THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1920.
Well Known Woman Novelist
Heart and Soul for Pershing
Miss Lillian Bell Tells Why "Black Jack" Is the
Ideal Man and Logical Choice of America to Set
In the White House Chair Has Known Him
Well for Years. ,
Miss Lillian Bell,' widely known
magazine writer and novelist and
author of "About Miss Mattie Morn
ing Glory" and "The Story of the
Christmas Ship," is an ardent ad
mirer of General John J. Pershing
and it heartily in favor of his nomi
nation for the presidency. In a let
ter to an Omaha Pershing "boost
er," written at Hotel Alexandria,
New York City, Miss Bell says:
"I claim, and General Pershing
admits my claim, to have been the
first person to suggest that he
would be. selected to lead our
armies abroad. I wrote it to him in
a letter and added 'If this takes
place the presidency will be yours
also.
"I am for him, heart and soul, be
cause I believe him to be the great
est living American, and so I think
history will acclaim him.
, Greatest Factor In War.
"That he was the man most re
sponsible for "winning the war I con
tend from the facts that, through
Jealousy,, neither France nor Great
Britain was , willing to agree upon
' a supreme commander. But when
Pershing gflt his First Army into
fighting trim, he went to Marshal
Foch and said, 'Sir, if I and my
American army can be of use to you,
we are at your disposal!' Which
maenificent exhibition .of national
modesty the modesty of the truly
great literally shamed the other
two allies into following suit which
made ' Foch generalissimo and
smashed the Hindcnburg line.
"General Pershing refused to al
low our divisions to be used as re
placement troops, brigaded perma
nently with British and French
forces where they were weakest,
and in what will one day be historic
words, declared, 'No, by Godl an
, American army, fighting under the
American flag! This not only saved
thousands of lives, but put America
on the map and gave us our first
dignified place in international his
tory. It allso gave 'us as a nation
the inspiring sight of a victorious
American army returning from its
first European war as a practically
unbroken vnit. No man, at this
early day, can estimate the value of
that as a force in, American soli
darity. Clean Morals, Sanitary Hygiene.
"As to the clean morals and san
itary hygiene he taught the filthy
European world by means of our
splendid, right-thinking American
boys, the nations are still agape
ever the spectacle.
"5Io one who has not studied Gen
eral Pershing's ancestory, history,
career and sturdy, uncompromising
American ideals, as I have, is cap
able of knowing what a candidate
he will make among women voters.
"Not only is he free from scandal
himself, but his tragic grief, silently
borne, his soldierly refusal to
answer his calumniators, his splen
did, don't-give-a-damn attitude about
everything which does not imme
diately concern his imminent duty,
fling his extraordinary individuality
on the presidential screen in heroic
size and in national colors."
Incidently it may be said that a
member of the Bell family has been
an officer in every war that the
United States has ever waged.
Athletic Club Operator
Gets Best of Inquirer
Full of April Humor
Shortjy after noon last Thursday
a phone call came to, the Athletic
club for Wallace Reid and Mae
Murray, screen stars, who have
many friends in Omaha.
"Understand they are lunching
there," the voice said. "Will you
please page Mr. Reid?"
The phone operator had seen no
announcement of a visit to Omaha
by Mr. Reid and Miss Murray. She
was surprised but not so surprised
as to forget the date was April 1.
"They were here for lunch, but
have just gone out," she replied
sweefly to the inquiring voice.
The "voice," she reports, slammed
up the receiver with a disappointed
bang.
Wants to Change Name
Because her foster mother has se
cured a divorce and resumed her
former name, Marguerite Losey
Richmond asked the district court
yesterday to allow her to change
her namcfXo Marguerite Losey Muin
She says she was adopted when a
child by Mrs. Libbie Richmond, who
is how Mrs. Libbie Muir.
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