WAR AND A PUSH HUTTON. •
If the day ever comes when the Infantry no longer holds an es
sential place in the combatant scheme, when conflicts can be decia
ed upon electric control basis, with whole continents des a
the pressing of a button and millions of Ives annihilated a ^
switching of a lever, the human race will have reached a sorJ^
Work for peace, work for international cooperation and unaers -
ing, but until these ha,re been surely achieved.never forge
fan try carrys the burden of guarding ci ''H-NcShin EXTiridge Colbv
ths PACIFIST DRIVE at chaplains.
An attempt to abolish Army and Navy chaplains is the latest
ure of the pacifist campaign. It is proposed on the one hand
demand that the Government cease employing tnem, and on ® +ft
that clergymen be forbidden by ecclesiastical authorities .
serve. The object is, of course, plain. It would give ^llr ,
propagandists a fine opportunity to point to and rail a ®
lessness" of the Army and Navy, as services in which Christian mi*
isters could not participate and the members of which were comp
ed to Ive and die ’’without benefit of clergy”.
If these hot gospelers of seditious pacifism really think tne
Army and Navy so wicked institutions that Christian ministers av
no place in or near them, we should like to commend to uhem, tor
thoughtful consideration an old-time saying of the highest
itv that ever spoke to man, to the effect that they who are w o
need not a physician, but they who are sick. -Exchange.
THE Ii'TEAd’TRY.
It was the Infantryman who did not run at the thunder of the
guns at Valmy, and who gave Democracy its chance in the face or a
the privilege of Europe. It was to the Infantry of the Old Guard
that Hapoleoi turned in his last desperate attempt to save his Em
pire at Waterloo, and it was the ‘British Infantry that broke the^ ^
03ld Guard and wrote finis to napoleon1 s story. It was the Infant v
who faced Infantry in our own Givil War and strev/ed the country
from the Mississippi to the sea with their dead. And i^ was an
Infantryman whose Infantry qualities of dogged perseverance, loy
alty to principle, and contempt of losses finally preserved these
United States as one. - The Infantry School Doughboy.
RETTTRBMENT OFTAJOR GENERAL FAFNS'WORTH.
The distinguished soldier, who has guided the affairs of the In.
fantry as Chief for the past four years, kajor General Charles S.
Farnsworth, retired from*active service on march 27th and relinqui .
shed the office of Chief of Infantry to kajor General Robert H.Alien w
General Farnsworth was called, in August, 1920, from the. Infantry
School, where he was Commandant, to fill the inportant office of
Chief of Infantry, then newly created. Under his guidance the office
was organized, and since that time he hasjdirected its operations.
The policies governing the great Infantry and Tank Schools for
mulated by him are characterized by his broad vision; those for the
guidance of other Infantry organizations and personnel were care
fully prepared and have been administered with an impartiality that
has called forth wide admiration and appreciation.
During General Farnworth’s incumbency of the office of Cheif of
Infantry.there has grown a more complete appreciation both in and
out of the Army of the sQueen of Battles'1.
BOY SCOUT BENEFIT DANCE TONIGHT AT A.B.HALL. THE LADIES OF THE
POST AND HAINES REQUESTED TO BAKE AND DONATE CAKE FOR REFRESHMENTS