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SSO CIATIO N
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C o l. R o b e r t L . S c o t t
OUR PART IN WORLD PEACE
SYNO PSIS
CHAPTER II
W h ile the u ltim a te peace term s w ith Germ any are s till
in the fo rm a tiv e stage because the w a r is n 't yet won. the blue
p iin ts look lik e each a lly shall have its ow n sphere o f in flu e n ce
in the European w a r zone w ith responsibilities fo r g u a rd in g the
te r r ito r y over w hich the respective nation is responsible. The
a l ttitu
d e ot Russia tsu
t vet ve rv clear as to what she wants.
i
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the best guesses are th a t she w ill wan, a good deal in the m a tte r
o f fix in g borders and c o n tro llin g the annexation o f ce rta in
te rrito rie s o f p a rtic u la r interest to her. The spheres o f in flu
ence o f each p a rtic ip a tin g nation can be w o rke d out w ith o u t
any fric tio n , but w h ether they are is anothe r question ami
thereby bangs o u r ehaneea fo r a n y th in g lik e a la stin g peace.
The n x t most iu ip o rta u t fa c to r is the a b ility o f the w a rrin g
nation to re tu rn to m um al w ith a stable governm ent. Some re
tu r n q u ic k ly as France appears to he -doing. O thers w ill lie
b a n k ru p t and broken in s p irit lik e Ita ly w ith little w illingness
to make an e ffo rt ,n the rip n t d ire ctio n . In I t a ly ’s ease, she
may tu rn again to Racism o r some o th e r ism ju s t as bad and
rem ain a hot bed fo r p o litic a l crackpots and in te rn a l re v o lu
tions. F rom what we know o f the jo b the present a d m in is tra
tio n is doing in Ita ly , \vc ca n 't give the a d m in is tra tio n ’s
fo r. ign p o lic y much and i f it is a fa ir sample o f what the pub-
lie can expect. it appears as though such a p o lic y w ill be ju s t
anothe r p in to p u n c tu re the reelection balloon.
OUR USELESS GOLD STOCKS AT FORT KNOX
Tit.- fo llo w in g is an e x tra c t f:» m the m o n th ly news le tte r
o f the Oregon section o f the Am erican Chem ical Society as re
po rte d in the Ore Bin.
s I*H)k at tin- poor fo re ig n co u n trie s o u r commissions
w ill naw save (b y re s tric tio n s on I '. S. business, o f course).
Since th ia c o u n try entered the w ar. o th e r countries have
added
350.GOO,COO to th e ir jto ld and sh ort-term d o lla r re-
sources. M any do not realize how o u r wah expend itures help
do this. W hen we entered the w ar. the to ta l m o n e ta ry gold
stocks o f the -est o f the w io.ld w.-re about $8.7o0.000.'00fl o f
y In ch ».botif ’ j was held under cur-m ark in th is c o u n try . It
is estim ated (c o n s e rv a tiv e ly ) that another $2.000,000,fX)0 gold
and
hank accounts. W ith the
; k . .
,” f ftM‘‘‘,« n -a '« i''d bank deposits am i investm ents
i u 2 i r / “ i i ° ,<4al- f o r t i ’fn er<,1‘1 a,,<l d o lla rs were in exceaa o f
io th is should lie added $3 (MMJ.(MtO.tMX) in fo n -ig tl
held r . S. stocks and i la
i n d s and $3 " i OO.OHO.HOO in d ire c t in ve st
ment«.
As the w a r m receded paym ents to fo re ig n countries rose
b tra te g ie m a te ria l im p o rts increased ¿ re a lly . W e paid cash fo r
,,
‘ j { u n n "’ tf.,,s ,im e <;Ur cash e x p o rts have fa lle n w av o ff
'Lend-Lease gotng u p ). Thus o u r cash trad,- balance tu rn e d
again«! us. O u r troops in A u s tra lia spend $200.000.0(X> a -.ear fo r
goods and seryi. es over and above reciprocal lend-lease. D u rin g
the N o rth -A fric a n cam paign, we sp, tit in excess o f $400.000 000
tn E g y p t alone These paym ents t o foreigners have piled up -
!'e ,u U e " Ot I T !
r ? se] 1 then‘ - the-V K it them free under
.
I l-« use A dd to this the decrease in our gold p ro d u c tio n and
t i e decline in I S. gold stocks, and the end o f thia ye a r w ill
se foreign-ow ued gold am i d o lla r balances h it the $22.000 0 00-
«*10 m ark - about double the to ta l w o rld gold stocks 10 years' ago.
to - « / « 191X , a‘ ! he
‘ o f the
W o rld W a r. the fo re ig n
J d liL r us Hud
Ut •*’ ' M’0 i * )0 000-
o u r economists are
Scott put In (ix months of study
there, (or there w ere some eight
hundred of us soldiers trying in com
petition for about fourteen vacan
cies
As luck would have it that
ye ar, these fourteen were cut to
eight.
Once
again
West
Point
seemed a long way off 1 got down
to business then; I would »hut m y
self in my room and almost memo-
r i” the I c m m i ». especially every old
Ues,’T ' 1“ ’’-examination as tar back
ni
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nd In
March took the dreaded exam ina-
tn n
Or.e day. some weeks after the
annual competition for entrance
from the Regular A rm y, I was w alk
ing guard duty. I was called from
Post N um ber One. around the
guard-house: .1 had just heard the
fa m ilia r call. “ Num ber One — two
prisoners.'' and had replied. “ Turn
’em in .“ The G eneral had sent for
me.
As I stood before him my
heart felt as though it would beat
out through my blouse. He smiled
and spoke.
“ Son, you have won in the West
Point com petitive exam ination and
1 want to tell you you're starting
out on the same road I started out
on a long tim e ago
It's the great-
e$t school in the world—but learn
some common sense too. I'm send
ing you or furlough until you report
for duty at the .M ilitary Academy.
Congratulations.”
The world was never so sweet. I
gained two inches in the chest that
day.
Thus, in July of 1928, I walked
through the sally port with m y suit
case and began the routine that is
fa m ilia r to nearly everyone. I had
heard of the strict discipline of West
Point and the difficulty of studies
for one handicapped by a Southern
accent M y year of hard work had
made m e hate books again, but I
resolved that afte r the work I had
gone to I most certain ly would not
be kicked out or "found.” as we
say in Kaydet slang. I rem em ber
- father's ________________
my
am bition for me. —
He
was ot cours* Proud of my appoint-
. . . I
mer.t. and used to wonder why
d idn't rank about num ber one in
my class. During m y Plebe year,
which was easy because I had just
about learned the first year's work
at the prep school, he used to w rite
and tell me that while it wasn’t too
disgraceful to be num ber fifty in a
class of over three hundred, he
couldn't see why I didn't study a
little more and get up into the first
twenty Welt, as the first year went
by and I got into the more difficult
studies. I went lower and lower in a
class that dwindled finally to some
two hundred and sixty. During the
last year, when I was very far
down. Daddy would w rite:
tfg w g to save the B rave New W o r ld '
how a re we
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There was, as usual, many a slip.
Before 1 was able to w rite the story
we were perm itted to travel to the
West Coast to play Stanford in foot-
i ball. Coming back under the cha-
grin of defeat. I did not bother to
open my book*, believing that even
West Point would not expect a stu
dent to recite w ithin one hour of
his return from C alifornia
But 1
, reckoned without the rig id ity of the
Academ y. Our train arrived across
the Hudson at G arrison at 8:55, and
. we m arched into History at 7 55. 1
wa* im m ediately assigned to recite
on the battle of V alm y. I did not
know what w ar it wa« in. and there
fore knew nothing concerning It. To
say that and get a zero, however,
would be fatal and in fact could
mean disciplinary action. I there
fore resorted to the tim e worn West
Point tactics of evasion—known as
"b ugling.”
C a u l H r,-m l
If you h.;ve spur«* (or It, the re
frig e ra to r* a good place fur bread
In hoi » ra th e r Keep it wrapped i
ila waved paner wrapper.
W N U R fe L tA « ,t
Rags (or War
Hag« are needed In the m anufac
ture ul blueprint paper und are uaed
In lie uaphult looting of m ilita ry
building«
c o itee n y
I "fric-cT again and was ' ot int-T rly ' b~ing giaZctl «ecwTuoig
to the tradition of the last aewlion—
ordered to sit down.
T iie zero 1 received dropped me that is. either barely passing ur be-
from the (list section to the last. low. 1 argued that I had evidently
F urtherm ore, I found im m ediately accomplished that purpose, for my
that in this last section the sub grade was p e rfe c t
jects for monographs were not se
lected by the cadet, but were as
signed
The new instructor gave
me the battle of Sandepu— some in
significant engagement in an insig
nificant war. I looked for days In
the lib ra ry (or dala on the battle,
and finally found about one para
graph devoted to if in the Encyclo
paedia Britannica. It was Sandepu
Haikoutai, or Yen Kai-Wan. fought
during the Russo-Japanese W ar of
UKH-C5.
A person with my imagination and
In itiative. 1 n s. m il. would (im p ly
waste bis talents on such a sm all
battle
I therefore dee ded to c re
ate a fictitious battle
This extra
work m attered not. for 1 had noth
ing but time, having been placed in
confinement for getting the zero in
history
I worked out an elaborate
plan f< r the battle and introduced
the subject in a manner lh»t I anew
would attract attention to even a
last-sectmn monograph I dedicated
the work of art to the officer tn
charge of Field A rtille ry , l.ieut
Pete Nuby—a contraband nicknam e
uf a very tough officer. I illustrated
the monograph with pictures of New
York street cleaner* and wrote un
der them that they were Japanese
sold.ers wa ting to go over the top
at the R iver Ho in 1905 Lastly I
tied the book in red ribbon at least
six inches wide, completed with a
bow larg er than the monograph
I
doomed m yself in the last p ara
graph bv saying that 1 had dreamed
I had observed the battle, but had
been awakened by reveille, which,
as Napoleon derlm ed at the battle
of Maloyaroslavets, is a hideous
noise in the middle ot the night All
of which went to prove. I contended,
that history could be made in sleep,
and it therefore did not require an
"engineer” to be a historian.
This explanation had just about
won the Batt Board around to my
side when one of the Board m em
b e rs - a stumpy little officer noted
tor hi* preciseness, called behind
his back "F a n n y " M acon—asked
me: “ M r Scott, I see your point
about m aking the monograph
in
tercstihg
But what is the red rib
bon for. what does It represent’ " I
It Miked at him almost with pity
"S ir, how long have you been tn th«
A rm y ’ " “ For seventeen ye ars." h«
.-aid. intim ating that It was none o
my business
Even then I think I
could have saved the battle, but th<
opportunity
was
too
Imposing
"W ell, S ir,“ 1 said. "In that tim e yot
certainly should know about m il,
tary red tape ”
The Batt Board
mously that I should
one year
F or all
graduated—even if it
as the anchor man.
agreed unani
walk the Area
that. I finally
was Just about
REDDY KILOWATT
Xiwi llactra Servent
G2>0aoâ Diro
Plug i n — I'm
school work.
Iq the summer of 1932. after being
graduated and commissioned a sec
ond Lieutenant of In fantry. I went
to Europe. In Cherbourg. France,
I bought a motorcycle and set out to
ride tu Constantinople The one cyl
inder Soyer took nie down through
Paris, then Southeast into Switzer,
land, and over the Simplon Pass to
Italy. I spent some time in Venice,
then I went up through the dust Into
Jugoslavia.
Reddy to help w ith
I'll brig hte n things up
evenings when the boys and girls are
doing th e ir home work. Plug a good
study lam p in to my Reddy Box and
the results w ill be good q u a lity soft
lig h t w hich
w ill m oke
study work
easier.
I'm always on the job— so I'll be Keody
One day I hud ridden some four
hundred miles ir-to the town ot Novo
Mcsto
Tired and d irty from the
heavy dust of the road«. I went to
the best-looking of 0 e hotels, and
after some delay In m aking myself
understood among Serbians and
Croatian». I ordered beefsteak D u r
ing the explanation I gathered that
someone who lived there tn the town
spoke English. This of course was
pleasant news, for I was. after ail.
a lonely tourist in a very foreign
land. They now sent a sm all boy
to bring back this connecting link
between us
I waited and walled,
while they all pointed and Jabbered
about me. F in ally the steak came,
and got cold while my mouth w a
tered. but 1 felt 1 had to w ait and
ask the A m erican If he would eat
with me. At last there was a com
motion at the entrance,, and I to’ ned
anxiou,
for you.
Reddy Kilowatt
Mountain
States
For the story of Sandepu. I im a g
ined that 1 wcr.t duwn to a Southern
city to inspect th* A rm y's first a ir
craft. This was a tree balloon—the
latest invention of tl'05
Becoming
weary. I went to sleep in the basket
of the ballo n. But a storm must
have torn the craft from its moor-
mg», foi when 1 looked down I wa«
t e lng blown to the East across the
Atlantic. For da>s we^drifled over
ocean and continents, until, coming
_____ (ConUniiod on page 7»
close to the hilly ground, 1 used the
first air-brakes ever known. They
were comp, sed of one m ile of gov
ernm ent red-tape and the anchor
worn by the captain of the “ goat"
team of 1004 iThis was readily in
terpreted by the professor», for the
traditional football gam e of the year
is one played between the first th ir
ty men in the Second Class, called
tiie "engineers,' ar.d the last thirty
Power Co.
"A
S ell-S u p p o rtin g ,
Taxpaying,
Private Enterprise"
Serving
Cottage Grove
"You just stay there, Son, just
stay there.'*
1 still heard the planes flying over
and try as I would. I could concen
tra te on nothing but the A ir Corps.
In 1930 I wrote an essay on fly
ing. and it almost gut me kicked
out.
You see. in M ilita ry History
shipping. $500.000.000: e x p o iis $2.500.000 000
balance by o ils - you have to w rite a monograph on
eellam-ous. service« finsurance, e tc .). W ith
t
r i f , l , v;
r
;
’ • W ith d e c lin in g s e x n p o o r r t t s s the strategy employed in one of the
G reat . B rita
'
‘ ’ in ! ' ,sn*iliz
s th a t s ie w ill I),, short $2.500.000 000 o f m ajo r battles of the world I had a l
baia
wun ' ‘"I
antl th a t’* « h e re we come in. They ways I ked m ilita ry history and had
tinti ’ l w
ant a loan - they want lend lease.
* been in the first sect.on of that sub
ject. <^t the Academy each stu
N ot counted by these same
• eonom ists” is the fa ct th a t dent is in a section commensurate
• lite to o u r past lend leas.
G reat Brit-.i'., l.
, '
' OUr f’w"
has skyrocketed while with his scholastic standing ) My
OOON'ow rem •»
“ 'T " ’ r
k,'.'' P he' S ,,OWn to t'O.OOO.Oikj.- presence in that group perm itted me
fa r 8,1
a ll th t o th e r countries and atm- to choose my battle I had had a
w er
e $ '4
grandfather killed at Bull Run. and
<,
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------------- W hen a ll the
( ommisstons -start
start to
to regulate
regulate I C S
S p ro d u ctio n d o w n w a rd I therefore selected the first Battle
(otherw ise there is no reason fo r th e ir existenc.
ot Manassas.
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l l U P T r a 1- Scon's early experience«
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H« gee« U
F t McPherson and enlltta In lh« regular
a rm y a * a private.
l ’ p to now w o rld peace has not been im possible, but
im probable. F’rota here on out the k in d o f pence we have de
pend» on how the present c o n flic t is settled am i the m anner
in w hich the allies are w illin g to guard the terms. I f we go to
sleep at the sw itch as we d id in the last w ar. we m ay have a
tw e n ty to th ir ty ye a rb re a th in g spell, hut no more.
tw e n ty to th ir ty y e a r b re a th in g spell. 1>ut no more.
M A R T IN M OTORS
GOD IS M Y
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ÈDITOR IA L _
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and a Nation at W ar
(¡ K K Y H O V M ) / ) . / / / . y S I.K I IC I,
NORTHBOUND
G eneral Henry II. Arnold, rhief at
the United Mates Arm y Air Forces,
to whom this story is dedicated.
men. known as the "goats.” I was
of course in the last th irty: I had
been G oat Captain, and had worn
the anchor sewn on my football
Jersey , These improvised airbrakes
worked, arid the anchor caught on a
hill which 1 identified from maps a*
the hill of Chan-tan Honan— the the.
ater of the Rusho-Japanese W ar.
From this vantage point, swinging
in the balloon. I watched the two
armies in battle. M erely rank face-
tiousnass. I adm it, but even then
1 was completely arr-minded.
1 was rej o rte d -fo r submitting a
facetious monograph in m ilita ry art
and for casting reflections on the
Engineering Departm ent. F o r this
offense. 1 wa* brought before a
board of four officer«, known as the
Battalion Board—or. as we called it,
Going to the blackboard with an the "B a it Board." My explanation
a ir of confidence, 1 stood at atten w s* that I knew, after being dropped
tion with pointer in hand and be from the first section to the last in
gan. "Sir, my duty for today Is to one recitation, that I must have In
explain the battle of Valm y Napo ferior intelligence. I therefore had
leon declared after this engagement no chance ot w riting an interesting
that the forces of an arm y must and worthy monograph on the m a
teria l of the actual battle, and ac
be concentrated for battle . .
At that Instant the professor stood cordingly I had decided to m ake my
up and said he would w ait five sec- battle fiction, and so interesting that
uidx lu t me. ta begin, the ttc lld jo n i t would be lead corprlejely in*’ »ad
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