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Show "LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD" National Commander MacNider Offers Clever Fling at Editorial Comment Com-ment on His Youthfulness. Being referred to as a "child" Is all right if one knows the trick of turning the phrase. The New York Times, in an editorial, referred to the youthfulness of Hanford MacNider, commander of the American Legion. In the next speech MacNider made, he said : "You remember the story of the shaky young second lieutenant who was suddenly called upon to take command com-mand of a hard-boiled company. As he stepped to the front, some private in the rear rank muttered : 'And a little child shall lead them.' The officer of-ficer commanded the man who made the remark to step two paces forward for-ward and the whole company stepped up. "He dismissed them and ten minute later the following bulletin was posted on the company's board : 'This company com-pany will assemble at 3 p. m. in heavy marching order for a twenty-mile hike. And a little child shall lead them on a d n big horse.' " |