Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 6 | British Magazine Pokes Fun at Officers

BRITISH MAGAZINE POKES FUN AT OFFICERS 1 LONDON Feb eb 24 by Mail The tail The hasn't killed snobbishness in war England For Instance a certain magazine magazine- publishes what It calls cans Casual Pen Pen- From a a. Fighting Man They're anonymous but presumably they r represent present a certain type of ot officer which which- the fighting man is sup sup- posed to be or or they wouldn't appear in a typical English magazine Here are some extracts A considerable number of ot unclassified unclassified fied fled Individuals neither fish flesh nor good red herring have been Jerked Into commissions b by backstairs InI in In- In I fluence Promotion of that sort doesn't pay for tor itself Id I'd rather see It lt come from the ranks though that hat d doesn't always pan out well wellA A V. V C. C corporal who rec recently declined declined de de- de- de dined the honor put it sensibly enough when he said that what he had done to earn the distinction only proved that he was was a man not a a. gentleman gen gen- and that from r personal experience experience ex ox- he knew the men would rather be led by an Incompetent gentleman gentleman gentleman gen gen- than an an experienced ranker who h hadn't t the e advantage o of good birth I 1 think the democracy will discount a good de lof what their leaders have told them of years about us gentry gen gen- try The death dath roll of th the army must surely convince them not only that were we're not hot the selfish brutes the demagogue demagogue demagogues dema dema- gogue tried to make out but that whatever our faults we tumbled over one another to render the country s service out of all an proportion to our numbers The rank and file know It any anyhow ow They know were we're in It as a matter of duty first and seco secondly be because because because be- be cause its it's our nature to lead