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Show DICKINSON GETS A MEDAL Secretary of War Is Rewarded for Saving the Life of a Detroit Lawyer. Washington. An almost forgotten incident in which Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson heroically rescued res-cued James F. Joy, a Detroit lawyer, from the Detroit river 14 years ago, was recalled when a handsome solid gold medal, suspended from a ribbon held in the beak of an American eagle was presented to Mr. Dickinson on behalf of the United States government. gov-ernment. The medal, approved by President Taft before his departure on his trip and commemorating the courage of Secretary of War Dickinson. the war secretary in saving the life of a fellow man, was presented by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hilles. "In testimony of heroic deeds in saving lives" read the inscription on the medal, which also bore a laurel held aloft by a woman. Touched deeply by the unexpected recognition of his act, the secretary of war, with characteristic modesty, merely said: "I did not have much time to consider con-sider what was best to be done when Joy fell into the river and if I had I might have done what Rip Van Winkle told his wife Gretchen he would do in case she fell into the water, wa-ter, 'Go home and think it over.' " He added that he did not know he had done anything remarkable. Dickinson probably owes his seat in President Taft's cabinet as secretary secre-tary of war to the act of heroism. |