Show i lX Your erica EIa dC Da Day Day-by-Day a bY Day By C Clark 1 ark k K a 1 I e J f n c 3 J. J J e ei J r rP r r b B. B fi P 3 r raP i n a t i aP t II II I I t t l f fr u III 11 g o t I 0 l o o 1 o f 1 J G ll A lQ 71 O 0 ig 00 w F ti r I I Orb 00 oh I 0 i i t i A r o oryn g C YEARS AGO this month Timothy Pickering i left J was born in Salem Mass He wrote oneo one J o of f the most important books in our history andi and J i mado made history in several capacities As head of t Salem's militia in 1775 he realized prepared ill s i patriots were no match for wise battle-wise British f f r regulars Few colonial officers had hod any professional professional pro pro- I l training Pickering collected and andl I t studied European manuals of soldiery and became becom bet be be- came com schoolmaster for the colonial i iSi Si His An Easy Plan of DisciPline sc p line me for lor a Militia Milita which had such charts as the one above j 7 J was the basis of the training of soldiers who won the first victories in the Revolution He Ho was gen adjutant eral then quartermaster-general quartermaster of Washington's army As President 4 Washington appointed Pickering f Postmaster General Postmaster General Secretary of i ti War Secretary of State Stae As Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- II tary of War Pickering personally j E s P supervised the building of the first firste e r 1 i three frigates of the U U. U S S. S Navy Navy- 1 Constitution ion Constellation United I StoIcs States which Joshua Humphreys designed After leaving the Cabinet Cabinet Cabit Cabi Cabi- I t s r net he hit served in Congress from I p Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Massachusetts' At left Old drawing frai i 7 of a L- L United States in action l lI f I Text and ard presentation copyright 1952 Ring Features Syndicate Inar Inc Int r Ii 6 |