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The Indianapolis times., 1928-06-01
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Watch ALI Roads
Other squads were sent to watch
roads leading to the city from other
directions, on the theory the bandits
might have tried the old trick of
doubling back.
Horn got the pay roll money from
the Security Trust Company bank
half hour before he was held up.
He told Manager E. G. Welsh of the
club that he walked from the bank,
Ill N. Pennsylvania St., to the
Terminal Station and took the
car at IL a. m.
He said he did not notice anyone
following him, but the bandit ap-
parently boarded the car after he
did and sat in the rear. At the
Country Club stop, James Robert
son of Detroit, a club guest, and the
Negro walters, H. Bell and Emmett
Duncan, of Indianapolis, got off
with Horn. The bandit left behind
them with a pistol hidden beneath
a newspaper.
HOldup on Trestle
The path to the country club leads
up twenty eight steps to high
bridge across the Big Four railroad,
paralleling the car tracks. Horn,
Robertson, Bell and Duncan had
reached the high trestle, with the
bandit close on their heels.
The bandit pushed past them and
whirled. He whipped the newspa-
per off his gun and pointed it az
the quartet.
Robertson put his hands in the
air. The bandit ordered him to put
them down. Evidently he feared
someone on the road would see what
was going on for, being high in the
air, they we're visible for miles.
Then the bandit stuck the gun
against Horns ribs and said:
"I want that grip"
Horn handed it over. 1t was a
black Boston bag with gold letters,
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chu. stop them, stop them" she ap-
pealed to DR.. Murch. The principal,
however, probably knew the youths
fighting qualities better than his teach
er. Chao-chu was making pretty quick
work of his adversaries. DR.. Murch
chuckled. Leave them alone" he said.
Those boys have a whipping coming
to them and then they will leave him
alone"
From the day of that play-yard vic
tory. Chao-chu remained unmolested.
Due course of time found him accepted
as a regular feller" who had learned a
bit of backyard base ball, become quite
adept at marbles, and enjoyed the
rough-and-tumble play during the short
periods of recess. He was dubbed
Pickles" because of the similarity of
his name to that of a certain table
delicacy, And pickles" he remained
during his second year that Chao-chu
came under the sympathetic influence
OF Miss Pattison, one of the seventh
grade teachers His former classmates,
still plugging along, had just completed
the fourth grade.
Miss Pattison has one of the oldest
and best teaching records in the history
OF Washington's public schools. Appoint
ed in 1878, she will complete her fiftieth
year as teacher next September.
1t was to learn something of the
Chao-chu she knew so we'll that Miss
Pattison was sought. In the quiet
of her home at 80 West Kirke street,
Chevy Chase. Md, where she has lived
many years. she happily recounted the
days spent IN coaching the youth, in the
Summer of that year in which he was
one of her pupils. During those few
weeks of intensive studying Chao-chu
learned enough of the mysteries of al
zebra to skip the eighth grade and enter
Western High School In the Fall of
1901
"He was never satisfied to do any,
thing In a careless or callous way. He
always prepared his lessons with the
greatest care. One of the most un-
usual things about him was his penman-
ship. He took great pride in doing 1t
well.' she said.
From to o'clock. Chao-chu would
There was one occasion in particular,
which Miss Pattison likewise remembers,
when Chao-chu was the hero of the
yard. 1t was when the Chinese boy
soundly thrashed bully and fought of
one or two others who tried to inter-
vene.
Miss Pattison was talking to the
principal of the school. the late DR.. Ben
W. Murch, assistant superintendent of
schools at the time of his death several
years agot. Looking out of the window
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years. But none will be prepared to
welcome him on his return more glad
ly than Miss Pattison, his former teach
er and still Stanch adnirer after all
these years.
DR.. WI did not return alone, for he
has brought back with him wife, as
thoroughly modern as her husband.
During their stay here, which is inde~
terminable, they are residing at the
Wardman Park Hotel.
NEXT to Archie and Quentin Roose-
velt, who had about them the
glamour of the White House, Wu-Chao-
chu was perhaps the best known of
all the pupils who attended the Force
School. BY far he was the most pic
turesque.
Archie created excitement enough by
bursting upon the quiet life of the
school astride prancing. dappled pony.
His coming had been heralded in adj
vance, of course, by colorful press no
tices. But the Chao-chu of the earlier
day aroused even a greater commotion
among the children by dropping un-
expectedly into their midst, some 80
| years ago, an apparition in silken coat
and trousers of Oriental design.
Crowds of children hurrylng for the
| 9 O'Clock bell halted in their astOniSh-
ment as their alert eyes saw strange
group comprising the diminutive
Chinese boy and his distinguished faith
er and mother. who we're inquiring their
way to the third-grade classroom on
the main floor.
Minister WI, of course, was rather
familiar figure to many of the young
sters who lived in the neighborhood
of the Chinese legation, just around the
corner at Eighteenth and @ streets.
His picture constantly appeared in the
papers with interesting bits of per-
sonal comment Nine. Chu and their
young son, however, were practically
strangers.
AS one of the 40 or more pupils
in the third grade who gaped in Curl
osity as the Chinese boy was assigned
a desk in their midst, the writer still
eventful day. 1t took only minute
before the o'clock bell rang obedience
to its orders for Chao-chuS newly ac-
quired classmates to discover he spoke
English as well as most of them. IT
was a discovery second in Importance
to the thick braid of black hair that
hung as low as his waist.
From their seats in front of the
class, the Minister and Nine WI
beamed in ecstasy upon the young faces
turned toward them. Minister WI, as
frequently demonstrated later during
his sons entire public school course
took an active interest in everything
Nothing seemed to escape his Unsuitable
curiosity, and the teacher was kept
busy answering his questions and keep
ing strict eye on her class at the
, same time.
, When they finally departed 40 pairs
| / of eyes instantly focused their atten-
. ton upon the strange foreign youth
, in their midst. Friendllness and per-
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she saw the boys pounce upon Chao-
apply himself to his daily tasks at the
Force School. Upon returning home,
Miss Pattison said, he would study for
two hours during the afternoon with a
private tutor. Then, after dinner ne
attended a class at the Emerson 1nst1-
tute and prepared his home work for
the next day upon his return home. Ex-
cept for the fact that he was inspired
with zeal for getting ahead, she said,
it is difficult to understand how grow
ing child could stand such a rigorous
schedule. But he was never sick.
MINISTER WI was anxious for his
ANAson to understand his native tongue
at least as we'll as he did English. Ex-
cept from his own mother and father
and the legation household, Chao-chu
had grown up in Occidental surround
ings, hearing very little Chinese spoken.
During long years as diplomat In for
eign countries, Minister WI himself Sald
he found himself at a slight disadvan-
tage in speaking Chinese language. So
in the afternoons he required Chao-cnu
to devote his spare time to mastering
the intricacies of an alphabet contain
ing thousands of symbols, converstng IN
Chinese and studying its ancient htera-
ture. This was followed up by Chinese
history and literature.
When Cnao-chu skipped" the eighth
grade and entered Western High School,
Miss Edith Wescott then was principal.
There are still several teachers at West
ern who remember him as pupil. DR..
Elmer S. Newton, the present principal,
was then a teacher of chemistry. An
other who remembers him Is Miss N. j..
Mcknight. With an enrolment Of only
$50 at Western In those days. Chao-chu
was drawn into close intimacy with
teachers and students.
According to Miss Pattison. Chao-chu
didn't appear to take more than an
impersonal interest in any OF the pretty
American girls with whom he came IN
daily contact. HE was too bashful,
she said.
But there was one young girl at West
ern High, girl with real personality
and golden voice, with whom he be-
came friendly. Her name was Geral-
dine Farrar and her remarkable voice.
heard for the first time in public on
the school stage. appeared to be the
main attraction for the Chinese youth.
From Western High Geraldine Farrar
In later years scared to the heights Of
operate fame, a star Of the Metropoli-
tan Co.
Geraldine Farrar was protege of
Principal WeScott with whom she made
her home while engaged In vocal studies
in Washington. She was not regu-
larly enrolled student at the high school,
but DR.. Newton said she came there
every day for a year or two and took"
French and some other subjects. Her
father was retired "big league" ball
player.
While at Western Miss Farrar fire.
quently took part in the school enter
tainments, her voice then giving prom
ise of the honors heaped upon her later
on the operate stage. 1t was then that
she wrote q piece Of music, q march,
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haps very, very homesick, he sat quietly
at his little desk, short, stocky figure
of a boy about 10 years old, whose
black, slanting eyes peered wonder
ingly. a little timidly, from behind a
pair of spectacles. One or two of the
more daring whispered slyly to him
when the teachers back was turned,
but the youthful Chinese sat straight
in his chair, looking ahead.
Every ear in the classroom was
cooked for the 10 o'clock recess bell,
which held promise of probing further
into this new and novel human equa-
ton. When the bell finally rang It's
respite they could hardly restrain them
selves.
Chao-chu solemnly followed the line
into the cloakroom and singled out his
own little black silk toque, which had
been hastily replaced on its hook by
prying hands.
For the friendlesS youth those 10
minutes must have dragged out for
hours. outside, on the sidewalk in
front of the building he paced alone.
It was then that his first real troubles
began. A chorus of taunting voices
took up familiarly obnoxious chant.
And 1t was then, too, that his young
tormentors learned that Chao-chu had
not failed to acquire at least one
typical, outstanding American trait.
The line formed, not to the right
or the left, but to the rear of the
Chinese boy. There was a smothered
litter as grimy hand reached out to
grasp firmly the end of Chao-chu's
neatly braided queue.
"Dingdong," piped up young
| peared to ignore the first offenSe. But
with second and third he turned
quickly on his tormentors. A silk
inclosed arm struck out manfully, push
ing away the offending culprit, while
the other youngsters laughed merrily.
1t was great sport! Then the bell
saved Chao-chu from the need of fur
ther defensive tactics
The next morning Chao-chu appeared
bright and early at his newly acquired
desk. He had tucked his queue pro-
tectingly back of the collar of his
| Jacket There was just an inch or so
peering below his waist. Those who
| had been the cause of 1t appeared rather
shame faced.
Such, as nearly as one can remember,
was Chao-chus initiation to the Wash
ington public schools. He was not
destined to remain long in the third
| grade. In less than year he had left
| his plodding American classmates far
behind, for he was jumped to the sixth
grade.
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eliminating in that masterpiece of
I'LL IL

eliminating in that masterpiece of
generalship, the battle of Chancellors-
vile. His ragged, hungry veterans were
given rest during May in 1868, a
much deserved and needed period Of
relaxation and reorganization, for jack
son, that mighty arm of war, was no
longer in their midst
AS June drew on, with the incompe-
tent Hooker still in command of the
Union forces, Lee started North through
the Shenandoah Valley leaving Stuart
and 10000 cavalrymen to block Hooker's
pursuit of him, his objective being Har-
risburg and Philadelphia, for he planned
to win smashing victory on Northern
ground to Offset the effect of the In
evitable fall of Vicksburg, and to close
the vaults of the Northern bankers tc
the Federal Government. Such VIC
tory would end the war, so depressed
was the North under its continuous re-
verses in the field.
The dependable Stuart did not pre-
vent pursuit, and Hooker, with his un-
enthusiastic troops, listleSs from toe
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great Lincoln, are eternal now, and his
last immortal sentence, government of
the people, by the people, and for the
people," has become the challenge to
the twentieth century around the
globe.
But Lincoln, sitting there among
those war-scarred, quiet hills, could not
know that he had spoken, not to a
throng in famous village, but to a
listening world.
Not only does this Memorial day
give us back our Eircoln and his
matchless dedicatory hymn, but it re-
news the poignant story of that most
tremendous battle ever waged within
our borders. The story mounts to its
climax like sheer drama, the turning
point of as magnificent a. struggle as
ever master dramatist portrayed in
imaginative action.
Lee, the master mind, aided by Jack
SON, the master executive of plans, had
outwitted and outfought general after
general who led the Army of the Po-
tomac from one disaster to another,
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many failures, followed after Lee, keep
ing the Blue Ridge between them that
he might the more surely cover both
Washington and Baltimore from cap
ture by the Confederates. Asking for
the inactive troops at Harpers Ferry.
he was curtly refused by Hallock. He
promptly resigned, much to the salts
faction of every one save Lincoln
Meade was given the command of the
Army. The men and officers liked him,
and he was promised freedom from
supervision from Washington I'm
sought, the inactive troops were added
to his forces.
Lees men we're slightly in advance of
Meade's. Each army sensed that a
great struggle was imminent, and each
was seeking out the other. but neither
knew where the stand would be made,
for both generals were ignorant of the
terrain through which they were pass
ing. Lees men we're ever in need of
shoes. A brigade from Hills corps,
lying north of the little town of Gettys-
burg heard that there was a supply of
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Clever Chinese Leader Comes Back to City of His School Day

which she dedicated to Company H OF
the cadet CORPS DR.. Newton says ne
doesn't recall what became Of the man
uscript' but he remembers having heard
it played on several occasions.
WITH his fathers belief in physical
w development. Chao-chu shouldered
rifle in the ranks of Company II.
uniform of blue. When he left the
Force School it seems that he returned
to the habit of keeping his queue out
side his coat collar. DR.. Newton re-
members that 1t caused a problem to
the young cadet officers. who didn't
think Chao-chu was very military look
ing' with a queue dangling down his
back. He soon solved that problem
himself, however, by tucking 1t again
behind his collar.
At Western the Chinese youth dis
played remarkable brilliancy In studies.
as he did at the Force School. But he
had his problems.
HE was fine at memory" said DR.
Newton, but mathematics was his
toughest subject.
"Once the class was given an algebra
problem. rather simple thing: x
equals the speed of an express train
and Y of a freight train. Find the
speed of each.
Chao-chu held up his hand excitedly
before any one else, DR.. Newton relates.
II got itl" he exclaimed. And then
added, only the freight train Is faster
than the. express!"
Leaving Western after about two
years, the youth left Washington, never
to return. He entered the Atlantic CITY
High School, where he was graduated.
When his father was transferred from
the United States the son was sent to
England to complete his education and
prepare for the bar. He graduated
from the University of London and Lin
coins Inn.
DR.. WI returned to China in 1901.
He at once began to demonstrate in
public affairs the courage and determi-
nation he displayed in early youth. A
SOUND lawyer, convincing orator, he
quickly assumed a leadership in the
affairs of government.
He was appointed one of the plen!-
potentiary delegates to the Washington
Arms Conference In 1922, but, with
characteristic frankness, declined to ac-
cept the post, because he lacked synl-
pathy with the policies Of the Peking
government.
With the injection of the new Jara-
nese crisis into the affairs of China.
DR.. Wu at once made plans to come
direct to Washington to confer with
Secretary Kellogg and place the Shan
tung issue before the American public.
The tremendous issues involved
affect the Americans only slightly less
than the Chinese" he is quoted as say
ing. 1T is necessary therefore, that
America decide what action, If any,
should be taken.
"Japan's dispatch of large military
forces into Shantung and occupation Of
the strategic province is obviously a
violation of the treaties signed in WASH
ington in 1922" he declared.
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boots in that quiet hamlet, whose
founder. back in 1880, had been John
Gettys, and whose population on that
last day of June numbered less than
1000.
Wheeling back to the village, whose
farmer folk were busy with their simple
field tasks, this group of men In gray
ran into brigade Of men in blue who
we're after those same shoes. A clash
resulted, and the stage for the great
drama was selected by this trifling Incl
dent of the requisition of shoes. Is 1t
the hand of destiny that reaches out in
crises to keep a people from defeating
its own true purpose by its own cum
ming? How else explain these Specks of
dust that turn worlds from their orbits?
The unplanned, the Observation-Disclosures
are the sculptor fingers that fashion to
their fancy the major events in history.
X X X
FROM the hour of this first clash
of arms there proceeded hurried
concentration of troops by both COM
nanders, for their forces lay spread
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out over miles of territory, centering in
Gettysburg. This closing up of ranks
went on for the whole three days of the
battle, making no one map adequate to
show the positions of the different divi-
sions The best general explanation
under the circumstances, therefore, is to
picture the formation of the Union
forces as shaped along the lines of a
flshhook. the barb bent back from the
center that lay along the shank. with
that barb eliminating in the rocky
terminous of the ridge after known as
Cups Hill.
If Lee had his Longstreet whose un-
questioned ability was marred by
strange determination to delay action,
Meade had his Sickles, who on this
second day had advanced SO far be-
yond the line of defense determined on
by his commander that he left Little
Round Top unprotected, an unguarded
link in the chain of defense. Twice the
magnificent daring of the Confederates
carried their colors to the summit. Had
they held that height the final chapter
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of that struggle at Gettysburg would
have had a different ending.
Tin1bered heavily and covered with
huge boulders, this abrupt rise OF
ground for three days was the scene
of the hottest fighting, for the curvir1g
line of Lees men literally hanked this
hill, which the Federals were compelled
to hold or else surrender their whole
position.
It was from Culps Hill, on July Q,
that Johnson's division of Evelps corps
drove the Union forces from their
trenches, not knowing that at close
range lay their unprotected artillery
reserves and supply trains. Had these
been destroyed, the battle would have
had a different ending. At dawn on
July 3 the I'd Massachusetts, and the
goth Indiana tried to evacuate john
son. They went down like grain before
a mower. After seven terrible hours OF
this struggle, Culps Hill was surren-
dered by the Confederates. 1t was the
end of flank attacks by the men OF the
South, for they won at too great
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BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

UN H, BUT Chao-chu was one
~ fine boy!" Miss Blanche
. l.. Pattison, one of WASH
~ ington's best known pub
lie school teachers, with a
record of so years In the classroom, put
aside her evening newspaper with a
bright smile of anticipation.
The item evoking this exclamation
tol6 that DR.. G. c. WI, brilliant Nation
elist leader of China, who recently re-
signed as foreign minister, has come to
Washington as a special envoy of the
Marking government, to plead for
American Intervention in the newly
arisen crisis with Japan His mission
here is to place before the State De-
partment and the American people the
entire Shantung situation, which
threatens to embroil the great powers
In another Chinese war.
Before Miss Pattison's eyes arose a
mental picture she has viSualized fire.
ouently during many years. The vision
was that of timid Chinese youth, with
a consuming thirst for knowledge, who
sat conspicuous in a quaint Oriental
pa jama-coat" before her own teacher
desk in the seventh-grade room of the
old Force School on Massachusetts, ave-
nue.. Tucked beneath the collar of his
jacket, safe from nischieyous hands, a
beribboned pigtail peeped temptingly
of the class, this interesting chap an
swered generally to the name of
"Pickles"
For the Or. C. C. WI, whose name
has figured so prominently in the civil
strife that has divided China in recent
years, is the same WI Chaoschu OF
Force School days, the son of the
famous DR.. WI Ting-fang, former Min
lister to Washington, now grown to full
manhood and position of influence in
the Orient.
Accompanying him when he lef
China on his foreign mission, which
has taken in the capitals of Europe tn,
last few months, was Sun-Fo, former
finance minister A son of the late DR.
Sun Yat-Sen, founder and first presi
dent of the Chinese republic. Sun-FC
also was educated in the United States
being a graduate of Columbia Univer
sity.
When Dr. WI headed westward,
was to return for the first time, afte
scenes of his boyhood days in Wash
ington Passing UP Pennsylvania ave
nue. there probably flashed through
his mind, too, memory of that Marcl
4, in 1901, when as cadet of Com
pany H of Western High School, h
marched in the inaugural parade o
President Mckinley. A Representative
of the oldest and most absolute form
of monarchicsl government, he salute
in common with American youths, tn
/. Chief Executive of the freest democracy
DR.. Wu will find here only few Q
his former school friends among tn
ever-shifting population of Washington
men and women who once attende
classes at the Force School and late
OF western High where he spent tW
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In those first days of his school Ca
reer Chao-chu had won not only the re-
spect but the friendship of his youthful
classmates, by his good nature and dem
ocratic manner. With a quick percep-
ton they had discovered that beneath
that embroidered blouse there beat a
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regular boys heart-and a courageous
one at that. There is nothing like a
pair of fists to gain recognition in a
public-school playground. And Chao-
chu, the boys discovered, had sturdy
pair he wasn't loath to use when neces-
Sary,
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DR. c. c. W. Special Marking Arrives Mission
WashngtonWas Brilliant School and Western High
School When Father Was Minister.