Mexico
with Pershing at the head of the Sixth
He had been In every scrap in the last
forty years. from the Indian campo :gns
on the plains in the seventies, to the
Mexican chase and always with the
"doughboys.S He is the fatherly, big
brother sort Of officer never stage
and just as likely as not to stop and
swap yarns with a bunch Of buck pri-
Yates If he's feeding bit lonesome.
Son Of Distinguished Father.
Major Mac Arthur, who will be pro-
noted to colonel, was handicapped at
the outset by being the son Of dis
tinguished father, Lieut.. Gen. Arthur
Mac Arthur, one Of the commanding
figures OF American military history,
but when he got a chance he proved
that a good man can win recognition
in his own right.
Because he finished first in his class
at West Point Mac Arthur was as
signed to the engineers which fire.
quently is equivalent to burying an
ambitious officer Finally he landed on
the general staff and the old heads on
the staff-he is only little over So
found that he had head on his Shout
ders.
During the Mexican trouble Secre-
tary Baker appointed Major Mac Ar
thur military censor. Major Mac Ar
thur then began the education of the
newspaper men in military matters. He
met the crowd twice day and stood
bombardment of questions. establish
ing confidential relationship with the
press that brought all the army's cards
face up on the table. He had the full
est confidence in the press and the
press in him There isn't double
cross on the score between the major
and the newspaper men.
When he left the censorship to get
ready for France the newspaper men