Show r IT Other Points of of View View View-r i i p 1 T I VINDICATING nIC S 'S iElA nT liNT We Ye shall have ha to withdraw our sympathy from rom the lie men inca In cantonments who have havo no overcoats o We ha had thought at first it Wa was a shame they had to go cold coM hut we see seo co conow now it Is their own fault The Time quartermasters quartermaster's department department depart depart- ment mont furnished overcoats O in sufficient numbers It furnished fur fur- fished them in sizes which the m man n ought to have been hoell and those men who are of ot the sizes the they o ought to be got overcoats and ar are warm and comfy But some of oC tho men positively refused d to he be the sizes the they ought to be bo They wouldn't nt go ro Into the overcoats although ordered to do so It wasn't that the overcoats were two small for tor the time department nt had made them according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the strictest scientific measure It was that th the men were too large lare The Time quartermasters quartermaster's department depart deput- ment knows how large a man maim ou ought ht to be he hut some of oC these men acted as if tr It dl nt The quartermasters quartermaster's d de department do- do Is right of or course and th the demonstrated d proof Is all against the men for COl if It the they the weren't larger than hiatt th the quartermasters quartermaster's department says sars they ought to be bo they'd go o Into the overcoats 0 wouldn't the they The question as to whether thc these c men have hae violated IJ tho military regulations ns I Is one for the Judge e advocate g generals general's department Undoubtedly they have ha violated something Theo The They are not the time same sante size as tho time quartermaster quartermasters quartermaster's quartermaster quarter quarter- master masters overcoats overcoat Call it il lack lacle o of co ordination or or what you OU Oll will it is a dl direct ett attack on the time R system built u u. u up by br th the quartermasters quartermaster's department through lon long and faithful Years cars ars of or 5 systematizing If f thia Is 15 to be pet pet if It the 8 system tem is to he be overthrown O no now by b ba a lot Jot lotof Joto lotof o of soldiers who nho ho grew gre- without specifications specifications catlon and with v no regard for tot standardization the thc arm army may inay a as aswell aswell aswell well preparo prepare to fight o And SAnd the thing thine i is disconcerting on other grounds What If It the these e men are arc too big to so go Into the standardized trench of or the engineering department nt What hat if It their shoulders and trigger fingers don dont don't t tit lit tho the ordnance nce departments department's rifles rifles' Luck Luckily 11 the machine guns gun uns arc ame not yet ct mad made But it ought to he be understood before It is too late that the tho war I is to be fought on the specifications of or the time war departments department's bureau chiefs We cannot permit tho those specifications to be scrapped just the American ph physique does not fit th them m. m It ha has taken generations oJ to those thoe specification while the time ol oldest cst of oC thc these o soldiers who do not fit tIt th Mn Is only 31 1 Can the countr country hesitate te over o which to scrap scrap Kansas 1 Kansas sas Ci City t Sta Star r. r |