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"Bj the -way, Watsons"- he re?| marked,,"! don't seem to have met: the artist, So-antJiso. I think hisj work has tieen excellent. Where is:' he?" '
. Major Watson said he would see if "lie eovld find him and went into; the* room Where So-and-so was snoring fitfully. It was not too gently that the editor shook the artist into wakefullness and assisted him to make himself as presentable as pos-j si hie'" in the circumstances.
It was a somewhat dazed and not very military-rappearing artist who was presented to Pershing. The. general shook him cordially by the hand and said some pleasing things about the splendid moral effect of So-and-so's work. "Of course," remarked the general, "you have been doing that sort o' thing for years, I suppose. You do it in civil life, don't you?"
"What do you. mean, general, drink or draw?"
The general's hearty laugh lasted for several minutes and put every one at his ease, including even the, by this time, much-perturbed editor, Major Watson.
The outstanding characteristic of General Pershing always has been his habit of recognizing merit and ability in subordinates and opening to them vistas of opportunity. There are many instances which prove the point.
At Pershing's headquarters in Mexico was a very efficient non-commissioned officer, Sergeant Major Michael F. O'Brien. At G. H. Q., A. E. F., O'Brien was a lieutenant colonel and assistant adjutant general
Pershing's adjutant general in Mexico and later his chief of staff there was Major John L. Hines, an infantry officer. Almost every member of the general's staff when he went overseas as A. E. F. commander had served with him in the Philippines . or Mexico. Hines, still major, accompanied him.
It was not long before Hines commanded a regiment in the line. Soon thereafter, as a colonel, he was given a brigade, attaining ere long, the titular rank of that command. Brigadier General Hines later led a division in action and, in the last months of hostilities, was a corps commander with the rank of major general.
It was Major General Hines whose
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