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Show Pershing Had but Gentle Rebuke for Doughboy From time to time there have been complaints about lack of discipline dis-cipline in the U. S. army. It is true that the American soldier always al-ways has been somewhat "difficult," "diffi-cult," but he is a good, courageous coura-geous fighter and it sometimes pays best not to be too regimental. This leads up to a story of one dark night in France during the last war when a doughboy stopped an officer and asked for a cigarette. ciga-rette. As he lit up, he recognized the officer, and gasped: "General Pershing!" The general smiled grimly. "Say, son, you took an awful chance," he said. "I might have been a second lieutenant." |