The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-28
STRIKING TRIBUTE | GIVEN ID SPIRIT
 OF GEN. M ARTHUR
For Second Time Pershing Urged to Promote Com mander of Rainbow Bri-
 gade to Major General
By Associated Press


 Washington, December 27.--A striking tribute to the courage and spirit of Brig. Gen. Douglas Macarthur, com manding the Eighty-fourth brigade of the Forty-second (Rainbow) division was given by Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher. formerly in command of the division. in | a letter to General Pershing, urging for the second time the promotion of Gen era Macarthur to the rank of major general.
 CThe Eighty-fourth brigade Is composed of the 1s7th (Alabama) regiment and 16sth Qowa) regiment)
 A copy of the communication has just reached Washington. It reviewed the record of General Macarthur first as chief of staff of the division, and later as commander of one of it's two infantry brigades. and disclosed that the young officer. major of engineers when the United States entered the war. had been twice wounded. had been decorated by both the French and American govern ments for personal gallantry in action. and in addition had been twice recom- mended for the French legion of honor
 Uo not reel tHdt l an IreS tO dsSuAio another command General Menocher wrote to General Pershing on the eve of his transfer to the command of the Sixth army corps, without recording the services rendered by Gen. Douglas Macarthur. These services, rendered con stantly for over year, and, in the large part, amidst active operations in the field, have been so soundly, brilliantly and Loyalty performed that in recogni- ton of them I see only fair appraisal of the example of energy, courage and efficiency which General Macarthur has sent to the Forty second division and to our entire army in France. The con tributions made to our military estab- lshment by this general officer have all ready had far reaching effects. He has stood for the actual physical command of large bodies of troops in battle, not for a day, but for days duration, and believe has actually commanded larger bodies of troops in the battle line than any other officer in our army with, in each instance, conspicuous success.
 "He has developed. combined and ap- piled the use of infantry and correlated arms with an effect upon the enemy. husbandry of his own forces and means and a resourcefulness which no other
  His efforts have been untiring, unnter- rupted and without the least regard for his personal safety at each of the many times when he felt his personal leadership required his presence in the thick of the struggle.
 Tho itemized account of General Mac Arthur's services Included the statement that the Forty-second division sustained the full brunt'' of the German drive in the Champagne last July, and that 1t was the skill and personal supervision of this of which made possible great victory. Later, during the Aisne-Marne offensives, the Forty-second was driving toward the vesle when an incident oc- cured which General Menocher described as follows:
 At the end of this phase of the di- visions employment, which it had la bored day and night for over a week and was brought low tn numbers by vigorous resistance to the assaults from exceptionally powerful positions, occurred an example of leadership and the high qualities of command which consider as unique. General MacArthur. himself on the advanced line at a time when the American First army corps had not or dered the division to advance. accurately diagnosed the situation as one in which the enemy had but an hour before brok- en contact. s In advance of orders and without delay he. with my concurrence. at an early hour galvanized the entire division Into a prompt pursuit which soon brought it on the very heels of the enemy and gained possession of the great massif of the forest of Nesles"
 General Menoher shows that it was General MacArthur's brigade which ''broke the Kriemhilde position in the fighting north of verdun with the cap ture of Cote De Chatillon and adjacent heights, and adds
 Tn fairness l wish to say that after having attained the Cote De chatillion by three days. constant fighting, General Macarthur had so husbanded and con trolleds his brigade that with unused bat taIons he stood ready to- exploit this success immediately in case that had been ordered"