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Show Mmm Mil ijfciifW ijfti.ttfi ftarahafe- - THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON. UTAH Army Nurses in Graduation Ceremonies ELMO SCOTT WATSON UNE 23 Is the anniversary of a battle which will be forever famous in American history. It was not a battle upon which treat Issues, so far us the fate of the nation, hung. In point of the number of combatants engaged it was ant. Ii was tie to vvhh the stm;. nt of murai. i siie.ne 7 in v II tarn for le.-oii- s las. It was M. t s an ntlair ot a aiihfal of Ut.it cnvcirv men pitted a.aiiist an o' i in lining Lice of Mo Cheyenne and Arapahoe In ii.it.s. and it it has nn; purthuhn napoi ,ance in mei.eaa lnstoiy, it is only because it n. oked .utsi:i:cl a s,n cess seated by the lathe ltd mail ngni'-- t the whte. -- - A beautiful scene duilng the graduation ceremonies held at the Walter Reed hospital, tVasldngton, when the army graduated 42 young women nurses.' Miss Malvina M. Grieves, one of the graduates, was presented with the Mrs. Henry R. Rea medal which Is given annually to the graduate who shows the greatest natural aptitude for her work. By London Gets Photoradiogram From San Francisco v i. i -t Tor tins was tae engagement Known in the battle of th Little Ilig lot it Itier. Mold., June 2a, JsTt;, ,m familiar to mn- -t of us under the name of Custer's Last Light. Theichv is revealed the reason why tins battle seems destined to bo remembered when greater and more impel taut militaiy eonllhts are lopg since foigotlen. The reason centers r round the llaming personality of Con doing' A unstrung Custer. A hngadier general tit twenty three, a major general at twenty the, a gieat I: .In n lighter at twenty even he went to his death at tnirty seen, the hero of Amorieuii youth, and the msteiy and gallantry of bis death will keep his name shining when all lint a scant do.en of the great figures of Aiiieiican military history will he So wiites his forgotten force er. latest biographer, Frazier Hunt, in the book Custer, published by the Cosmopolitan Ilook corporation, and Hunt hai pily and aptly characterized this toldter as no other biographer has yet for dene when he uses as a bis book the phrase The Last of the 1 sub-titl- Ca a e Hers." Lor Oeorge Armstrong Custer was truly the last of the Cavaliers. He was bora in 1S39 and died in 1S7G. There are men still living who saw him often aud knew him well. Cut he does not belong in this period of recent American history. Among the black-hatteblue uniformed generals of the Union army, this boy general with his coat of black hat, his navy velvet, his bine shirt with a broad collar adorned witli gold stars and held together at the thioiit with a wide flowing scarlet necktie, his troupers stuck in great cavalry boots, and with Ids golden curls reaching to liis shouldets, is sadly out of place. More appi opriately should lie have led a charge against Cromwell's Itoundbcuds and after routing them received the thanks of that gay monarch, King Charles the Second, or lie should have been a follower of the fortunes of Lonnie Prince Chat lie and ended his short career amid the flashing claymores at d d A lighter of fighters and a soldier of soldiers, he was the beau sabreur of the American army. one historian jtus (idled him. He was born of soldier ancestry ; lie grew up surrounded by soldier traditions; he became a sol dior by choke and he died as a soldier would choose- to die. The Cus tors were n fighting stock, ills greatgrandfather had been a Hessian mer-- c diary in t he Revolutionary war. "He was a curly haired blond giant who was tgliting for the fun of it, writes limit. When the war was over and lie, witli Ids fellow Hessians, was paroled, he decided to settle down and grow up with the country. The family name of I uster was changed ahout the time Saxon fighter moved tills from Pennsylvania to Maryland. His grandson, the blacksmith and farmer, Emmanuel Custer, felt the cull of the frontier and migrated to Ohio, and here it was that the sturdy tow headed boy was born in 1S39. War was in the air again. Tiie fail of the Alamo down in Sun Antonio and the great stretch of country north of Hie Rio Grande owned hy Mexico had burned its way into the hearts of the country. A hitter hatted was ilar- - good-nature- d Smashsd Precedent girt relates that when exam nation at Oxford foi'ovving directions to to coMutie were h,"iih,d out: If the c.im.id.ite is a woman she shall V'c.ir a il.iil. sifit, while Jumper and ami sim k.n.s t. ok tie, black sine No di tail m.iv he mg' 'I or dime girded. j R If nnveue should dis Ku.ird these icgd't.otlN pioi'toi- - are ii'.tl.ori ad to ask H eai to wdlnliaw An Ameiicnn gl e sat for an university, Hie I I Peaceful tip against Mexho. Auk lue.i was getting ready to have her geiieiaiion conll'et. the backwoods settlements in ,,rc thrilled by the righteous-ms- s of patiiotism. oiatois were making the hlHe red In i k schoolhouses and the churches fuiily ring with Remember the Alamo! "Emmanuel Custer joined the local ndiitia, t he New Rumley Invincihies and so our future general, title Autie' which was the home manufactured nickname for Armstrong teased and teased, until ids mother mude him a uniform out of one of paw's suits and paw whittled out a gun for him. Ry the time the Mexican w nr came along in earnest, Autie vv is even and could go through the old Scott manual of arms along with the best of them. So it was that even in a backwater of pioneer life this farmer hoy grew up in a warm reflection of the thrilling atmosphere of war. He dreamed of being a drummer hoy and inarching with heroic old General Scott or General Taylor in the Mexican campaign. Farming was not for him the sabre and the musket were to be his tools. Rut his opportunity did not come for several years. A visit with relatives in Monroe, Mich., resulted in two years of schooling at an academy there, two years at a seminary, fol lowed hy a school teaching job back borne in Ohio. Then came a chance to go to the United States Military acad emy nt West Point and when lie was enrolled there in the spring of 1S57 he was at last started toward realizing Ids life's ambition. Custers career ot the academy was not tin impressive one. From the beginning tie was among the Immortals, " the ten lowest in scholarship (today they call them goats). The first year he stood 58 in a class of 08. His second year lie ranked 58 in a class of 00. in his third year he was No. 57 In a class of 57 and he was graduated No 35 in a class of 35. Rut if Custer did not distinguish himself in his academic work and was constantly acquiring demerits which more than once brought hint to the brink of dismissal from t he academy, lie was absorbing something of greater value t linn mere classroom knowledge, for. writes Hunt : It would be almost Impossible to overestimate what the four veais at WesfFoInt had done for this farmer buy smiling, from eastern Ohio. Its fine traditions had sunk deep into his heart and mind Without his being in the least nwae of It, the magnificent spirit of th? place reflected in the three words ot motto Duty Honor Country its had given for him a tone, a resonance It to the ancient business of arms. was as if some one had taken him by the hand to a hilltop and shown him the glory of mounted knights In armor, going forth to war, for honor, for renown, and for the battles sake. In the very air of West Point he breathed the very greatness of the sword . It would not have been surprising if Custer had chosen to follow the fortunes of the Confederacy, and to have added the color of Ins personality to the roll of Its cavalier leaders such ns Job Stuart and John Morgan. Instead lie chose to stick with the Union and although he failed to graduate with ids class because at almost the last moment be laid committed a grave breach of rules which led to Ins eouit martial and his retention nt the acini emy, finally lie was ordered to Washington for duty in the summer of 1801. As a lieutenant in the, Second cavalry he saw action almost Immedi- - teginor Even Ohio Silver-tongue- one-side- d d vvhite-fiame- d blond-haire- six-fo- . . from examinations This was failtne. She defied them, however, and wore a green necktie, hut wailed witli trepi Pies elation t lie arrival of Hie Don! entiv he approached her desk from the tear anil laid t lie npers on her (aide CiKling s cht of the gieen He lie scowled li.siti'p'd a iiion cut. then Hu frown grad'h.liv melting it, to a smile lie sue! : So you nre still rebels!' lx i luit.ge. Gos-d- ntcly at the battle of Bull Run. And the next year as an oliicer in the Fifth cavalry, to which lie had been trans ferred, he so distinguished himself on several occasions us to win a posiiion on the staff of General McClellan Custers career in the Civil war has been described ns metooiic and a casual survey of it will show how apt the word is. McClellan at once promoted 1dm to a captaincy. When .McClellan failed as commander of tha Army of the Potomac and was re moved, Custer suffered his only eclipse (if the war. Rut within a year he was The transmission of the first commercial pholoradlo grant from San Francisco to London, utilizing the new on General Pleasonton's staff, distranscontinental rndio circuit vvliich Mayor Walker of New Yoik opened, was announced by It. C. A. Communicatinguished himself in a charge during tions. Inc. The picture, shown above, was posed and developed In tiie Hollywood studios of Radio Pictures, the a cavalry fight with Job Stuart and rushed by airplane to San Francisco, and there hied for transmotion picture producing oiganization of which resulted In bis gray hot mission to London, via New Yoik. This feat marked the fiist lime t lint a phntogmph lias traversed a distant e of the capture of a battle flag nnd a Tiie photograph shows Henry approximately 0,000 miles to Its destination, in commercial ra tiler transmission. hundred prisoners. The next (hiv lie , vice consul of the same city, with Didot, French consul at I.os Angeles, and Henry English was recommended for promotion to Relic Daniels and Betty Compson grouped around a representation of the uorthern hemisphere topped by a radio the rank of brigadier general a tower. the biigadier general at twenty-threyoungest in the Union army! ANOTHER PRINCE lie was placed in command of the of four regi Michigan cavalry brigade merits, much to the disgust of volun teer colonels old enough to be his father veterans w ho raved and stormed at having placed over them that Custer brat from Monroe, that d d whipper-snappe- r that kid general, from West Point. But on the third day on that terrible field at Gettysburg, this boy general not onlv welded his brigade of Woverines to hint with bonds of steel bht in a furl ous cavalry battle defeated Jeb Stuart nnd his Confederates, who bad hitherto been considered Invincible. He lie came the idol of Ids men. They bought bolts of red doth nnd made flowing ties for themselves. They let their A hair grow long in imitation of his. wild boy named Custer became famous throughout the Union army. A year later with more brilliant victories to his credit, Sheridan made him a major general nnd gave him command of the Third cavalry division. George was Armstrong Custer, age twenty-five- , a major general with twelve rigimenH under liis command, twelve regiment, which idolized him ns had t lie three lepiments of Wolverines. Washingtons diplomatic corps ii The story of Custer, the Indian now graced by another prince fighter, is too well known to need rope Prince Amoradhnt Krlnmkara, who is lit ion here. It is the story of one sue the new minister from Siam to tiie cess after another as lender of the United States. This is a new poSeventh cavalry, which still nnd for rtrait all time seems dest'ned to he Known War teeth were put in tiie new United States cruiser Pensacola when as Custer's regiment, until that June big eight-incguns were put in place on her deck at tiie Brooklyn navy yard. day in 1N7G when, in sight of the great t ANNAPOLIS HONOR MAN Indian village strung along t he Little t tie fatal division made lie Horn, I'.g of liis forces nnd, trusting to the Custer luck," which had carried him safely through a decod'1 of warfare, lie rode into battle for the last time. A fitting epitaph to Iliis last of the Cnv nliers may he found In these words of Hunt ; To the millions of plain American be Is remembered not as a commander of a dasnms and victorious division of cavalry that captured 10,000 prisoners and 63 battle flags front a gallant and stubborn foe, but as an Indian fighter, who with a handful of troopers eleven years later galloped to a tragic death He had fought I.ee and Stonewall Jackson Jeb Stuart, acd the gallant Pelham' gieat ami remembered soldiers hut it wa the naked Sioux of the plains win pent him to The gods of battle deathless fame have their own inscrutable way ot making heroes Ranrroft-Livingston- e, Giving the Pensacola War Teeth h Horace Is an Expert Fisherman war-xio- Facial Judgment If you would meusuie the quality of u man look tfst into tils eves Rut if von would girge tie character ot a woman v'mlv Imr lips fiist ami then tiy to ti 'I o i' whether her eves coniu in their nif" ge The mouth lips and cli n foiin Hu emoiiori.il area of tin foe- - I've lunge Some tie tool of cowai'K Pittance a i ulna moiisili ill c in l cqtid to '! 25 "Ha! t Veiirt' Of u, i j ex. in ut 2" no i, out,, Hi A i is parse, u 8. 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