The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-05-09
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT MUCH
MORE NIecARDLY IN GIVING
OUT hoNoRs THAN FRANCE.
LATEST LIST FROM PERsHING
public viii Never Know Adequately
About the Remarkable Accomplish
ments of Such Men az General Jad-
win and Colonel Wilmer.
ey EDWARD q. CLARK.

transmitted to the war department a
list of the most recent awards of dis
tinguished service medals made by the
military board of the American expe-
dictionary force which decides on mat
tiers of merit.
There is a long list Of the men who
hereafter will wear the ribbon Of dis
tlnguished service, but long though 1t
may be, it is brevity itself compared
with the list of awards made by the
French military authorities to their
own men and to individual soldiers of |
the allies who have won French re-
gard and recognition.
Someone in the city Of Washington
recently said that distinguished serv-
ice medals are getting common. This
is way beside the truth. The Amer
lean government Is rather niggardly
In giving out its hOnOrs. II 1000 dis
tinguished service medals are award
ed, what does this mean when it is
remembered that 100000 American
soldiers were striving to do their duty
and something beyond it in the fields
Of France?
When the American public reads
list of the men who have been marked
for distinguished service medals it
probably will be surprised at the num-
Der of names Of ranking officers con-
corning whom they heretofore have
heard little or nothing. This war has
with tho crlnnroScinn nf
names. With the exception Of few
army officers of the highest rank the
country has been allowed to know vir-
tually nothing of the personality Of
the men who have been doing COM
handing work in France. 1t Is not
like this in the French army.
General Jadvin's Work at Gievre.
How many Americans know about
the town of Gievre In France? Two
years ago Gievre was about the size
of walnut shell. Today it is huge
town built almost overnight by an
American engineer, Brig. Gen. Edgar
Jadwin who distinguished himself
some years ago by constructive work
on the Isthmus in connection with Will
liam l.. Sibert and David du Bose Gail
lard, who respectively built the Gatu,
locks, dam and spillway, and dug
the Culebra cut.
In the list of men who won the dis
tingulshed service medals appears thu
name of 'E. Jadwin." This is oil tina
there is about the matter. OF cours
In the citation which gives Genera
Jadwin his distinguished service media
the details of his work are set forth
but this does not get to the peopl
any more than it does In the cases O
scores of others.
Jadwin built Gievre, the great Amer
lean depot, and he did 1t so quick
and So well that the American force
had base bigger perhaps than an
other base in history, and one frOl
which supplies could be handled quicl
ly, thus making 1t possible to wi
battles quickly
What Colonel Wilmer Did for FLYNN
Another army officer whose nam
means little or nothing perhaps
most people Is William H. Whine
colonel and medical officer, America
expeditionary forces. Physicians. kno
about Colonel Wilmer, for he is or
OF the most noted Oculists in the worl
Here Is an American who gave up
tremendous practice to enter the arm
as major. 1t was his thorout
knowledge Of optics, If that is Il
proper word, which enabled him
understand the psychology Of aviato
and so to apply his knowledge as
decrease materially the number Of fl
ing accidents. In the schools at Franc
Pilots and observers in scores oy
their immunity from accident and I
ror to the data collected by this Anne
lean doctor, who by the way lives
the city Of Washington and is nj
getting his one line in the public
ports for the llfe-savlng work viii
ne did In France.
Running through the list of men W
nave been given the distinguish
service medal, 1t is found that
board Of officers which passes
e"N'tiOuS vi HlcTll SccIuAlSIy HAS W.
It's work well. The pity Is perhs
that the American public never v
Know anything at all adequate abt
the sacrifices to duty made by
officers who have been singled out
wear the ribbon and the badge. HI
ever, they probably are not cOmpls
Ing, because they did their work "
and are satisfied with the console
ness Of the fact.
Army humiilated BY Mutiny.
Army officers In Washington
chagrlned and Inundated at the NJ
or the mutiny Of company Of An
lean soldiers on the North Russ
front. 1t Is a safe assumption I
unless some kind of paciflst path
on-the-back influences shall pre-
the men who refused to fight will
what military sense dictates that t
should get.
The last word which has come