Show Lincoln's Son Soo Got GotI I No Army Commission I 1 I Elliott Roosevelt now Captain Elliott Roosevelt by virtue of or an army commission commis- commis Blon slon signed d and authorized by his hie father In news i President Roosevelt Is reported I I dispatches to be on the way to Wright I Airfield at Dayton Ohio a 0 reasonably spot where the Associated Press I for tor as Cap- Cap Captain I says Ho He will report duty tain tal tain l In the procurement division of ot the I Army Army Air Corps I II Tho Th o oas procurement division docs does not I j as every buck private knows have any any- anything anything thing to do with fighting It does the I procuring or buying of ot supplies every every- everything everything everything I thing from beans to bombs An officer In It doubtless has to take great risks I He may fall taU off his swivel chair He has i iI heavy social obligations In drinking with I I salesmen of ot supplies under tables at early carly morning hours I Ho has to be bored stiff by conversing with moronic corporation executives He Be HeIs Heis I Is subject to dangerous temptations of or buying supplies at an exorbitant price the tho tho people paying tho the bill upon bill-upon upon hints I that his 1119 wife's wires brother can pick up a aroll aroll aroll roll of or bills somewhere But It Is evi evi- evident evident evident dent tho the Captain Roosevelt has consider consider- considered I I ed all these perils and fearlessly faces them for tor sake of ot love of ot his country I It Is also evident that his father tather who Is willing to give all aid short of or war to the British army anny and navy Is not going to Insist on trading Elliott off for tor any naval base In British Honduras but butIs butIs butis Is Determined that Elliott shall face tace the i I danger to democracy across the English Channel from tho the perilous ramparts of ot ofa a a. desk In the pantry at Dayton Ohio I Wako Wake up America 1 shouted sho ted Ambas Ambas- Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador I Bullitt a few tew weeks ago And wo we echo America wake up I There was a president of or the United States who likewise had bad a son On January 19 1865 he wrote the tho following to General Grant I Lieutenant General Grant Please read and answer this letter as though I was i not President but only a friend My son I now In his twenty-second twenty year having I graduated at Harvard wishes to see something of or the war before It ends I Ido Ido I Ido do not wish to put him In tho the ranks nor yet to give him a commission to which those who have already served long are arc better entitled and better quail quail- qualified lied fled to hold Could he without embar embar- embarrassment embarrassment embarrassment to you or detriment to the service go Into your military family with some Bomo nominal rank I and not the pub pub- public public lic He furnishing his necessary means If II IIno no say so without tho the least hesitation because I am as ns anxious and as deeply Interested that you shall not be bo encumbered encumbered as you can bo be yourself Signed Abraham Lincoln H PRESS COMMITTEE PARK PArn CITY LADIES AUXILIARY No 43 43 |