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Show aajjj bbh ucj ! A PLACE FOR ! PERSHING, wl Describing the present position of '.cneral Pershing as head ot the army, Mark PulliTnn says ; "General Tershing ? friends' think ho I cannot be whoUy happy in his present H situation He is the general of the 9 United Si ales army This is a unique honor. It carries the privilege of four 'daj stars on his epaulets and other similar bbH lH dignities In a sense, the position fl Cf makes him above the army and away Lei trom It. and an Institution all to him ! self. He can wear any uniform he I pleases. He Is the only soldier who Lei iff ;an wear a Sain Browne belt. He can M go his way and the army runs along without much inference to him But J S therein lies the drawback for General I Pershing's temperament. The position aaB l3 ' ari of the army carries too Lei much dignity and too little power vr) The office more or less puts the hold- er of it on a shelf. It luporannuaies i him before his time." H It bus been suggested 'bat the laws ?K should be chanced to make Geueral Pershing chief of staff of the anny soj he may have active command. Friends of the general have been urging President Harding I o name the distinguished officer anibassndor to Prance, No man that we might send to Paris would have the commanding inlluence of General Pershing, for be was the soldier who brought to France and the people of thai nation in their darkest houi the mess-use of cheer Which bid them bat He on and final win a great victory. |