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Show THE BULLETIN 'mm BoTfac McGoofey's First Reader and f Eclectic Primer Scnlc EJiltdby II. I. PHILLIPSi Li cryp-Thand- er Over Hagood tlcally: "By direction the President, of ItaJ. Gen. Johnaon Hagood, U. & A., U relieved from assignment to the d of the Eighth corps area and torttaer duty at Fort 8am Houston, Texas. Major General Hagood will proceed to bli home and await orders." r Each day, there cornea from the War department anywhere from two or three to a couple of dozen orders by which army officers are transferred from one post to another, from one assignment to another or given new It Is not unusual at alL .That la why I said at the outset of this item that the order respecting General Cut It was Hagood was routine. routine only in the language that was used. Otherwise, it wss significant Just how significant It will prove to be remains as a secret to be nnfolded by the future. Suffice to say that seldom has one minor Incident of government administration created such a storm as this army order because It has become a political issue. General Hagood Is the third ranking officer in the United States army. He has been In the service something like forty years. 'His record Is generally regarded ss distinguished, but at the same time he He has ias never been a pussyfoot spoken boldly, sometimes too boldly and sometimes out of turn, yet I think it Is generally agreed that General Hagood la sincere. But to go back of the "routine army order" by which be was sum' marlly relieved of bis command at the Important army post of Fort Sam Houston, we find a record of General Ilagood's testimony before an appropriations committee in the house of In that testimony. representatives. General Hagood spoke with his usual He apparently offended bluntness. somebody when he did It His testi mony has been criticised and com mended, the War department and Secretary Pern hare been attacked and defended and even President Itonse velt has been dragged into the controversy because somewhere, some how New Deal opposition has convinced that President Roosevelt and Secretary Pern punished General Hngnod by removing him from his post because he dared to point out flukes and flaws and ridiculous aspects In New Deal policies of handling taxpayers' money. com-Bian- he-co- General Hagood was called before committee by its chairman and told to express his Speaks did sentiments, his honest convictions and any constructive suggestions he might have respecting Improvement of the United States army. The gen eral, somewhat bluaterlngly, related to the committee that the army mnst have additional housing facilities. He related conditions In many army posts and asserted that many persona on relief were accorded better places to live than Uncle Sam's soldiers. That part aroused no particular controversy but when General Hagood told the committee of the difficulty the responsible army authorities have in setting money with which to provide better housing for the soldiers, be stepped on administration toes by saying that it was more difficult to get "five cents for a pencil than a thou sand dollars with which to teach Civil lan Conservation corps boys new hobbies or boondoggling." He said he could get a hundred dollars to bnlld a travel walk and a rose garden but could not get ten dollars with which to repair a broken steam pipe In an army barracks. The next outburst by the general brought forth his description that money being bandied by Itellef Admin istrator Hopkins was stage money; that nothing worth while or of a per manent character was being done with that money and the explanation that he called It stage money because "it Is being handed around and yon can do nothing with It In the end." His plea wss that some of these funds which be said were being otherwise wasted should be employed to build structures of concrete, and steel "that can be shown to our grandchildren SO years from now." In bearing General nagood'a testi mony, the committee understood that the War department had given him permission to speak freely. Indeed such assnrance had been passed along to the committee from the War de partment but apparently the War de partment did not know what General Hagood had on his chest If It bad known, It certainly could have ex pected exactly such expressions be cause General Hagood never has pulled his punches. He has said each time what he thought the appropriations csn-Free- lv Bv savins what he thought however. be undoubtedly moved across the line of discretion. Army officers must guard their speech. They are under disciplinary regulations. It has to be so. Otherwise, we would see frequent outbursts by army officers la opposi tion to established policies, rules and regulations and it takes no stretch of the Imagination to see what a disordered mesa would result On the other hand. General nagood was certainly privileged to believe that his observations were Then the being made only for Storm Broke ,ne committee of con gress before which he appeared. The doors to the committee room were closed and locked and only committee members were in attendance. It happened, however, that subsequently the stenographic record of the committee hearings was made public and when that happened, the storm broke. Almost simultaneously with the removal of the bond of se crecy on the committee record, the Wsr department order dehorning General Hagood was written. When that hap pened, the politicians literally Mew up. They shouted charges of censorship, terrorism by the President and Secretary Dern. dictatorship, political punishment and half a dozen other vicious accusations. A few of the administration spokes men In congress defended the War de partment action. Almost In the same breath these administration spokesmen with Secretary sought conferences Dern and others in an attempt to persuade the 'resident and the war sec retary to aoften the punishment but those moves were futile and Representative Blanton, Texas Democrat, shouted on the floor of the house that the Hagood punishment would cost the Democratic party "a million votes unless It were withdrawn." As a part of the defense of the War department Hction, Gen. Malln Craig, chief of staff of the array, made pub lic his memorandum to the secretary of war respecting General Ilagood's attitude and his testimony before the congressional committee. In the course of this memorandum, General Craig described General Hagood as a and he. was probably correct in so far as General Ilagood's remarks about stage money were concerned. Yet I have found very few among the Washington observers whose opinions are worth while who saw In the Craig memorandum any real Justification for the severe punishment . meted out to General nagood. The order still stands. General Hagood la going to his home in Charleston, S. C, "to await orders." No one familiar with the army procedure ex pects that General Hagood ever again will be given an army assignment He will be sixty-fou- r years old next year and at that time automatically retires from active duty. So there Is hardly any question but that General Hagood has held his last command. The whole situation, auddenly come to be known as the Hagood case. Is bound to be multiplied and mirrored. It will figure in the coming political campaign because, however Justified the War department action may have been In the Interest of discipline and good army administration, there are thousands of Individuals, who never will- be convinced that the Hagood removal was for any purpose other than as punishment because he criticized New Deal spending policies. S,(XK)-wor- "wise-cracker- d ," - . Although there Is, and can be, no connection between the two, It was the bnsls for a really hnu. a. morous reaction that Dallas Fair during the time when the controversy raged over General nagood's removal from his Texas army post a federal government committee was busily engaged In making plans for federal participation In the Texas Centennial exposition which opens at Dallas June 6. Uncle Sam ia spending $3,000,000 the largest sum congress ever has authorized for federal participation In such a sho- wso that twenty-od- d government agencies can display to exposition visitors what the government has done with Its billions since the cards were shuffled for the New DeaL The Agriculture department, as will be represented by the largest of all federal exhibits. The Com merce department snd the State, War, Nary, Treasury. Justice, Post Office, Interior and Labor departments will have their booths or buildings. The Federal Housing administration and the farm Credit administration will be there with" displays of their wares, and the Public Health service will attempt to further the cause of health In Its usual splendid fashion. One unusual feature of the govern ment's participation will be a negro building In which It will tell the story of the nesro race and Its progress since the first slaves were brought Into America. Plans call for the use of negro labor In the construction of this exhibit building and as far as possible negroes will prepare the exhibits. - at O WhMI Th. Reaiat the Magnet Don't listen to two others srgue If you cant keep out of it. Paragraphs Picked Up Among Pen plea, Hither and Yob. in SAID a traveler whom I met PortuMarques, guese East Africa, this spring: "The American etcher, Joseph Pcnncll, once tolJ me that a walk across Brooklyn bridge at sunset was the most thrilling experience that could fall to the lot of an 1 Washington. A routine War depart-wen-t order came through the other day which said, . Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pellets ant the original litUe liver ptlla put up tit) years aw. 3wm XX) Ncwapapar Ualoa. Bridal V.il Why the bride wears a veil at her wedding tins been the subject of many an argument among scholars. Some authorities believe that the bridal veil originated In the ancient practice or hiding the bride's face to show her submission. Others contend the op poalte that the veil originally was ai emblem of Independence. wnmm artist." the peak In Zulu bride, Slang's Um rated In cows aa exchange, averaged up the conversation if Slang peps about 13, and the market was fairly It Isn't the too cheap aort steady throughout South Africa. In VX& the bride bourse allowed signs like a combination of all the great lov. of slipping, and the price fell to 13. LIFE LONCFRIEND era of history suffering from a touch Intertribal conferences failed to steady a bush market and the leugue panle Them Fit of asthma, heartburn and love-neset in, throwing a scare Into the na Jitters. TNCia MEMCINI CHEST H tives as far north as the Tropic of Tnisaafeall-vrsw-tab- lt What's the general Idea? MIJOjUBj i Uiative Nn Uy 10:13 the price had The general idea Is that a man who Cuprlcorn. as been da tat sagged to 2 ten shillings, and despite sings like that reduces the middle-ageat to the dnrina their that the attempt price peg women of America to a state of com "afirr lop-tfigure the spot rate for Zulu brides Irvine ones drives yrara.NRkaepa the young plete hysteria, fell to 12. where It stands today. And thrm regular year gaga, and makes even the grandmoth after year Mwr ers chnse grandpa around the house that means the pick of the available stock. any and toincrane shouting, "Kiss me, my fool!" thrdoM. Nowonder thrir "evenina ci Is the idea well founded? , Miasm of peo free tram lite" a as been has There question lung theaidaf (hi reliable correcliTa.Kor Probably not; but once these radio to 'who selects the names for the pie welcome ntvlalns tha and Kemedv Nature'! Mnaigthroi station executives get sold on somenumerous sleeping cars on American eafin dhmnative tract esfdycarniaawar tha s cure without them thing yon cant railroads. That used to worry me, too. poannatoat Ming major operation. .1 'ATi MVI iisiism Ulttntneas.fi hut after getting a slant at some of c.I CI MC a. m nnV Fry son " How ninny women do yon think find the queer names on our hotels I came atVUdnwtMts. a radio crooner the answer to their to the conclusion that one monicker prayers? Is as good as another. What about I dunno, but every time one of those these: Water Hotel, Mineral Crazy birds begins to do his stuff through Texas; Collision Hotel, Springs, the loud speaker something like Hotel. Out., Mitchell, men leap st the radio set Ste. Lucia de Canada; Forget Donchcster, Quebec, with an ax. Canada; Allred Hotel, Kureka Springs, Does It do any good? Be Sure They Properly Hotel, Wrights, Ark.; No. Cleanse the Blood L'nstlll Cal.; Hotel, Long Pine. Neb.; Then why do It? Going Hotel, Stillwater, Okla., and the art comUnlly YOUR kidneys It Just relieves the strain. matter from the blood Darling Hotel, Spanish Fork, Utah, stream. But kidneys sometimes lag ia Way back in the 80s along a Nevada their work do not act as nature instage road there was a wayfarer's reWHATS WRONG WITH tended (ail to remove impurities that treat railed the Bluff house. Some THESE SENTENCES? poison the system when retained. with s pot of tar playful Then you may surfer nagging beck the a on "Hullt line: added bluff. ache, dixxiness, scanty or too frequent 1 "Anything yon do Is all right." and run by one." urination, getting up at night, puffins snld the golfer whose opponent had under the eyes; feel nervous, miseraIn all bull his teed a trap. ''It's Just up ble all upset word an What Itetlrement. Inviting good clean sport" Don't delay? Use Doaa's Pius. 2 The hathlng girl refused to go on for those who have not experienced Doan's are especially for poorly funcbenefits. Ironic Indeed Its the beach when she heard photogrationing kidneys. They are recomIs the very thought of setting down mended by grateful users the country phers were around. the burden and taking life eaay. The over. Get them from any druggist 8 The two heavyweight contenders average man Is so constituted that fought fifteen vicious rounds, throw after SO or 00 years of service he ing all caution to the winds. cannot stop working without halting his natural gait He looks forward CURIOUS FACTS FOR to the great year of cessation; the mirage of soft loading, the abolition CURIOUS PEOPLE of labor. The man who does noth COMES BEFORE ing, attains nothing and the heart and 1 An alligator has no love motif. soul and Imagination of him falters Elimination of 2 Green peas may be mashed by Body Waste) in the abnormal atmosphere of ex on a and rock them Is bitting placing Doubly Important perimental indolence. Don't quit The them with a nightstick. to In this existence In the crucial months before baby arrives hardest thing S The Japanese do not play mar on earth is nothing. If you stop one it ia vitally important that the body be rid bles. tnke on another. That or lose the of waste nutter. Your intestines must 4 The first name of Alfred E. Smith Job, without griping. marathon this side of the goal. Is Alfred. Recommend Why Physicians S There is a Hon In Sonth Africa Milnesia Wafers Sir Alfred Sharp, at one time Brit that has never seen a moving picture wafers are candy-lik- e ish governor of Nyassaland, also a These camera. form-m- uch 8 Cherries may be put away for the special commissioner for Cecil Rhodes pure milk of magnesia in solid pleasanter to tike than liquid. Each winter In open barrels but they will in the work of opening up the project adult ed railroad from the Cape to Cairo, wafer approximately equal to a full not keep. dose of liquid milk of magnesia. Chewed a man stature of small and 7 Mice may be kept In domesticity although thoroughly, then swallowed, they correct but It is Impossible to teach them to In reputed 111 health, decided at eighty- acidity in the mouth and tliraughout the seven that he would ask permission of digestive system, snd insure regular, cos. fetch your slippers. the Belgian government to do a bit puts tlimiaatioa without pain or effort. 8 In New York city today's papers come out yesterday after of elephant hunting In the Congo. Milnesia Wafers come ia bottles of 20 and noon. "Help yourself," ssld Leopold, "go as 48, at 35e snd 60s respectively, and in far ss yon like." The Briton slew 67 convenient tins tor your handbag contain. tuskers, sold the Ivory In the open ingl2at20c.Eachwaferisapprosamatery PROBLEMS IN one adult dose of milk of magnesia. AO market and cleaned up several thou stores sell andrecomtnend them. MATHEMATICS sand pounds sterling, before the Bel good drug gians discovered that the an est gunner Start nsing these delicious, effective laxative wafers today 1 John can mow a lawn 50 feet by was one of the six living men who had 75 feet In 2 hours; Fred can mow a a record of 2j000 of the beasts down Profosaiona samples sent free to registered lawn 100 by 100 In 2 hours and 5 minphysicians or dentists if request is msde and dead to his elephant gun, utes ; William can mow a lawn 100 by guess that will be about all. my little on professional letterhead. Mart Predacte, N. Y. 80 feet In 1 hour and S6 minutes. Why man," said Leopold, stroking his Ins 4402 Mrs St., Lang blond CHy, do they all do It In the morning when beard and cancelling the Invitation 35c & 60c for next season. neighbors are trying to sleep? bottles 2 The eastern states produce bushels of strawberries; the I dare say that a Joke more than 20c tins western states produce 5.1187.345 bush a hundred years old should not be els of strawberries ; the other sections repeated In this sophisticated era. produce 11.5C8.D0Ht bushels of strawNevertheless. . . berries. Why do yon get so few strawNapoleon, upon entering Milan, gave berries In shortcake? It as his opinion that the Italians 8 If It takes a popular song writer possessed no genius for handicraft 48 hours to write a song stolen from doubt" raid the emperor, "that there The Orfsfianf Mffli af MaSaweJe Wares the classics of the great musical mas Is a shoemaker here who could com ters, how msny years would It take pete- - with the poorest cobbler In six song writers to produce an origParis." A dispute arose. "Very well,' inal number, even If one of them un"Send me your replied Bonaparte. SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY derstood mnMc? best boot maker. We shall see." In 4 Jennie ran swim ROO yards In 2 due course the craftsman arrived and Oar lobby Is delightfully air minutes; Alice can swim the same dis- asked the privilege of looking upon cooled daring the summer nseatas tance In 1 minute !ft seconds; Andrey the pedal extremities of the Corsican. can swim 1.000 yards In 4 minutes nnd No measurements whatever were taken JtsMflo for Cvary Jteesss af mumtm Dri&a SI 11 seconds. If they are at a fashionof the royal feet The Milan genius able bathing place with plenty of elisimply counted the emperor's toes, gible hoys to talk to, why bother? glanced at the Instep, and announced R If It takes 4 hitch-hiker- s S days that he would return In a day or two. traveling In 30 different cars to cover ' He did, with one boot which fitted 1.1.12 miles, how long will It tnke them so perfectly that the visiting customer to mnke the return trip If one of them went Into a rhapsody. "And this exIs carrying a portable rrnMo set, a creation." he exclaimed, "withquisite bowl of live fish and s ran of hay out the use of a cast or the laying of fever? a tape. How did you accomplish such a marvel "It Is my art," snld the HOTEL Italian. "One glance at the foot of s SCRAMBLED LETTERS customer Is all that I require. It Is CONTEST "And highly satisfactory," simple." replied Napoleon. "Come now, where Wetes 1SQ to XOO Rearrange these letters to spell the Is the other boot?" "I brought but one," nnmes of famous meiihers of the Tha Basal TnapU Savaae fcaa n snld the shoemaker. The emperor exiImi a. daalnbh, CrtMutlrItlawaa-lasFootball tenm: biaUy In he cried will alwaya flad a "Ass," phara-Vaploded. disgust 1 and bU. auimaiittKncwxorwytnsrwefyne. "You behave like a lunatic. Where ymforfeaa tnave-aaa tnatwshlv aaia.abla.Yoo 2 Okoxowwklimkyvltch. am I to find the mate of this boot?" land why tbla hatel iai daw 3 Gxol kosoflomn nlcl t choff. HIGHLY BECOMMKNDED "Probably In Paris." replied the 4 Rosklexflorpowkleck. Tan nam aba avpraalala wnjri A socking retort, was It cohhlcr. R af daUnctfen tease KfghlJklemonprstw. , fr naarfc not? t OUm ia UM baaralry 6 GrwlomnxftHtgrwyerion, CJ WwUra Kewi 7 HJIorw sxsopl okorof s't y. ESNESl C ROSSITER, Mgr. From African THE STORY OF JASON Jason was no bargain. 2 He didn't know much about any thing. 3 He wus five years old before he could talk. And then bis voice was found to be so obnoxious that his parents were almost sorry he had become 1 LOSE HEART Civilisations perlnh because na tions loo heart Such things hap pen. Davi WNU auarlalrS Sicarttfaiwra WHEN NATIONS 1K3 to .9X1 proKiterity a at 70 Keeps st d y failb-fully-wi- th vocal. 4 But when Juson heard his own voice he wus impressed from the' first 5 To him it seemed like rare music, ft By the time he waa ten years old be had become the noisiest boy In the neighborhood. He waa a model for the original lend speaker. 7 In school he was the boy orator. Talking was the fulfillment of all his desires and the realisation of all his hopes. 8 He wus a living argument for bigger and better Quiet Zones. 9 Jason would argue with anybody any time about anything, with or without a given subject and he would take three hours to pass a given point 10 And lie always Insisted on the Inst word. 11 He had become a major disturb ance by the time he attained manhood, and bis folks worried for fear he would have no future. Others worried for fear he would. 12 Rut he became a national figure. 13 No matter how loudly he shout ed he never said anything that made sense. He thought logic was the name of a Polish village. 14 So he was quickly grabbed up by a great political party and made one of its foremost campaign orators and stump speakers at S1.000 a siiecch. 15 When he became certain nobody understood what he was promising, he raised It to $2,000 and got It MORAL There's a career some where for the worst of as. LITTLE POEMS OF SUNSHINE When everything Just smile goes wrong. 1 When you can't quite get along, Just smile 1 When the going's pretty bad And all life looks very sad. Just smile t When It's raining an the day. Just smile I the clouds wont roll away. Just smile I When you're sick as yon can be And you're full of misery. Just smile When 1 When yon have no place to sleep, Just smile I are very deep. When your debts Just smile I When yon lose your last thin dime And you're hungry all the tlnw, Just smile I When the larder's bleak and bore. Just smile I When your life Is full of care. Just smile I When you're feeling snd and bine And the boss says you are through. Just smile I When- - yon cannot pay the rent. Just smile I a cent. Just1 smile I If yon do, well then, alas I You're a goofy, silly ass. So smile I When yon haven't got THIS IS WALDO Who Is this? This is Waldo. What Is Waldo doing T Waldo Is croon Ing. What Is croon ing? Crooning Is a na tlonal nuisance. Can't Waldo stop crooning? Tea, Waldo can stop crooning. Then why doesnt he do so? Because there la big money la It and very little work. Why Is Waldo paid big money for crooning? Because big radio advertisers believe that a soft mnle voire with a little tremor In It helps greatly In the sole of soap, soups, smokes and wbut bnve yon. Una Waldo a tremor In Ms voice? Tea. Wlten Waldo gets clone to that mike with a nice soft lyric he sounds in compL-iints- "-- Wrlght-Out-Doo- rs BABY mini-flavore- - ly - r Temple Square |