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...whether pack, draft or riding animal, costs more than a horse. A riding horse for the Army costs around $162, a pack or riding mule around $184. From its hybrid ancestry, the mule inherits some sturdily pig-tailed virtues. It is as tough, wise and sure-footed as the ass, as strong and willing as the horse. Under fire, when horses go mad with fear, mules wait philosophically until led to safety...
...exactly what you had to do. Maybe it was that you had to be utilitarian. In war you have to consider what would bring the greatest good to the greatest number of your people. "You damn fool," he said, and he gave the stick a push. "You silly ass," and the hull far below came into view just over the cowling...
...choking in the fumes of your hypocrisy sooner or later-for Adolf Hitler is the man of the year, if there be any such, and I wish to go on record now as predicting that you gutless hypocrites will pass him over again in favor of some such ass as Churchill-or Rusefelt even, if he is successful by the year-end in pushing us into this...
...Washington National Guard, which he made one of the best in the country. Gruff, bombastic, generous to his employes, he was famed for his feuding. Once, in 1926, he engaged the late Colonel William Mitchell in violent debate on the future of airplanes. He said that Mitchell made an ass of himself in declaring that planes would decide the next war, that Mitchell's prophecy that troops would be carried to battle by air was a "howling joke...
With these thoughts in mind. I wish you could clear up this matter, at least as far as my personal standpoint is concerned. Michael J. de Sherhinin. Ass't Managing Editor of The Dartmouth