THE BEE: ' OMAHA', FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919.
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BOOSTERS' CLUB
LAUDS BEE FOR
FIGHT ONH. C. OF L.
West Side Organization Votes
Unanimously to Extend
Thanks to Paper for Ex
posing Profiteers.
The Weit Side Boosters voted
unanimously at their meeting Tues
day night to extend The Omaha Bee
a vote of thanks for the fight this
newspaper has been waging against
the high cost of living.
George S. Collins, president of the
club, acted as chairman of the( meet
ing, which was held in Fenton's hall,
and speeches were made by a score,
of members, lauding The Bee for ex
posures in connection with the prof
iteering demands of landlords At
tention also was called to The Bee's
protests against the high prices be
ing asked for foodstuffs and neces
sities. Clyde Fisher, secretary of the
club, was instructed to write a let
ter to The Bee expressing the or
ganization's appreciation for the pa
per's efforts in behalf of the public.
Among the requests for consider
ation on the part of the city admin
istration, the West Side Boosters
voted to demand that speeding in
Thirty-sixth south of Q street be
stopped. This matter, it was said,
will be taken up with Commissioner
Ringer, in the hope that he will in
struct his policemen to give the mat
ter better attention than they have
(lone in the past
The members of the city council
will be asked to cut the weeds in
the western part of the city, and to
furnish better park facilities.
Housemaid Threatened to Kill
Mrs. R. T. Byrne, Say Police
Following a threat by Ethel Kel
ly, house maid, to kill Mrs. Roy T.
Byrne, 410 South Thirty-ninth
street, wife of a department man
ager of Byrne-Hammer Dry Goods
Co. police Wednesday night made a
hurry call to the Byrne home and
arrested the girl. She is blieved to
be demented. Police say she at
tacked Mrs Byrne with an ice pick
and, threw kettles and chinaware
about the rooms.
Pershing Hazed at West Point Becomes "Beast"
and Carries "Tear Bucket" at Rats Funeral
Or
Turned Out in Chilly Morning to Chase the Eagles
Off the Company StreetsMidnight "Dragging"
and Picking Up. "Logs, of Wood" Another Diver-
sion Jack Finally Gave Hazers a Good Whip
. ping, Says Charlie, Spurgeon.
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Mix-
kin's thought, "frozen music," their
sternness and solemnity, to sym
bolic of the discipline and strength
of the acaJemy, made an impression
upon Pershing that has never been
effaced.
He knew by this time what cadet
entering West roint does notr--West
Point's history, dating back to
the revolution, and so interwoven
with the revolution as to be a part
of the very heart and soul of it. But
it had all "been as a dream. Now it
was real John Pershing was there.
AH Remember Woods.
He reached at last the office
where the new cadets of those days
reoorted. There is at West Point
today a man who was there on the
day of which I write. He is Wil
liam C Woods, messeneger to Col.
Samuel E. Tillman, the present su
perintendent of the academy. And
there is not a West Point man alive
today' but who remembers "Billy"
Woods. Nor is there alive, either,
a West Point man but whom "Billy"
Woods remembers.
"Yes, the old man told me when
visited the academy. "I was here
the day 'Jack' Pershing arrived. It
was to me that he presented his let
ter of appointment.- All the young
men did. Then I had to line them
up and march them to barracks.
"What do I remember about Gen
eral Pershing Jack? Not much.
He was as the other boys who re
ported that day as the boys who had
reported before him, and as the boys
who have reported since a fine,
clean, upstanding young man,
worthy of West Point and of West
Point traditions."
Pershing Becomes a Beast
"Barracks," to which old Woods
marched Jack Pershing, was then,
and is today, known as "Beast Bar
racks." And the cadets marched
there are known as '"Beasts," a de
gree lower in the cadet hierarchy
than Plebes. There followed the
usual program for Jack Pershing.
He deposited with the proper offi
cials the small sum of money re
quired by government regulations
and with it all the jewelry and valu
ables he carried.
Government regulations prescribe
the amount of money they shall
have to spend SO cents a week, as
I recall it and the amount of
money they shall be paid. Which
amount, however, is not paid until
they are graduated. Each boy has
the same chance. A true democracy
is West Point giving much, de
manding much.
Oh, the commands of that "break
ing in" period, snapped ot by stern
drill masters, yearling corporals,
who act under the direction of for
mer cadets, now officers in the army
and back under special orders to
serve for a time as tactical in
structors, or "Tacs," as the cadets
call them in their own slang.
"Fall in!"
"Fall outl"
. "Hold up your head!"
"Drag in your chin!"
"Suck up your stomach!"
"Get those shoulders back! More
yet! More yet!"
Lordly Young Men.
How those Yearling corporals
could yell and did yell at "Beasts."
And if one forgot to salute those
lordly young men or the "Tacs," or
forgot to address them as "Sir!"
Oh, those "Beast" days! Especial
ly the days when that most high
est of all, commander even of the
"Tacs," the Commandant of Cadets
and Tactical Officers, put in appear
ance I Why, it was even prescribed
how cadets should sit at mess!
There was no end of regulations.
Rooms must be kept just so; beds
must be made just so; bedding must
be kept just so; equipment, all of
it, must be kept just so; everything
must be kept just so. An inch out
of the way, a shoe or a paper mis
placed, and woe to the offender!
Camp lasted until September
camp with all that the name im
plied. It meant sleeping in the
open, drflls never-ending drills
guard duty, swimming, dancing.
Oh, the fun of it and the work of
it! The trouble was then, even as
today, the Plebes were always the
butt of the fun.
Will Jack Pershing ever forget
the first time he heard the order:
"Chase the Eagles."
'Turn out, you Plebes, and chase
those eagles!"
What did it mean? An unoffend
ing, chirping sparrow had alighted
in a company street, between rows
of tents. Poor sparrow! He was
a trespasser and must be ejected.
So the Plebes chased eagles.
Or did Jack Pershing forget an
other order:
'JPick up those logs of wood, you
Plebes 1" -
The Funeral of a Rat
What did it mean? Some one
had thrown matches in the company
street. The Plebes must pick them
up. Yes, most of the police duty
fell to the lot of the Plebes. And
the tasks they had to do for upper
classmen. For West Point, in the
days of Jack Pershing, boasted that
English school system of "fagging."
How the yearlings and the second
class and first-class men did all
within their power to make guard
duty for Plebes memorable.
Jack Pershing walked his post
Out of the darkness of the night
would appear a number of white
wrapped forms suspiciously like
cadets with sheets draped about
them.
"Who goes there?" the sentry
would cry. . .
"A flock of angels," would come
the answer.
And then, before the corporal of
the guard could be called, the
ghosts would vanish.
Most always the camp held a rat
funeral.
Somewhere a rat would be found.
Obsequies would be held and the
dead rodent's body taken away for
burial, the Plebes following the bier
as mourners and carrying buckets
in which to catch their tears, while
upper classmen shrilly ordered:
"Louder, weep louder, you
Plebes!"
"Midnight dragging was a form
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Mrs. Arabella A. Lorn ax, former,
ly Miss Arabella Artlip, who might
have become Mrs. Gen. J. J. Persh
ing. of hazing. Cadet privates, rising at
midnight, would pounce suddenly
upon cadet corporals, and much to
the disgust of those lordly young
men drag them up and down through
the company streets. And to make
matters worse, if it had not been
raining, the privates first watered
the streets, or part of the streets,
that there might be plenty of pud
dles through which to drag the cor
porals wet and muddy puddles. Yes,
Ihey must be muddy. Moreover, the
cadej privates saw to it that the
cadet corporals were clad only in
under-clothing.
Charles R. ' Spurgeon "Charlie"
Spurgeon Jack Pershing's boyhood
friend, who lives in Brookfield, Mo.,
told me that several cadets tried to
haze Jack Pershing and that he
"knocked the stuffing" out of all of
them. That story must rest as
"Charlie" Spurgeon gives it.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Detectives Arrest
Men Because They
Have Big Bankrolls
C R. Lowell, a railroad brakeman,
and George Ball, a hotel man, were
arrested yesterday by Detectives
Knudtson and Jensen, on a charge
of vagrancy, and fined $25 and costs
each by Judge Fitzgerald in central
police court.
Ball and Lowell were routed out
of their beds in the Hotel Rome at
2 in the morning, just five hours
after they had arrived -in Omaha
from Chicago.
Because each had a large roll of
currency, the detectives suspected
them of being "confidence men."
Ball had $825 and Lowell $440. They
were detained in jail without bonds
until their hearing in police court
When arrested both men had tickets
for Chicago.
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