Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-23
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tack on Aspidiotous destructor, new scale insect
pest which is destroying the coconut palms,
banana trees and the alligator pear trees OF the
island! You will find Marine guard at times in
front Of the Treasury building in Washington.
Arthur Whitcomb, Marine Corps bugler, sounded
Taps" at the grave of Woodrow Wilson and of
Calvin Coolidge, Jr., and so it goes-at home and
abroad. Wherever there is United States battle
ship, there is detachment Of Marines" Gemper
Fidelis" and always ready for efficient action
Don't make the mistake of thinking the Marines
are merely fighting machines 1t taxes real man
to get into the Marines. He has to be young, able
bodied and of good character. And he has to pass
stringent mental moral and physical tests upon
admission His term of enlistment is four years
and he will know lot more at the end Of that
four years than he did when he joined.
cursory glance at recent numbers of the
Leatherneck the official organ of the Marines, one
finds mention of all sorts of activities in all parts
of the world. Here are few: Aviation training
at Pensacola re-enactng of the battle of Antietam
Of the Civil war, which attracted 10000 spectators
formation of football teams for the fall battles
new courses Of study in the Marine Corps inst
tute rifle practice at Guantanamo Cuba; broad
casting of program by the United States Marine
Band at Washington various baseball games
usually by the Marines rifle tournament vic
tories picnics, hikes and dances at various posts
successes at the water carnival at San Diego and
the Atlantic City pageant; consideration Of the
prospects for championship honors Of G. J. Pra-
fash, the latest heavyweight boxer developed by
the Marines; letters from Marines all over the
world detailing interesting experiences, especially
one from Marine who has just finished cruise
of 10000 miles in % months on the Pittsburgh and
Orion.
High officers in the Marine Corps get their
places by working for them. Take for instance
the career of Johnny, the Hard" General
Lejeune was born in 1867 in louisiana and
is a graduate of Louisiana State university
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War college (191O). He began his sea life
as a naval cadet by being wrecked on the
U. S. S. Vandalia in the hurricane at Apia Samoa
in 1885, The next year he won his commission as
second lieutenant and thereafter he moved stead
lily up until his appointment as major general in
1913. He has been in command of the Marines
since July l. 1920 During the intervening years
we find him in command of battalion in Panama
during the year of excitement over the Panama
canal (l9O3-4 of brigade in the Philippines
(19089); Of brigade and regiment during the
taking and occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He
arrived in France June g. 1918, and was partici-
pant in various engagements from st. Mihiel to
the occupation of the Coblenz bridgehead He
returned in August of 1919 in command Of the
Second division. And with all that he has man
aged to be husband and a father
The high-up officers of the Marines are iron
dscplinarians- at the same time "Big Broth
ers or "Uncles' or something of the kind to their
Take Maj. Gen. Joseph a. Pendeton Gre
tired. He's ''Uncle Joe' to his men and his wife
is "Aunt Mary" Uncle Joes name has even been
interpolated into the flynn of the Marines"
which begins:
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli,
We fight countrys battles
On the land and the
And when Uncle Joes nephews sing the hymn
they add:
The Marines in Nicaragua
Were the boys to fill the bill,
Uncle Joe he the lad
Took Coyotepe HILL
Coyotepe Hill figured in 1912, when he landed
in the Central American republic with a detach-
ment of Marines to find the revolutionists occupy
ing fortified hill believed to be impregnable and
raining death and destruction on all the country
around Well, Uncle Joe led his men in the climb
up Coyotepe Hill and the rebels dispersed pronto.