Show HA ID RISE FOrt t-t t I Career CarCer H Has Hs s Shaugh Been een on the Upgrade Since nce He He W Was JS a Boy Doy DO S c Colonel Jonel my When he hens was ns In the he n career was was' wason sUS sUSon 1 H. H on the upgrade e. e Now ow that he has returned to civil civilS S life Ilfe and amI Joined Fidelity post of the A American m mI I I can ff Legion In NewYork New NewYork York city he Juts has has voluntarily tie tie- hi b himself I m in s e I 1 t f from a job to one which pays s a year Colonel Shaughn Shaugh Shaugh- Genera General General Gen Gen- Postmaster induced by n nessy nesy sy u was w-as as eral era Will WUI Bays to sacrifice his position position position tion as assistant director of the AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican Petroleum Institute New York cIty to become second assistant postmaster postmaster post post- master generalI general I understand youve you've taken a a year job ob said a correspondent Does Dues it pa pay that lie he asked Id forgotten to ask about the tile salary The salary is a minor consideration n now ow but it would have been different i in n the days das when Colonel worked as a messenger loy in In c Chi Chi- l- l cago ago c When he lie was 15 years old he became b ticket agent and a year later t telegraph operator for the Chicago Northwestern railroad Successively h he e Ya was wa chief operator assistant train d dispatcher assistant trainmaster and ald trainmaster t When the superintendent superintend superintend- e ent nt of the road was ill iii he took charge e. e Colonel joined tl the e Thirteenth engineers as first lieutenant when the war war broke out He stu studied led French until he spoke it fluently and worked up a book of rules adapting American methods to French practice He was promoted fast Praise came cameto cameo t to o him fro from Brig Gen George Van VanHorn VanHorn VanHorn Horn M Moseley Mos s ley assistant chief of staff f for or his work as superintendent of the t transportation corps In the Chateau Chateau- Thierry region and as general superIntendent superintendent super- super i at sur Is during the St. St Mihiel and d Meuse-Argonne Meuse offensives a and andas nd as general manager in the the- zone o of f advance S S General Pershing gave him the DIstInguIshed Distinguished Dis DIs- Service medal for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished S services |