Arizona republican., 1919-09-09
FIRST MILITARY
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Japanese war in 1904, Pershing, over 40, still was a captain in the regular army. His associates say he never grumbled, but always kept plugging at his job. Reams and reams have been written about how he took a prominent part in the racification of the Phil ippine islands and how President Roosevelt made him a brigadier gem cral, jumping him over the heads of exactly S62 other men who were senior to him on the service roll.
 When Pershing took the punitive expedition to Mexico City after the bandit Villa, he became the only liv- ing officer in the American army who had comm3 nded any body of troops So large as a brigade in anything ap Iroaching action. It is true that the late General Funston commanded more than a brigade on the Vera Cruz expedition but Funstons troops never got into action.
 From the time Pershing graduated from West Point in 1886 he had his full share of active and valuable ser vice in the army. Like his class mates he immediately was plunged into the Indian Wars He entered a campaign against the great Apache chief, Geron- imo, who for many years had kept the great southwestern country almost closed to immigration by his skill and bravery. It was in those campaigns that many of young American army officers received that special training evolved in combat with the willy saw ages which proved of peculiar value in certain phases of the highly scienti- fic modern warfare in France and Bel gium.
 They were taught the art Of scouting. of trailing and of perfect self reliance in the school beyond the ken of any European soldier and many a mid night raid by the Americans into No Mans land doubtless found it's incep- tion and clever execution in the brain of one of these one-time lndlan fight CTS of Pershing's type
 It is recorded officially of Pershing that at the beginning of his career, for instance, he was complimented by Gen. eral Miles, his commander -in- chief in the Geronimo campaigns. for march ing his troop, with pack train, over rough country, 40 miles in 46 hours, bringing in every animal and man in good condition" Until he reached command rank, Pershing always was a cavalry officer, and the records of the war department show more than one honorable mention for his conduct during his ten years service in the 1 Department of Arizona
 In the Spanish war as an officer of the Tenth cavalry he was promoted for gallantry at the battle of Fl Caney to be a major in the volunteer army and | of ch fx, sx, l the bureau of insular affairs was sent out to the Philippines as adjutant- | general of the Department of Minda- nao and Jolo.
 That was the turning point in Per 1 shings career. He began to take his 1 profession of arms more seriously and to display the powers of concentration i upon difficult problems that stood him in good stead in the great campaigns that were to follow in Europe. At tracted by his earnestness and soldier ly qualities, General Leonard Wood who was his superior officer at the time selected Pershing to organize and l conduct a campaign against the Moros who for centuries had successfully resisted all attempts of the Spanish army to subjugate them.
 Up to that point something of par allel may be found in the careers oi Wood and Pershing. Each had made brilliant regulations as Indian fighters and each had been picked by President
 Roosevelt for extraordinary promo. tion because of their high promise oi military ability Roosevelt had made Wood brigadier general in 1901 anc he made Pershing, then captain, z | t.r-srrF .<71 4A @to le.a
 lute consternation of the old line O
 the army becase it involved tn, jumping of both officers over man! hundreds of their seniors.
 Pershing justified the confidence that Wood had imposed in him in hii
 Moro campaign. There was a Sultan of Bacalod with unknown thousands O
 followers intrenched in the marshe
 and mountains of the tropical island
 behind heavy forts of palm wood, log
 and giant creepers and thorn bushe
 woven into what was supposed to b.
 impregnable defenses. Pershing hal made a study of the conditions and st
 well had he organized his little fore consisting of battalion of infantry,
 squadron of cavalry and a section o
 artillery that in two days the Moros
 strongholds were cleared out and tn
 island of Mindanao was soon place, under Pershings military governorshir
 When he returned home in 1914 h
 was given but a short rest in Sal Francisco. Trouble began on the Mex
 ican border and he was sent there il
 command of the Eighth brigade, an
 charged with the special duty of run
 ming down or driving off Villa. Hi
 expedition penetrated many miles int
 Mexico and army officers believed tha
 the ultimate capture of Villa was pre-
 vented only by recall orders fror
 Washington where the authorities de
 cided that they were unwilling to con
 tinue military policy seeming certaii
 to involve the United States in regu lar war with Mexico.
 When Pershing was chosen to com ; mand the American forces in France he took with him many of the browne
 and hardened veterans of his Mexica campaign and these men formed tn
 nucleus of the famous First divisio of the American Expeditionary Fore,
 A terrible tragedy had come int Pershing's life during his Mexica , border service, through the loss of nl , wife and three of their little childrel who were burned to death in the home at the Presidio, in San Francis l co, during his absence.
 His life became hard and stern; nc l towards his soldiers, however, but the regimen he imposed upon himse | and in the objects he had marked fc , attainment He threw himself into hi l work with a passion that commando ) success, evidently seeking relief frol : his private grief in public service. ]. was said of him in France that he wa i never tired; he could be called upo 5 any hour out of the twentyfour fc