The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
Ceaseless Energy.Un-
failing Kindness and
Intense Sense of Re-
sponsibility Are
Leading Attributes

retary BAKER Wne1 the I0tter was IN rams
but great delight to both him and the
General. Miekie had just received the
Croix de ,Guerre for gallant act. He
had been in a listening post with two men
when German raiding party had erept
up on them and, armed with grenades, had
placed them at great disadvantage. The
German sergeant had commanded Mickis
to come OUT, which the latter was proceed
ing to do, when the German threw .,
grenade at him. The grenade, thanks to
Irish luck, failed to explode. Mickie put
three revolver bullets through the German
before he could fall to the ground, took
two Germans prisoners and marched them
back to the American trenches. y
So Mickie was orderly to Secretary
Baker, but not overload of the job and
anxious to get back to the front. In Paris
the correspondents of all the newspapers
in the world were waiting to see the
American Secretary. They had been kept
waiting for long time, but finally other
matters were out of the way. Mickie was
told to inform the newspaper men that
they might have an interview. A half
hour passed and the writing men did not
come up. Sergeant Lanckton went to in
vestigate. The scribes were still cooling
their heels and Mickie was eating pastry
at q nearby lunch stand.
Wanted to Be Fighting Again.
II want to 90 back to the 'front.'" said
Mickie. "Pve talked to them blighters too
much already"
He had to be told that it was the
Secretary of War and not himself who
was to be interviewed.
So Miche was allowed to return to his
command, and Gen. Pershing relinquishsd
Lanckton, his own personal orderly, to
the Secretary. So that young man has
added to his list of interesting places WIS.,
tied at interesting times all those touched
by Secretary Baker while abroad. Incl
dentally, the tribute of this non-com. to
the Secretary is unique in its viewpoint.
"Mr Baker" says the sergeant, lis a
man who can distinguish between q SOL
der and q servant"
Gen. Pershing, his orderly says, is al
ways military. About his quarters there
is never a relaxation of military precision.
No one ever enters the room Of the Gen.
'eral and finds his orderly, this man who
has been at his elbow for ten years, in
any other attitude than that Of q SOL
der. If be is not otherwise engaged, he
is standing rigidly at attention.
But it Is not so when they are entirely
alone. The General is a great hand to
remember the dates of past happenings.
It is common in their goings about that
he should be reminded of some event in
which both have participated, to give the
date of it. 1t IS formally called to the
attention of the orderly. When they are
alone that night the General will be apt
to refer to the matter again, and between
them they Will talk freely of former days.
Men Overanxious to Fight.
One day they saw two soldiers at work
on woodpile, evidently in punishment Of
some infraction of discipline. The Gen.
eral sent bis orderly to ask of the Of
fence. 1t seemed the two had been over
anxious to get into the fighting. Some Of
the men Of the command had been allowed
to go forward. So these two took French
leave, went forward until they "found
war;" and mixed in. For discipline's
sake, it was five days with the axe, but
the General chuckled and spun yarns Of
overzealous troopers in other campaigns.
They saw a tiny dwarf in Paris one
day and the General remarked that in
stature he was like Datto Diekie of Jolo.
That night they reverted to the time when
this Datto or Moro chief, alleged to be
the smallest man In the world, yet q
power among his people, took unto him.
self wife, similarly diminutive, at fair
in Zamboanga. The General presented
the two with a miniature house, standing
on formal stills on The beach, In which