The Lamar register., 1919-02-26
CABINET OFFICIALS
SAVE SONS AT FRONT
Presidents SOn-in-Law Alone Near
Danger From Shell As Y. NJ.
c. A. Worker.
BY Smell Smith

tive Royal c. Johnson, of South Dako-
Ia, who enlisted as a private in jan
uary, 1918, and earned first lieu
tenacy on the battlefields of France,
compares the heads of the present
Democratic administration to the royal
family of Germany in that they have
never permitted their sons to get hurt
on the firing line.
81 regret" said Johnson in q speech
to his colleagues in the House, that
it is impossible to get anything from
this administration for the doughboy
because no son or relative of anyone
intimately connected with it was al
lowed to fight. Facts are facts and
you might as well meet them, and it
is shame that these clean-cut Amer-
can boys were prevented by their
fathers or mothers and the admins
tration here at Washington from get
ting into battle as they would have
preferred to do. 1t is an outrage that
they were not permitted to make the
same record that the rest of the boys
of the country could make.
"One of the Cabinet members who
has been very prolific in his state
ments that the world must be made
safe for democracy allowed his son to
chase submarines on Chesapeake Bay.
Finally on September 3, he landed at
Bordeaux, France, and was sent to
town forty miles from there for train
/ ing. know this boy and he is
real boy and wanted to get in and
fight, but would they let him? |
should say not Within a week after
his arrival there the great colonel Of
the American Expeditionary Forces,
Colonel House. wired for him to come
to Paris, and after a short trip to
Germany to secure souvenirs. he is
now carefully guarding the person of
the Colonel from any intrusion.
another bright and capable son OF
Cabinet member has been retained
in this country and not even allowed
to put to sea. | knew Of that young
man and know that he would be a
fighting man II he had the chance.
His father or mother or the admins
Itration were careful to see that he
was never taken on a destroyer or
allowed to get in danger.
"Yet, to be fair. will say that there
is one exception in the son-in-law OF
our President, who enlisted in the Y.
NJ. c. A., and. If / remember cor
rectly. was somewhere in France for
week or two, and the newspapers
report that a shell fell within few
yards OF him. greatly jeopardizing his
future career.
"How foolish TO expect that this
administration would do anything for
the doughboy except to preach to
him! Why. they would not even
allow Ollie Newman. one OF the
bravest young men who ever wore the
uniform, former commissioner Of
the District of Columbia, to get with
in smell Of powder. They sent him
as an official chaperon Of the Presi-
dents daughter when she went abroad
to sing for the doughboys. When she
began singing and the poor kids were
lined up. all tired out from the work
Of the day and forced to attend the
service, just like in the nursery story
of the old lady and her pig, the gen
eral would tell the Colonel. the
Colonel would tell the Major. the
Major would tell the Captain. and the
peer Captain would be forced to line
up one-half of the company and
march them over for the singing fes-
tivities.
"There surely were some rough
spots in this war for the poor Ameri-
can doughboy and he will never for
get it. II is easy for me to under
stand the lack Of interest on the part
of this administration in him because
not one relative connected with it has
ever been allowed to become one"