Show If It Is Signed Henry P. P McCain i i. i It Is Bad Tidings From the F Front r nt r t I Ii 3 r n i 0 I II I I 1 I I C 0 n I IGI r w Henry Hanry P. P McCain adjutant general gene of the army I m i Adjutant General of Army Is Bearer Bearer Is of Sad News vs to Friends Friend of f Loved I Ones Dries Over There I t Special 1 1 W WASHINGTON March Marcel 1 Before 19 Before the war has gone golie gope very much m ch f farther h along the nation will mill m know now Major G General Gen Gen- rl I eral ertl Henry P P. l Ic McCain aln as al th the foremost bearer of grief Jn In the country Isis Ills I I. I signature will be the sign of woe to tomother tomother tomother mother wife sweetheart 1 j jAll I All official messages which will go got I I i out notifying next of kin of the I death wounding or capture o of our oui i in battle will be signed Henry P P. l McCain ln adjutant general I of the army anny More than such messages messages mes mes- mes-I mes I 1 sages were sent out by Adjutant McCain McCain McCain Mc Mc- Cain recently when the Tuscania was sunk The They will be going out by toy the i I thousands when the Germans and the I 1 clash in the bigger battles to i come Right now more than a score of I j I messages go dally daily from his desk to i I strike gloom into the households where I Ithe I the boys of Pershing's forces were I wort want to bring joy Vh What t sort of a man is this thi man I I I whose lot it is to impart grief Brief and andl I j sorrow sorrow wholesale By one of the freaks of war he is one of the most kindly kindly- i j I feeling humane tender hearted officers officers cers in the service l This story is told by his comrades of McCain McCaln SHOWS HIS FEELINGS I I A group group of newspaper correspondents correspond correspond- were in Secretary I Dal Eakers allers ers er's office recently when General McCain McCaln agile I i erect and with the marked bearing of in I fl H p enl r 11 1 I r 41 M tl tei ti-i-F-n ti n I P I bowed as as' as usual and stood waiting to toi IL t I L have a word with the the- secretary se It is I cUstomary to see Rim bim film fi i l the secre secretary's rys ry's outer office but his I at-I presence on an this occasion somehow at attracted attracted at- at particular notice the matter with McCain somebody whispered 1 It was manifest that he was laborIng laboring labor- labor ing under stress tress It was noted that his eyes glistened when he looked i 1 r after a word with one of I i Bakers Baker's assistants As the secretary was engaged the general did pot not wait waitto I to see him He had hardly left the I room when the news spread about that I J lieutenant March son of Major General GenerI Gener Gener- I I al March the new chief of ot staff had i i died of injuries following an airplane I accident in Texas i i That was the uncontrollable human i I i element In General McCain McCains s makeup that pave gave the first intimation tion that something serious had happened when the Tuscania went weN down He lie brought the message to Secretary Baker late in the afternoon BAKER IS UNMOVED There was no change in Secretary Bakers Baker's denie demeanor demean nor when he read that more than 1000 American soldiers were were missing from the Tuscania and later Secretary Daniels read the news with I the same sarno Imperturbability which it was necessary at the time to assume But Put General McCain did not succeed in disguising his feelings at all It was II obvious that something had happened and th tint t it its t had hoen boen in the thel heart nature 0 of d shock hock to sen sensitive sensitive heartstring heartstrings heart heart- I J strings string I It i t In Ir f t the fee the A l nt his off adjutant maintains l s I an am open door policy No visitor is Js' Js ever eve turned away cards are are almost unknown unknown un un- known and arid there Is no out outer r office In which visitors cool their heels un I No m matter how busy he may may be the negro usher outside his office will always take visitors in and the adjutant will sit and listen It Jt may be an aged man I I whose son In Trance France has not written to him for months He lie is worried about I his boy John He tells McCain what a fine boy John was how he worked I his way through school and always I wanted to be a IJ soldier Johns John's grandfather grandfather grand- grand father fought in the Civil war Naturally Nat Nat- I Nat mally this leads up to questions of oft family tory which the visitor tens tells tells I General General McCain just as he has told others hundred hundred of f times HE IS NEVER BORED The listens attentively He Ht knows vs all the time that he Is going to refer the visitor to the officer in I charge of ot the mail mall and personnel of I the American troops in ill France Trance and take steps to relieve the fathers father's anxiety But But there is not a sign of Impatience impatience im Im- patience or boredom in the adjutants adjutant's manner nann r And the n of It Is that he has not been bored The next visitor is a ar with a telegram from a constituent who is worried shout about a mysterious I message he hp ha has had from his ls boy bov I IThe I The family has another box of jamall jam all ready to go to the training camp campp I j when a letter comes romes saying Raying that the I boy Is Js well and happy b but bit lt is not at atthe atI at the came now and will write I later Its It's fixed ups up- j There seems to be hp an Idea that Geneal Gen Gm- I eat e McCains McCain's work is so wound about I i with red tape nod routine that all mattern matters mat- mat tern terR fire are decided In h prescribed forms formal I and that there Is little opportunity for for him to exercise individuality Such however is not the case None is better better better bet bet- 1 ter at cutting red tape than General McCain Major General McCain is a a. native of or I Mississippi and ana Is 57 years old ola 01 I I |