LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
OF TENNESSEE

GUILFORD DUDLEY, JR.
CHAIRMAN

January 20, 1976

LIFE AND CASUALTY TOWER
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 37219
615/254-1511

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Henry Ford was nice enough to tell me about your
letter of December 26th passing on his comments and
endorsement of me to the White House for very careful
consideration for the post of Ambassador to the Court
of St. James.

I appreciate what you had to say about my background
and my record as Ambassador to Denmark and as a token
of my appreciation, not only for that but also for
what you have done for this country and the peace of
the world, I am sending you under separate cover an
article entitled "The Penalty of Leadership" which
was originally put out by the Cadillac Motor Car
Company before it became a division of General Motors.
It has hung on my wall for many years and I hope it
will be the same inspiration to you that it has been
to me over the years.

With warm regards.

A MEMBER OF THE
AMERICAN GENERAL GROUP

PROGRAM OF EVENTS

The United Nations Visits Tennessee

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1976

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

TRANSPORTATION NEW YORK TO NASHVILLE

(applicable only to invited UN dignitaries)

<table><tr><td>Check in for Departure</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>John F. Kennedy International Airport</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Capitol/KLM Terminal</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>International Departure Building</td><td>8:00 a.m.</td></tr><tr><td>Depart for Nashville</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Breakfast served during flight</td><td>9:15 a.m.</td></tr><tr><td>Arrive Berry Field, Nashville</td><td>10:15 a.m.</td></tr></table>

FORUM

Vanderbilt University, Memorial Field House 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

THE GOVERNOR AND MRS. BLANTON'S LUNCHEON ON THE GROUNDS

The Parthenon, Centennial Park 2:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

TOUR OF OPRYLAND, USA

Opryland, USA 4:35 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

GRAND OLE OPRY SALUTE TO THE UN

Grand Ole Opry House
Opryland, USA 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

TRANSPORTATION NASHVILLE TO NEW YORK

<table><tr><td>Depart Berry Field, Nashville</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Snack, beverages, complimentary cocktails served</td><td>9:30 p.m.</td></tr><tr><td>Arrive John F. Kennedy International Airport</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Capitol/KLM Terminal</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>International Arrival Building</td><td>11:45 p.m.</td></tr></table>

For further information contact nearest "UN Visits Tennessee" office
Washington, D. C.: Tel.: (202) 483-0400
Nashville, Tenn.: Tel.: (615) 741-7071

Program subject to change. All participants will be advised.
All times given are local.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

AIR TRANSPORTATION NEW YORK
TO NASHVILLE AND RETURN

All Permanent Representatives and their spouses and other invited UN officials and their spouses will be flown to Nashville and return via a special charter provided courtesy of Capitol International Airways, Inc. Capitol Airways is one of the oldest supplemental air carriers and is principally engaged in trans-Atlantic commercial charters. It is based in Smyrna, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, with sales offices all over the world. Two DC-8 jet aircraft have been made available for the flights to and from Nashville. All customary established conditions will be in effect for these flights.

Complimentary plane tickets will be sent directly to each Permanent Representative and UN official couple who accept the invitation by returning the enclosed reply card. Tickets will be sent by the "UN Visits Tennessee Committee". All acceptances should be made immediately, but no later than May 7, 1976. Charter regulations require that all reservations be made 30 days prior to departure.

GROUND TRANSPORTATION

All UN dignitaries arriving on the special charter will deplane in Nashville and proceed directly to an automobile appropriately marked with the name of the country of the Permanent Representative or with a UN official designation. Cars will be lined up in alphabetical order. Governor Blanton has assigned a driver and a military aide to each Permanent Representative couple for the duration of their stay in Nashville. Aides and drivers will also be available for other UN officials.

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY FORUM

The Governor and Mrs. Blanton will receive visiting UN dignitaries and their spouses at this distinguished American University. Permanent Representatives to the UN and other UN officials will be decorated with the Grand Cordon Bicentennial Medal of Tennessee. This ceremony will be followed by a speaking program featuring an address by Secretary General Waldheim.

The luncheon, in honor of the Secretary General and Mrs. Waldheim and the Permanent Representatives and their spouses, will be held on the grounds of Centennial Park surrounding Nashville's magnificent replica of the ancient Parthenon in Greece. UN dignitaries and other invited guests will be treated to a rural American food fair which will include live country music entertainment.

TOUR OF OPRYLAND, USA

Opryland is a musical entertainment theme park which offers a unique panorama of American musical history from Bluegrass to Rock. An official party, headed by the Governor and including country music stars, will greet the UN dignitaries and other guests of the Governor and Mrs. Blanton at the park entrance. Special hostesses will guide guests through Opryland. A reception and relaxation area will be set up in the Opry House, located on the grounds of the park.

The Grand Ole Opry is the home of American country music. The spirit of this American entertainment institution is well described by its founder, George D. Hay, who said the Grand Ole Opry "has a universal appeal because it is built on good will, and with folk music expresses the heartbeat of a large percentage of Americans who labor for a living."

There will be a special gala performance in Opryland's new $15 million Opry House, featuring many of the great stars of country music, for visiting UN dignitaries and other invited guests.

TICKET INFORMATION

UN dignitaries will receive all required admission tickets from their aides upon arrival in Nashville. Other guests will receive tickets after their acceptance has been received.

EDWARD G. NELSON, General Chairman
The Governor's State-wide Committee
"UN Visits Tennessee"

3/25/76

Nashville, Tennessee.
Life and Casualty Tower,
Life and Casualty Insurance Company,
Chairman,
Mr. Guilford Dudley, Jr.,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne 2. McFarlane

Sincerely,

be able to accept some other time,
to offer him your great cottage, and he hopes he will
pressure of events here. However, you were so nice
appear that he will be able to be present, due to the
UN program in June. Unfortunately, it does not now
stay with you and Mrs. Dudley in Nashville during the
how very much he appreciated your kind invitation to
The Secretary has asked me to let you know

Dear Mr. Dudley:

April 7, 1976

April 30, 1976

Dear Mr. Dudley:

Your letter brings to light a mystery. We have located your
letter of January 20th in our files, but we have no record of the
plaque with the inscription on "The Penalty of Leadership".

Your January 20th letter stated that the plaque was coming
under separate cover, while your recent correspondence mentions
that the earlier letter was on the back of the plaque. If the letter
was received separately from the plaque, I am afraid that the
only conclusion is that the plaque was lost in the mail. If, how-
ever, the letter was attached, I have no explanation at all, other
than that they became separated and that the plaque, without any
identification on it, simply disappeared.

In any event, the important thing is that the Secretary
does not appear to have received it. This is especially regrettable
because it was something that meant a great deal to you, and you
were kind enough to want to share with him. Perhaps one additional
"penalty of leadership" is that one is also apt to acquire, along
with the position of leadership, a large and often unwieldy bureau-
cracy, a hydra which seems to devour things with regularity.

I feel very badly about this, as I know the Secretary will
when he hears about it. Realizing that apologies are hollow when
something of value is missing, I can only assure you that I will
continue to search for the plaque in the hope that it will turn up.

Mr. Guilford Dudley, Jr.,
Life and Casualty Insurance Company,
Life and Casualty Tower,
Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville, Tennessee.
Rite and Caesarity Tower,
Rite and Caesarity Insurance Company,
Mr. Guilford Dudley, Jr.,

Susanne B. McFarlane

Sincerely,

continue to search for the blade in the probe that it will turn (b). something of value is missing, I can only assure you that I will when he hears about it. Realizing that apologies are hollow when I feel very badly about this, as I know the Secretary will

cracy, a hydra which seems to devour things with regularity, with the position of leadership, a large and often unwieldy burden, "penalty of leadership," is that one is also apt to acquire, a jarring were kind enough to want to share with him. Perhaps one additional because it was something that meant a great deal to you, though you does not appear to have received it. This is especially regrettable in any event, the important thing is that the Secretary identification on it, simply disabbed.

than that they became separated and that the blade, without any ever, the letter was attached. I have no explanation at all, other only conclusion is that the blade was lost in the mail. It, however, was received separately from the blade, I am afraid that the that the earlier letter was on the back of the blade. If the letter under separate cover, while your recent correspondence mentions Your January 20th letter stated that the blade was coming

blade with the inscription on "The Penalty of Leadership". letter of January 20th in our files, but we have no record of the Your letter brings to light a mystery. We have located your

Dear Mr. Dudley:

April 30, 1926

GUILFORD DUDLEY, JR.
CHAIRMAN

April 19, 1976

Ms. Susan L. McFarlane
Personal Assistant
to the Secretary of State
State Department
Washington, D. C.

Dear Ms. McFarlane:

Thank you for your letter of April 7. Mrs. Dudley and I are very sorry the Kissingers will not be in Nashville for the United Nations program in June and, therefore, be unable to accept our invitation to stay with us.

I would appreciate it very much if you would do me a favor as I do not know who else to write in the State Department. I sent the Secretary a wood and plastic plaque with an inscription on it entitled "The Penalty of Leadership". I am sure the Secretary never received it since I have never received an acknowledgment. A copy of the letter which is on the back of the plaque is enclosed with this letter. I would appreciate your checking into it for me to see if it has been lost in the mail.

GD:ehm

January 20, 1976

Dear Mr. Secretary:

With warm regards.

PREFACE

THIS short history of the Military Order of the Carabao is presented as a souvenir of the Seventy-Fifth Annual Wallow of the Order. This edition adopts verbatim the complete contents of the "History of the Military Order of the Carabao" which was printed as a souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Wallow, held at the Willard Hotel on February 8, 1936. The works of former Historiador, Col Frederick Bernays Wiener, USA, have been freely borrowed for the 1937-1970 period. This effort to bring the story of the Carabao up to the date of this Wallow has been the project of LtCol Thomas G. Carney, USA.

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COUNCIL

<table><tr><td>Grand Paramount Carabao (National Commander)</td><td>Adm Jerauld Wright, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Grand Paramount Carabao Elect</td><td>LtGen Arthur G. Trudeau, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Grand Lead and Wheel Carabao.</td><td>LtCol Thomas G. Carney, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar</td><td>Col James M. McGarry, USAF</td></tr><tr><td>Lead and Swing</td><td>Lt Ralph M. Bogart, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar.</td><td>LtCol Roger H. Davis, USAF</td></tr><tr><td>Gran Padre de los Carabaos</td><td>Maj Joseph W. Hartman, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Consejero General</td><td>MGen Lowell J. Bradford, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar.</td><td>Col Edward M. Lightfoot, USAF</td></tr><tr><td>Director del Banquete</td><td>LCdr Henry A. Dudley, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar.</td><td>Col John R. Crown, USA<br>BGen Richard A. Edwards, Jr., USA</td></tr><tr><td>Co-Directores de la Fiesta.</td><td>Lt Theodore F. Koop, USN<br>Capt Fred L. Archibald, USA<br>Cdr John V. Horner, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Director de Musica</td><td>LtCol Jack T. Kline, USMC</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar</td><td>Lt John R. Bourgeois, USMC</td></tr><tr><td>Historiador</td><td>Col Brooke Nihart, USMC</td></tr><tr><td>Grand Patriarch of the Herd (First VCdr)</td><td>BGen Martin F. Scanlon, USAF</td></tr><tr><td>Grand Bell Carabao (Second VCdr)</td><td>LtGen Jonathan O. Seamen, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Gran Jefe de los Amigos (Third VCdr).</td><td>Adm John S. McCain, Jr., USN</td></tr><tr><td>Grand Councilor of the Herd (Fourth VCdr).</td><td>VAdm O. S. Colclough, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Gran Jefe de los Banos (Fifth VCdr)</td><td>VAdm Murrey L. Royar, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Gran Jefe de los Cargadores (Sixth VCdr)</td><td>MGen Rinaldo Van Brunt, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Gran Jefe de los Bebidos (Seventh VCdr)</td><td>LtCol William F. H. Santelmann, USMC</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Main Guard</td><td>Adm Thomas H. Moorer, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar</td><td>Col Albert F. Schoepper, USMC</td></tr><tr><td>Winder of the Horn</td><td>Capt Harry K. Pickett, USAF</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar</td><td>BGen Royal Reynolds, Jr., USA</td></tr><tr><td>Carrentonero</td><td>LtCol Robert P. Leonard, USMC</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar</td><td>Col J. Hunter Drum, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Gamboling Carabao</td><td>Col Samuel Pierce, Jr., USA</td></tr><tr><td>Veterinario</td><td>Maj Darrell C. Crain, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliar</td><td>Cdr Gerald H. McAteer, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Jefe de Vaqueros</td><td>MGen William David Price, USAF</td></tr><tr><td>Auxiliares</td><td>Capt Joseph P. Brennan, USN<br>Capt Robert N. McFarlane, USN<br>BGen Charles L. Cogswell, USMC</td></tr><tr><td>Director de Artistas</td><td>LCdr Wallace W. Brander, USN</td></tr><tr><td>Director de Informacion</td><td>Capt Louis P. Ade, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Los Consejeros en Bosque (Councillors in the Field)</td><td>Adm George W. Anderson, USN<br>Gen Jacob L. Devers, USA<br>Gen George C. Kenny, USAF<br>LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC<br>MGen James C. Magee, USA<br>Adm Robert B. Carney, USN<br>Adm James O. Richardson, USN<br>Gen Carlos P. Romulo, PA<br>Adm Harold R. Stark, USN<br>LtGen F. L. Wieseman, USMC<br>Col Frederick Bernays Wiener, USA</td></tr></table>

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MOST exclusive of all Washington's famous clubs and societies, the world-famous Military Order of the Carabao was founded as a derisive joke, languished for some years, and developed into an organization whose membership is more rigorously guarded than that of any other military society.

In the closing days of the great Boxer Campaign in China, when the fighting was all over the officers of the allied armies met in the Temple of the Dragon in Pekin, and decided to perpetuate their comradeship in arms with a military order of their own. That was the origin of the famous Order of the Dragon, limited to officers of the American, British, Russian, French, German and Japanese Armies who had served together during those hectic days. The officers of the Sixth U.S. Cavalry in particular had had a wonderful time in China, and when some of them arrived in Manila, sporting the yellow ribbon and gold badge of the new Order, some officers of the Philippine Expeditionary Force—it wasn't called that in the Days of the Empire—among them Colonel John Biddle Porter, U.S.A. and Major George L. Byram, U.S.A., at a dinner in the old Army and Navy Club in the Walled City, decided to form a joke society to offset the Chinese organization.

To spoof the proud wearers of the Dragon, something ridiculous was necessary as a badge of the new society. Major Byram promptly suggested the most lowly, despised, cursed-at, and best loved animal the forces knew: the patient water-buffalo or carabao. The name caught instantly, and the Military Order of the Carabao came into being with a cheer. The carabao, as anybody who ever had to work with him knows, is a beast of cowlike demeanor and docility—so long as he stays wet. He is the donkey, the mule, the elephant, the abused and inevitable drudge of the Filipino and of all who live in the Islands. When our troops reached the islands they had no mules. The roads were bad, the bush impenetrable, all the conditions such that the guns could not go up without reliable motive power that would not bog down in the rains or wilt under the torrid heat. The answer was God's gift to the "little brown brother," the most faithful of all beasts of burden, so long as he can have his daily supply of something wet. Deprive this docile creature of his right to water in unimaginable quantities, and the time to wallow in

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Military Order of the CARABAO

the muddy shallows, and he becomes a very different and a very formidable beast indeed. This characteristic made the carabao the butt of infinite jest in the army. Even the fact that the first field artillery used in the Islands got into action only by grace of the humble carabao, did not save him from the ribald joking the troops enjoyed so much. As a name for a derisive organization, also, carabao was priceless, and "wallow" as a name for the dinner-meetings when Carabaos gathered from far and wide to "gambol" and swap reminiscences of the fighting days, had something more than a poetic significance.

The Order was founded at Manila in November of 1900, its membership being strictly limited to officers who had fought in the Philippines between 1898 and 1902, to enlisted men of Army, Navy or Marine Corps subsequently commissioned, and to accredited war correspondents who served in the Islands between May 1, 1898, and July 4, 1902. The founders did not dream of any real significance to such a joke, and no meeting was held until April 5, 1901. A few months later, on July 14th, another meeting was held to formulate regulations for the organization of branch societies or "corrals" in the United States, and the Order was launched. Its badge or insignia was the famous Katipunan Society masonic triangle in black, bearing the embossed head of a golden carabao in profile, with the rustic letters M.O.C. at the apex of the triangle, which depended from khaki-colored ribbon fastened to a bronze bar, inscribed Military Order of the Carabao in relief. Surmounting the inscription is a sea from which rises a volcano. It was quickly evident to the charter members that so far from being a mere idle joke and an excuse for hilarious gatherings, the Order had a far deeper significance. Men who had fought and suffered and struggled and waited side by side in the Islands, eagerly grasped the idea of something tangible to perpetuate those days of tropical madness and gaiety, something which would not only enable them to gather convivially from time to time, but which would also serve to inculcate into coming generations the patriotism, courage, patience and cheerfulness which distinguished that remarkable and highly scrambled army which conquered the Philippines. As a result of this judicious admixture of high purpose and good spirits, the Order of the Carabao is today almost three thousand members strong, and its roster includes practically every officer and correspondent of any fame who did his share in the Archipelago. During the world war, every major officer of note in the A.E.F. was drawn from the Herd, from Pershing down. No other Club in the world, in all probability, has a fraction as many great names on its rolls, and the blood tingles to them

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and the service and heroism they represent. Every Chief of Staff of the Army except one, and nearly every Chief of Bureau in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps since 1900 has been drafted from the Carabao personnel. Today as always membership in the Herd stamps a man as one of a definite and limited group privileged to participate in an unusual and distinctive service born of extraordinary circumstances and nurtured in all the romance, danger and hardships of the tropical Far East. The Philippines Campaign was a totally new service for the American soldier. It forged a bond of close comradeship that can never be effaced. The "Days of the Empire" grow remote as time passes, but the memories of those days of spirit, adventure, danger and romance will live forever through the Veteran and Associate Carabaos, and the Teneros, or Calf-Carabaos, those adult sons of the original Veterans who are also full members.

With the gradual development of the Order into an organization of nation-wide significance, and the transfer of the Main Corral from Manila to Washington, the annual Wallows or Dinners have become affairs of the greatest interest and importance. Carabaos come from remote sections of the country to attend. The President of the United States is always invited, as are the members of his Cabinet. Invitations to these hilarious affairs are eagerly sought, and legend has it that a Marine will fight anybody for one at any time.

Ex-President William Howard Taft, who was delighted at his election to the Order, enjoyed the fun and satire at the Wallows with great heartiness and always requested the singing of the song "He MAY be a brother of William H. Taft, but he ain't no friend of mine." Sometimes these festivities included very trenchant comment upon national affairs. The Press was quick to realize the tonic effect of such outspoken criticism from men who were themselves a part of the Nation's administration, and gave the Wallows the widest publicity. One of these famous dinners gave rise to perhaps as curious an incident as ever marked the lives of any public officials in the United States.

During his first term as President, Woodrow Wilson was invited to become an honorary member of the Carabao Order by Major William E. Horton, Grand Lead & Wheel Carabao. Writing from the White House on November 22, 1913, President Wilson replied:

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My dear Major Horton:

Allow me to thank you for your very kind letter of
November 19th, and to say that it affords me much pleasure
to accept your tender of honorary membership in the
Military Order of the Carabao.

With assurance of my appreciation of this compliment,
believe me,

Sincerely yours,

On December 11, 1913, came the Annual Wallow with the familiar somewhat boisterous good time. Included in the program of stunts was a satire upon the policies of the President, of the Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. The whole thing summed up into a good-humored poking of fun at our Philippine policy and the "peacefulness" of Secretary Bryan—subjects hardly to be expected to excite the admiration of sturdy fighting men sworn to maintain, uphold and defend the Government. During the festivities an army officer who was not on the official program, got to his feet and began to sing the famous Insurrecto song. With a wild shout of applause, the diners responded and the chorus nearly unroofed the sedate old Willard Hotel. After one verse, the chairman of the program committee pulled the speaker down.

Then, mounted upon the shoulders of stout lads from the Navy and the Marine Band playing "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean," three "battleships" hove into sight: U.S.S. Friendship, U.S.S. Fellowship and the U.S.S. Piffle. The last-named was rigged up with nosegays, grape-juice bottles, lecture platform and other gadget thrusting adroitly at the policy of the State Department.

The applause was uproarious. Secretary Daniels chuckled over it as heartily as anybody. The next day he wrote the following letter officially:

The Secretary of the Navy

December 12, 1913

My dear Admiral:

I wish to congratulate the Patriarch of the Herd for the
brilliant entertainment given by the Carabaos last evening
and to tell you how much I enjoyed the steady stream of wit
and wisdom that flowed around the festal board.

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I assure you, my dear Admiral, that I shall always have a
happy memory of the dinner and beg to thank you Most
cordially for giving me that pleasure.

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Josephus Daniels

Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard, U.S.N.
Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.

President Wilson, however, was not only not at the dinner, but he was not at all pleased with the ridicule his policies had drawn. A day or so later he directed Secretaries Daniels and Garrison to investigate and report to him. When he received their reports, he ordered one of the sharpest reprimands on record for the officers who had arranged the program. Commenting upon the incident, the *New York Sun* said editorially:

> Let us quote the classic rebuke: it is a model for any pedagogue who may ever have occasion in the course of stern duty to administer verbal chastisement of men of war:

> "The officers who were responsible for the programme of the evening are certainly deserving of a very serious reprimand which I hereby request be administered. I am told that the songs and other amusements of the evening were intended and regarded as "fun." What are we to think of officers of the Army and Navy of the United States who think it fun to bring their official superiors into ridicule and the policies of the Government which they are sworn to support into contempt? If this is their idea of fun what is their ideal of duty? If they do not hold their loyalty above all silly effervescences of childish wit, what about their profession do they hold sacred?

> "My purpose, therefore, in administering this reprimand is to recall the men who are responsible for this lowering of standards to their ideals; to remind them of the high conscience with which they ought to put duty above personal indulgence, and to think of themselves as responsible men and trusted soldiers even while they are amusing themselves as diners out."

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Thus the vibrant finger shook at Rear Admiral Howard and the other gallant seamen who had departed from President Wilson's ideals of duty above personal indulgence. The finger of Josephus, as executive officer in the administration of chastisement, vibrated sternly and synchronously. His indignation equalled that of his principal. Josephus went so far, it was reported at the time, as to warn Admiral Thomas Benton Howard, the culprit chairman of the dinner committee, not to accept the office of president of the Military Order of the Carabao, to which he had just been elected.

The climax of the affair was reached when, still smarting with irritation, the President wrote as follows to Major Horton:

THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington.

My dear Major Horton:

Sometime ago I had the pleasure of accepting honorary membership in the Military Order of the Carabao. I now beg to be permitted to withdraw my acceptance. I am constrained to make this request because of circumstances which I am sure the society will understand.

Both President Wilson's letters and all the documents covering this amazing outburst, are in the official archives of the Order. There was some talk of courtmartial for the officers concerned, but naturally nothing came of it. The reprimand was more than enough. Secretary Daniels suggested to Admiral Howard that he relinquish his office as Patriarch of the Herd. Asking a Naval Officer to be a quitter had the result to be expected. The Society backed him up steadfastly, and the only civilian among the officers, former Colonel Joseph M. Heller, Medical Corps, assumed the entire responsibility for the entire incident and made a public apology. The Order also officially apologized, and the incident was closed. Though the amende

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honorable had been made, not a Carabao retreated an inch from the ground taken. The years that quickly followed demonstrated that whatever President Wilson thought of the patriotism and intelligence of the officers he had censured so caustically, they were straining at their moorings when the call came in 1917 that scattered them over the Seven Seas and throughout a war-torn world from the icy steppes of Siberia to the south of France, spread them over the man-killing cold and storm of the North Sea and the Channel and into the hell of the Argonne. The World War added fresh laurels to the Order, and sounded Taps for many a devoted Carabao who, when the moment came, joked with Death as cheerily as he had with the Herd when the lights blazed and the wine sparkled at the Wallow that brought him into disfavor.

Since then two decades have gone by, and the Wallow has followed Wallow without any repetition of the incident, though the Herd remains as always ready on the instant for frolic or fight, with the leaders of all the Services and hundreds of eager civilian guests gathering each year on the date closest to the day when the Philippine Insurrection broke out, February 4, 1899.

Today the Order is centered in Washington, where many of the officers of all three Services are quartered, and in Manila, in a newer, more comfortable Army and Navy Club. All the other branch Corrals are gone, but the inextinguishable spirit that won the Philippines, first from Spain and then from some seventy thousand Filipino irregulars as elusive and hard to catch as tropical fleas, lives on and burns as brightly through the years as when the first shot fired in the Islands lighted it.

At the 1937 Wallow, the first one held after the inauguration of the new Commonwealth of the Philippines, the principal speaker was President Quezon of the Commonwealth, himself a veteran of the Insurrection.

Accredited war correspondents who served in the Philippine Islands between 1 May 1898 and 1902 were elected as Associate Members of the Order and early records list such well-known persons as Sydney Adamson, George Ade, Martin Egan, Edward W. Harden, Burton Holmes, Arthur C. Johnson, John T. McCutcheon, Granville Hunt, Percy G. McDonnell, Col Frederick Palmer, LCdr Arthur Stanley Riggs, Albert G. Robinson and Col John O. Skinner.

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Before leaving the earlier history of the Order, the extent of change in our times might be demonstrated by publishing the Menu of the 1915 Wallow held at the Army and Navy Club—cost per person seven dollars. The Dinner Committee for that Wallow contains the name of Capt William Mitchell, USA who is identified among the officers of the Order for 1934, a consejero en bosque, as BGen William Mitchell, “Late U.S.A.”

Four years after the Quezon address, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. They sank our fleet and took the Philippine Islands. There followed nearly four years of relentless war, at first island-by-island, then on larger sweeps. Finally we recaptured the Philippines, blasted Japan from the air, forced the Imperial Headquarters and the Imperial Government to surrender on U.S.S. *Missouri* and to accept a military occupation of their homeland.

When World War II was raging, all Wallows were suspended but business meetings were held at which the only rationed drink was coffee. A copy of the 1942 Notice is included herein.

When V-J Day came, the Order voted to expand the criteria for eligibility for membership to include not only those who served in the Philippine Islands during World War II, but also those who had served west of the International Dateline in any operation that supported the recapture of the Islands.

The consequent influx of the World War II veterans provided new energies, which, under the guidance of the older generation of Carabaos, revivified the Order, and placed it on its present stable basis. There are now over 1000 Carabaos on the active mailing list, with a constant and welcome addition of new members offsetting the inevitable thinning of the ranks of older Carabaos.

Under the Constitution of the Order, Honorary Membership can be conferred only on the President of the United States and on the Governor General of the Philippines. The last Governor General so honored was Henry L. Stimson who served three Presidents as Secretary of War—Taft, F. D. Roosevelt and Truman. The only Presidents on the Carabao rolls as Honorary Members were Taft and Wilson—and the latter, as has been seen, resigned after the 1913 Wallow. More recently no less than five Presidents—Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford—have been members of the Order as Veteran Carabaos by reason of their military service and all became dues paying members prior to assuming the Office of President.

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Qualifications for membership in the Order in summary are now as
follows:

**Veteran Carabao:** Those who served in the Philippine Islands between May 1, 1898, and July 4, 1913, or between December 6, 1941, and July 4, 1946.

**Amphibious Carabao:** Those who served west of the International Date-line where such service was incident to the liberation of the Philippines—World War II, December 6, 1941, to July 4, 1946.

**Companero Carabao:** Those who served in the Philippine Islands between July 4, 1913 and December 6, 1941, or subsequent to July 4, 1946.

**Associate Carabao:** Includes accredited war correspondents, serving with any of the forces engaged in liberating the Philippines. This membership may by action of the Executive Committee be conferred upon any male person who has rendered distinguished and valuable service to the Order or to the Nation.

**Tenero Carabao:** The Order is an hereditary one. Eligibility is extended to male descendants, over twenty-one years of age, regardless of military service, of any member, or a person who is, or was, eligible to be a member. Eligibility passes to a nephew of a member failing a male descendant.

**Honorary Carabao:** Conferred by the Main Corral upon the President of the United States, Governors General of the Philippines or those who have served as such.

While the Military Order of the Carabao keeps memories of wartime service alive among its members, the Wallow has always represented the climax of each year's activities. The Wallow "skit" continues to be a mirror of the strengths, the weaknesses, the frivolities, yes, and of the absurdities of the national military establishment. Honest evaluation, though expressed in song and jest, can be of inestimable value when emanating from loyal and informed former comrades in arms. Traditions and formalities surround the Wallow and add to its luster, but still it has a substance which gives it a unique character.

In recent years the Wallow show is more than a skit—it has become a production. The U.S. Marines have traditionally furnished the music and the Directors of the Marine Band serve as directors of the skits. It appears that in 1936 the membership classification of Companero Carabao was created specifically to bring membership to an otherwise unqualified person, Capt J. Taylor Branson, Director of the U.S. Marine Band.

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For most of the past 20 years the dialogue and song lyrics have been the product of highly talented and dedicated persons: VAdm Leland P. Lovette, USN, deceased, 1967; Mr. Kilbourn Gordon, playwright, former Broadway producer, retired, 1967; VAdm W. G. (Slim) Beecher, Jr., USN, deceased, January 1974; Cdr John V. Horner, USN and Lt Theodore F. Koop, USN. Ted Koop has been active since 1952 and Jack Horner participated in his first Wallow in 1964. Their labor of love and excellence inspires a sizable group of singers, production and stage specialists, all with military backgrounds, to give their best efforts towards a Wallow that will excel the previous Wallow.

Since the Wallow is a production by and for the military and about the military, the "head table" at the affair is not the usual Washington head table. Invitations go to the President, the Vice-President, the Speaker and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House and Senate. Other Congressional invitations for head table seats are limited to the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees and the Appropriations Committees.

Cabinet invitees are limited to the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation, the Secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.

Military invitees are limited to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the respective Chiefs of Staff of the Army and Air Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandants of the Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

When a Chairman, Secretary or Chief cannot attend, the next ranking person may be invited. Past Grand Paramount Carabaos may sit at the Head Table and the only other persons, with a few exceptions, invited to be head table guests would be those prominently mentioned in the skits, e.g., General Hershey, Admiral Rickover.

All other Cabinet officers, Members of Congress, Justices, judges, governors, etc., who may be guests of individual Carabaos, sit with their hosts. Invitations from the Order and seating at the head table depend upon military status or Congressional or departmental military association. High rank in other areas sit "in the field" to enjoy the "attention" directed by the skit to the "elect" on the rostrum.

The list of Grand Paramount Carabaos is an impressive one. Availability for performing the functions of the office necessarily limits the selection to

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Military Order of the CORABAO

those residing in the Washington area, but that restriction has not prevented the selection of men who rendered highly distinguished service in the "liberation of the Philippines."

Since World War II, the office of Grand Paramount Carabao has been substantially rotated among the services in order. A nominating Committee appointed by the Grand Paramount Carabao is composed of Past Grand Paramount Carabaos, one from each service. Selection of the new Grand Paramount Carabao is initiated by that Past Grand Paramount Carabao on the Nominating Committee who is a member of the same service as the one from which the New Grand Paramount Carabao will be selected. There are no declared candidates; there is no campaign. If the first prospective nominee accepts, the search is over; only if he declines—a rare event—is another person fixed upon and approached.

The Order looks upon the selection of a Grand Paramount Carabao as recognition of that person's outstanding military service to his country. He is spared as many administrative burdens as possible with the hope that he will regard his tenure of office as an award for military merit. The Annual Meeting at which the New Grand Paramount Carabao and all other Council members are elected is always held on the first Monday in December.

The Order from its inception established a long list of officers with descriptive titles and precise duties. Changes in this group are infrequent—death being usually the terminating factor. The creation of the post of Auxiliar has allowed the naming of additional members to posts of recognition, if not responsibility, to serve on the Council, comprised of all of these officers. Some members of the Council do have heavy responsibilities and precise duties which consume their time and attention during the year and particularly at Wallow Time. The day-by-day management of the Order's affairs, however, has always been carried on by relatively few members of the Council; their most important contribution being to insure that the traditions of the past are maintained and that change is supported only when a resulting improvement is clearly indicated. The Council reports to the membership at the Annual Meeting for an endorsement of its stewardship during the past year and for approval of any significant change in operation for the future.

The Order has six luncheons a year—on the fourth Tuesday of January, March, April, May, October and November. The Grand Paramount Carabao selects the speaker for such occasions, choosing a person whose background

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qualifies him to speak on a military or military-related subject. The ever-present song book and the available supplies for keeping well wetted down make pleasurable events of these affairs for members and their guests.

The secret of the success of the order in avoiding any friction or hint of fratricidal conflict over the many years may well lie in the unique office of the Bombinero. A Bombinero must be present at all Carabao meetings or affairs. It is his sole prerogative to recess forthwith, without debate, any proceedings, upon his announcement that drinks are immediately available. His function of keeping the herd "well wetted down" and singing accounts for the docile goodwill that inevitably pervades any and all deliberations of the Carabao. It is also not without significance that for many years the single pledge in the oath of office taken by a new Grand Paramount Carabao is that he "will not water the whiskey."

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Reprinted from WALLOW Notice of May 16, 1942

Military Order of the Carabao

CARABAOS!!!!!

These are not times for a normal CARABAO WALLOW. However, the old Carabao spirit must be kept alive as only a periodic gathering of the Herd can keep it alive.

Your Carabao Council has therefore decreed that there shall be held an ASSEMBLY OF THE HERD, for feeding and watering, on the evening of May 16, 1942. There will be no guests, no publicity, no skits, no fuss—none of the things that do not fit into the present picture. The place is the WILLARD HOTEL (Small Ball Room, Tenth Floor), the hour is SEVEN-THIRTY P.M., the date—note it again—is SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1942. The COST is THREE DOLLARS PER CARABAO. Fill out the stub attached hereto and mail it, with your check, to Assistant to Joe Heller as hereunder:

HARRY F. CUNNINGHAM,
Colonel, GSC.,
Grand Lead and Swing Carabao

STREET CLOTHES

Enclosed find $3.00 for which please draw rations for me at the CARABAO ASSEMBLY on May 16, 1942.

(Name) ....................................

(Rank and Service) ............................

(Correct Address) ............................

(Tear off and mail with check to order of Military Order of the Carabao, to COLONEL HARRY F. CUNNINGHAM, 4733 Reservoir Road, N. W., Washington, D. C., and do it NOW!!!!!!)

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Past Grand
Paramount
CARABAO

<table><tbody><tr><td>BGen Charles A. Woodruff, USA.</td><td>1901</td></tr><tr><td>LtGen Adna R. Chaffee, USA</td><td>1902</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Cyrus S. Roberts, USA.</td><td>1902</td></tr><tr><td>LtGen S. B. M. Young, USA</td><td>1903</td></tr><tr><td>Col Robert R. Stevens, USA.</td><td>1903</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Charles A. Woodruff, USA.</td><td>1904</td></tr><tr><td>Paymaster Gen H. T. B. Harris, USN.</td><td>1905</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Charles F. Humphrey, USA.</td><td>1906</td></tr><tr><td>MGen George F. Elliott, USMC.</td><td>1907</td></tr><tr><td>BGen William Crozier, USA</td><td>1908</td></tr><tr><td>RAdm Thomas C. McLean, USN.</td><td>1909</td></tr><tr><td>Capt John J. Knapp, USN.</td><td>1910-11</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Robert K. Evans, USA.</td><td>1912</td></tr><tr><td>MGen James B. Aleshire, USA.</td><td>1913</td></tr><tr><td>Adm Thomas B. Howard, USN</td><td>1914</td></tr><tr><td>RAdm Hugo Osterhaus, USN</td><td>1915</td></tr><tr><td>BGen George P. Scriven, USA</td><td>1916</td></tr><tr><td>Capt John H. Gibbons, USN (During World War).</td><td>1917-20</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Wendell C. Neville, USMC</td><td>1921</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Frank McIntyre, USA.</td><td>1922</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Harry H. Bandholtz, USA.</td><td>1923</td></tr><tr><td>Adm Edward W. Eberle, USN.</td><td>1924-25</td></tr><tr><td>MGen John L. Hines, USA.</td><td>1926</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Merritte W. Ireland, USA.</td><td>1927</td></tr><tr><td>Capt Chester Wells, USN.</td><td>1928</td></tr><tr><td>Col Joseph M. Heller, M.R.C., USA.</td><td>1929</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Ben H. Fuller, USMC</td><td>1930</td></tr><tr><td>Capt David M. Addison, USN</td><td>1931</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Douglas MacArthur, USA</td><td>1932</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Robert U. Patterson, USA.</td><td>1933</td></tr><tr><td>Adm William H. Standley, USN.</td><td>1934</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Hugh Matthews, USMC.</td><td>1935</td></tr><tr><td>Col John P. Wade, USA.</td><td>1936</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Frank T. Hines, USA.</td><td>1937</td></tr><tr><td>RAdm George T. Pettengill, USN</td><td>1938</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Past Grand
Paramount
CARABAO

<table><tbody><tr><td>MGen James C. Breckinridge, USMC</td><td>1939</td></tr><tr><td>Col Henry H. Sheen, USA</td><td>1940</td></tr><tr><td>BGen A. Owen Seamen, USA</td><td>1941</td></tr><tr><td>RAdm Walton R. Sexton, USN</td><td>1942</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm Clark H. Woodward, USN</td><td>1943</td></tr><tr><td>MGen James A. Ulio, USA</td><td>1944</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Kenzie W. Walker, USA</td><td>1945</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Charles R. Sanderson, USMC</td><td>1946</td></tr><tr><td>Adm William F. Halsey, USN</td><td>1947</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright, USA</td><td>1948</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Carl Spaatz, USAF</td><td>1949</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Clifton B. Cates, USMC</td><td>1950</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm Harry G. Hamlet, USCG</td><td>1951</td></tr><tr><td>Col Douglas C. Cordiner, USA</td><td>1952</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm George W. Calver, USN</td><td>1953</td></tr><tr><td>Col Joseph F. Siler, USA</td><td>1954</td></tr><tr><td>BGen William J. Flood, USAF</td><td>1955</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., USMC</td><td>1956</td></tr><tr><td>Capt Earle D. Chesney, USN</td><td>1957</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Charles L. Bolte, USA</td><td>1958</td></tr><tr><td>LtGen Ira C. Eaker, USAF</td><td>1959</td></tr><tr><td>Col Jean W. Moreau, USMC</td><td>1960</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm Leland P. Lovette, USN</td><td>1961</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Herbert M. Jones, USA</td><td>1962</td></tr><tr><td>MGen Howard C. Davidson, USAF</td><td>1963</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Graves B. Erskine, USMC</td><td>1964</td></tr><tr><td>Adm Arleigh Burke, USN</td><td>1965</td></tr><tr><td>LtGen Claude B. Ferenbaugh, USA</td><td>1966</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm Kenneth K. Cowart, USCG</td><td>1967</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Frederic H. Smith, Jr., USAF</td><td>1968</td></tr><tr><td>LtGen Alan Shapley, USMC</td><td>1969</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm Robert B. Pirie, USN</td><td>1970</td></tr><tr><td>Gen George H. Decker, USA</td><td>1971</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Joseph R. Holzapple, USAF</td><td>1972</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Leonard F. Chapman, USMC</td><td>1973</td></tr></tbody></table>

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THE HONOR BELL of the Military Order of the Carabao has been awarded since 1954 to recognize members who have rendered distinguished services to the Order. The bell is also awarded to non-members, designated hombres, who have rendered distinguished services to the military interests of the country.

HONOR BELL AWARDS

<table><tr><td>Capt Fred J. Archibald, USA</td><td>1974</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Leslie C. Arends, MC — Hombre</td><td>1973</td></tr><tr><td>Mr. John C. Bigbee</td><td>1971</td></tr><tr><td>VAdm William Gordon Beecher, Jr., USN</td><td>1959</td></tr><tr><td>Lt John R. Bourgeois, USMC</td><td>1973</td></tr><tr><td>LCdr Wallace W. Brander, USN</td><td>1973</td></tr><tr><td>LtCol Thomas G. Carney, USA</td><td>1962</td></tr><tr><td>Cdr Joseph A. Carey, USN</td><td>1956</td></tr><tr><td>MSgt Curtis E. Clarke, USA</td><td>1970</td></tr><tr><td>Maj William J. G. Davis, USA</td><td>1960</td></tr><tr><td>LCdr Henry A. Dudley, USN</td><td>1972</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Robert H. Dunlop, USA</td><td>1969</td></tr><tr><td>LCdr Gerald R. Ford, USN</td><td>1971</td></tr><tr><td>Mr. Kilbourn Gordon</td><td>1959</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable F. Edward Hebert, MC — Hombre</td><td>1972</td></tr><tr><td>Gen Lewis B. Hershey, USA — Hombre</td><td>1970</td></tr><tr><td>Mr. Sampson P. Holland, USN</td><td>1969</td></tr><tr><td>Cdr John V. Horner, USN</td><td>1971</td></tr><tr><td>MGySgt William D. Jones, USMC</td><td>1968</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Paul J. Kilday, MC</td><td>1960</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable William F. Knowland, USS — Hombre</td><td>1958</td></tr><tr><td>Lt Theodore F. Koop, USN</td><td>1958</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Joseph W. Martin, Jr., MC — Hombre</td><td>1954</td></tr><tr><td>MGySgt Antony F. Matarrese, USMC</td><td>1968</td></tr><tr><td>LCdr Richard M. Nixon, USN</td><td>1954</td></tr><tr><td>Capt Harry K. Pickett, USAF</td><td>1970</td></tr><tr><td>Col Samuel Pierce, Jr., USA</td><td>1969</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Sam Rayburn, MC — Hombre</td><td>1954</td></tr><tr><td>BGen Carlos P. Romulo, USA</td><td>1955</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Richard B. Russell, USS — Hombre</td><td>1956</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Leverett Saltonstall, USS — Hombre</td><td>1957</td></tr><tr><td>LtCol William F. H. Santelmann, USMC</td><td>1955</td></tr><tr><td>Mr. Homer C. Saunders — Hombre</td><td>1974</td></tr><tr><td>Col Albert F. Schoepper, USMC</td><td>1961</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable John C. Stennis, USS — Hombre</td><td>1974</td></tr><tr><td>Honorable Carl Vinson, MC — Hombre</td><td>1955</td></tr><tr><td>Col Frederick Bernays Wiener, USA</td><td>1969</td></tr></table>

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The Military Order of the Carabao has traditionally been a singing organization, and after seventy-five years all of its meetings are still punctuated by songs.

Some of those songs are peculiarly characteristic of the Order and of its background; some indeed, as the Story of the Carabao has shown, have become historic; while others, fashioned particularly for the annual Wallow, recall topical events.

All three varieties of Carabao songs are represented in this volume. But the listing that follows is restrictive. It does not duplicate all that is now found in the Carabao Song Book, a pamphlet placed on the tables at the Wallow and at the Order's luncheon meetings. Nor does the present collection assemble all of the Wallow songs over recent years or even purport to gather the Best-in-Wallow for each year.

Rather, the lyrics set forth below are those among the many hundreds that have been sung ever since the Carabao came into being in 1900 that now appear to have the greatest significance and the most lasting value.

## HISTORIC CARABAO SONGS

There are really only four Carabao songs that are entitled to the title of "historic," although possibly the fifth one listed here may qualify.

### GOVERNOR-GENERAL OR A HOBO?

The first two verses and the chorus that followed each were written by Capt. Lyman A. Cotten, USN, who supplied the following note, which was included in a number of old Wallow programs:

"This song was written by me while I was Midshipman serving on the Gunboat *Pampanga* in the Philippines in the winter of 1899-1900. At the time General E. S. Otis, U.S.A., was Governor-General of the Philippines and the insurrection was going strong, with Emilio Aguinaldo as the President of the so-styled Philippine Republic.

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Almost every time I sang this song I was asked to write out copies for
various people who heard it, as the psychological moment was such as
to make it very apt at that time. Soon it became very popular and widely
sung by being passed on from one person to another. It was very
seriously frowned upon by the Governor-General's office and an effort
was made to prevent the singing of this song by the people in the ser-
vice. This apparently had the opposite effect and wherever two or three
congenial souls gathered together it was sung with much gusto. Within
the next few years I had letters requesting copies from places as remote
as British Army posts in the interior of India, and mining camps in
Alaska. A young member of the Astor Battery in the Philippines, after
his army service, returned to Cornell University to complete his course
and through him 'Governor-General or Hobo?' was introduced at Cor-
nell and for years was sung as a Cornell college song.

"In writing the 'Governor-General or Hobo?' as in my subsequent
songs, I made no effort to originate the music. I took any music that I
happened to like and combined it with other music just to suit myself.
The basis of the music to 'Governor-General or Hobo?' was the
English music hall song with the title, 'Am I mouse or am I man?' Soon
after General Otis was succeeded by General Arthur MacArthur, as
Governor-General, I dined one evening with friends in Manila, and af-
ter dinner, sitting on the veranda, was asked to sing 'Governor-General
or Hobo?' At the conclusion of the song General MacArthur and some
of his staff stepped out from behind some nearby shrubbery. The
General was much amused and his attitude was diametrically opposite
to that of General Otis."

It was the fact of Lieutenant General MacArthur succeeding Major
General Otis as Military Commander that was doubtless responsible for the
third verse and for the closing chorus. Unhappily, the authorship of those
portions of the song remains undocumented. As has been indicated,
President Taft always relished the closing parts of the Governor-General
song.

Oh, I've been sorry every day since I came to the Philippines;
I'd rather drive a bob-tail car and live on pork and beans.
They call me Governor-General—I'm the hero of the day,
But I have troubles of my own, and often have to say:

Chorus:

Oh, am I the boss, or am I the tool?
Am I the Governor-General or a hobo?
I'd like to know who's the boss of this show—
Is it me, or Emilio Aguinaldo?

The rebels up at old Tarlac, four men to every gun—
I think the trouble is at an end, they think it's just begun;
My men go out to have a fight, the rebels fade away;
I cable home the trouble's o'er, but to myself I say:

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### (Chorus)

Now General MacArthur, I have no doubt, can run the whole concern.
All right, I'll pack my trunk and go, and he can take his turn.
But when the papers cuss him out, and lay him on the shelf,
I only ask the privilege of saying to myself:

### Closing Chorus:

Oh, is Mac the boss, or is Mac the tool?
Is Mac the Governor-General or a hobo?
I'd like to know who'll be boss of this show—
Will it be Mac or Emilio Aguinaldo?

## THE SOLDIER'S SONG

This is the song which, in its pristine "Filipinos" version, so shocked President Wilson when rendered at the 1913 Wallow. Its revised form, shown below, is included in the Carabao Song Book. It's a part of Carabao history, and hence must appear here.

According to the late Colonel Joseph M. Heller, Grand Lead and Wheel Carabao for nearly thirty years (and Grand Paramount Carabao in 1929), the original words were written by William C. ("Bud") McDougal of New York, who, after failing to make a success of newspaper work, enlisted in the 6th Infantry Regiment, and went to the Philippines. After his enlistment expired, he became a schoolmaster in the village of Isabella on the Island of Negros, where he died in 1904.

There are various versions, differing in slight details; the one printed here is from a Song Book of the Manila Corral. The tune is "Marching Through Georgia"—or, to euphemize in respect of still another war, "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching":

In that land of dopey dreams, happy, peaceful Philippines,
Where the bolo-man is hiking night and day,
Where Insurrectos steal and lie, where Americanos die,
There you hear the soldiers sing this evening lay:

### Chorus:

Damn, damn, damn the Insurrectos, cross-eyed kakiack ladrones,
Underneath the starry flag, civilize 'em with a Krag,
And return us to our own beloved homes.

Underneath the nipa thatch, where the skinny chickens scratch,
Only refuge after hiking all day long;
When I lay me down to sleep, slimy lizards o'er me creep,
Then you hear the soldiers sing this evening song.

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*(Chorus)*

Social customs there are few, all the ladies smoke and chew
- And the men do things the padres say are wrong;
But the padres cut no ice, for they live on fish and rice
When you hear the soldiers sing this evening song.

*(Chorus)*

## LITTLE BROWN BROTHER

This, another of President Taft's great favorites, twitted him about a
reference he had made to the Filipinos as "our little brown brothers." Like
the Governor-General Song, it was written by Captain Lyman A. Cotten,
USN. The tune is "Son of a Gambolier," but the remaining verses, which
reflect somewhat too realistically some of the more unpleasant details of
guerrilla warfare, are advisedly omitted.

I'm only a common soldier-man in the blasted Philippines.
They say I've got Brown Brothers here, but I dunno what it means;
I like the word Fraternity, but still I draw the line—
He may be a brother of William H. Taft, but he ain't no friend
of mine.

## THE MONKEYS HAVE NO TAILS IN ZAMBOANGA

This well known song, widely sung at Carabao functions, is actually a part
of the Philippine folklore of the Army: For as long as almost anyone now
living can remember, it has been rendered wherever and whenever the armed
forces of the Republic have gathered.

Along with age, it has attained and respectability, and now has actually
reached the staid pages of Army manuals: Paragraph 15 of Department of
the Army Pamphlet No. 1-10, 9 January 1959, "Improve Your Writing,"
states:

"When the reader's eye registers a long or unfamiliar word, his com-
prehension stops while the eye and mind back up for another look.
When this happens often, reading is hard and dull. *Simians indigenous
to Zamboanga are destitute of caudal appendages.* That sentence is
correct, but this one is easier and better: *Monkeys have no tails in
Zamboanga.*"

"Zamboanga" has had as many verses over the years as the later World
War I ditty, "Mademoiselle from Armentieres." Some of these are suitable
for garden parties, others are more robust, while still others quite exceed the
cleansing capacity of any laundry, even one that operates with the aid of en-
zyme bleaches.

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There is accordingly no single official version of this song. The five verses that follow are from the current Carabao songbook; the first four are traditional, while the last simply reflects the justifiable esteem with which members of the Herd regard the Patron Saint of their Order.

Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga!
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga!
Oh, the monkeys have no tails,
They've been bitten off by whales;
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga!

Oh, the birdies have no feet in Marivales!
Oh, the birdies have no feet in Marivales!
Oh, the birdies have no feet,
They've been burned off by the heat;
Oh, the birdies have no feet in Marivales!

There's a virgin on the Island of Cebu!
There's a virgin on the Island of Cebu!
There's a virgin, so they say,
She'll be six months old today;
There's a virgin on the Island of Cebu!

There were none upon the Island of Luzon!
There were none upon the Island of Luzon!
There was maybe one or two,
On the Island of Cebu;
But none upon the Island of Luzon!

The lion was the King of Beasts, they say!
The lion was the King of Beasts, they say!
But I can't believe that now,
Since I've seen the Carabao,
Who is certainly the King of Beasts today!

## AGUINALDO'S G-STRING BAND

The reason for including this song—chorus only, to the tune of "Alexander's Rag Time Band"—is that for many years it was invariably the first number sung at the annual Wallow.

Come on and sing, come on and sing,
With the shirt-tail bamboo band.
Come on and sing, come on and sing,
A request is a command.

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We are singing of the days,
When we slept in nipa shacks,
With centipedes and other things,
A crawlin' up our backs,
We're glad we've left those days behind,
Now you mind.
Come on and drink, come on and drink,
Lest the Bombinero think,
You shirk the can, you shirk the can,
From which he treats his band,
And if you he-ar Aguinaldo,
Played in rag time,
Oigate, oigate,-Aguinaldo's G-string band.

## TRADITIONAL CARABAO SONGS

In the second group collected here are the songs that pertain to the Order of the Carabao as an organization, and that are among those most frequently sung at luncheons and at Wallows. It should be noted here that, on the occasion of the annual Wallow, there was for many years a Song Table, composed of Carabaos and Hombres whose operatic talents exceed the median abilities of those present, and who accordingly lead-or at least manfully attempt to lead-the singing of the entire audience.

### GOOD OLD WALLOW TIME

The tune is "In the Good Old Summer Time," the author is, unhappily, unknown.

In the Good Old Wallow Time,
In the Good Old Wallow Time,
Each Bull and Calf,
Will sing and laugh,
As we pass the flowing stein.
We'll recall the ways
Of the Empire Days,
In Song and toast and rhyme.
For the Herd is all together
In the Good Old Wallow Time.

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## DOWN WHERE THE SAN MIGUEL FLOWS

Since many of the present Tenero members of the Herd, as well as numerous Amphibious Veteran Carabaos, have never actually set foot in the Philippines, it is probably necessary to note here that the most famous as well as the most productive source of beer in the Islands is and for many years has been the San Miguel Brewery. Immediately after the recapture of Manila in 1945 it was reopened and produced quite potable gin. Appropriately enough, the tune is "Down Where the Wurzburger Flows." But the name of the inspired beer-guzzler who fashioned these lyrics was, alas, written in water: No one now knows who he was.

Take me down, down, down,
Where the San Miguel flows, flows, flows,
It will drown, drown, drown,
All your troubles and cares and woes,
Just order two seidels of lager or three,
If I don't want to drink it
Just force it on me,
O, the Rhine may be fine,
But a cold stein for mine,
Down where the San Miguel flows.

## GRAND OLD CARABAO

Another perennial favorite, the date of which precedes World War I; the tune, "Oh! You Beautiful Doll!" fixes the time. Here again, if the author had a passion for anonymity, his libido has been fully satisfied.

Oh! You Carabao,
You Grand Old Carabao,
All the world has heard about you,
We could never herd without you,
Oh! You Carabao,
You Grand Old Carabao,
If you ever leave us
We would have to follow,
'Til we found you happy
In a grand big Wallow
Oh! Oh! Oh! You Grand Old Carabao.

## IT'S A LONG WAY TO OLD MANILA

Here again, only the chorus remains; the tune, "It's a Long Way to Tip-
perary," suggests that the song was composed around or shortly before the
outbreak of World War I. But, once more, the name of its author has faded.

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It's a long way to old Manila,
And the happy Empire Day,
Where good fellows got together,
And the songs were bright and gay,
So good-bye Paranaque
And farewell to old Jolo,
It's a long, long way to old Manila,
And our youth of long ago.

## THE CARABAO

This song was written by Major Archibald W. Butt, who was military aide first to President Theodore Roosevelt and then to President Taft, and who perished in the sinking of the S.S. *Titanic*. It is a paean of praise to the lowly animal that functions as the Patron Saint of the Order, and it is sung to the tune known in America as "Maryland, My Maryland," but which originated in Germany as a hymn to the Christmas tree under the title of "*O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum.*"

Oh! Carabao, Old Carabao,
Before they e'er could strike a blow,
Invading armies must await
Upon thy slow and measured gait.

For who can say that in his hand
Abides the power at thy command?
'Tis in thy mighty force to wield
The fate of armies in the field.

Oh! Carabao, Old Carabao,
Great Monarch of the road art thou!
Thy value rests in merit plain,
Old toiler through the mud and rain.

Well bearest thou thy lowly part,
No weakness knows thy giant heart;
With thy broad horn a single blow
Well could'st thou lay thy master low.

Yet all thy strength thou bindest still,
To slave and suffer at his will;
And steady draw the weary load,
'Til death o'ertakes thee on the road.

Oh! Carabao, Old Carabao
Well could we place upon thy brow
A laurel wreath for work well done
In driving storm and scorching sun.

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ALL HAIL YOU "CARABAO"

This song, always rendered by a soloist without being joined by any of the
Herd, commemorates the Carabaos whose tour of duty here below has ter-
minated. At the monthly luncheons, it is sung after the Grand Paramount
Carabao has tolled the bell and has recited the list of members who have died
since the last meeting. At the annual Wallow, it follows one of the two toasts
offered on that occasion, "To Our Departed Comrades." The tune is "Old
Heidelberg" from the musical of half a century or more ago, "The Prince of
Pilsen."

O, Carabao, O, Carabao,
Our hearts shall ne'er forget,
For though the haze of fighting days,
Cling round about us yet.
The days of yore can come no more,
Our sunset fades, and now,
Our sons to you, swear to be true,
All Hail you Carabao.
Our sons to you, swear to be true
All Hail you Carabao.

GRAND PARAMOUNT CARABAO SONG

The late Vice Admiral Leland P. Lovette, USN, author of "Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage," a volume that helped make sailors out of the hundreds of thousands of landlubbers who swelled Navy ranks in World War II, was for many years following that conflict an active member of the Carabao Players. At the 1961 Wallow, he was installed as Grand Paramount Carabao, the first member of the cast in many years to head the Herd. Accordingly, other members of the Carabao Players determined to mark the occasion with a song, which since 1961 has been regularly sung at every Wallow, immediately after the induction ceremony for the new Grand Paramount Carabao who will preside over the Herd during the coming year.

The lyrics were written by William D. Jones, a long-time member of the
Carabao Players and an outstanding Wallow soloist, while the tune was
specially composed by Anthony F. Matarrese, the Carabao's accompanist.

Grand Paramount Carabao,
We salute you now,
Hark to the word that is passed through the Herd:
He's a Grand Paramount Carabao.
This Wallow we'll always recall,
A toast to fill the hall,
Our glasses we raise to drown you with praise,
He's a Grand Paramount Carabao.

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## THE BELLS OF MANILA

Only the chorus remains of this long-time favorite, whose authorship has been lost in the fog of the years. The tune, obviously, is "Bells of St. Mary's."

The Bells of Ma-ni-la
Ah! hear they are calling
The young loves—the true loves—
Far over the sea.
And so my que-ri-da,
When night's gently falling
The love-bells shall ring out—ring out
For you and me—you and me.

## TOPICAL CARABAO SONGS

Not unnaturally, the songs sung by the cast at the annual Wallows reflect and echo those events of the day that are of most interest to members and former members of the armed forces. Since World War II, and particularly since the "unification" of the services—quotation marks are used advisedly, because the 1947 Act that created the Department of Defense also created the United States Air Force, thus making three services grow where but two had contended earlier—since 1947, the conflicts in The Pentagon have not gone unnoticed in Wallow programs.

## CHRISTINE

In the early 1950's, an American "male" went to Denmark to be surgically transformed into a woman; the result was Christine Jorgenson. The military possibilities of this reincarnation naturally did not go unremarked in Carabao circles, and were duly commemorated in song at the 1953 Wallow. The late Capt Walter Karig, USN, then Director de la Fiesta, wrote the words to the tune of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen."

We'll take you back again, Christine,
Your Army pals will welcome you;
And we will treat you like a queen
Since you have added something new.

We knew you when you were GI,
Once you were just a PFC—
We could be buddies, you and I,
Since you have changed into a "she."

Yes, we will take you back, Christine,
As is—with all the new effects,
The Army's need has always been
A soldier who can change his sex.

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## RETIRED OFFICER SONG

Before World War II, Army officers retired for age at 64, while the relatively few Navy officers who were "selected out" prior to reaching that age constituted too small a group to have any national impact. After Korea, however, the results of the earlier retirement required by post-war legislation began to be felt. Army officers not selected for promotion to brigadier general were involuntarily retired at ages from 51 to 55, a period when many of them still had children in college. Retired personnel were therefore obliged to seek outside employment, and many of them found such opportunities in the single field in which they were most knowledgeable—defense industry.

Once there, they were an obvious target for witticism—and abuse—the latter primarily from those who failed to recognize in the so-called military-industrial complex what President Franklin Roosevelt had more perceptively called the arsenal of democracy.

The present ditty, to the tune of the well-known Whiffenpoof song, was written by Lt. Theodore F. Koop, USN, a Carabao and one of the Carabao Players, who for some years last past has been one of the Co-Directores de la Fiesta.

To the guided missile factories,

To the big shipbuilding yards,

To all those who sell their goods to Uncle Sam,
Oh, the officers are going

In the hope of finding jobs,

They want something that won't get them in a jam.
Yes, the officers are going

To the friends they know so well,

They are putting their influence on the line,
They will carry their briefcases around Washington,

They'll pluck contracts from their contacts off the vine.
We're little old men who have had our day, bah, bah, bah!

We cannot live on retirement pay, bah, bah, bah!

Gentlemen officers out on our own,

We'll even sell by the telephone,
We don't want to be left alone, bah, bah, bah!

## THE LOWLY P-T BOAT

When Carabao John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, the number of persons who then claimed that they had actually served with him on PT-109 during World War II naturally ballooned out in virtually geometric progression. That circumstance was duly noted at the 1961 Wallow in a song written by Carabao Ted Koop to the tune of "The Old Oaken Bucket."

How dear to my heart are the ships of the Navy,

The dreadnaughts and carriers and light cruisers, too,

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Oh, his name is McNamara,
He's the president of the Bank,
From Secretary he descends
To hold a higher rank,
He's taking on a job that's bound
To tax his wits and charms,
Instead of hourly crises he'll
Have very few alarms.
Oh, the bugles blow and the trumpets blare
As he leaves the government,
Where the red ink of the deficit
Recalls the billions spent.
The nations are lining up 'round the world
For handouts, let's be frank,
There's interest and there's principal
In McNamara's Bank.

## THE GREAT CARABAO

Vice Admiral William G. Beecher, USN, over the years wrote many of the hit songs for Wallow shows. For the 1973 finale he composed the lyrics of a stirring number to the tune of "The Stars and Stripes Forever." This was the last song he wrote. Because it expresses Slim's—and the Carabao's—love of country and devotion to the armed services the song was used as the finale for the 1974 show and will be so used for all future programs of the Carabao Players.

All hail to the great Carabao,
Let's all shout a rousing ovation,
We're standing so firm and so tall,
And we swear to give our all,
The Army, the Navy and Air,
The Marines and the Coast Guard serve the nation,
So join in the chorus with a pledge
Of our devotion and our deepest dedication.

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January 30, 1974

Dr. Henry Kissinger
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Dear Sir:

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