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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-05
HOW PERSHING WAS CHOSEN
(The Chattanooga Times) .


When Secretary of War Baker was
in Chattanooga last Saturday he told
for perhaps the first time the circum-
stances attending the selection Of
General Pershing to command the
American forces in Europe. 1t was
while en- route to Chickamauga park
that the secretary told the story.
"When we got into the war;" said
the secretary, 'it became necessary
to select the commander of the army
the United States was to send to
France, and upon me developed the
selection. I had the department fur.
nish me with all the records Of the
general officers of the army. I sat
up all night going over those records,
and long after day dawned had, by q
process of elimination, made my Sc
lection. That morning sent for
General Scott, who was then chief
of staff; the general promptly came
to my office and I announced to him
that had made my selection of COM
mander of the American expedition
to France.
"'Who is it?' asked General Scott
with a note of anticipation in his
voice.
"sGeneral Pershing,' l replied.
There was a moments silence, and
with sort of gulping in the throat,
the general congratulated me on the
choice and said, good old soldier
that he was, that a better one could
not have been made.
General Scott may have thought
that he would be selected, but as he
us within four months Of the retir-
~ age thctt was impossible, as 1 was
determined that the man who went
over first in command was to con-
tinue, provided he proved capable.
"That afternoon went over to the
White House to make the president
acquainted with my action. I told the
president that I had selected the gen.
eral to command our forces in Eu-
rope.
"'Who is it?' asked the president.
"'General Pershing,' I replied.
DO you know him?' queried the
president.
"I never met and to the best of
my knowledge never saw him in my
life,' was my answer.
"The president then asked how I
came to make the selection, and /
told him my process.
every WELL said the president,
if you are satisfied you have made
the best possible selection, appoint
him and 1 will back you up"
And that is how General Pershing
happened to be selected as comman-
der in chief Of the American expedi-
tionary forces in the European war.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-05
THE PRICE OF COTTON.

We have said it before and say it
again; In order to pay the labor that
produces it and the capital invested
in it anything like the same returns
that labor and capital elsewhere get,
this years disastrously short crop of
cotton should bring 40 cents a
pound. We wish we could say it will
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-05
LABOR COMMITTEE
CALLS FOR TRUCE

New York, Sept. 1.-Suspension
of all strikes throughout the United
States and the declaration Of labor
truce on the basis of the status quo
for six months or more to enable
President Wilson to bring about a re-
duction in the cost Of living is rec
commended in a report of commit
tee of the New York State Fedora
ton of Labor made public here to-
day.
The recommendations urged Am
erican organized labor to cease wage
and hour controversies in order to
increase production and restore nor
nal conditions. They express the
hope that no new strikes will be Or
dered except to relieve workers from
"intolerable oppression"
The committee was appointed by
James P. Holland, president of the
federation, on July 29 and made its
report after comforting with repre-
sentatives of industrial, commercial
manufacturers, financial, t-ansporta-
ton and other interests with view
to devising plans to lower the cost Of
living. Business men, it explained,
were in a state of apprehension due
to rapidly changing conditions since
the signing of the armistice and in
dustry had been disturbed and dis
located to a degree never before ex-
perienced."
Would Avoid Disaster.
Your committee is convinced",
says the report, "that this condition
; w-cag and can not be permitted
to continue unless we-and by, we
you- committee means not labor a
los Lrt the people Of the whole
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-05

lies of demands which amounted to
the destruction of the independence
Of a neighboring sovereign state. The
royal government of Serbia accepted
with the prescribed time all the de-
mands except those which involved
the virtual surrender of its inde-
pendence."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-05
IF THE TREATY is REJECTED.


upon rejecting the Covenant of the
League of Nations and bringing to
naught the work of the Peace Con-
ference counted the cost of this pol
icy, its cost to America in lost friend
ships and to the world in shattered
hopes? It is easy to say that we
shall live unto ourselves alone, in
dierent to the troubles of other
lands. (And just this in effect is
the counsel of the League oppon-
ents.) But when we come to put the
doctrine of SNUG selfshness into
practice, we shall find difficulties be-
setting US thicker than Egypt's
plaques.
We cannot hold aloof from the
worlds problems, however tight we
may shut our eyes and our heart. In
one role or another we are going to
be an actor on the eventful stage,
not a cold on-looker. We tried the
by-stander's part and tried it to the
last inch of grievances patiently en-
dured, in the late war; but the very
necessities of conscience and of ma
tional interest forced US into the
arena. The practical QUESTION now is
not whether we shall live apart from
the rest of the world but in what
character we shall move amidst Its
busy scenes--as a co-worker in the
cause of peace and justice and prog
ress, or as an embodiment of selfish
ness and suspicion, unfriendly and
unbefriended?
Senators who urge rejection of the
Peace Treaty and the League Cove
:2&nt are for the latter caurse. They
argue in substance, though not in
form, that inasmuch as we are in a
suffering and restless world we
should cut connections Herewith and
pass the time prosperously in what
they are pleased to call splendid
isolation We should take no respon-
sibihties share no labors, have no
forceful convictions or vital sympa-
thies in the common life of nations
save at points where our own purses
and policies may be Immediately
concerned. A practical people well
may ask, how would such a policy
pay? How would it pay in COM
nercs, il goodwill, in national pres
tige and in national character?
For the present, and probably for
some years to come, we are assured
Of brisk foreign trade simply be-
cause a war-drained world must have
our products. But how will it be
gith US in this matter when others
have got we'll on their feet again
and competition wakes keen? Senti-
ment, we may grant, has no place in
business, but as certain as human
nature is human nature, a nation
that does nothing to help solve hu-
manity's common problems and bear
its common burdens will lose the
good will which is so essential to all
good business. Or if we continued
unwaningly prosperous whilst our
late associates in war were left to
truggle on alone, buying our goods
at high prices and borrowing our
money at snug interest rates, would
not such prosperity beget the very
opposite of friendship in the hearts
of those forced to deal with u.s.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18
TROOP D BOYS AS PART OF 66TH ART. BRIG. PLAYED
HEROIC PART DRIVING GERMANS FROM ". FRONT

secrecy demanded that no batteries
were able to fire for adjustment prior
to the attack, but relied on the excel
lent work of the orientation detailes
and perfect functioning of the firing
officers and the known accuracy OF
the guns.
After all batteries were in position
awaiting orders that would designate
the day and hour of the main attack,
orders were received to deatch one
regiment from the seth F. A. Brigade
In position on the west side of the Sec
tor, and have it report to the artillery
Of the Fourth Corps. occupying the
sector on the immediate south of the
salient in the Beaumont forest, and
in the rear of Mon Sac, a famous Ger
man stronghold and observation point.
The I4Sth F. A. was designated by
Colonel Z. d. Scott and positions oc-
cupied in the Sommedieuse forests
were left and the march made over
land around the salient, and up to the
line. Regimental headquarters were
at Ansauville.
Total of 50 G. p. +. Guns
1t Colonel (Now Colonel, Burke H.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18

Sinclair. in command of the 14Sth F.
A. during this movement and during
the ST. Mihiel battle, had been assign
ed one battalion of the 51st C. A. c..
these with the three battalions of the
14sth made a total of 80 G. P. F. guns
in the Sinclair groupment on the
south of the salient. Positions were
occupied with the greatest secrecy,
and haste was made that the regiment
be in a position to take part in the
opening of the attack, then set for the
morning of September 18th.
The opening of the st. Mihiel often
sive was the first experience of MEM
bers of the brigade of a surprise at
tack, the two previous battle ebing
open warfare, daily growing more
severe. while the St Mihiel sector UP
until the hour of the artillery fire
was as quiet as a front could possibly
be, hardly a shot being heard. The
mission of the two regiments of the
brigade. with their auxiliary uuits
under the command of the brigade
officers was to lombard rear areas.
cut communication, do counter bat
terry work and. assist generally in maxi
ing a German retreat, Gas it turned
out to be) or their ability to bring up
reserves and supplies. impossible.
Zero hour for the infantry was set at
o'clock, the 146th being Immediately
in the read of the 26th and 4th Amer
lean divisions. and the 14Sth on the
south working wkith the seth, 42nd
and first divisions. At one O'Clock the
artillery fire was to commence, four
hours prior to zero hour, and from
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18

the deathly stiffness OF an inky black
raining night the sector was trans
formed into chashing vibration
shriaking maelstrom of noise, increas-
ing in violence as light divisional ar
tillery took up the fire on front line
trenches, cutting barb wire and pre-
pairing the way for the infantry ad-
vance.
Hail OF shell Falls.
The heavy artillery methodically
took under fire towns in the rear or
the lines known to be German head
quarters, throwing tons of heavy shells
into them, CLEANSING fire into another
town, on a road, into an ammunition
dump with bewildering speed, back
to the towns again doing their part
in the parnlizing artillery fire that
cantured German soldiers reported as
being the most severe Of the war. No
troops could live, let alone fight under
such a hail of shell covering such an
extensive area. FNen Metz. the cen-
ter of German power in that section
was bombarded by railroad artillery,
and no portion OF the areas in reach
of the longest guns Of the army was
snareu. AHuhltioh Aor tHe ". = r
guns was used in every increasing
quantities as the infantry advanced
and reports came back that the Ger
mans were fighting but making re-
treat of their fight. German artillery
came into action spasmodically and
Immediately a German battery was To-
Gated. counter battery fire was started
another battery taken on, and fire
smothered. By night it was apparent
that the battle for St Mihiel was won
and preparations were made to move
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18

river, the batteries during a great deal
of the battle period drawing fire from
the east of the Meuse, in. a sector OPP
posed by the French.
The general positions assigned to
the 146th f. A. were in the region of
Marie, and the 14Sth near Montzeville
and La Claire, and with the short time
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18

aration. Positions taken by the bril-,
gade batteries were in most cases old
positions of French batteries that
We're fought in this sector. The forts
surrounding Verdun on this side of
the citadel were utilized for post Of
commands, and immense dugout sys-
TENS were taken over for the Ameri-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18

intervening before the opening of the
attack. September 26th, the prepar-
alton of positions, bringing up thou
sands of rounds of ammunition, es-
tablishing communication. locating
eschelons and protection for person
mel kept the brigade more busy up
to the hour set for the artillery prep
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18
can artillerymen.
New Gun Positions.

can artillerymen.
New Gun Positions.
The locality OF the gun positions In
tbs battle differed from any previous
battles where the brigade had fought.
The ruins OF nearly four years. con-
slant warfare surrounded on every
Continued on page 80
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-18

Continued ON page 80
The mirror., 1919-06-12
$547,O0O,0OO for Good Roads


With full corporation according the terms OF the federal
aid of at least 1914 900
building during the three The federal
fund assured appropriation of
in the postofice appropriation bill passed by
Officials of the bureau of roads, United States department OF
rcutu which the the federal aid road
and with the the expenditure the
money point that this funds the ppropr
similar purposes for similar period by in
history the world In with the federal aid
that expenditures for highway work the Unte
this likely $500 900 600 On
received from highway departments the bureau of public
the 1919 expenditures and bridges O0
OOO $1OOO than the expenditures for 1915 and
1917
An important effect of the law containing the appropriation
broadens definition post under which class
highway had qualify the benefits of the federal aid
The the government limit of contribution
$40 600 mile exceed $40 900 mI
of higher present of labor and material
OF the 900 added funds available the fed
aid law makes 100000 available
secretary partly
within the national forests.
The mirror., 1919-06-12
What Flag Means to All

flag the 1919 than has
ever meant Not surely
soldiers mighty
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Wish

Wish
wish might return. Dear to our yesteryear
When life eplete with pleasure tears;
To think of youth. carefree, gay,
Is to wish oneself just for today. F. S.
parts Holland
and result have their plants On marshy
land below the level natural plentiful plants
installed practical The installation well
which from the soil filters with therein this
extracting the the containing supply for
the house. The thus obtained provides all the cooking
heating and lighting the house other farm After
plant which expense
nothing the quality of the said be particularly good
What believed the first completed priced
plane price
by Makers Aeroplane
$780, but with
the revised price 225O The makers claim that the
chine smallest and cheapest eropane made Designed
twoseater for pilot and passenger is akin woseaed motor
There dainty wind and for there
and One the machine
without difficulty There for about 80 pounds of
luggage.
1856 share
fortnghts catch surprise Owing
the the North Sea has had which nothing else could have
and with splendid fish. The result
phenomenal few weeks Aberdeen trawes
sold for and there instances where $4,000
Such catches each
of receives $3.50 $780, addition what they
make the sale the vr and the gued fish.
Important changes recently by
the Under the the whole
Montana standard mountain time while the Hooking Val
Ohio Central Kanawha West Virginia railroads
within the central time The former change made
and the latter stated
effected to insure safety in train operation.
interesting old portrait of
suggests that the romantic interest the House of
which Queen Victoria felt strongly hereditary She made
hated Queen Elizabeth shared Scot af
Mary reproached Mcaulay with having been
hard the of ancestor James H. Not your Maeys
said Macuay Maesys
proud of his reply.
In July 1914 in covering distance approximately miles,
Egg the Philadelphia
Reading 1920 miles hour The fastest
time 440 miles made by the Lake
Shore Michigan Buffalo Chicago in june
without the of 6969 miles
no
Table napkins before of the other
indispensable Before forks be
their food hence the
frequently passing the basin and its
the hands incredible that
forks customary until the Seventeenth Century.
One of the tricks played other
disclosed They bought veveteen in Lancash
cloth Yorkshire took them back Germany and dyed he
their manufacture getting reputation for
ducing which quality those made England
daily published by and for the Army OF the
officers recently under the title
of Cologne spirit shown in the
Caty the which made
another feature set by Germans
of Arstophanes there reference
peacock this
| cent Greece
The manufacture vermicen
still growing.
lighthouses French have been equipped with
J Lenses hat tenabe their lights to be fifty miles
The mirror., 1919-06-12
Odds And Ends
Miscellaneous Items Developed Into Human
Interest Tales by Ambitious Writers
Selected
"A "A One Flag One Language. One Country

Summer Song
The winds of morning are like Tyres;
Now fame and flare the poppy fires
The garden ways along,
And the sequestered forest choirs
Are rapturous with song.
The drowsy burden the bee
Is like honeyed harmony,
And till dark claims it's own
The crickets will chirr ceaselessly
In rhythmic monotone.
Then, with the falling of the dusk,
The scent Of mlgnonette and musk
Will all the air enshroud.
And the new moon will slip it's husk
Of sailing silver cloud.
And in the glamour of it's light
You, clad in draperies of white,
As fair as those above,
Will steal adown the paths of night
To keep tryst with Love.-Clinton Scollard.
The mirror., 1919-06-12

snowhouse the adaptable of dwellings, If
either for the
thaw lower the by the
inghoe with knife If cod make
smaller by stutfng mien If the roof
made of blocks that you long
knife machete and he hns them down until the frost without
traizes the heat from within and the hawng But have
made roof too thin and hoao begins form from breath
and from the that rises cooking
shovel instead of knife
TO blanket it from the excessive cold.
The mirror., 1919-06-12
| Brlrf HiHtnry nf tlqp 9lap r

Selected
- HE STARS AND STRIPES raised the heights
January l776 and the British believed
evidence of submission king. The Betsy Ross
the official flag, later After the declaration of in
dependence July 1776, the first salute by the
Dutch of Indies johannes
- Graft, port. When Kentucky and Yer
the Union 1874 additional placed
much debate and the
original thirteen were restored in 1918.
that foated foreign and fort
Nassau January 28 1778.
February 8, 1888. It foated in China in 1854.
the world from 1877 to 1890 The first
blood $780, during mob riot
built American The first salute given by
English vessel wasi in May, 1871.
Napoeon's remarked the iurious that
the thought Napoleon replied
Sentiment concerns what enriches life'
The mirror., 1919-06-12

before therefore,
of it's in the panopy of
O have Because,
plenty which thought flag chiefly
something and grief
hardship something protect
and gaard and
flag, in short, its peopleand When
they great generous beautiful
holy When they hgge their flag less than nothing
to as O the world al
and cherish and die for in the greatest of causes
pride American
of sacrifice and devotion
when bit the glorious and joyous and
thing in the whole world
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G4r 1lap 9uea Ry

X
"a Hats off! p
~ Along the there N
- A blare of bugles. rufae of drums
"A A fash of color beneath the sky
~ Hats off! n
The flag is passing by!
"A ~ "A
"a oa0, a. .ho s.aa,;nn"a Ua,in oraarad ,;na.
"a Hats off! "a
The colors before us fly;
p But than the flag is passing by. p
Sea-fghts and land fights grim and great,
Fought make and the State; Fl
Weary marches and sinking ships; ~
- Cheers of victory dying lips
Days of plenty and years of peace
p March of strong lands swift increase; n
IA Equal JUSTICE right and law, "a
Stately honor and reverend
Sing of nation great and strong -
- To ward her people from foreign wrong -
p Pride and glory and honor, all n
Live in the colors stand or fall. -
"A Hats OIL p
Along the street there comes
"A A bare of bugles a ruie of drums:
~ And loyal hearts beating high; ~
Hats off,
"A The flag is passing by
Henry Holcomb Bennett n
"A "A
The mirror., 1919-06-12
The Finding of Old Glory

that revolutionary fathers needed de-
of heroic founding they had
but find the banner of their faith and
pride.
In the glowing West the burning clouds of sunset sky
wide bands of flame and mist
symbol mighty and
battling.
they looked there sudden rending of the aeecy
berty sending through the rift
behed thick with silver
starsthe ripesthe bueOld Glory bazoned in beauty
Gods for all the world 1t
u fag-God make worthy of it-Cipped.
than speeches and cheers and
headlines whenever Old Glory calls
The mirror., 1919-06-12
British and American Audiences

land and ourselves the that sme squrey the An
receptive 1t like pitcher;
with what haveoh like; signifies but emotions
enthusiasm and boredom English audiences of working
like that responds the player thought rppes and
m and if heart the
is swift Always the Voice speaks from gallery the
terrible Voice which daches itself in English crowd full
cansc w.t. full irony maybe approval The Voice of the
keptical Eghman who will joke the Prime Minister heard
him do in Newcastle interrupt Mr. Bernard Shaw with
question So in England political living thing.
tell how it will and like
another and each has timber quality People
spirit They be informed pead
they
which flows unchecked the
audiences could be
Tynesde the sapent shrewdness of Lancanshre
The mirror., 1919-06-12


Reports the of the sleeping
the we'll known African mdy
communicable fly
this The apparently ehargica
demc form England last From
ondon) of full discussion Society
that the disease simply
where 1t begins hargy headache
weeks and followed by paralysis
often arayc the appears
closely paralysis although
identical with it.
The mirror., 1919-06-12
Relata Refero
Bits Of Interesting Reading and Information
Gathered From Many Sources
By Scissors.

By Scissors.
a Flag Day. Saturday June IA. 1919. p "A
The Patriot
The little old lady
Trudged down the long street,
A frai little figure
From bonnet to feet
When the flag few aoft
She saluted with pride,
With mien of q soldier
And blush of bride-Ethel M Colson.
A Wish
l wish we might return. Dear yesteryears
When life replete with pleasure. with tears;
To think now of youth. 80 carefree, so gay,
Is wish oneself young again just for today S.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
locals and Personals

You can always get Levi Strauss
overalls at Hale & Tuttles.
Edward r. Tuttle made bust
ness trip to Burley Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Nelson are
visiting at the home of l.. A. Mel
son.
S. P. Worthington is able to be
out again after an attack of la
grippe.
For sale-one 1919 model, Ford
Roadster. In good condition.
! Phone 29R2. adv.
! Please notify Clark Bros.
lphoue 29R2, Of cattle branded
with Jews harp on left hip. adv.
People throughout America are
getting interested in Oakley's oil
fields. This week The HeralC
answered an inquiry from apar.
ty in Iowa.
Wasn't it grand feelin'
last Sunday morning when thu
daylight crept through your win
dows and you could stay in bee
an hour longer?
A party was given last nigh
at the home of Howard Price il
honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Wyli
Sessions who leave soon on
mission in South Africa.
A full line of rubbers and over
shoes for children of two year
to women and men of ninety a
Hale & Tuttle's. If you are owe
ninety, come in and See us any
way. adv.
= A Halloween party was give
Wednesday night in the bass
ment Of the First ward chap
for all the married people of tt
ward. The decorations and r.
freshments were of the kind al
propriate to the occasion.
short program was given.
We have in the vicinity of Ga
ley, piano and a player-pian
both highest grade, slightly u.s.
but practically good as new, DO
as to case, appearance and int
ior condition. We will off
them at attractive prices rath
than go to the expense of shi
ping back to us. Responsit
parties can get their own teri
and may pay monthly, quarterl
or half-yearly.
If interested write quick
Consolidated Music Co., 13 to
East LIST So, Salt Lake Cit
Utah. adv. 0 81 2.