Show A routine war department part ment orders order came through the other d day it y which thunder r sa said id cryptically over hagood by direction ot of t li 11 0 president MAJ haj gen johnson hagood U S A Is relieved from assign assignment meni to the command of them th eighth corps area and further duty at fort sam houston texas major general lagood hagood will proceed to his home and awalt orders each day there comes from the war department anywhere front from two wo or three to it ft couple of dozen orders by which army officers are transferred from one post to another from one assignment to another or glyen given new instructions itis it la not unusual unus at AIL all that is w why by I 1 said at the outset of this item afern that the order respecting general hagood was routine but it was routine only inthe in the language that was used otherwise it was significant just how bow significant it will prove to be remains as a secret to be unfolded by tile tho future furuie suffice to say that seldom has one minor incident of government administration alon created buch sucha a storm as this army or order derbe be causell cause it has bec become becomer omea a political I 1 ls sue general hagood Is the third ranking officer in the united states army ile he has been in the service something like forty years ills his record 3 generally regarded as distinguished lutat but at tebesa the same m t time 1 m e I 1 he has never been a puss pussyfoot lie he has spoken boldly sometimes too boldly and sometimes out ot of turn yet I 1 think it is Is generally agreed that general hagood Is sincere but to go back of the routine army order by which lie he was sum marily relieved of his command at the important army post of fort sam houston we find a record of general hagoods hagoodd Ha goods testimony before an appropriations committee inalie in the house bouse of re representatives presenta I 1 ives in that testimony general hagood spoke with his usual bluntness ile he apparently patently ly of offended tended somebody when he did it ills testimony ihas has been criticized and commended the war department t and secretary dern have been attacked tacked and def defended eddei and even resident president roosevelt haa been dragged into the because somewhere somehow new deal opposition has become bacon e convinced that president roosevelt and Secre secretary iry dern punished general hagood by removing him from his post because he dared to point out 11 flukes and flaws and ridiculous as pacts annew in new deal policies b bf handling taxpayers dopey general bagood was called before the alie appropriations committee by its leh chairman airman and told to ex freely press his candid sentiments his honest convictions and any con tive suggestions ho he might have respecting improvement of tile the united states army the general somewhat blusteringly related relate 4 to io the committee that the army must have additional at housing facilities he related conditions in many army posts and asserted that many persons on relief were accorded better placito places to live than uncle sams soldiers k that pirt part aroused aroused no particular controversy but when general generah na fla good told the committee of the difficulty the responsible army guilior authorities have in getting money with ivi t I 1 which to provide better housing lio usIng for the soldiers lie he stepped on administration min istia flon toes by saying that it basmore wa was more smore difficult to get biye cents for apanell than a thousand dollars with which to teach civilian con bon atlon corps boys new hobbles hobbie s or boondoggling lie ile said he could get a hundred dollars to build a gravel walk and a rose lose garden but could not got 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 handled by ad fl was stage money that nothing worth while or of a permanent character was belog being done with that money and tile the that nit he called it stags stage money because it la Is belog handed around and you can dri dd nothing v with ith it in tile the end 1115 plea was that some of these funds funda wh which ich lie he said wei c being otherwise wasted should bp be Ping loyed to bull build structures p af pf f and steel seel thai can be shown to our grand children 60 50 years yea rs tr from out now in hearing general Ilu Hu gooda goods testimony the committee understood that the war dep department ariment had bad given him to speak freely in feed deed such assurance had been passed along to the committee omin ltee arom the war department but apparently the war dep department artmen did not what general genera finegood had ou on hla his chest if it had bad known it 4 could have expected exactly alt aly such expressions because gen Con will aal never neier tins hla pinches lie he has said euch each time what he thought by saying what he thought how flow evera ever he fie undoubtedly moved across the line of discretion army cers must guard their speech they are under disciplinary regulations it hns has to be so Other otherwise wisp we would see frequent outbursts by army offic officers ersIn in opposition to established policies rules and regula re gulit eions and it takes no stretch odthe of the imagination to see wilt a disordered mess would result on the other hand general na fia good was ceita certainly privileged to belleve that hla his ou ob then the gerva tlona ions were sto storm rm bro kebel ng made only for the committee of congress before which he appeared the doors to pie he committee room were closed nd locked and only committee fetn members bers were in attendance it happened however that subsequently the stenographic record of the committee hearings was made public and when that thai hopp happened ened the storm broke al most simultaneously with tile the removal of the file bond of secrecy ou oil tile the committee record the war do di apartment part ment order den orning general Generi il hagood was written when mien that happened the politicians literally lit erifilly blew up they shouted charges of cm cen terrorism by lie president and secretary dern dictatorship political politic al punishment and half a dozen other vicious accusations on A few of the administration spokesmen in congress defended the war department action almost in altion them the same breath these ad adminta mints spokesmen sought confer ence with secretary bernand dern Der nand and others in an af attempt tempt to persuade tile the president and the war secre secretary to 0 o soften tile the punishment but those moves modes were futile anti anil representative blanton texas Dem shouted shoil ted on the floor ot of the house hou that the punishment would cost the party a nill mil lion iton votes unless it were withdrawn As a part of 0 tile the defense of the war department action gen craig chief of stair staff of the army made public tits memorandum to the secretary 0 of w nav im respecting generah HR Hn goods an and d his testimony before the congressional committee in the pie course of this 2000 word memorandum general craig described general as a wisecracker wise cracker and lie he was probably correct in so fur far as general hagoodd hagoods Ua Ha gooda goods remarks about stage money were concerned yet I 1 have found fouad very few among the va washington sh observers whose opinions opinion sare are worth while who saw in the craig crag memorandum any real for the severe punishment meted outto out to general hagood abe order braer still stands general hagood la Is going to his home ln in charleston ChArlest bu S cab 0 to await orders 1 no no one familiar the army procedure expects that general hagood ever again will bp be given an army assignment he hd will be ba sixty four years yeara old next nest year had and at that time automatically retires from active duty so there P Is hardly any question but that general allagood has held his last command the whole situation suddenly come to be known ili as the hagold case is bolind to be multiplier and mirrored it will figure in tile the coming political campaign because however ju justified Justl stIfled Hed the war department action way may haye bee been n in tile the interest of discipline and good army tid mInIstration there are re thousands of individuals who never will be convinced that the na hit good removal was wag for any purpose other than a as 9 punishment because he be criticized now new deal spending policies i although there ls Is and can do be no connection between tile the two it was the basis tor t 0 r a af U S cit at really humorous dallas fair reaction V that at during cheji e when the controversy raged over general lin goods removal from his texas army post a fe elt leral ral government committee was busily engaged in making plans for federal fei leral participation in the testis centennial Centon nial expo ekpo which opens at dallas aria 0 uncle sam Is spending the he largest sum bum congress ever has authorized for or federal fedell participation in in such 4 khov bo that t wenty twenty odd government agen agencies cles can display to exposition visitors what the government lias has do rione w ath th its billions since the cards were shur shuffled fled for the new deal the agricultural department as usual will be represented by t the le largest large st of alt all federal exhibits tile commerce department and the state war navy treasury jus alce alost office interior and labor departments art merits will have booths or buildings the administration and the earitt vired it administration will be ba there with displays of their wares and the public health service will tit tempt to further the copse of henith health in its usual splendid fashion 0 western newspaper union |