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Show AMONG "BIRDS OF PASSAGE" Editorial Asserts West Point Will Continue to Turn Out Crop of Second Lieutenants. That the "second looio," of whom there were so ninny during the war, )s more or less an Institution of nc-t,Ivc nc-t,Ivc warfare Is shown In nn editorial from the American Legion Weekly under the caption "Birds of Passage." tt follows: "Burled In the recent official list of the number of nrmy officers of all (trades who have contrived to survive the congressional guillotine appeared this Inconplcuous entry: "Second lieutenants (t.ll arms).. 233. ! "Only 233 second lieutenants leftl nd once there must have been that tuany thousnnd. Who shnll now deny hat the war Is over? Certainly while )t lasted they bloomed like so many hardy perennials, emerging full blown from tbo training camps nnd finally from the ranks, for was not the top lergeant only a little lower than the ingels? "After the Armistice, when divisional and regimental shows began to appear 611 over the A. E. F., the second lieutenant lieu-tenant won fresh immortality in the quips which Mr. Bonos passed to Mr. rnmbo, and vice versa. It was a token of Ids popularity for humanity does not poke gentle fun at what It bates. "The second lieutenant Is not extinguished. ex-tinguished. Most of him hns graduated grad-uated into a first lieutenancy. West Point will, of course, continue to turn out its nnmial crop, but even these will within n few months enter the Jnrger life of the silver bar." |