The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-04-30
EDITOR VERSUS
ARMY OFFICER
Two Letters In Which Each Say.
What He Thinks of The
Other

I OCnOF /
For the delectation and dlvertlse-
ment of it's readers, THE lNDEPEN--
| DENT publishes the following cores
| pondence of recent dates. Capt. andrew
L. Pendleton. CmomandaRt OF the he
serve Officers Training Corps of the
| Georgia School of Technology, writes to
w 0 Saunders. editor of THE lNDE-
PENDENT, from Atlanta under date OF
Apr 21.
Here is Capt. Pendleton's caustic let
ter, followed by the editors reply:
Says PendIeton
My dear William o. |
There has always been gentleman
agreement between us to the effect that
we could always tell each other what we
thought of one another with out the
othe getting peeved. Personally l like
Won a hell of lot. The man that you
: are is self-made. You've got plenty OF
ambition, and except for the narrow CON
fines of your environs and the high
cost of travel you could be devlllsh de-
Ightful / know you, know you so dern
well that 1 like yoI, and this is GER
tainly strange when you come to think
about it. Our views are so entirely dlt-
ferent that they hover about the two
very extremes of human fancy. In fact.
if I held YOUR views about various things
l would feel more at home in Russia
Your Harney cartoon in the April 9TH
issue amuses me the same as 1t mas no
doubt amused your readers in the First
\. G.. District. You'll never get to Con-
| gress if you are opposed to feeding your
followers on pork ;" They love 1T as
much as a Hebrew hates it. 1t even
pleases the multitude more than did the
two loaves and five fishes Tor vice YER
- sal that Christ manipulated for his fol-
lowers F'igurativey speaking that was
| pork And aren't yOu sick OF govern
! ment control of utilities. If people like
n you don't stop stirring up discomfort
we'll have to control the railroads, mines
etc. but it will be with 100 per cent
Americans armed with rifles and machine
guns Mark what l say. In 1910 L told
YOU that we would be mixed up in a
world war in less than ten years and
YOU called me fool. Your idea of tax
ing idle land is funny. What are you
going to do about the North Pole that
Il belongs to us? Wouldn't l hate to see
YOU turned loose with Free Speech and
Free Press. Why not add Free Silver?
There are too many dangerous people
\ in this country now for us to give speech
& and the press any more freedom than
NJ they ,h:ave now. The vicious and nefna-
cious Hun propaganda would read like
Bible stories alongside of some of the
stuff that l know you would turn out.
The Lord saved the world with one Ark
and now the Department of Justice is
trying to save the L. S. with another
Do you believe in Free Transportation
lis What do you know about war? War
ne Referendum saved Germany and made
,ls us the goat. You don't know much
.al about War; you missed the best one
- that we ever had. Just think, without
that war Germany would still have the
rs Kaiser. Your friends in Hunland are
IL the real limburger'' now; they have the
n opportunity of a life time to put YOU
le ideas of good government into practice
What's this about no war without thu
.os vote of the people? What we goin,
to do while the people voting?
~ would hate to be voter in Norfolk witt
'ar an enemy fleet in Hampton Roads. Tel
at TO one you would claim San Francisco a
he your legal residence. How do you stan
err on birth control? l would truly wei
ew come what you term Universal Disarm
a ament. but my good sense tells me t
* let the other fellow do it first.
tbo True indeed is the old saying tha
en-, nothing is so bad that there isn't som
little good in it. And this is true 9
''S your shaky old platform; it has on
plank that isn't rotten, Education.
And in making this admission am pos
sessed with the one fear that were yo
lc given the opportunity you would try t
W. legislate education into the noodles {
the masses. With your independent
ne you could educate more people than yo
could by going to Congress. But yo
don't even do this; much of the time yo
feed them the kind of stuff that make
white folks red Sometimes / thir
eh' that you must have smelled somethi1
lea- bad in your cradle and you've never go
rcle ten over it. Now don't tell me that W
the wear a sprig of mstletoe on your Goa
der tails for fellows like me.
iece Just one word more for your pla
laid form. I know of one excellent purpo
Var 1T could serve: your Wei developed po
and terror should be spanked forcbily and S
80 verely with each of its planks.
rate 1 know darn we'll that you believe
WI Cash Bonuses for ex-service men. &c
,,,od tanly you do because 1 do not. Woul
'Seu MT you rather see my small pay
yer, Army officer increased? You might ne
loyd us of the Regular Army again befo
Ass, vour voters finish voting on the ne
rine war and before you get Japan to d
arm Think it over.
I could account perhaps for your w
ideas if it were not for the fact that
.- too have read Hubbard, Brann and
ME Bible. I like to read Bob" Ingers
too as well as Omar, but there is me
,sjon in the 18th chapter of list Corinthia
than in all of their discomf orti
thoughts.
William O. you are great fellow, 6
liza In. 80 ,o,, in q warmer n1sce II
to a C.oncrass Wait until we are cur
| has With soviet rule in this land of
dacy, free before you build your political pl
de form--or reform. Victor Berger is
+ the close neighbor of mine, aItho we
iokes separated by iron bars. I hope yo
- come to Atlanta sometime to visit
last. puI ~ Ill 70 GO 1o, iollv old Falst
much '". r, -. :, uo.11x- ,ood oh
,rest- - 80 ,,,o,,ldn,+ mind 50 much s
the 1o,, tbere Give 'em a chance "Bi
they may not need you after all. Al
wear to two more the Investigation