Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-09
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cavalry, regiment led BY Custer. The
scoufge 03 the Indian ard the hero
OF the Little Big Horn, Is soon to
I be n6 intrA. The swan gong of the
DID !; regiment was Sung at IN anhi.
vetsary banQnet held recently II In
Manila, AsiA fesult OF afrnv orders,
tthesOld 1fg1ati&atiof ~ tHe reehnent
|is soon tosIagsl, away: tile tsaaitsons
hold fot "a IRA lions v will he lost:
the spirit p the regiment smust have
" nS& Nth and live = al'lile which
by IT, rsgi1kent lis rescribed BY the
MsnilaaT Times and repro sced int.par
cannotsbe bnt q short one. ..as 9
or the last anniversary banquet
held the 4 Army and Mayed Journal,
says in part: s~t~+ .t!l, sl. s ~
Last might when the officers Of
the Seventh cavalry drew UP their
chairs to the festive. board, . huge
horseshoe Shaped table which, coFer-
ed the door space of the main din.
ing ROOM of the army and navy club,
there WIS laughter and lnerrtments
Behind the laughter there was a sad:
ness, which most Of them would not
admit. Sentiment, which soldiers
scorh, tuegel hard to suppress mer.
Nriment and If during the evening
an occasional solemn carefree circle
its owner quickly weather 1t In
smiles. II Ri !
Retrospect had its place at the
board, but 1T was deep in the hearts
Of men. For last night; the Seventh
cavalry celebrated its official death.
True, the manner Of the feast was an
anniversary the forty .seventh Of the
gallant regiment, ana IN Moving bowl
and glowing speech its fang was
drunk and sung. Its exploits ut home
and abroad. its joys and sorrows, all
were expressed and IN wit, each man
striving to add ito the occasion all he
had in. Him OF tire spirit%of tho regi-'
ment. si.. I. W I,
ITO the older officers it was q
sore task. SOME Of them had faith.
ers in the Seventh, They remember
the regiments.as little boys, before
the gladstone days of West Point,
whore they went that they might sue
deed to THE places Of their faith
|ers. TO them last nights celebra-
ton was a pHrtlng of the ways that
means more than tne mere saying Of
goolby to comrades. They feel deep.
er the spirit OF the Seventh. To the
younger the occasion in its deeper
sense was not happy. because it
meant to them that they will not
grow up with s.the traditions Of the
Seventh.
of the war department Is not won
from its present purpose the Seventh
cavalry Will Srea4ain q colonial .regi.
ment, d floating rib in the military
organization After Jan. I, 1914, when
practically ALL the Officers and men
now attached to It complete their
tours Of foreign service, it will be
peopled with strangers, gathered at
random through THE service. That III.
defnable thing, the spirit of the regi.
ment., must begin at the beginning
and live q. short span of three years,
then die again. In the course of time
the, traditions of..Ethe Seventh horse
WILDE forgotten, and Its shifting per-
sonnet will no. make new traditions.
Officers and men of,sthe Seventh are
bitter against the law, which robs
them Of their organization. They feel
that some other way might have been
found now that four.ycar enlStments
remove the cause which Brought colon
inl regiments into being. I. SO \ the
Seventh horse celebrated an anniver.
sars of.itss birth and the death soon