1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA October, 1930to the Chapter by him with the followingcharming inscription written byhim under the picture."In making a gift to the Fraternity inmemory of my brother, John WesleyChilds, I had no thought of the mereperpetuation of his name. What I setstore by was the perpetuation of thoseideals—a passionate love of truth and theconsecration of life to one of service—which so highly distinguished him.Names may die but ideals once given lifelive forever in the souls of men."It is the ideals of my brother whichI have thought worthy of perpetuating.It is my earnest hope that they will beand that the artificial memorial of ahouse will not obscure the more significantspiritual memorial."From Randolph-Macon Collegewhere he was graduated he enteredHarvard University where he took agreat interest in the * A 0 Club there.After graduating from Harvard hewas assistant master at the LawrencevilleSchool in New Jersey. Now totell something of Virginia Gamma'smost distinguished living member.During the World War he was FirstLieutenant and was appointed Aidede-Campto the Commanding officer,159th Brigade, 80th Division, CampLee, Virginia, and he was subsequentlydetailed to the Army War Collegeand after a course of instruction tothe Military Intelligence Division,General Staff. In February, 1918, hetook up his duties as chief of theBureau of Enemy Ciphers Radio IntelligenceSection of General Headquartersin France, acting also asliaison officer of the Section with theFrench and British War Offices. OnOctober, 1918, he deciphered the sameday on which it was sent one of thelongest cipher messages dispatched byenemy wireless during the war—thatfrom General Von Mackensen inBucharest to the German GeneralStaff giving Mackensen's plan of campaignin the Balkans and his estimateof the enemy's intentions. After thearmistice. Lieutenant Childs was detailedto the Supreme War Council atVersailles and later to the AmericanCommission to Negotiate Peace. InApril, 1918, he was detailed with headquartersin Saloniki, Greece, wherehe had charge of child feeding insouthern Serbia to September, 1918.Demobilized the following month, Mr.Childs took up work as an AssociatedPress correspondent in Washingtonand was the White House correspondentduring the last six months ofWilson's administration.In August, 1921, Mr. Childs enteredSoviet Russia with the American ReliefAdministration, assisting in makingup the first food train dispatchedto the famine regions and then to Kazanwhere he spent almost two yearsas assistant and later as district superintendentof the Kazan District of theA.R.A., supervising the feeding at onetime of 3,000.000 individuals.In 1923 Mr. Childs entered theAmerican Consular Service and wasappointed American Consul at Jerusalem.After spending some time inPalestine he was American Consul atBucharest and has just been transferredto the American Legation atCairo, Egypt.[44]