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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 86, 6 January 1919, Page 6

GENERAL PERSHING'S EARLY LIFE « — : There never was a soldier more deserving of honour than tho American Commander-in-Chief. He is. not only a great military leader; he is a great man. Bravo, devoted, iviso, modest, unelfisli, firm, he is tho soul of honour—a fine, clean American gentleman Liko . Lincoln, he is sprung from the plain people, having been born on a humble Missouri fairm. In Indian warfare, ,in tho Philippines, and oir (ho Mexican bonier, he has proved his mettle. "I knew him simply as a quiet, studious young man," says one of his old-time friends.- "I never hoard of any petty tricks done by John Pershing. Tho impression he made here was. that John Pershing would make his mark in the world-as a professional or business man. His mother ' and father were strict church people—he grew up a Methodist. Ho had a new home, ju6t finished at Port Bliss, all ready for his family. lie had planned to go up to California after them the very next week —wlien the terrible news came that his wife and three littlo girls wero" burned to death at the Presido. That' was in 1915."