Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-10-11 | Page 7 | "Hardboiled" Smith

Smith I J SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER is being severely severely severely severe- severe ly condemned and deservedly so for hi his action in ordering the release from prison of Smith the army officer who was recently sentenced d for the brutal and inhuman treatment of soldiers belonging to the A. A E. E F. F j in France Frances S Probably Probably- nothing that happened during the war has aroused the indignation n of the American American- people as much as did the h horrible punishments inflicted on n American boys loys by Smith a was not given near the punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment he deserved and yet in the face of this Secretary Baker ordered his his release long before the sentence was due to tot expireS expire S S 'S Secretary Bakers Baker's action is an insult to every very American soldier who faced the the- hardships and dangers of the great war But Secretary Bakers Baker's action is not surprising as it it is only an example of the many crimes committed during the war that have been winked at Case after case is on record where frauds and other crimes against the government were allowed to togo togo togo go unpunished apparently because the cr criminals had influential friends with a pull putI in Washington Wash ington Minions Millions of dollars dollars' it has been said were stolen from the American people and th the S S culprits escaped with their loot either through neglect or design