Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-27
GENERAL WOOD
TO QUIT ARMY
Will Resign Soon to Devote
Time to Presidential
Campaign.
LITERARY PLANS IF
AMBITION FAILS
Senator Kenyon Springs Political Ss. 6
prise by Announcing His Support Of
Senator johnson For President -
VIII Campaign In Utah For Senator
Smoot - Sweet Plays Santa Claus
For Soldiers.
(By r. G. Dougherty.)

Washington, Dec. 27.-The latest
surprise to be thrown into the politi-
cal lmelight here was the report that
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood had aban-
doned his original intention OF re-
naming In the army until the Re-
publican National Convention, and
now intends to resign not later than
March 1. This announcement was
made by some of Woods supporters,
who backed it up with the statement
that General Wood had already
reached that station in life when he
realized that the army game was not
one In which money could be saved,
and that he felt 1t necessary to with
draw from the service and make a
fight for the republican nomination
for the presidency. and failing in
this, to devote his talents to writing
a daily article for newspaper OF
national circulation, such as former
President Taft now writes and such
as former President Roosevelt wrote
during the latter part Of his life.
Kenyon Springs Surprise.
Another announcement with po-
litical tinge and which was big
surprise In some circles here was
the statement by Senator Kenyon
that he intended to be active in the
advocacy of the candidacy Of Senator
Hiram johnson. for the republican
nomination, and that also he was to
go to Utah and stump for the return
g. hn "a ~ pnnI
The fact that Kenyon was to throw
his influence toward Johnson Is not
surprising as the junior Iowa sem
ator has been listed with the progress
sives in the senate, but the fact that
he has seen fit to elect to work for
Reed Smoot. one of the old "stal-
warts" Of the republican party, was
indeed unexpected.
II do not mean to say that have
come to sympathize with Mr.. Smoot's
views on some subjects" Senator
Kenyon explained, las he and | diff
fer on many things, but Mr.. Smoot
is an intensly valuable man in the
senate, and l shall tell the people Of
Utah, who have shown a dangerous
ly democratic drift in the last few
elections, just how valuable a man
to the country Mr.. Smoot is because
Of his tireless work and watchfulness
In the senate"
Sweet Santa Claus to Soldiers.
Colleagues in the house of Repre-
sentative Burton E. Sweet. of the
Third Iowa district, are pointing to
him as the most generous Santa
Claus in all congress. They declare
that If 1t had not been for Sweets
tenacious work in urging the passage
Of the Sweet bill for increased COM
pensation to wounded soldiers,
which bill was just signed by the
president and is now a law, thou
sands of wounded soldiers would not
have received Christmas gifts rang
ing up to hundreds Of dollars as
back pay or monthly compensation.
The Sweet bill carries an appro-
priation Of $S0.0O0,00O for increas-
ed pay to wounded soldiers. OF this
amount &l4,50D,00O is to provide
for amounts already due the soldiers
under the retroactive feature of the
bill. Almost half OF this huge sum
has already been sent to the soldiers
entitled to It. many Of them, doubt
less, receiving 1t by Christmas time,
and the remainder will be in their
hands by Jan. ], according to the
hope Of the bureau Of war risk in
! surance. whose clerks are making
the payments.
The war risk bureau also has got
ten activelysAt the task Of encourag-
ing soldiers, and other former SER
vice men who dropped their war risk
insurance, to reinstate the policies.
To bring this about, 100000 pam
phlets Of instructions how to pro-
ceed have been issued and are being
distributed by the bureau. The in
PRODUCTION to the pamphlet reads:
ITO former soldiers. sailors and ma
rines: The Sweet Bill,' which al
lows lump sum payments OF insur-
ance on permanent United States
government life insurance policies.
has been O. KID by congress" Then
follows directions how to convert
their policies. One statistician esti
mated today that II all the 100000
pamphlets being distributed by the
war risk bureau we're put end to
end, they would reach from Wash
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