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Four years ago, a man without previous experience in money-matters received an appointment from the City of New York as Transit Commissioner. Two years ago, he became receiver for a New York transit company. Last week, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury with immediate charge of the vast ramifications of foreign debts. He is General Lincoln C. Andrews, retired cavalry officer.

General Andrews was no ordinary soldier. He was the voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling 75,000 men for three months to fight a war which took two and a half million men four years, but Washington, who "demanded for the future of this Democracy that her citizens be organized and trained in arms." A trifle sardonic, General Andrews began one book: "The Military Policy of the U. S. has been best expressed in its monetary motto: "In God we trust."

Philosopher-General Andrews succeeds Eliot Wadsworth, brilliant engineer and financier of private fortune, who left the firm of Stone & Webster for Red Cross Management in 1916, went thence to Secretary Mellon's service.