The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-14
SENATOR FROM
MASSACHU SETTS
MAX IS SERIOUS
CHARGES ABOUT.
HONOR AWARDS


Washington, Jan. l4.-Urglng con-
gressional investigation OF the award
OF army decorations for services dur
ing the war, Representative Galliyan,
democrat, Massachusetts, declared be-
fore tho house that more distinguish
ed service medals, in proportion, were
awarded to army officers who never
got nearer the front than Washing
ton, than to those who saw service
overseas.
1T was common talk in the army"
said Mr.. Gallivan, that our present
chief OF staff and one of his assist
ants, colonel, whose duty 1t was
TO escort and dine foreign missions
here in Washington, have no space left
between their belts and their collars
to display the medals that have been
given them, as q result of this ser
vice"
Congress should investigate all
awards of medals and crosses" Mr.
2alliyan said, 80 as TO determine why
Bome recommendations were acted upon
favorably and others disregarded.
THE distinguished service medal has
been cheapened and certainly rid'
culed by the bold and brazen manner
in which It had been passed out to
those who belong to the elect" said
Mr.. Galllvan. 1T has been used as n
reward for friendship, it has been
used to placate those who have been
removed to make way for some one
else.
THE reading OF the sum total Of
the citations. in awarding the dis
tlnguished service medal to several
chair officers of the general staff who
never left Washington, during the
war, If believed, would certainly i'm.
press one that the war was fought
with red ink, at mahogany desks, near
the shadows OF the Washington mon.
4 ument
surely, the lounge lizards of the
second army Of the Potomac can have
no quarrel with their comrades, the
lobby lancers' OF the capitol as to
the number Of ID. S. MS these two
valiant units received for heroic ser.
vice in this war.
AS for France, wherever the com.
mander in chief sent commissioned
messenger boy on an errand, the d.
S. NJ, was sure to be the reward.
In Washington we had four diff.
ferent chief of staff during the war,
AID every one who knows anything
at all about the workings of the War
Department, knows that the predeces.
So of the present high priest Of Prus-
slanism, General Peyton c. Marsh,
We're considered unequal to the task.
Through one pretense or another they
were removed.
Ordinarily when a man has failed
III the performance of any specific task
he Is removed without reward These
men have, on the other hand, been re-
warded in the name of the president
o. the United States by the bestowal
upon them Of the d. S. NJ.
The kaiser" continued Mr. CALI.
van. with some spark Of apprecia.
ton for consistency yet alive, said
NE und Gott.' Not so your chief OF
staff, L. S. A., Peyton G.. Marsh, who
sees no reason for including 'Gott.' 1t
is simply Me- with him.
In France, there was a board OF
awards of medals that sat In Chau
mont and looked with easy favor or
giving awards TO their friends and with
blind eyes and deaf ears to recon
mendations to those without the pale.
The failure to send Major Genera
Leonard Wood overseas in command
of troops was case of international
notoriety." Mr.. Gallivan said, adding
that General Wood, was never given
Pam important active command during
the war" but "to placate public opin
ion something must be DONE"
THE bestowal of the D. s. NJ, or
General Wood" he continued. ''is
heartily approved by the entire mill
tary service, but the reason for such
bestowal looks like an interrogation
point, in the minds OF every one who
has a knowledge Of General Woods
treatment"
Inquiry also should be made into
cases of civilians who received medals
declared Mr.. Gallivan. who charged
that "Eisenmann, of Cleveland. whC
was mixed up in the clothing an(
shoddy graft, and also in the rag pick
ing graft, appears TO have got ;
medalv