Letter to a Reader

The News, paper of Chicago's Evening-Colonel (Frank Knox), last week published a photostat of a reply written by Chicago's Morning-Colonel (R. R. McCormick of the Tribune) to a letter from Chicago Adman J. H. Sawyer Jr.:

". . . What the most powerful propaganda organization in the world has misled you into believing was a campaign of hatred, has really been a constructive campaign without which this country would be lost.

"You do not know it, but the fact is that I introduced the R.O.T.C. into the schools; that I introduced machine guns into the army; that I introduced mechanization; I introduced automatic rifles; I was the first ground officer to go up in the air and observe artillery fire. Now I have succeeded in making that the regular practice in the army. I was the first to advocate an alliance with Canada. I forced the acquiring of the bases in the Atlantic Ocean.

"On the other hand I was unsuccessful in obtaining the fortification of Guam; in preventing the division of the navy into two oceans. I was unable to persuade the navy and the administration that airplanes could destroy battleships.

"I did get the marines out of Shanghai, but was unsuccessful in trying to get the army out of the Philippines. . . .

"The opposition resorts to such tactics as charging me with hatred and so forth, but in view of the accomplishment I can bear up under it."

News comment: "Whatta Man!"

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