Show AMONG BIRDS OF PASSAGE editorial asserts west point vill bill continue to turn out crop of second lieutenants that the second lode of whom tl ere were so many during the war Is more or less an institution of active warfare Is shown in an editorial from the american legion weekly under the file caption birds of passage cassag e 1 it follows hurled in the recent official list of the number dumber of army officers of all grades who have contrived to survive the guillotine gull otine appeared this inconspicuous entry second lieutenants all arms only second lieutenants lefel and once there must have been that eirv ampy thou thousand who shall now deny lint hat the war Is over overt certainly while it tested lasted they bloomed like so runny nordy perennials en emerging full blown from the tran training Jn camps and finally from the ranks for was not the top sergeant only a little lower than the angels after the armistice when divisional and regimental began beg an to appear ia oler 01 er the A E F the second lieutenant won fresh immortality Immor talty in the q alps which ur mr bones passed to mr tumbo and lice ilce versa it was a token of lil ill popularity for humanity cities es not pole poke gentle fun at what it bates the second lieutenant Is not extinguished ting most of him lias has graduated into a first lieutenancy wet west point will of course continue to turp out its annual crop but even these mill a few months enter the larger er life of the silver bm bar |