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The Path To Glory
It would be more or less a labor of reiteration to enter upon
panegyric of General Hobart R. Gay whose departure from Ft. Hood
is reported on page one of this issue of the SENTINEL. Indeed his
colleagues and his countrymen have long been familiar with the valor
the firmness of character the fecundity of mind and the virtue of home
ly diligence which have enabled him to rise from the office of private
to that of an army commander.
But in thinking of his long career which has now covered a period
of 37 years and embraced three great wars it is pleasant to encounter
the reminder that commanders who have acquired a high degree of
technical proficiency in strategy and tactics are nearly always ingeni
ous and astute in other fields.
When General Gay arrived at Fort Hood highway accidents were
taking a heavy toll in life and property. It is the responsibility of every
commander to safeguard the lives of his soldiers in peace as well as
in war. General Gay's onslaughts upon the driving imbecilities of Fort
Hood personnel which did so much to reduce fatalities won him high
acclaim from all quarters.
From its beginning Fort Hood has never had a satisfactory supply
of water. What General Gay did to correct this deficiency was quite
simple. He obtained a sufficient amount of invasion pipeline that had
been lying idle throughout the nation for many years and laid four
six-inch lines from Belton Dam to the pumping station on the Lampasas
river. Although the drought continues on and on Fort Hood and its
neighbors now have an ample water supply for the first time in his
tory.
Thus we see the leadership which brings victory in battle asserting
itself in putting down noduses which fall outside the orbit of a com
mander's primary responsibility.
It would be not a little malapropos to offer any speculation upon
the future of the Fifth United States Army which General Gay has
been selected to command. The SENTINEL merely wishes to add its
voice to those who regret his leaving but who rejoice in the deserved
honor and the greater responsibilities which have fallen to him. Suf
fice it is to say that his career offers valid testimony that in a free
country like ours the path to glory is never barred to men endowed
with sharp minds a high sense of moral responsibility integrity and
honor.
Thoughts On Reform
Being generally in the throes of misanthropic despair this edi
torial sanctum of gloom is seldom able to work itself into a mood for
giving over to that form of literary endeavor which passes under the
name of constructive criticism. (Only destructive criticism is worth the
paper it is written on but the poets on whom we all lean for enlight
enment have somehow managed to suppress this truth).
But this is an election year and the thought inevitably works its
way into our mind that elections are a flagrant waste of money and
that the people ought to hold them only when they want to hold hem.
If he people are satisfied with a public official why not permit him to
remain in office until they become dissatisfied with him?
Our federal judges like the permanent general officers of our
army serve on good behavior. Everyone we think will admit that our
federal judiciary is one instrumentality of government which has never
brought alarm to the people and only recently the people were so well
pleased with a general's performance of duty that they sent him to thg
White House.
For more than 16 years to get a little closer to home William Rob
ert Poage has been representing the people of the 11th Congressional
District in Texas in the House of Representatives at Washington. A
majority of the people are satisfied with the services Mr. Poage has
rendered and there is sound evidence for believing they will continue
to approve his work for many long years to come. Mr. Poage is only
55 and there should be at least 20 years of good service left in him.
Since the people of the 11th District like Mr. Poage and desire to keep
him in office why should an expensive election be held every two
yars to reaffirm that desire? Why not permit Mr. Poage serve until
the people decide they have had enough of him and petition for an
election?
If permitted to serve on good behavior there is every reason to
believe that Mr. Poage would make an even better congressman than
he has made. He would not be put to the time and expense every two
years of conducting a campaign for reelection and would thus have
more time to devote to the affairs of State. Mr. Poage now has years
of legislative experience back of him he knows his way about in the
halls of congress he has made a good impression upon the other mem
bers of congress and he will continue to grow in usefulness as the
years come and go.
It is pretty certain that the people are not going to get rid of Mr.
Poage until they find a good reason to get rid of him just as the people
of the 4th Congressional district of Texas have not seen fit to replace
Sam Rayburn with another man during the 41 years he has held pub
lic office. Not since 1913 has there been the slightest doubt about the
man the people of the 4th District wanted to represent them in congress
yet it has been necessary to hold 22 unnecessary elections to keep him
there.
Speaker Joseph W. Martin including many others is a case in
point. He has been serving the 14th District of Massachuetts since 1925.
During his 30 years in congress there never has been the slightest doubt
about his reelection yet like Congressmen Poage and Rayburn he
must appear before the people every two years to seek an endorsement
he knows he will get.
As we have said men serving on good behavior are likely to serve
better. They would certainly be under less pressure to yield to the non
sense sponsored by minority groups seeking special favors and there
is good reason for believing that more of them like federal judges
would be less inclined to succumb to partisan vagaries. And such a
system might induce the electorate to take a little more seriously the
responsibility of franchise.
As long as the people have the right to petition there is nothing
to fear in a life tenure. If we can trust federal judges and generals to
serve on good behavior why not try the experiment with congressmen
and if it works extend the idea to senators and governors and even
presidents?
But we must drop the idea here and revert to misanthrophy.
The great and near-great of the nation are in another row about the
benefits of exercise. A majority believe that exercise does not promote
health.
We oppose exercise not because it fails to improve health (we
know from experience that it does) but because we are too lazy to
take exercise. Men in opposition never give the real reason for it.
An idealist mentions the glory of the mountains and what they
teach. The mountains teach not to exceed two things: they are hard
to get up and they are hard to get down.
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THE REASON WHY By Cecil
Woodham-Smith—This book is
much more than ?. history of the
Crimean War. It is also a life his
tory of three of the most incompe
tent field commanders who ever
got. got themselves into a military
uniform. They were James Thom
as Brudenell (Lord Cardigan)
George Charles Bingham (Lord
Lucan) and FitzRoy Somerset
(Lord Raglan) the latter being
the command-in-chief of the Brit
ish Army in the East. Cardigan
was a cavalry brigade commander
serving under Lucan a cavalry
division commander.
"The Reason Why" is a remark
able book. The author's style is
very charming and Mrs. Wood
ham-Smith gives the reader a
taste of bat lie writing that will
not be surpassed in a long time.
The amount of reseat-ch required
to dig up the facts about Great
Britian's most unsuccessful war
must have been colossal.
Lord Cardigan and Lord Lucan
were brothers-in-law who hated
each other implacably. Both were
born to great wealth both were
liars jf incredible impudence both
were irascible to a marked de
gree noth itched to shine as sold
iers and neither had the slightest
talent for it both were habitually
disobedient to their superiors and
there was nothing one would not
do to discredit the other.
And they had another trait in
common: both were incomparably
and incurably stupid.
Raglan might have been the
more competent soldier but not by
a very great margin. He spent
many years o: the staff of the
Duke of Wellington but almost
none of the Duke's smartness
rubbed off on him. Until his rp-
pointment as commander-in-chief
he had never held a field com
mand. Thinking always gave him
a headache as it did Cardigan
and Lucan and he never indulged
in it when he could avoid it.
But this much must be said of
all three of them: tliey were men
of unquestioned courage and they
were physically tough as old
whang leather. Raglan wounded
in .the Peninsular War submitted
to the amputation of one of his
arms without an anesthetic and all
of them could remain in the sad
dle for long hours after they
reached sixty.
The great blunders of war have
seldom been caused by a lack of
information but by an unwilling
ness to act sensibly upon what
is known.
Neither of these men had any
capacity at all for seeing even
an inch beyond his own nose. The
simplest problems completed falb-
bergasted them they walked into
palpable traps any blind man
trained in the art of war would
have seen and they wasted men
as men have never been wasted
before.
But their ineptitudes are not to
be wondered at. Even if they had
been reasonably bright they could
not have succeeded as ganerals.
As we have said both Cardigan
and Lucan were extremely wealthy
men and they served in a day
when commissions could be pur
chased in the British Army if one
had the money. And Cai'digan and
Lucan had the money. In order to
obtain a command he greatly
wanted Cardigan once planked
down 40 tousand pounds an enor
mous sum in that day and on
another occasion he bought his
way into a command for 30 thous
and pounds. Thus the men in com
mand were nearly always rich
men who had never earned their
promotions through long years of
service in the lower grades. They
went to war as generals with no
more idea of how to conduct a
war than a cow.
The charge of the Light Brigade
at Balaklava in 1854 which has
long been labeled the most fan
tastic blunder in military history
was led by Cardigan and ordered
by Lucan. Lord Raglan was also
involved in the catastrophe but
had either Lucan or Cardigan pos
Soldiers' Deposits High
WASHINGTON (ANF) Sold
iers had a graVid total of $43771-
000 salted away in soldiers' de
posits as of December 31 1953.
Some 365000 depositors were par
ticipating in the program which
guarantees four percent interest.
The Infantry School was orga
nized as the School of Musketry
at the Presidio Calif. Apr. 1 1907.
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The truth will probably never
be known why Raglan opened the
way for Lucan to commit this aw
ful blunder. He was himself in a
position to observe that the at
tack against the Russian artillery
could mean nothing but disaster.
Indeed he could see the enemy
positions with his own eyes from
his outpost on the heights yet this
message was dispatched to Lucan
who was in command of the caval
ry.
"Lord Raglan wishes the caval
ry to advance rapidly to the front
follow the enemy and try to pre
vent the enem^ carrying away the
guns. Troop Horse Artillery may
accompany. French cavalry is on
your left. Immediate. R. Airey."
Airey was Raglan's chief of
staff evidently no brighter than
his "boss.
In previous engagements Rag
lan's army seldom did any night
probing or patrolling to learn what
might be in front of them and the
price paid for this failure was al
ways a dear one and in this fatal
charge poor Cardigan led his bri
gade without even a covering de
tachment in front of him.
Since Raglan stated that he
"wishes" the cavalry to ad
vance. Lucian certainly could
have deduced that his commander
did not intend for him to attack
blindly without first making an
effort to ascertain what was in
front of him. But Lucan did nothing
of the sort. He merely told Cardi
gan to attack. And Cardigan as
we have said started out with
nothing to cover this advance.
THE ARMORED SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
sessed even a modicum of mili-| Although he had spent years in
tary sense it would have been the Army Cardigan a'pparently
avoided. In reading the chronicle' knew of only one method of at
one wonders if Lucan was not
more interested in sending his old
enemy to certain death than he
was in winning the battle.
tack the frontal attack. If he
had ever heard of a pivot and
maneuvering on the enemy flanks
he displayed no evidence of it in
this charge. And he did another
almost unbelievable thing. Instead
of moving his troops at the ex
tended gallop he remained at a
slow trot throughout the charge
thereby-^multiplying his casulaties
by many fold.
Of the more than 700 cavalrymen
involved in this charge only 70
survived and more than 500
horses Raglan was to need later
on were killed. Curiously Cardi
gan the first man to enter the
engmy. battery positions went
through it unscratched.
After this egregious mess Lucan
was recalled to his homeland and
Cardigan who had been sleeping
in comfort on his nearby yacht
throughout the campaign applied
for sick leave. After a few more
blunders which- nearly cost him
his entire army Raglan died of a
broken heart.
After getting honie Cardigan and
Lucan resumed their quarreling in
the newspapers. For a time after
his return Cardigan was looked
upon' as a hero but in time the
truth about him leaked out and he
died thoroughly discredited
1868 at the age of 71. After the
war Lucan entered the cattle busi
ness to build up his dwindling for
tune but he failed miserably and
lost most of his money. He sur
vived his old enemy by 20 years
dying in 1888 at the age of 88.
To this reviewer Mrs. Woodham
Smith's book is about the neatest
piece of writing that has come
from the press in a long time. Her
artistry with the pen is unques
tioned. R. L. Thompson.
Divine Services
PROTESTANT
Stockade Chapel Sunday 8:30 a.m
Hospital Chapel (Ward C-5) Sunday 9:00 a.m
Battalion Avenue East Chapel. Sunday School Sunday 9:30 a.m
Worship Service Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 a.m
37th Street East Chapel Sunday 10:00 a.m
50th Street Chapel Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 a.m
Evangelistic Hour Sunday 7:30 p.m
162nd Street Chapel—worship service Sunday 10:00 a.m
Battalion Ave. West Chapel Sunday 9:00 10:00 and 11:00 a.m
Brigade Ave. West Chapel Sunday 10:00 a.m
Brigade Ave. East Chapel ..Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 a.m
268th Street Chapel Sunday 10:00 a.m
Hood Village Chapel—Sunday School Sunday 9:45'a.m
Worship Service Sunday 11 a.m
North Fort Hood Chapel Sunday 9:00 a.m
52d Street Chapel Sunday 9:00 10:00 and 11:00 a.m
North Fort Hood Chapel 9:00 a.m
CATHOLIC
Sunday Masses
Hospital Chapel 8:00 a.m
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Theater No. 1 11:00 a.m
North Fort Hood Chapel ....8:00 a.m
Daily Masses
162 St. Chapel 6:15 a.m
37th Street West Chapel .. .6:15 a.m
Confessions
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162d St. Chapel (Saturday) 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
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Christian Science—268th St. Chapel Sunday 11:00 ai.m.
Latter Day Saints—52nd St. Chapel Sunday 1:00 and 7:30 p.m.
Christian Reformed—50th St. Chapel Sunday 2:00 p.m.
Lutheran—50th St. Chapel Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Servicemen For Christ—52nd St Tuesday 7:30 p.m.
General Bible Study—52d St. Chapel Tuesday 6:30 p.m.
United Christian Fellowship Sunday 6:30 p.m.
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By The Editor
Democracy is a form of govern
ment which enables more men to
die from over-eating than from
starvation.
There are some things an edi
tor cannot print: for example
what women think of men.
We never become really envious
until we visit a zoo.
What man in history possessed
the greatest amount of gall? The
honor cei^tainly belongs to Samuel
Johnson. He once accepted an in
vitation to dinner and remained
in the house an uninvited guest for
20 years two months and four
days*.
What every man thinks about a
good deal is the punishment he
has deserved but has escaped.
When a man tells you his chil
dren are ungrateful it means he
has not looked after them pro
perly.
To Reduce Centers
WASHINGTON (ANF) The
•Army maintained 11 reception sta
tions during 1953. Late in 1954 that
number will be reduced to nine. In
1955 it is" anticipated that there
will be only seven reception sta
tions throughout the United States.
More than 300000 sojdiers cur
rently are enrolled in the United
States Armed Forces Institute.
Horse And Buggy Stuff
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now
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Materialism is what men know
is true. Idealism is what they hope
is true. Men who live by the doc
trine of materialism never get
into trouble until they desert it
and accept idealism.
The men who say that whiskey
is harmful even when consumed
moderately are always men who
have never tasted whiskey. It is
the same in business theology
medicine and pedagogy. The men
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who claim to know the most about
war are professors who have never1
been to war.
The most useful man in any
town is always the most unpopu
lar. We once visited Emporia
Kansas the home of William Al
len White. Nearly everyone we
met said he was greatly over
rated as a writer. That's what is
wrong with American civilization
—abuse of the worthy.
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Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1954, newspaper, September 23, 1954; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254398/m1/4/?q=negro: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.