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Show General Demands No Salute When Without ; Mis Clothing; CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 1 20. Recently officers of the 13th Di- ' i vision training here were ordered to 1 report for physical examinations to 1 determine their fitness for overseas duty. Like enlisted men they wore compelled to remove all their cloth- 1 Ing. Into the large room where several 1 medical officers were examining the divisional leaders came Brig. Gen. I Cornelius Vanderbullt of tho 25th In- I fan try brigade. As an officer present expressed It "he was clad only ln his ( Van Dyke and a smile." The general ' wears whiskers. I Now when a general enters a room 7 the occupants must come to attention, I which Is called usually by the first ( person to see him. When Goneral Van- 1 derbilt entered a captain called "at- f tentlon." "At rest, gentlemen," answered General Vanderbllt. "We are all the same here and you can see I am not 1 wearing the insignia of a general." i In many matters such as this, ac- t cording to officers here, General Van- derbilt has won tho reputation of being ono of the most democratic generals 1 yet stationed here. |