Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1915 — Warrior of Today. [ARTICLE]

Warrior of Today.

George Wharton Pepper said at a luncheon at the Pittsburgh training camp for officers: “The methods of warfare have changed enormously In the past year. The sword, for example, Ik no longer carried. The sword has quite disappeared from war. “A story comes from the Argonne about a French chasseur who took a German officer prisoner. The ch* s*. a boy, a tyro, said to tjie officer: “ ‘Give up your sword.’ ’’ "But the officer shook his head and answered: “ T have no sword to give up. But won’t my vitriol spray, my oil projector or my gas cylinder do as well.?