The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-04-08
"igadier General of Goth Di.
vision Says Those of 3Oth
Proved the Greatest.
AN ALL-AMERICAN OUTFIT
The "Old Hickory" is Praised
Tor Its Work in Going
Through Hindenburg Line
and Demeanor.

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greater lighters have ever lived than
those composing the 3Oth division
ana am proud of them" is the
simple eulogy paid the officers and
men or the 30th by their divisional
commander, Brigadier General Sam
son l.. Faison, who came back with
the division overseas.
General Faison ia soutbern
man. native OF North Carolina IN
command OF southern troops. He
IS a regular army officer of many
years of service. He has been desig-
mated to command Camp Jackson
succeeding the present commander
brigadi"r-General w F.. Cole. who
Will revert back to his former rank
as colonel in the regular army.
AS emphatic in his characterize
tion OF the personnel of the 3Oth
division as that OF his chief is COL
onel John x. Herr, chief Of staff OF
the division. Colonel Herr, before
the entrance Of America into the
great war, was cavalry officer in
the regular army. He is graduate
OF West Point. class 1902. very
young man for the responsible po-
sftion which he holds.
THE men of the 3Oth division"
said Colonel Herr, "instinctively are
lighters; they come from a fighting
stock; their ancestors are the men
who won the battles OF Kings
Mountain and Cowpens in the revo-
lutionary war. I can understand.
after seeing the 30th in action, why
you fellows fought four long years
in civil war"
when I was with the British
forces" continued the officer, land
/ saw the 30th division in line. I
said, If I Just had q regiment of
those men I could go anywhere
Physically they are the poTtoc. sol
dier, rangey. muscular, enduring,
the best infantrymen in the world.
And shoot, why each man seemed to
have been handling a rifle since he
was old enough to totter The Boche
soon found out that when a 30th d.
vision rifle was pointed at him he
knew somebody was bound to fail.
Colonel Herr. who was chief of
staff during the drive on and the
piercing OF the Hindenburg line, said
that the 30th was as purely an all
American division as there is in the
United States army North Carolina.
South Carolina and Tennessee have
very little infusion OF alien blood:
the people OF those states are main
ly descendants OF the pioneer stocks
which first inhabited them: and this
is one reason. thinks Colonel Herr,
why the 20th was such lighting df-
vision, pride of race and tradition OF
achievement were behind It.
General Faison said that the di-
vision was one OF the greatest In the
history OF the world. both in point
OF personnel and I'm fighting ability.
"The men OF the goth" said Gem
eral Faison, "are not only superb
fighters. without fear in their COM
position. but they are intelligent
fighters. They quickly absorb what
they are taught and intelligently
apply the principles OF military
science in their fights with the enc
my. Their achievement in Europe
on the western front demonstrated
that they had been well trained In
America. All you had to do was to
tell the men OF the 3Oth their objec-
tive and put officers in charge OF
them to do the directing, and they
would do the rest"
General Faison. who commanded
the 60th brigade OF which the 119th
and the 120th infantry regiments.
formerly North Carolina National
Guard regiments. were part. In the
Bellicourt fight and during the SUBJ
sequent drive and preceding offen-
sive, had an unexcelied opportunity
TO judge the caliber OF the men Of
the Old Hickory division, and his
estimate OF the qualities of the men
was dispassionate and judicial.
General Faison said that the 30th
division achieved more for the num-