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Show 1Y CHOWDER DID IT ACCEPT IS 1 P1M0T1 How Major General Enoch H. Crow- la I der, provost marshal of the United w States, refused a promotion to licutcn- j ant general, which had been bestowed J upon him by the senate of the Unitad rjj States is contained in a bulletin re- I eelved at the local exemption board. I t In a letter, the copy of which was II! attached to the bulletin, General It Crowder expressed his great apprecia- i f tion to Senator Chamberlain, chair- f II man of the committee on militaxy a- I j fairs, but declined to accopt tho pro- f 1 1 motion becauso ho said he could ren-der ren-der as valuable service to the govern- ment in his present post S' 1 The letter is an excellently worded epistle and will probably go down in history as truly American spirit of an j officer v. ho declined any high honors j or position at the hands of the govern- i ll ment, being content to serve that gov- I t ernment at Ihe post which he had lr filled so efficiently and with the rank Sij with which he assumed when named M as tho provost marshall. ill |