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Show "DRUMMER BOY" TO RETIRE A bill was introduced recently in the lower house of Congress by Mr. Ash-worth Ash-worth of Ohio to retire with the rank of major general three of the best-known best-known officers in the United States army. In the memorandum attached to the bill it is stated that "these' three men, with a single exception, form the last remnant of that army of a million and a half men who fought for the preservation Of the Union." The exception referred to is Maj. Daniel W. Arnold of the quartermaster's quartermas-ter's department, who also retires by age limit next summer, However, he does not figure In the biil because of the fact that it was not until 36 yea '3 after Appomattox that he came Into the army as an officer from civil life. The three whose names are mentioned men-tioned in Congressman Ashworth's bill and the combined total of whose services serv-ices in the army add up to more than 150 years are Brie. Gen. Daniel H. Brush, commanding the department of California; Col. James N. Allison of Governors island, and Col. John I. Clem, now on duty in Chicago. Colonel Clem is affectionately known to his comrades com-rades of the service as "Johnny Clem, drummer boy of Chickamauga." Colonel Clem is not a West Pointer. He had a chance, but became a ' commissioned officer about the same time as did Colonel Allison and General Brush. |