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wuz 7 the beef "'scandai," and thé antica of gradaae is requienuy given a job, and hi£ assigument came. the newspaper. correspondents. Yates ini the Dakotas. We sat at the table in the dining at once, Fort --preachers of old, Methodist the Like had Johnson, roorni which Mrs. the niove. Preson ever are armyý men cleared. I had been wvith the general had 1I Ostensibiy for somle hours.. corne to. see him about a West Point sÉtory. He. and General Pershing had iaates atthe military acadbeen eY' both had been the World wr , both had been atin the uion of the Sth reciasa at West Point in June. Loath to pour out precious memfoirs to a generation Which he terins. "so impatient,. so intenhton getting nowhere with suicidai recklessness," General Johnson had. begun on ,thç Rote of, remiliscences of bis childhood, spent in St.. Peter in the fertile ýMinnesota valley during the Civil war and the Siouxc 1e4aa wars.:Evrï< body in St. Peter had a gun and used it. .Consequently the, young fry of the vilage eariy imbibed military technique, were drilleé1d by the schoolmaster, and in tume grew up to be soidiers. GeU0ff Easy' Older brother Franklin O. Johnson went to West Point, and Arthur, who foilowed bis career as closeiy as Cuba, for distinguished service, for galantry in action. This he received only recently, being uninterested to make application detachments mnoving in directly on , the Spanish. As they began moving, an supposed iast in, the Spanish who were 'op>en fire, too lot to be bright enough to bullets. mauser deadly shooting for begàn Young Artbu.and the others were. dismayed. "We began to, wîsh we wvere girl babies .at home,";he. admits. Night fell on the countryside. The: Americans dlecided to maneuver very smartly and give these Spanish a littte fright. Chaffee ordered the men cross-country from the road to. aild move bridge on the left. through 'the ivood to re-enforce, General, Scbafter's, attack on San Juan hill. "We m a r c h e d ail night," said Genéral Johnson. By daybreak we had reached'the position which- Cbaffcee, an old Indian fighter by the way, had been. ordered to occupy.. -l looked ahead. There, not, 50 feet awav. was the little bridge on which 1 had stood the night before, the very bridge from which we had started on our alI-night march! I turned to Chaffee. He set bis jawv and swore Well, l'Il be damned.' This was a blunder rare in military histor,.." 1Time marches on. Came 1917, and the 'World war. General Johnson moved the medals around some more. Cite are BIunder The West, Point of the eariy '8's was rather a stark af air, in ternis of barracks, iron stairs, and. discipline. At 6 a.m.. a drum and bugle corps of youngsters froni down on the flats carne up to wake up the cadets. Inspection took place at 6:20, breakfast at 6:30. There were two cots in each room, and the bedding had to be ln -111 eatv n ahnndle lUked, 1 got on r&atifrcaa at the was enormnous, it hàd railroaci tracks, warehouses, hospitals, thousands of employees. Here General Arthur Johnson fought the war. For bis services he was given the distinguished serv-ice medal. I asked bim what he thought about war. wondering what the thoughts of a 'West Pointer, an army mnan, a retired general would be about a subject that is regrettably of revived interest in a time 18 yeatr, removed john j. rersbng ns of the class froni the1 Both'Pershing and ,den Johnson, a son, and theC pençi their spare time, turfiWood bracelets, bag tops, Here 'the grandsons and -Ssons. make and repair their ae ea hero. ed tO 1 tale, I 1j his1 first reconnoitering, he carn et