Glacier County chief., 1940-02-16

D. r.lo, airy against
Nuss' Luxe ose all the hard
Cling to Horses boiled mill
With I'LL Resulfs tary advice in
- Europe, and
for machine-grm bullets. The Rus
slams in the latest emergency sent
In, not strategist in modern war,
but their most romantic cavalry gem
eral, Marshal Simion M. Budenny,
and reports Of disaster follow swift
ly. News stories chalk up another
dismal failure" in the generals
latest assault on the Mannerheim
line.
In the late summer Of 1919, when
the cables brought the news that the
Bolsheviks were whipped and IN
flight, and that the White Russian
Denikin held all Of southern Russia,
Budenny galloped through Tho
steppes, recruiting his army Of wild
horsemen. He was a Cossack, from
the Don region, gaudily appareled,
and with a huge blow-torch nous
tache that fiared magnifcently in the
wind. His little bands of free-boot-
ers grew into huge cavalry army.
It swept back, not only Denikm, but
his ally, Wrangel and stopped tho
Poles until the French came to their
aid.
The general was enshrined N
legend. He became the hero a
folk tales and songs throughout
the land-his wife, too, who rode
and fought with him. Lenin
later put him in command Of all
the Russian cavalry. He Is =
man of extraordinary energy.
''Proletarians, to horse!" was
his rallying cry, as he became
one of the country's main incit-
ers of patriotic enthusiasm. He
had all Russia thinking or at any
rate feeling that the answer to
all its troubles was in getting
everybody ON horseback.
He was a peasant, without school
ing. And there is no available rec
ord of his having had any training
or experience in mechanical war
fare. He was private in the Russo
Japanese war and petty officer IN
the early stages of the World war.
His wife, said to have been the best
rifle shot in Russia, killed herself
accidentally while cleaning a gun, in
1925. He married famous actress
of the Mali theater in Moscow, and
their joint nistrionicS have continued
to thrill the Russians. He has main
tanned a horse-breeding farm and
encouraged his countrymen to do the
same, evidently on the theory that a
good horse and a good proletarian
slogan would make any Russian I'M
conquerable.
M ANY years ago, this writer.
ArA shared an apartment with the
late Willard Huntington Wright. II
the Empire State building were an
Prof Doubles as IL wou iS" not
Philosopher and have been tan
Author of Thrills enough for
Mr.. Wright in
those days. He was an aesthetic,
fastidious in dress, multi-lingual, a
postgraduate of many European
salons, distinguished art critic and
precisionist of ideas, to whom a
primrose by the rivers brim was a
simple primulacea and nothing
more. I began to feel the altitude,
and one day dived out of a 90-story
window. 1t was not until several
years later that I learned Mr..
Wright had done the same and, con-
valescing, had become S. S. Van
Dine, authoring bell-ringing murder
mystery stories to the end Of his
days.
Somewhat similar Is Dr.. Ru-
doh Kager's ambidextrous llfe
as q philosopher and writer e
detective stories. As he ID hired
by the New York World's fair
they may need to have philoso-
pher around by next spring-st
Is revealed that this Kurt Steel
who has been keeping - awnko
nights with Judas lnceepsral
ed" Crooked Shadows," a.
the Ike, d nsne ether than n.
kager, associate pcseeoooe e
philosophy 1t New Yeek ufvuP.
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