Romantic Malone

ARMY & NAVY

The 115,000 square miles of the Philippine Islands with a population of nearly 11,500,000 are governed by the U. S. through a triumvirate of officials. First in order is the Governor General, civil administrator; second is the military headquarters commander; third is the military field commander. To the last-named post President Coolidge last week appointed Major General Paul Bernard Malone.

Major General Malone is 56, short, jocular, optimistic, and likely to be as much of a favorite with the 10,000 Philippine soldiers as he was with the discriminating fighting men of the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne & Chateau Thierry offensives. Because he pursued famed Rebel Aguinaldo (1899-1901), he knows well the swamps and morasses of the Philippines. But, above all, he is the ardently romantic alumnus of the sheer grey towers of West Point. He has written five novels of life at the Military Academy.

At Manila, General Malone will find the Governor General in the person of Henry Lewis Stimson, who was Secretary of War under President Taft,* and will salute the Headquarters Commander in the person of Major General Douglas MacArthur, twice wounded, twelve times decorated veteran of Vera Cruz and France.

* William Howard Taft was himself a Secretary of War and a famed Governor General of the Philippines.