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High Among' the Saints New Chief of Staff Named STERLING GALT,EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ESTABLISHED OM A QUARTER OF A (ENTURY TERMS-81.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE VOL. xxxix EMIVITT4 unG-. :0,1A_ITY1,_A=Is_:4-17). FRIDAY, M_A_RCII 15. 1918 NO. 48 HIGH AMONG' NEW CHIEF OF THE SAINTS STAFF NAMED I SPENT A USEFUL LIFE MARCH IS TIRELESS Works Won Him Position Wide Experience In Field of Eminence. and Office. PLACE OF BIRTH MATTERS LITTLE PERSHING'S OWN SELECTION Certain He Was a True Irishman and Controlled First American Artillery In Accomplished Much for the Welfare France and Placed It High Above of the Race During His Stay the Standard In a Very Short on the Isle. Time. NE of the reasons why St. Major General Peyton C. March, Patrick is such a favorite the who was a colonel of artillery a year world over is that he was so ago and who is the acting chief of 0very human. He hadn't much staff of all the American armies today of a chance when a boy, but he made has tackled his problems in Washing- the best of what he had. If he had not ton in the same way he tackled he would have been a hogherd all the his work in France Placed in control of days of his life. He was a slave, in all the American artillery in France very truth, being bound to a pagan hog when he arrived there last summer raiser in Britain. with a brigade without guns and with- From all that can be learned con- out horses, and ordered to have all the cerning the life and works of St. Pat- artillery ready for active service with rick, he was a good man, and spent his in two months, he stripped for action life going about doing good for his fel- c"%alaaiiiPata. ••••:.M.:• lows. and within the time given him had the As you know, a good man is more artillery in better condition than was highly respected, more beloved and ex- most of the infantry which had eight erts a greater influence for good in additional weeks of training. His ac- the community in which he is known complishment, which won the unstinted than even the wealthiest, the most praise of General Pershing and General powerful or most favored. He may not Petain, the French commander-in-chief, wear purple and fine linen, nor fare was made possible only by his working sumptuously, but he is making the day in and day out from dawn until world is, therefore, truly, better and midnight and by making his officers and and in the highest sense, a son of God. men work the same hours. As he There are numerous stories and leg- labored in France, so is he laboring ends concerning St. Patrick, some of which may be true. But it matters in Washington. A hard worker him- little whether he was a Milesian born self, he expects all men about him to In Spain, or a son of a poor swine- work as hard. "Unfinished business" herd of the green isle. is unknowned in his office. No question The history of the world shows that brought to his attention is permitted to the mere circumstances of birth cuts go over until tomorrow; it is settled the very small figure in the matter of real day it comes up. He is setting a pace greatness. From earliest times the which already is tiring the incompetent men who have figured most promi- and which may soon result in the dead- nently in world movements for the bet- wood being replaced by the efficient terment of mankind have been of humble origin. UnquestionAbly, General March has '4o made a good impression in the short We of the present day can hardly time he has been in been in charge at conceive of the conditions existing in the British islands in his day. the War Department. While it is en- The native Celts were heathen and tirely too early to say that he will be a brutish, and had no higher ambition successful Chief of Staff, it can be than to exist, unless it was to rob said that he has some of the essential 'neighboring tribes of their cattle, hogs qualifications. He has had wide experi- and fair women. Physically they were ence in the field—in the Philippines, in strong, vigorous and emotional, and 1 Mexico and in France. He has had of good nature, wit and so- Possessed valuable executive experience, having cial feeling in a marked degree as com- served in the first General staff and in the pared with the inhabitants of other I cannot write of Ireland's hills as I A little lilt o' laughip' and a little office of the Adjutant General. A (Iasi- Islands. She stood beside the low stone wall Noting this, St. Patrick must have would write today, . lilt o' song— ity still to be determined is whether he and sent her laughing call— concluded there was something here to For I am here and Ireland's there, And she is half the world away and is diplomatic for not only must he work work seeing The mocking bird I hold so dear with civilians and military on, something good; and full half the world away; all the days are long! officers, but this he took it as his command to as- can't call like that, at all! he must be able to get along with Con- !And Ireland's lakes are em'rald No love is like the love that swellS sist in the development of the social For there was a bit of honey and a gress. Many an able Army officer has disposition and good feelings of these green and 'round her the within the Irish heart! failed by quarreling with congressmen people. bit of laughter, too, green seas, Her heart's with me, my heart's witk. and senators. If he is a diplomat it is He therefore became one of them, A-singin' in the call and, oh, her And I can't hear the colleen's call her, however far apart! possible that he will develop into the lived with them, won their confidence eyes were Irish blue— lilt on the Irish breeze And sometimes in the night I hear leader which the War Department has and commanded their respect. In or- Her eyes are Irish blue, and, oh, I 'der leader The way it lilted to me, and I cannot her call and call and cgll, needed so badly ever since the war be- that he might be an efficient know they watch for me he occasionally went abroad and see the downs, And sleep has gone from te and gan. All who have seen him in action Until the golden sun has sunk into studied under the fathers of the church, 2Vor see the peat smoke rising from won't come back at all, at all! and who have talked with him for religion is most powerful to con- the western sea! declare he is "a live the chimneys of the towns. And she is standin'- on the hills and wire." He has a trol the feelings and change the aspi- And then I know she sends her call way of getting a result desired. There rations The colleen's call and the high hills lookin' far away— of men. —and then she turns away— is no telling, what the future may pro- No matter what he may have been are half the world away, And, oh, my heart is like to break And my heart will break in my breast duce, but until now he has accomplish- born, he was a true Irishman. 4nd my heart will break in my breast when comes St. Patrick's when comes St. Patrick's Day. ed what he desired to accomplish and It is not the mere Tillman creature when comes St. Patrick's Day. _Day! still has kept the friendship of all. that but the accomplishes great things, General March has an knack of get- man within the machine. It was not ting results since his early days in the the figure seen by the people that com- ST. PATRICK PAID HIS WAY .:,., HAVE ALWAYS FREELY GIVEN manded their admiration, for he was Army, according to stories told by his intimate friends. He served with not an Apollo, nor was it the familiar In His "Confessions" He Tells of His FROM ALL. Openhandedness a Characteristic of Alga:: distinction in the form bearing a shepherd's crook that Custom—Never Asked for the Irish Race Wherever Philippines, first with brought these rough, untutored men to Contributions. 4-ilifitis I, it i,fil They Have Settled. the Astor battalion and later with the their knees and inspired them with 33rd. United States Infantry. As a /4-4.1. f 11111 worahipful feelings; nor was it the Always chary of "sending round the tsi 1. saw, - The following sentences are quoted major of the latter organization he was venerable father that aroused the bililiWIVIIOniltgatt COMPASS from plate," Patrick paid his own way itiprinics!!::, _ insnit ,g "The Old World in the New" ordered to "clean up" northern Luzon Spark of crude love in their hearts and (1914), by through the Green Isle, as he emphat- 11 114,:ijorlit t Edward Alsworth Ross, pro- and this he did, overcoming all obstacles. ripened it until it became a controlling ilivirtire41451 ically relates in his "Confessions." fessor of sociology in the University But up to the time the United States Influence of their lives.
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