Show I OTHER POINTS OF VIEW I SLACKER BERGDOLL GENERAL PERSHING AND AliD AInu POLITICS Slacker Berg doH ran away from tho the draft drat and hid durinG tho the war Eventually ho was caught tried convicted convicted convicted con con- and sentenced to a prison term lie ire was Incarcerated Incarcerated Incarcerated upon Governors Go island where ho told tod his Jailers a acock aco acock co cock k and bull story about gold burled on a lonely mountaInside mountainside moun moun- and was allowed to go o out to get It He Ha went Instead to his home where he escaped from his guards General Pershing announced on June 6 G that ho had made application for tor retirement tho the duties falling falling- upon him as general not being sufficient to occupy the time timo of ot an active intelligent man accustomed all hi his life liCe to hard work worL The Tho condition in n the tho military establishment which permits permits permits per per- mits so grotesque an outrage against Justice and civic decency as the losing of ot Slacker requires correction corre corre- tion and to con e correct t it the services of ot a a. man of oC decision strength ot of character and experience are needed d. Such Sucha a man la Is Gener 1 nerl Pershing Iris ills capacity to organize and to direct has been proved I He Ho occupies the tho highest exclusively military position in In the nation Ho flo is an army man from head to toe toc no doubt i anxious to remain in the service In which he has won his fame tame Yet Tet such Is la the play and interplay of ot aTm array army politics that at a a. moment when the stupidity and gullibility of or the tho pre preposterous system which lets a rich draft dodger out of or confinement to get a pot of gold at the rainbows rainbow's end and then lets him escape from his custodians are arc publicly exposed the one ono man in the tho army to whom the public naturally turns for tor the clearly Indicated reformatory action action ac ac- ac- ac tion announces that he cannot find enough t to do and andI wants to got out of ot his lifo Uto profession New New York Sun I and Herald |