The Monticellonian., 1919-05-09
). $. M. AWARDS ARE NUT TO0 NUMEROUS
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT MUCH MORE NIGGARDLY IN GIVING
 OUT HoNoRS THAN FRANCE.
LATEST LIST FROM PERsHlNG
Public Wilt Never Know Adequately About the Remarkable Accomplish ments of Such Men as General Jad- win and Colonel Winner.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

DJ EDW HnO SLAFlN.
 Washington. General Pershing has transmitted to the war department Il list of the most recent awards of dis tinguished service medals made by the ditionary force which decides on mat ters of merit
 There IS long list of the men who hereafter will wear the ribbon of dis tinguished service, but long though it may be, 1t 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 ican government is rather niggardly in giving out its honors. If 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 a list of the men who have been marked for distinguished service medals 1t 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 been war with the suppression of names. With the exception of a 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 manding work in France. It is not like this in the French army.
 General Jadwins 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. TodaG 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 Gatun locks. dam and spillway, and dug the Culebra cut.
 In the list of men who won the dis tinguished service medals appears the name of "E. Jadwin." This is all that there Is about the matter. Of course in the citation which gives General Jadwin his distinguished service medal the details of his work are set forth, but this does not get to the people any more than 1t does in the cases of scores of others.
 Jadwin built Gievre, the great Amer lean depot, and he did it so quickly and so we'll that the American forces had base bigger perhaps than any other base in history, and one from which supplies could be handled quick ly, thus making it possible to win battles quickly.
 What Colonel Winner Did for Flying.
 Another army officer whose name means little or nothing perhaps to most people is William Fl. Wilmer colonel and medical officer, American expeditionary forces. Physicians know about Colonel Winner, for he is one of the most noted oculists in the world Here is an American who gave up a tremendous practice to enter the army as major. It was his thorough
 
 proper word. which enabled him to understand the psychology of aviators and so to apply his knowledge as to decrease materially the number of fly ing accidents in the schools at France Pilots and observers in scores owe TOT to the data collected by this Amer ican doctor. who by the way lives in the city of Washington and is now getting his one line in the public re- ports for the life-saving work which he did in France.
 Running through the list of men who have been given the distinguished service medal 1t is found that the board of officers which passes on questions of merit seemingly has done its work well. The pity is perhaps that the American public never will know anything at all adequate about the sacrifices to duty made by the officers who have been singled out to wear the ribbon and the badge. How ever, they probably are not complain ing, because they did their work well and are satisfied with the conscious ness of the fact
 Army HumiIiated by Mutiny.
 Army officers in Washington are chagrined and humiliated at the news of the mutiny of a company of Amer ican soldiers on the North Russian front. It is a safe assumption that unless some kind of paclflst pat-them- on-the-back influences shall prevail the men who refused to fight will get what military sense dictates that they should get.
 The last word which has come to this city Is to the effect that the teach ings of one man were responsible for the trouble. There seems to be-.