Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-05
HUMANiSMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

DO
CERGEANT FRANK LANCKTON has
~ for fifteen years been personal orderly
for General Pcrshing.
When >the General campaigned in Min.
danao. subjugatng the Mohamedan Moros,
Lanckton went with him. Later he toured
the world with his chief. went with him to
Mexico and to France. During all those
years this live, clean cut sergeant has slept
in the quarters of his chief has packed his
bag. has sent his laundry to the wash.
During all the war it was the proud
boast of America that General Pershins
was the finest military figure in all the
armies. His physical condition always
seemed to be that of man in the pink Of
training. None can better explain the cause
of this than Sergeant Lanckton. and one
day he outlined for me the program Of exer.
else that kept the General physically fit.
lanckton said that all the time they were
in France he and the General always got up
at O'Clock in the morning. Immediately
they took alf-hour of setting up exer.
cises. Then the General despite his near
approach to sixty years of age, would 20
out for run Of fifteen minutes When he
returned they would throw the medicine ball
for another half hour. This work was fast
and the sergeant, who was thirty three.
must needs be fit or his chief would wear
him down. Finally, Mt bedtime which was
likely to be about II o'clock, the General
always took another installment of setting.
up exercises.
When Edward II. Shaughnessy, the As.
sistant Postmaster General who handles
railroad affairs for Mr.. Hayes, first went to
work as messenger boy delivering tele.
grams on the night shift in Chicago. the
business was so small that but ten young,
sters were required after IL o'clock That
only horse cars furnished transportation.
AFTER young Shnughnessy had been carry.
nI,nnt
himself at daybreak one morning talking
TO the tram dispatcher down at the Chicago
ana northwestern Railroad Station. This
train dispatcher was trying to get some in.
formation from lonesome station out on
the line and the operator was so poor at his
keys that he could not get his O message ne
through.
ohoS,'jy Mnjy d1nt"ha get some good teIegra.
phcrsE asked Shaughnessy. II can pound
the keys bettcrn that fella."
was but twenty five years ago. but after
midnIght the cable cars were slenccd and
snow me. said the train dispatcher.
and Shaughnessy did and was hired on the
spot. "
Thus was his climb begun up through the
position or dispatcher and trainmaster to
WORK OF great responsibility.
The other day dropped in to see Sena'
tor Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock. of Nebraska,
wanting a chat with him despite the coma.
toSe condition Of the League of Nations.
was asked to wait n few minutes. I sat
tight, for thirty of them.
'SmattcrE | then asked his secretary.
Has he got a lady caler?"
"RightO.' said the secretary. kinda glib
like. Mrs, Antoinette Funk"
Then ] waited another fifty minutes not
intending to. of course. and expecting to
get in any minute. But Mrs. Funk must
have got on the Hohenzollern family. about
which she knows more than anybody else,
or someS other favorite theme Then she
came out looking all sprightly and not talked
out at all, And ] wondered IL politics isn't
gong to take more time from now on than
1t used to.
Ihclr Joe Cannon. who has something OF
a reputation for Republicanism. often ev.
H"nced considerable friendiiness for Daniel
~; Ropcr: protcge Of Mr.. McAdoo and under
Iim chief of the Bureau of Internal Reye.
nue. The venerable former Speaker gave
th Ar hon"r q sweeping indoSemcnt for being
@ ,ur nost eihcient man. In The Wilson Adj
Friends Of Mr.. Roper crowded him for
an explanation of this friendship. Finally
Ir loid OF trip to New York. of meeting
nclc Joe on the train. Of request from
w" o'togenarinn that he come up to his
room room and remain until he had got to bed.
,neh nclc Joe was profuse in his thanks
Don't mention it," said Mr.. R0per,
Nothing plcascs a good Democrat more
'hnm 10 put a good Republican away"
Ihey have been friends ever since