Show II PASSING THE BUCK BUCKBY I IBY BY DR JAMES I. I VANCE At a a. little lttIe town In France Trance the headquarters headquarters head head- headquarters quarters of a regiment of the A A. E H. F FJ asked a young captain what whal L he thought of ot his colonel coonel Here was wa 3 his reply At the officers' officers meeting yest yesterday r ar he deliberately declined to pass the buck This was the highest praise one soldier sol aol I dier diet could pay an another ther Language could do no more The vocabulary had been exhausted Passing the buck is the army phrase for passing on responsibility The soldiers gay say that it Is the great game of military life Red tape was I invented indented to make it possible for the game to be played without limit It is not a new game for it started In Eden when Adam passed the puck buck uc and S said Id t i The woman op n who whom gayest to be with me me she gave ga me of ot the tree and I did eat It takes tales courage to shoulder responsibility responsibility res res- it takes none to ta shirk it When the responsibility is ours and its Ha assumption is likely likey to be costly to at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to unload it on others is to play the sneak Cities do it in passing on their undesirable un- un undesirable desirable to the next town Institutions Institutions do it in seeking a culprit to whom the blame for or crooked deals may may be nailed Nations do it in calling on traditIons tra tra- which help them to play safe sate in the face of present dut duty Church courts do It in evading disagreeable questions ques ques- lions with the remark that the time has not yet arrived It is yellow ellow dirty yellow to pass the buck A man roan who Is white takes his medicine Th There Thre re is much finer for either men mert or nations than this to deliberately decline the temptation temp tamp tation of making another responsible hat they th themselves should shoud as assume as- as sum sume |