The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-03
ARMY INVESTIGATIONS.

'"The foes of his own household, These are
of all foes the most dangerous, of all foes the
most hopeless One may fight the pen enemy,
strike back the man of the other camp, but the
foe with which one has followed, the foe who has
broken ones bread, who has eaten ones salt, and
who has then turned against the household that
made hm-this is the foe unworthy, the foe
that is less than foe
The open foe, however brutal however cruel!
however powerful may be met with weapons
that will force him back But the foe who wears
the face of friend, the foes Of ones own house
hold, how may meet them. how may ono
crush them, without STOPPING to their own base
level?
Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts,
democrat. has thrown 4 bomb into the halls Of
Congress, 50 it il claimed BIZ press disnatches
with the reiteration of the charges that national
guard officers were removed from their COM
mands to make room for regulars Senator Cal
Ivan read letter signed by forty guard officers
50 It is alleged, charging that an investigation
would prove that medical officers had been or
dered to report officers who light replace regu-
lars as unfit; that national guard officers and
reserves were sent into the thick Of the fight
while regular army men were held back; that
General Wood was treated more like a German
spy than al officer Of the United States. and
that scores Of men were sacrificed because Of
flcers IN command were anxious for promotion.
The letter also charged jealousy
1t is difficult to believe that any forty Off
GERS Of standing, Of American blood and Aneri-
can breeding, would lend their names to the sie-
nature Of letter covering such charges IS
these
# these charges are true, there should at BE-
forty, but ten times forty men to substantiata
such charges.
II these charges are based on fact these forty
men should be hailed before congress and ma la
to testify. and not only these but ten times forty
It these charges are true, it should be possible
to get hundreds Of men to substantiate them
It is quite possible for hundreds to know Of
these shortcomings in the army as forty, and
the testimony of companies of men are liable to
be more accurate than the testimony of indivi-
dual men, here and there
This letter should not be allowed to go unchal-
enged by the department at Washington nor the
army. But the investigation should not be all
on one side. The first person to be investigated
should be Senator Galnger,-then each of the
men who have made the charges and the charac-
tiers OF these men should be probed and proofs
shouid De demanded of every assertion-not men
VINO VIII SAY that these statements are correct
but men who will PROVE that they are cor
rect.
1t IS high time that the American nation
should put a stop to the wild charges made in
the nails OF Congress. Seekers of notoriety and
partisan promoters should be forced to prove as
sert1ons made, when they attack this govern
ment Al any time this should be so. but al this
time when the peace of the world is TREMBLING. in
the balance, when the army and the navy are
beng demobllzed, when the war machine is
slowing down the man or the woman who
strikes at the service. should be made to prove
every charge. And if he makes false charges he
should suffer therefor.
These charges are either true or false They
should be investigated But before Congress
SPENDS too much money on these Investigations,
let the government look about for the niger in
the Wood-plle. There may have been Jealousy
on more sides than one and the forty names
signed to the letter should form an important
clue to where the niger is located.
The National American Woman Suffrage asso-