The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-05-24
To Giue Boys Back to
Mothers Sound Men,
Gen. Pershing's Ain,
Himself in Prime Of Vgor, He Feels Responsible for Keep
ing Young Americans Physically and Morally Sound -
Soldiers Know They Are in Europe to win the War;

- If you talk with tho American sol
oilers as | did both IN their rest hil-
LETS and their camps. ynn will tind th'E
y~have the clcarcst and most definite nm
Understanding az I" their business III
sSEurope II is 1" win tho war. never
-Amet a man who had the slightest d"u"f
.8or hesitation about il. They knew II
will happen. They say {" y"n. Why.
-7the general himself says SO Germany
L.can and must be beaten. Th" general
Z, himself said that"
~ The general himself. ~ course.
Vmeans Con. Pershng. II" IS |" the Amer
.sican soldier what Forh is I" til" French
>~poihl the supreme uthcrity VII" cam
mot be mistaken. -Nad /" the French
poilu. and to the French pIblit ~ Iar=".
Gen. PcrshinS. perhaps mkt I" TEN
assFoch is the comma ndinG tiSGr" "t IN
war. This in spite of the fact that they
Sknow nothing whatever Of ham ms :,
sighting man. They believe in HIM. and
Lin my opinion their faith IS going I" toe
: justified.
~ Character" said Gen. Pershnc. 9th
er things being equal. will decide the
last battle"
~ The basis OF my confidence in ten.
SPershing Is that h" has character.
'~tstrong, original. dynamic. Every word
and gesture reveals personality. II" ~
absolutely strais htforward and Slnc"rr.
Land his manner IS simple and natural.
siYet underneath that quiet simplicity
you can easily perceive Will OF steer
Land a capacity for great sternn"SS. hfS
thirst appearance won Paris completely.
Sand before he has had time TO fight a
AFbattle he has become military nero In
1.-The eyes Of the French.
7 saw Gen. Pershing first. in the re-
INCEPTION room Of the beautiful Louis
XVI mansion in the Rue DE- |arenneS
(which has been loaned him for town
Z thouse when he goes to Paris. That ~
-$seldonl Most of the time he lives in n
>akpicturesquc town in eastern FRANCE
(which is the general headquarters OF our
-Sarrny. The name Of the town IS almost
>Snever spoken. 1t is simply alluded 10
as C. H. q General hsadu uart"rs3
Type Of American Army.
~ Since tho advent OF the American
%2sforces in Franc" there has ls"u Il Wucl
gxcloser co-opcra,inn among thu allies -
sco-operation which reached its natural
4>fclimaX IN the appointment "t Len f"ch
as cenrral!Ssino uf IN" allied armies.
S-France has long desired this arrange
y:.men.. President Wilson desired 1t and
ESQ did Premier Lloyd GEORGE. General
:. Pershng. in his swirl. rl"nrminI"d 1!iHS
; ment. declared il invI;ah!". Rut "itti-
->ru,ties stood in tn. way "f Us accom-
: rliShmont. and Il WAS n"t untiI after
>.;-saverai meetings Of the allied war COIN
Gil at Versailles that til" thing began
10 seem remotely possible.
* In tn, interest ~ stronger '"-"pera-
tior and rs rohlnaud"r IN rhici of the
American army. Cen. l"'r$hng has t'''n
"a constant attendant ~ th" allied war
>councilS. In Il t"n-mn"t" interval i'''
= tween iunrhc"n and departures Tor M,
-.ottcruonn session q! ;hc council. hafi
- my first conversation with ham. rs NJ
-Scarlc int" II" room Il occurred :" me
Christianity that her" was n" Very I'm
-.Hbnd;msnf - th~ American army. In"
.,>r,,,Dcsjta. :he rerf.r; ;yp". M won
a.- III. French like him. II" looks
fright.