Show I OTHER POINTS OF VIEW I BERGDOLL'S ESCAPE E There are hundreds of ot military prisoners In the United States today nerving out their terms for tor every kind of of offense of- of louse from Insubordination to cowardice and tr treason ason thousands thousands thou thou- sands sans more are arc to be Imprisoned soon Boon for evading the thc selective service law but the ar arch h draft dodger doder of ot thorn them all Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the millionaire slacker of ot Philadelphia esc escaped ped It was no less a personage than Adit Gen Peter C. C Harris who Issued the order for tor Bergdoll's release and after all all It was granted on Bergdoll's BerdoU's unsupported word words through the representations of ot his attorney At the news of ot his escape officials were deeply grieved painfully shocked Why he had bad pledged his word not to escape His own mother could scarcely have placed more faith In Bergdoll's honor bonor than did the government The word of ot ofa a a. draft dodger The honor of ot a man who ha had hatt shown himself himself him him- self tp be without honor It took a year two hunt and the unwinding of ot much legal red tape to pla place e this slacker behind the bars But ut there was as short shrift for tor many a a. doughboy who heartsick heartsick heart heart- sick of ot desola desolation lon and privation sought Bought to extend tho the days of t his allotted leave e In Ir Paris by so mU much muchas h has as a a. single day For this he was haled baled off oft to a prison camp presided over by 0 such pleasant personalities as Hard-Boiled Hard Smith to be cursed at at beaten and kicked and subjected to to a a. hundred petty humiliations Bergdoll had bad two years' years leave and so far tar he had paid for It Ii less dearly than those m men n paid for tor their single day Fr FrderIck Frederick derIck Valters Waltern Walters Wal Val tern I in It American Legion Weekly |