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Show IS OM HERE? AMCniCA'3 fUture GREAT COM MANDER PROBABLY, AMONQ NEW GENERALS. PROMOTIONS SEEM JUSTIFIED 4 - TT Personal1 Rsmlnlseerldes of Morrison, Slbert, Morton, Shinks, StUrgls, Bundy and Hale Their Carters Will Be Watched With Interest. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. Who's to be who In the urmy? Somen here In tho list of officers who were designated by the president for promotion recently probably Is the name of nn American llnlg, Joffre, I'vtiiln or Nlvelle. The American people will wntch tho careers of these general olllccrs of their army. There probably will be a peisomil Interest In them that was -shown by the people of Great Britain In their general oflleers during the first year of the hostilities In France. The British knew that commanders were to bo mode and unmade by the force of battle events. Your correspondent knows personally personal-ly many of these newly made major generals and brlgadlcj generals. With some of them he has a close personal friendship dntlng back to West Point days. Several of the men soon to see herlco In France were classmates of mine nnd n majority of those named were students at the academy during the time of my endetshtp. New Generals Have Fine Records. There Is perhaps not one of tho newly new-ly appointed general olllcers whose army record does not give Justification for his advancement. Opinions on this, of course, will differ in the army, but In the main the list Is one which shows more careful selection and nn avoidance of that army devil, favoritism. favorit-ism. ';... ( .rn )PW tnnlnr generals of the i .: In P. Moi-i-lson, William L. !'. In .t : 'id CI . rles (i. Morton, nil were nt the i "! . tn"iher, although no two of (i. nted In the same j ear. . . nil '81 man, Mor ton an .; luiiti ami Slbert nn '84 man. Let us take them In the order of rank. John K. Morrison w known nt the academy ns "Iinhe," not because he was babyish, but because ho was small of stature, u characteristic of physique whlrh has not changed with the years except a little laterally. MnJ. (len. Wllllnm L. Slbert was a classmate of mine nt tho Military n'eademy, and for years hu has been one of my closest personal friends. Slbert, because of his size, iin known as "Goliath." So soon, side by side on the battle front of Frunee, will appear two American major generals who received re-ceived their cadet nlvknnmes for diametrically dia-metrically opposite physical reasons. ' As ii cadet Slbert stuck to n Job until un-til ho finished It, and It made little difference dif-ference what It was. He was pertinacity perti-nacity In per.um and ho was one of tho most brilliant students the academy acad-emy ever had known. One of the reasons rea-sons probably why Slbert wns promoted pro-moted over the heads of other oftlcers was the knowledge of the officials of the war department that he had been Insistent from the beginning of his career in putting Into Instant operation tho things that he had learned. MnJ. Gen. Charles G. Morton, who has received his promotion with Morrison Mor-rison and Slbert, had a nickname at the academy, which was dropped as soon as his young Irresponsible classmates class-mates graduated. Morton was known as "Beak," for, with the usual way of youth, which Is not always kindly, although al-though probably meanlug so to be, Morton was given the nuine because he lind, and doubtless still has, a big "nose. Morton a Hard Student For years Charles G. Morton has been more or less of a marked man la the army because of his constant and hard study of army prdhlems. Of the 18 colonels who were promoted pro-moted to be brigadier generuls two were classmates of mliie at the academy acad-emy David C. Shanks and Samuel D. Sturgls. Shanks Is n Virginian. He Is an upstanding mountaineer. I can see his face and his tow head today as they appeared on the day of his reporting report-ing at the Military academy In the year 18&0. Shanks Is one of the army's favorites. Ho was popular as a cadet ami there Is every evidence of his popularity pop-ularity in tho army. Brig. Gen. Sumuel D. Sturgls Is a son of General Sturgls of Chll war fame, who, after tho war, commanded the Seventh cavalry. One of Samuel Sturgls' bAithers was killed under Custer Cus-ter In July, 1870, In tho fight with tho Sioux. Sturgls Is nn artilleryman, young-looking und a man of extraordinary extraor-dinary vigor. Omar Bundy of tho class of '83, who has Just been made a brigadier general, distinguished himself In the Philippines, particularly In the tight at the Crater. Bundy Is "for from tall," belnt of a stocky and yet wiry construction. con-struction. If the cadets In his day hnd been as familiar as they should hav been, pel haps, with certain lines of poetic endeavor, Bundy might have acquired ac-quired some other ulcknnmo than the one which was given him, but the cadets knew lltle of Omar or of tho annexed surname, nnd so Bundy wus dubbed "Blje," und toduy ho Is still "Illje." Harry C. Hale, now a brtgudler general, gen-eral, has tho brightest pair of eyes that the army possesses. Halo's ejcs.lf sparkle means anything in tho wny ol piercing quality, can look through Ruuk of ft battery. |
