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Show MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON By R. T. S. T (Copyright. 19 2 2. by The Standard- j Examiner). WASHINGTON. May 20. When Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania, lit-1 tie more than two years ago. Invited Glfford I'inrhot Into his cabinet as forester ho little thought he was bringing bring-ing upon the screen of renewed public attention a man who in 1922 was destined de-stined to turn the Republican machine upside down. The story goes that Plnchot was invited in-vited Into the Sproul cabinet largely because he was doing su much criticising criti-cising from the outside. He was at-tackirg at-tackirg the forestry policy o the gov-erw4 gov-erw4 felt thai the best way to satisfy satis-fy vxiehot was to ask him to com In and "do the Job himself His appointment ap-pointment was announco.i at a dinner given by Governor Sproul to tho stale Judiciary at fiat risburg. Needless to say, G Plnchot made good He had studied trees In France. Switzerland. Germany and Austria long before ho became United Unit-ed States forester under Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Plnchot also learned a number of things in Harilsburg and he put this knowledge to good purpose pur-pose In his primary campaign. He told exactly how thing ware being done and announced that he would do exactly tho opposite. General Pershing Is a modest man. His modesty Is reflected In his uniform. uni-form. In contraM to the foreign officers of-ficers who have visited our shores General Pershing WSSXB but a single button decoration. Possessed of nearly all the honors that can be bestowed h? prefers to wear alone the distinguished service medal of his own I'nlted States. |