Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-10-13 | Page 12 | Pershing is Kept from Life of Teacher

PERSHING IS IS KEPT FROM LIFE OF TEACHER Brother Tells How Commander Commander Com Corn mander Thought of E Entering Army By Dy Special News Service CHICAGO Oct 13 General General Pershing Ing owes his position to a a. burglar James J. J Pershing Jacks brother Jim says sas the man who broke Into I his mothers mother's store In the little town of Laclede Mo in In the summer of ot 1882 I started the military career of or AmerIcas AmerIcas AmerIca's Americas America's Amer ica's most pOP popular lar major general Otherwise Oth John pershing would have ha been heen beena heena a school 1 teacher Jim Is clothing salesman for Milton Ochs 1 is Co 0 of or Cincinnati and lives here bere In Chicago We Ve ate ale slept fought and grew glew up to together ther says Jim Boys were few tew and things wert were quiet In our little home town so Johnny and JImmIe Pershing p their thel- way to manhood I together as all seldom doWhen doWhen doWhen do When he was 19 John attended tile normal school at llIe Mo 1 and had decided on a career career as school schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher to the delight of ot his mother I left lett Laclede for a railroad Job out West Vest and had been gone a weeK when father turned tho the little country country country coun coun- try store that supported the family over o to mother an and left for fOl St. St Louis Louison on a business trip trio trip I I on a business trip trio trip The night he left a burglar broke nto uto the store and dynamited the safe nearly frightening mother to death She telegraphed John to hurry back He lie was home again but a aa day when he happened to i ick ick up a a. local newspaper and read that there would be a competitive examination at Trenton Trenton Trenton Tren Tren- ton Mo for entrance to West Point Immediately he made up his mind to take the examination and stuck to tonis tonis nis determination In spite of ot the pleadings pleadings plead plead- lings ings of mother It was a happy day when the postman postman post post- man mall brought him a a. big important lookIng looking looking look look- ing letter from the government announcing announcing an an- he had passed the test and was wag eligible for Uncle Sams Sam's military mm- mm tary academy There has been considerable talk of or Jims Jim's Joining hi his famous brother in France rance Its really too earl early to say anything anything any any- t thing about my going to France he answered There Is one thing I am giad glad to talk about though It has been said this war might make a president and taut mat matman man may be be bemy my brother John Let me say John Is in France Francs to to give his all to the cause of ot the Stars and Stripes He Tie cares for nothing greater than the opportunity to do his best for his country as head of ot the i French expedition He Is ambitious I 1 Ionly only as a soldier I