IT’S GENERAL GEORGE C.
MARSHALL SPEAKING; ALL
CAPITOL HILL LISTENING
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON—Senators and
Congressmen are traditionally
better talkers than listeners.
There is one fellow, though,
who goes up on Capitol Hill fre
quently, and when he does, mem
bers of Congress listen!
Few men in Washington get
such undivided attention — and
respect —from congressional au
diences as does Gen. George Cat
lett Marshall, Chief of Staff of
the .United States Army.
A little more than a year ago,
President Roosevelt gave this tall
soft-spoken, graying soldier a pro
motion over 33 of his senior offi
cers.
In doing so, he elevated to the
post a man to whom three chiefs
of staff before him (Pershing,
MacArthur and Craig) referred
at various times as a great sol
dier. • - i—
Although not without prece
dent, the promotion also gave
this top army post to a man who
was not a graduate of West Point
But no man who ever came out
of the army college was more of
a professional soldier.
GRADUATE OF V. M. I.
“Puck” Marshall was bom in
Uniontown, P., 60 years ago. He
was graduated from Virginia Mili
tary Institute with honors 21
years later. A year after that he
was commissioned Second Lieut
enant in the United States Army
and his varied (but consistently
successful) military career was
under way.
The stories about him at V.M.I.
are as numerous as the anecdotes
of that institution written into
the recent play and movie, “Bro
ther Rat.” In his “rat,” or fresh
man year. h,e was seriously injur
: ed by a bayonet during a hazing
! incident. But Marshall passed it
’ off without a word of accusiation
I against those responsible.
Marshall was graduated with
out a single demerit, senior cap
1 itan of his class, fifth in schlas
! tic standing and an all-southern
! football tackle.
DEFENSE PLAN PRAISED
There is another story that
while serving in the Philippines,
when he was a Second Lieuten
ant, he drew up field order that
were later described by his Gen
eral as the best plan for the de
fense of the islands that he had
ever seen.
Seven years ago this month,
General Marshall was only a col
onel. It was during the World
War that he first came to the at
tention of General Pershing,
whose aide .he later became.
When General Marshall took
over the Army a few months be
fore the Nazis went rampaging
in Europe, he immediately set
about reorganization. Some Army
men wise in the ways of politics
told him he was inviting the axe.
I
But the General went ahead,;
quietly but firmly brushing the
objecting politicians aside. Each
passing month found him another
notch higher in ^the esteem of
Congress and the civilian corps
working for national defense.
MAKES HASTE SLOWLY
The lean, wiry General, with a
bit of a squint in his left eye, has
been an apostle of “make haste
slowly” in the defense program,
but he never has relaxed his in
sistence on its expansion.
When the vast war games were
held in the South last spring (the
largest such peacetime maneuver
up to that time), General Mar-;
shall said: “It was a successful
experiment. It shows us our short
comings.
“That,” said a friend, “is Gen
eral Marshall. He’d rather know
an army’s weakness than its
strength.”
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Certificate of Dissolution
I, Frank A. Boyle, Auditor of
the Territory of Alaska, and cus
todian of corporation records for
said Territory, do hereby certify
that there has been filed in my
office, on this, the seventh day
of August, 1940, the written con
sent of the stockholders of the'
OSBORN MINING COMPANY, a
corporation organized and exist
ing under and by virtue of the
laws of the Territory of Alaska,
to the dissolution of said corpora
tion, written consent to such dis
solution having been executed by
all of the stockholders on the
20th day of May, 1940, and certi-i
fied to by the President and As-,
sistant Secretary of the corpora-!
tion on the 31st day of July, I
1940.
| Wherefore, in view of the
above premises, I do further cer
tify that the OSBORN MINING
COMPANY, a corporation, is dis-1
solved, pursuant to Section 924
of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, |
1933, upon the filing in this of-1
fice of the proper proof of pub-i
lication of this certificate. In testi1
mony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed my
official seal, at Juneau, the Cap
ital, this seventh day of August,
A. D. 1940.
Frank A. Boyle,
Auditor of Alaska
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1—We advocate the return of
our people to the principles of
Government established by the
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Party in its time-honored history
j in the conduct of National affairs.
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| GANIC ACT. We recommend
that the Organic Act of the Terri
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for the election of the Governor
and of the Secretary of the Terri
tory of Alaska by the people, and
also to give to the people of the
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natural resources and the collec
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We condemn the administration
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sive of Constitutional principles,
opposed to the liberties of our
citizens, and contrary to all those
things which guarantee the free
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ly denounce the present policy of
the Democratic Administration in
seeking, through the Secretary of
the Interior, to establish a one
man dictatorial government for
the Territory, substituting reg
ulations for law. The present state
of development of the Territory
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will quickly mean ruination of all
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