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Show UNSPOILED BY HIGH HONOR Officers and Men Alike Recognize in General Pershing Qualities That Compel Their Affection. "Why do we swear by Pershing?" countered a staff officer in Washington one day in response to a question. "Wen, I guess it's because he's the Teal thing a regular American, if you know what I mean. "You can easily figure out the sort of man he is by the stories they tell Of him. I was with him when he was on his way to Washington to receive litis orders for France. On the way, we passed through the town in which he lived when he was a boy. On the station platform was the same old ne-;gro ne-;gro porter Pershing had thrown stones at In his boyhood. The general chatted with the old man. Afterward I asked ask-ed the porter what happened. He -said : " 'He done wanted ter know all 'bout the folks he uster know7, an' when he was gettin' on the car again be picked up a pebble as big as my thumb an' hove it at me, jes like he uster when he was an ornery kid.' " |