The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-09-06

wartime period fast are leaving. Ihou-
sands Of men who wore the bars. the
leaves or the eagles on their shoulders
for n long enough time to help thrash
the enemy. are going back int" c'Nll
life but there is goodly number OF
them left vet. for whom the knot still
is to be severed.
There was Il large number OF book,
magazine and newspaper writers III
the United States army. They dld All
kinds of work for which their tralHin"
fitted them. Some of them were III
the intelligence service. some of them
IN the war history division. aEd many
moro of them. who took camp TRAINING
were in combatant units.
In one little group in the arm! III
telligence service, working Slhe pH
side day after day, until orders sent |
them elsewhere, were several men
whose names are known TO the puDhc
as writer's. Rupert Hughes, the novel,
list and playwright. was one oil tllS
croup. With him was Kenneth l.
Roberts. story writer. playwright ana
Others in the group We're Richard
AIdrich. who has written Stahdar"
books on grand opera and is the music
critic of the New York Times; Arthur
Somers Roche. the novelist. son Oh
James Jeffrey Roche, the poet. anu
! several other writer's of less promi-
nence and less merit, among whom
! put my name.
Novel Writers and Good Fellows.
Now it happened that the least "i
these was the ranking officer so III
n WAY while he did not attempt To en-
ercise authority, for it was not neces-
sary, he learned much of those WIN
whom he was associated. People
know Rupert Hughes through MS
stories. They ought To know MN
through personal acquaintance for he
is a man of the rarest charm.
1t was Hughes great disappo.nt-
ment in life that he could not go 10
France to serve in II combat unit. lie
put in years of hard driving service III
the national guard and year or more
of grillng work as line officer on the
border. The fates decreed that he
should not go abroad. He took the
disappointment like a soldier ana did
commanding service in that place In
which it was appointed him to work.
Kenneth l.. Roberts is Il rare. roll
licking chap, with a steady quaint!
somewhere within him which kept nm
! 81 thrnnUh all the
hours of grinding labor. Roberts was
ordered to Siberia and there he saw
hard service. He has just left the
army to 20 back to the work or hSh'-
ening mems lives by giving them 10
read of the treasures of his eXuber-
ance.
Richard Aldrich at the age of fifty
three volunteered in the service oil
4 his country, was accepted and stayed
= put through the whole thing, and then
: some, for he did not leave the service
e until nine months after the German
e had concluded he had enough. 1t Is
e accounted bromide to say that maj
/ is a prince of good fellows. but this
is what can be said of Capt. Richard
: Aldrich. and to the saying may be
e added that the captain himself is M
} bromide.
d Honors for Our Generals.
n The generals are coming to town
y What congress intends to do for SOM
e of these generals already has been dis
s cussed in full. The only additional
'e propositiOn is that sword shall b.
y presented i'm the name of the people t
Gen. John ]. Pershirg.
D. 1t seems likely today that Pershin
n will be made full general in til
,e regular establishment. and March
rs lieutenant general. This, perhaps som
IN congressman think, will be the hes
m way out of the controversy over whn
re honors should be shown the chief c
or staff. 1t is likely that so far as tn
be other general officers are concerned
or they will take their former rank
r. the regular army but will be give
ly as quick promotion as the law allow
1t should be remembered that th
he president of the United States, whel
lis ever there is Il vacancy In the ranh
n of the brigadier or major generals
IN regulars, can promote thereto any SO
Is der that he sees fit. This probab
lr. will secure something cOmmensura
ne with their deeds for Liggett. Bullar
as Dickman and some others.
ms Maj. Gen. Joseph L. Dickman n;
ch lust been in Washington receiving II
mt final orders i'm connection with h
assignment to command the Southel
division with headquarters at San A
IN tonic. 1t is the intention, so 1t is u
in derstoOd. to make Dickman maj
gi- general I'm the regular army shortly.
ng- Peculiar Case of Dickman.
ler For a short time at the very end
eri- the war | was attached to Gener
for Dickman's command. personally
ellis tached TO the general, in fact. when
in was in command of the First corr
rty There have been some curious thin
)ns in the promotion way and. so to spe;
vhO in the command way in this war. VIII
ich Liggett and Billiard were made cor
to commanders they were given cor
hat spending ranks of lieutenant gener
hat and properly so. Later they were p
ice, noted to the command of armies VIII
ing under ordinary procedure would Ia
and given them the rank of general. L
the was not done.