The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929 WASHINGTON 2 By RODNEY DUTCHER be ly blocked. Tanks are unable (NEA Service Writcr) to operate alone or to hold captured Washington, Aug. 6.—As soon as President Hoover had demanded some substantial reductions in mili- tary expenditures there were su; impeded water, thick woods and tions of eliminating obsolete or du- | boulders. ry is never hampered plicating branches of the Army, and by lack of g: cline, quite a few persons thought: “Well, “The capacity of an army for ac- let's get rid of the cavalry.” not shown until it gets off the That idea does not set so well with ys a cavalry officer. the high officers of the War Depart- er conditions and lack of ment, who contend, with the concur- mean little to cavalry—it can rence of Secretary of War Good, that on just the same.” the cavalry is still indispensible and| In ordinary warfare, when @ ma- has not been made obsolescent by | neuver isn’t rendered impossible by airplanes, tanks and motorized trans- trench fighting with flanks ‘resting port. on impassable obstacles, cavalry does One reason the Army docs not uff by arriving quickly at the want to give up its cavalry is that ne of action, spreading out over 80 many army officers like to ride , wide spaces if necessary, concentrat- horseback and play polo. Secretary , attacking suddenly by Good himself has a great fondness surprise and escaping quickly after for the four-footed critters, dating king a blow at superior numbers. back to his boyhood days on a farm in cross rapidly through zones in Iowa. fire, presenting a difficult Plenty of Reasons d arriving at close quarters But the Army offers enough other the enemy without destructive reasons for retention and st! ening of the cavalry, with offic: the cavalry themselves displaying xpounding | ci = in the World war, despite the hment on the western front, was active and often impor- and demonstrating them. Good has t cessful. It covered the con- = ~ cited expert testimony to the effec n, detraining and advance You SAY TUE COTEST YeS-1 SAW You - that the World war would soon have | of the French, British and German LITTLE GIRL You EVER FRO WAY OUT “TERE WY NANG —AND.ZM. HIS * 16 VEDA-- Bromer, FRecues! been over if either France or Ger- | armies. A Belgian cavalry division SAN! LIVES HEREP @ : ANY NAMES TAGALONG many had possessed a sufficiently e the Germans their first serious AN! “ strong and mobile force of cavalry ack when it held up the ad- chan aed SAT 4 NEDA sTaLey %. DIDN'T GET - “Other arms may win battles; only | vance of German cavalry on Brussels. ROM : / " ‘ cavalry will make them worth win-| French cavalry did valuable recon- . = ere : . BER NAME ning,” said Lord Haig, and the argu- | noitering work against the first Ger- : ay i ) S y . tt ° ment of our own military men is that | man advance. When the Allied and y ss t A 8 4 i 1S VE it would be dangerous to form fixed German armies were trying to en- f - Py j 7 DAs ISN'T ideas of war from the World war's | velop each other, cavalry corps gal- % ~ , fj S , +. TWAT A NICE Jong period of trench warfare. No jloped ahead in the so-called “race to : nation will voluntarily submit to a the sea.” war of attrition behind barbed wire, | Hindenburg Used It and for wars of maneuver an army Karly in the war cavalry main- must have horse, foot and artiller: ned connection between separate along with such modern improve- | armies or parts of an army. Ger- ments as planes and tanks. man cavalry figured most important- Instead of dropping out of the pic- |ly in Hindenburg’s overwhelming de- ture to give way to armored cars and | feats of the Russians. Cavalry ap- swift tanks, the cavalry expects to | peared to be the most important mil- ‘add these to its own units and there- | itary arm of all in the operations in by extend its radius of action and its | Egypt and Palestine. French cavalry fire power. cut off the retreat of the Eleventh ‘Whereas, the air service is restrict- |German army in Macedonia and ed by weather conditions in scouting | Italian cavalry staged some brilliant work and reconnaisance, cavalry can | pursuit work on the Austrian front be used at night and in all kinds of | just before the war ended. ther and also in thickly wooded | Cavalry officers are fond of quoting territory, where enemy units might | this statement of General Pershing ‘be hidden from aerial observation. | in 1922, based on lessons on the war: Cavalry is also able to pick up im-| “There is not in the world today % details, by minute searches | an officer of distinction, recognized {and questioning Inhabitants, for in-|as an authority in military matters led AMY amet Fi > }etance. It may be able to operate | in a broad way, who does not declare ont A ME! MOM Maxi com SH,SH! WILL YOU SHUT UPS NOW | when enemy aircraft frustrates ours. | with emphasis that cavalry is as im- PLIVING LEAPFROG 2 Cuick LEDNE = te ‘0 evox ea pee Eel he et Sef 1S EITHER ACTING || GOING To MAKE A BARGAIN WITH “eo ‘Armored cars are considered more | portant an arm today as it has ever WiTd THOSE DIRTY < AwITH You YOUNG WANT NOU TO LIKE A TOM- IF YOULL ACT LIKE A GIRL WHILE. vulnerable than cavalry and they can | been.” LITTLE Bors BEHANE AND STOP ACTING LIKE SHE'S HERE AND NOT PLAY \NITH THOSE MS : DIRTY KIDS AND KEEP OUT OF SIGHT WHENEVER 1M WITH HER, I'LL GWE ‘YOU TEN CENTS A DAY. ANOTHER “THING-ANHEN 1 COUGH THAT MEANS T STOP WHATEVER ‘ou'RE DOING. BDO You GET ,. ME 2 GEE, TUL Bet SHE'S YouR. GIRL. ISNT SHE , CHICK ? GOING PLACES SEEING THINGS = f that ze quiet haunts in the “days snapshots. . . . leisurly mo-| when,” t it dow = Seivvating the Fowell etrect| oy, cable car around the turnstile... .|'"& !" es nd a couple of yokels from New|,The rendezvous was Bigin’s. 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The Twin Peaks drive, than which | There, was George Sterling, the poet there is nothing “chicher on a iate| “ho. just missed geaius, who died ‘afternoon when De claps hang ocr magically by his om hand a 29 f = rest. the city. . . . Andilongago. . . . There was Mahlon J zZ : the rest of ne ee the Ruscian| Blaine, whose illustrations are to be ee . Lyi) Ys ba ” \ Wap Cen FoR. church spires in the valley below. {found today in books and magazines a f\ << : st Maynerd Dixon, tho once was|-—and a score of others, Most of =" Y ‘ called “the cowboy artist,” swinging | them figure in the surviving legends with his 10-gallon hat and his)! San Francisco's Bohemian days. th-heeled boots. . .. They “ek * me that now and then he ap-| Today the old_Bigin’s wears t'.e peore in @ picturesque cape. . . ./names of “The Follies” and an ar- -Of all things! . . . And Bill Dav. ‘ay of square wooden tables hag enport, who started the first tea-|taken the place of the old long zoom in San Francisco in what had! “round table.” Bigin has moved “up- once been one of the most popular |town.” The old-timers have, like my- bars. . . . I can remember when'self, scattered hither and yon— “Davy” made spaghetti in wash-tubs |chiefly yon—rayon electric signs in the old “studio days,” with Idwal now flash from the familiar old Jones, novelist and columnist, and places. ven Tag a Pia! ipa Le NANI) AMY AWW NN i Johnny Petrina, who lived to see a/ xe * painting hung in the French salon,| Pisco John's, famous the world standing by “kibitzing.” lover for its “punches” and for its WO KO ~ SOME GUYS HWE PAL TH’ GOOD LUCK 100K AT IM TH’ BG STIFE cae Tittle room which was, perhaps, the only ‘ar where women could go, is Those v a flo gays! .. . But now a business block. Here Robert ATURE they always? ae wane Louis, Stevenson had put his foot qgSfll and all, I found myself wan- upon the rail many times, and there dering about ‘Broadway the, other was an old bar-tender who never iRight Hike a lost soul, Broadway in |tired telling us tales of the great Francisco, zo— ue and, I assume, before that—was the | ‘ eit we. while I wipe a fe of American Bohe | : Gio i Dear jazz bands playing on corners | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) (2s ea DRM me il ae iene arcs wes .| YOUR CHILDREN @ Wie Roberts Barkan