Show 2 pm washington R ng t I 1 L digest D 4 ia national t i on a ito topics p i c s I 1 n alu I 1 X V I 1 by W WILLIAM LI BRUCK BRUCKART RT I 1 C IJ Q NATIONAL PRESS ASHING ON 0 C washington ak routine war department me nt order came ahr through cuili the other day w which aich said crap thunder r tl cally over sod by direction of 1 the president maj ga gen Jo johnson finson hagood US S A is relieved lie 21 ed from fia assignment opt 0 to o the corn coin m mind 13 d of the he eighth 1 corps chips area and 1 uty a at it fort r amii hou houston 1 ton texas major general hagood will proceed to hla his home and awalt await orders each day there comes from the war department anywhere from aiom two to or three to a couple of dozen orders by which army offices are t transferred red from one post to another from one assignment to another or given new instructions it Is s not tinus unusual uil at all that Is why I 1 sala said itt at tile the outset 0 of tills this item that the order respecting 9 general hagood wils was roy routine tine but it was rou in the language that was used Ot otherwise lIse it was sign significant just how significant it drove to be remains as a secret to bei unfolded by the future suffice to say that seldom has one minor incident of government erill ment administration pron jedi guich a storm stor maa ds this acif arm y order beca because se it has become a political issue general ila lagood Is the third ranking officer I 1 in the united states army lie ile tins has bee been n in the service something lle like forty years ills his record Is generally dedo as distinguished but U t at the same time he has n never e y er been ac n a pussyfoot i ue he has spoken boldly sometimes to too boldly and sometimes out of turn yet I 1 think it Is generally agreed that general hagood Is sincere but to go back of the r routine oll tine army order by which he was summarily relieved of his command at the important army post 0 of fort sam houston we find a record of general hagoods hagoodd Ha goods testimony before an ampro committee in the house of representatives in that testimony general hagood spoke with his usual bluntness he apparently offended somebody when he did it ills testimony has been criticized and commended the war department and secretary dern have been atta attacked and defended and even president roose velt has been dragged into the con controversy tro versy because somewhere somehow new deal opposition ere it has L 9 become convinced that president roosevelt and Secret secretary nry dern punished general hagood by removing him from his post because lie he dared to point out flukes and flaws and ridiculous aspects in new deal policies of handling taxpayers money general hagood was called before the appropriations committee by its chairman and told S speaks P eaks to express his can freely did d sentiments his honest convictions and any constructive suggestions lie might have respecting improvement of the united states army the general era somewhat blusteringly related to the il he committee that the army must have additional housing facilities he related conditions in many army posts and asserted that many persons persona on relief were accorded better places to live than uncle sams soldiers that part aroused no particular controversy tro versy but when general hagood told the committee or of the difficulty the responsible army authorities have in getting money with which to provide better housing for the soldiers he be stepped on administration toes by saying that it was more difficult to get live fire cents for a pencil than a thousand dollars with which w ille h to teach civilian conservation corps boys new hobbles or boondoggling ile he said he be could get a hundred dollars to build a gravel wal kanda rose garden hil but t could not get ten itin dollars with which to repair li a broken steam pipe in an army barracks I 1 the next outburst by the general brought forth his description that money being handled by relief administrator hopkins was stage money that nothing worth while leor or of oad a per manent character was being done with that money and the that he be called it stape money kit k it Is being handed around and you yon can do nothing with it in the end his plea ivas was that some ot these funds which he be said were being otherwise othern lse wasted should be employed to build structures str i n of concrete and steel that can cabbe W shown to our grandchildren GO 50 years from now tt 1 l in bearing general IIa goods mony the committee understood that the war department in given him permission to speak freely f eel aj indeed such buch assurance had bad been passed alo along ng to the from the war department part ment but apparently the war department part ment did not know what general hagood had on his chest if it had known it certainly could 1 pecked exactly S uch such expressions because general has pulled his punches 1 jact has said gold vh ch h alire what he thought TV 1 i lill I 1 by say saying g what hat he thought however he undoubtedly moved a cross across the line of discretion t army A otti cers enst itin guard their inc jh 1 they mei ahre are older u n der disciplinary regulations regulation iS it has to be so BO otherwise would see fj quent outbursts by army ln tion to established policies clos rules and regulations rep abad stakes no 6 stretch ot of ai ll 11 t to see what a dis alsor or ered niesa r result j S S on the other hand general 1 ars beffie th hat it 3 fernainy ia J lifs ve ie thih tie fhe elg made only for vorm storm broke tile e committee of con i gre gressel its I 1 before which lie he appeared ti doors to til alfe e 0 rii ml t tw ere lelo closed gif tin and d I 1 locked ock edland fand only committee members were vere in attendance it happened b lippe n Jm ever that g subsequently tle record abe committee I 1 hearings was made on public I 1 lie and when that happened the korm storm broke almost simultaneously with the removal of the bond of se crecy on the cammi committee record the war depart inept order de horning ge general nellil 1 as written ahen that hap I 1 ae jidy the p politicians 1 litel filly blew ap pp up they shouted charges cens censor or i phlp terrorism by tile the president and j i e f ar y dern deit dictatorship political poetical punishment and palf hilf a doan other vicious accusations i A few 0 of f spokes j men in co congress defended the vir def apartment part ment almost id th team lit aad breath these d spokesmen sought conferences with dern and n tin an toper suade tile the president and aai dabe the 1 war i v a z see sec 1 4 detary to soften a ahe the punishment b but U t th those ose moy mores ps 1 I ae at and id en 1 democrat shout ed edathe edw the tho honse blat that the would coff the tha crat ccarty cp arty E a L million votes unless if were ft ith di awn As a part of the an defense S dof of the he war wa r department action gen malin cragg C chief of staff of the army arm made public his me memorandum morand um to the secret tny of war var respecting general Hagob ds attitude and his testimony before the congressional committee in the colise of this 2000 word memorandum general craig described general hagood as S a wise cracker and lie ile wits ns probably correct in so far as general iia ha goods remarks about stage money were concerned yet iet I 1 have haie found very ery few among the washington observers ob senera whose opinions are worth while who saw in the craig memorandum any reil real justification for the severe punishment meted inc ted out to general hagood IIa good the order still stands general alagood Is going to ills his home in charles ton S 0 to awalt await orders 11 no one familiar with the army procedure expects that general alagood ever eier again will be glien given tin an arndi assignment lie ile will be sixty four yens years old next year 1111 and d nt at that time automatically retires from active duty cluty so there Is hardly any it 11 y question but that general general hagood lias has held his last command the whole situation suddenly come to be known as the hagood case Is bound to be multiplied and mirrored it will egure la in the coming political campaign because however justified the war department action may have been in the interest of discipline and good army administration there are thousands of individuals who never will be convinced that the hagood removal was for any purpose other than its as punishment because lie he criticized new deal spending policies I 1 although there Is and can be no con connection between the two it was the basis for a really hu US at reaction that dallas fair during the time when the con controversy troi ersy raged over general hagoodd hagoods IIa Ha goods removal from ills texas army post a federal government committee was busily engaged in making plans for federal fei lern participation in the texas tern centennial exposition which opens at dallas june jund 0 6 unete sam is spending 66 lie larg largest eaf 1 sum congress ever has authorized for federal participation in such a show so that twenty odd government agencies can display to position exposition ex visitors visitor IN hat J it government has done with I 1 its ts billions s sance nee the ifie cards were ere shuffled for the new deal the agriculture department as usual will be represented by the largest cfall federal exhibits tile alie commerce department i and the state war navy treasury justice ost office interior and labon departments will have their booths or buildings the Fea i eyal housing administration and ithe ie r farm credit tad ministration will ibl e with displays of their wares and the service will at to further the afi cause 1 is 0 of fie health alth in its usual ifil I 1 on feature off he govern bai ion will jaja beia negro builder building ngim in which it will vill tell ell I 1 the story of the negro race and its progress since the hyst first slaves were I 1 into n to america plans call for the use of negro labor in the construction of this exhibit building and as far as poss lle ilae negroes gioe will 1111 prepare the exhibits 0 westor newspaper union t j |