Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-16
HE WAS A CORPORAL ONCE
And Twas Then That Louis Cukeia
Did Deeds Of Derrlng Do That
Won Him Many Decorations
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

by WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
nOWN at Quantco the other day saw
- Lieutenant Louis Cukeln, of the ma
rines, taking his examination for cap
taincy.
It may be remembered that, OF all the
American soldiers who went overseas, Cu,
kela got most decorations. He was mad
tornado that ragged through every hgnt III
which marines participated. one OF ms e1-
plots being the capture OF a German
! machine gun nest with his own pare MINUS
He was n corporal then, starting ON his
way up from the ranks.
In 1917 he was private In the army. He
bought his way out that he might enlist IN
| the marines, which organization, lie hgured'
had best chance to go over.
No one knew where this enlisted man got
| the money that made the transfer possiole.
| Undoubtedly there was much deprivation
back of it, for Cukela was but an imml-
grant boy, having come over q few years
earlier froi. Serbia.
When the Germans drove through that
heroic little kingdom they imprisoned the
| father of the boy who had gone away anu
| enlisted in the army that fights under the
starry flag. Later they led that father out
and shot him.
SO Louis, In the presence Of the Hun. be-
came demon. a ravng madman. possessed
of such passions could not be stayed.
to hiss through clcnched teeth as he went
into action, and no single scratch did he re-
ceive TO interfere with his taking 1t.
DR.. Elmer Darwin Ball and DIR. Carleton
| Roy Ball are both pure scientists. One styles
himself an entomologist and the other an
| agronomist One studies insects and tue
other field crops. One Is Assistant Secre-
! tary of Agriculture and the other is Chief
Of Cereal Crops Investigations in that same
| department.
These scientific brothers come down for
eleven generations from John Ball. of Con-
cord, n. H., and in that span there has
never before appeared man of science. Yet
| both these brothers babbled in scientific terms
before they went to school.
It all came about through GRANDMOTHER
| Grimes on the mothers side. who came to
I live with them and who called plants by
| their botanical names. Grandmother Grimes
| was a rare bOtanist and q good ZooloGst.
Hers was mind of natural scientific turn
and two out of her seven grandchildren in
| hcrited IL.
Grandmother Grimes left her mark on
| Iowa. for she named the town of Willida. mp
in the northwest of it, after her brother Will
| and her sister Ida.
Eliot Wadsworth. Assistant Secretary Of
| Treasury, is a rich young man who can afford
| to take jobs that do not pay much money.
Because of this he went to Europe early in
| the war for the Rockefeller Foundation.
! which wanted to give food to the starving
! Poles but could never find way to do it.
| Then Mr.. Wadsworth worked for years with
| the Red Cross. He was chairman of the
committee of Harvard Alumni which set
! out to raise S15 900. 900 as an endowment
| that the professors might get so per cent
raise in salary. They got S14, 900 600 All
| last year he worked hard as chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Senatorial Cam
| paign Committee. Now he is on the inside
at Uncle Sans big money shop. He admits
that it is a fine thing not to have to think
of the money end of your employment.
Uncle Joe Cannon was telling Of the diff.
| cultieS that the amateur politician expert
| enccs when first he goes out and attempts to
so deport himself as to capture the votes of
his fellows.
Down in Danville he knew a man who
printed the notice Of his candidacy in the
papers and went out on the street corner of
Saturday afternoon to catch up with his
handshaking among the farmers, an activity
| that he had long neglected.
| This man was very conscious that his name
was right there in the papers in capital let
ters and that all the folks were looking him
over, making up their minds as to whether
they would kiss or kill him.
One farmer stood on the edge of the group
and watched. He observed the mechanical
pump handle handshake the stiff erectness,
the formal address of the candidate.
Huh" he was heard to calculate.
"Runnn' for office and amt let his check
rein down yet.
If one, after spending much of his life
in the open in the company of mules, for
instance. should learn some of the secrets
that move those creatures to more efficient
motion, and If, just at that time, a new
method Of transportation should come along
and displaCe them, would one not have a
right to sigh at the futility of original re-
search!
There Is Arthur p. Davis, for instance,
the Director of the Reclamation Service.
He had been travelling all day over the desert
trying to reach the town of Phoenix, out
in Arizona, where he had an important en-
gagcment.
But the mules were tired and were ada :
mant, and all that sort Of thing, and refused
to respond to the urging of the driver
SO Davis gave it up and relaxed into resg
nation. Having Il philosophical nature and
voice for song he struck up camp meet
ing melody, such as was sung in the vicinity
of Decatur, H., when he was IL boy.
Much to his surprise the exhausted mules
came suddenly to life, sprang into the col
lars, whiSked the blackboard through the
shimmering greasewOod and landed him at
his destination in time for his meeting.
And the next time he went West the au :
tomobile had taken the place Of the mule and
his discovery was useless.
Printing ink salesmen," said J. =.
Nodcr, secretary of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, used to be the individuals who
laid more weird bets than any other class OF
citizens. The commission undertook to sup
press their peculiar method of gambling, as
it amounted, under the law, to unfair
competition, which it was their duty to sup.
press.
AN ink salesman would go into prin;
shop to sell an order. The trade of this one
shop might amount to thOusands of dollar,
Il month to his firm. The foreman was Otter
the key man in placing the order.