"THN jjIST.-.IUlG- rQ:,>;
From the warmy and Navy Journal" of Feb.Ebth fS2N, under the
healing ‘'Having No Vote",is gleaned the following;
11 The Government has been cutting the punishment for sedition,
and now it proposes to cut the rewards for sorvice.hu^mingly there
is sympathy to spare for the seditiou3#but none to spare for the
man who did his fighting duty for his country. •*•... It is true
that Congress L,ets. fairly maudl in's one tines #in its expressions of
sympathy for the great body of veterans of the Great ./ar,but its
sympathy stops short of the men whu wore the uniform of the Regu
lars during th.j fighting.The .army men cannot talk backfwhile the
farmer Sv. ldiurs oan talk back if they want tutar*d#moreQverf they
can vote back*why search further for a reason foi* the attitude of
Congress toward the men who are willing to serve their country for
a life-time instead of for a stated term?"
JUoT TO LlrROVh THN jp$»L£ m LlTTLg:
Sec.lS.-Bervice lay Bills* ••••Vand nothing contained in
this act shall operate to reduce total* of pay and allowances which
any enlisted man of the ^rmy,Navy,liarine Corps,or Cpast Guard is
now receiving during his current enlistment,and while he holds his
present grade or rating.." n
AND ALSO: - *
For the h^hfit~t>f ^he~many_jaembers of Congress who
road "£he Ghilkat Post1' regularly, we might add;-'*Xf ydYTfool much
with ijy pay,you lose a darn good soldier on or before my enlistment
is upy-uiiti) ^LSO.-^vhen you take away Foreign Service lay from the
troops in Ala ska, PLEASE take off the extra fifty bucks that it now
costs to buy out of this joint*'1
THE 1IENTAL is to the PHYSICAL as FQUft to ONE* EORALE-now-under
the new pay bill is as THIHTY SIA to TWENTY Oi©.
NO SOLDXER can occupy the higher non-commissioned grades un
less he is a pencil pusher**kt least that is how things look to a
nook and lowly "copporaV*Y/e push a wicked pencil- ourselves ,but
would be an interested spectator of a battle fought by,say,five
hundred of the loading typewriter buzzards of two opposing armies*
V/e v/ouldn't care how heavy the casualties were*
JOHN BHO./N BNLT3 TO BA WORN BY ALL SOLDIERS:
l?rom ft i?Yisco paper(
‘•John Brownis body goes mouldering in the gravef
But his belt goes marching round'1#
This was th* variation of the famous song#heard yesterday
at the xTesidio.follcwing the formal issuance of orders that all
enlisted men and field clerks of the Army oust don "John Brown"
belts#
The "John Brown" belt is the little brother of the "Sam
Browne",now worn by officers#and consists of the broad leather
band about the waist #without the shoulder strap#
Twenty five thousand ffohn Browns will be worn in the Nin
th Corps Area as a result of the order#- —
The beltf is v/orn by Tommy Atkins in England to support -
his bayonet#
Coincident with the order to put on John Brown belts v/as
an order issued forbidding either an officer or an enlisted nan
to wear their hands in their pockets# Two time offenders*it is
said,face the prospect of having their pookets sewed up#