The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-04
THE OLD STORY REIOLD
COZ. 1oYDEN, WEARIED IN WELL
DOING, QUITS SOLDIERS
HOME ABROAD.

Raleigh, Dec. 2.-CoI. A H. Boyden,
chairman of the board of directors Of
the soldiers home and postmaster at
Salisbury, has weried in well-doing
and Monday morning his resignation
will be in the hands of the board.
The youngest looking and best look
ing Confederate soldier in North Car
o1ina has had tougher time during
his four years management of the
home than endured as bov following
! Lee in the army of northern Virginia
| No military life on any front in any
country on earth is comparable to the
| job assigned the man who undertakes
to run the soldiers home in Raleigh.
| There are truceS, occasional armis-
tices for burying the dead, often fire
less days even in world war. But
the fighting at home stops for nothing.
And the warfare is worse than even
the most savage that Germany invent
e At the home here in Raleigh it is
not only necessary to fight all the out
side, but most of the inside. And Col
onel Boyden, willing enough to fight
Yankee soldiers, finds it hard to bear
arms against his own comrades and
there is no other way out of it but to
get out.
+ In the days of Colonel Boyden's pre-
decessor Col A. B. Andrews, the wo-
men were not much of the govern
ment out there. Colonel Andrews was
not feminist and he disposed of the
whole business with the laconic 'T
don't want the women about me-"
meaning of Milton-Colone1 Milton.
He never precourse about the manage
ment of the home. The women stayed
away beautifully, they always do
things that way, but they did not like
it and often said so. The war of 1917
never will be forgotten nor that of it's
predecessor in 1916. Long before the
year that President Wilson "kept us
cut of war" with Germany, -Comrade
C. w. Small Of Pasquotank put the
soldiers home into the greatest Of all
the wars ever fought there. Comrade
Small enlisted everybody on the out
side against everybody on the inside
Yand thus it ragged until Comrade
Small, after arraying everybody on
the outside against him, left thp home.
He has not returned.
There Is No Peace.
OF course everybody expected peace
then but peace did not come. Com
rade, Scott Lineberry, superintendent
of the home, was the next point
stormed Colonel Boyden put out the
word that come what might, he never
would train a gun on a conrad with
HIM But Captain Scott, even with
Auditor Penn Wood and Colonel Boy
den was unable to hold the fort, he
capitulated and again the Confeder-
acy was defeated.
Then came big, fat, jovial Dave
Milton Colonel Milton. He never pre-
tended to have gained his colonelcy
under the stars and bars; he didn't
even tell where he got his title. 1t
may have been conferred upon him in
anticipation of the militant life he was 1
soon to lead. Colonel Dave came in
with the revolution. Women were Civ
en- more to do at the home. 1t was
sort Of turned over to them. General
Julian S. Carr and Colonel Boyden,
two as hot-headed young suffragists as
ever lost patience with a man trying
to argue the cause down, were in per-
feet rapport as to the place OF women
in the home. The Daughters of the
Confederacy had made many pro-
test about that institution out there
and Messrs.~ Boyden and Carr said
things must be improved. The men
members were rather Indifferent to
the board meetings, so women were
put on the governing board. Colonel
Boyden went up to Colonel Dave Mil
tons home and as he has often said,
without any written or statutory au-
thority for it, -put Miss I. Irwin Paylor
at the home as sort of minister extra
ordinary and angle plenipotentiary.
| But that hasn't ended the war. The
surplus of women hasn't brought one
bit of peace. In fact, if a man wished
to be mean about it he could produce
| statistics to prove that there have
been more military engagements out
there under the women than ever.
Which doesn't mean anything more
than this: Either the feminine war
species is more deadly than the mas
fculine, or what goes on out there is
so much more of an affront to the Wo-
men than it has been to the men that
j they make fiercer and more frequent
outcry. Certainly, peace has not been
declared.
Colonel Dave Weary, Too.
|. Colonel Bovden has had Dave Mil
! toms resignation in his pocket for
days and the Salisbury chairman of
i the board spent nearly week in Raj
eigh- lately trying to get new man
for superintendent. Colonel Dave had
grown weary, too. Internal affairs
were too much for him. When Colo
mel Boyden came here he was prom
: ised a man, but th@ calling and cleo
ton sure enough, the disabilities were