Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 5

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1957 INSPECTING FLOOD AREAS THE REGISTER MTrVERNON, ILLINOIS Lincoln Ahead Of His Time On Weapons OIN. ALFRED QRUINTHH, Red Cross president, erouei flood- devastated rail spur line leading from a mine at Hazard, Ky. Behind him is Hazard's Mayor W. O. Combs.

(International) BLUFORD The W.S.W.S. of the E. U. Church will meet Tuesday evening, Feb. 12 at the home of Mrs.

C. L. Sanders with Mrs. John Kovach as co-hostess. The lesson, "Our Church in Southeast will be presented by the leader Mrs.

Rvnd Wood. The members are reminded they are to save Lincoln pennies this month for the Red Bird Mission In Kentucky. These will be turned in at the March meeting, Miss Marge Ward of Chicago pent Friday night with Miss Nancy Bean. A large crowd attendeH the beautiful wedding of Charles Kite and Joyce Huff at the U. B.

Church Saturday evening. Charlie Huff who celebrated Us 80th birthday last Friday reports that he received lot of nice cards for which he was very thankful. Mr. Huff's birthday was reported in Sally's column. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Scott of Rockford spent the weekend here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott and Mr. and Mrs.

H. R. Huff. Billy Bell of Rockford spent the weekend here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

P. E. Bell. Mrs. Loren Osborn and Mrs.

Bob Ward, were, business visitors in St. Louis Monday and Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. P.

E. Bell, Mrs. Carolyn Stonecipher and Mrs John Kovach, attended the sing. Ing at Centralia Friday evening, Mrs. W.

P. Kekow has been in Cafroj with her daughter Mrs. Wilma Lewis who has been ill the past few weeks. Miss Marjorie Huff of Ottawa, has returned home after spending the weekend with her parents-Mr. and Mrs.

H. R. Huff. OUR MEN IN SERVICE Another anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth is here, and another year accordingly is ad ded to the Lincoln legend. During this past year several books and other publications about Lincoln have appeared, and still others are In prepara tion.

As the many-sided genius of the man is explored his great ness increases. It becomes cas ler to understand why more has been published concerning him than about any other man in history unless it be about the Apostle Paul. One of the books published during the year tells of fluence that Lincoln sought to exert In the selection of the actual tools with which the war was fought. While it reveals his rare insight into the problem of waging a successful war with improved devices and weapons, it also points to the apparent utter lack of imagination on the part of some of the principal men who directed military affairs. stayed and seen the shooting," Sometimes tests and demon strations were made before larger groups that might In elude the president, cabinet members, generals, senators, officers, and Important citizens These were sometimes called "champagne experiments." Be groups larger guns, rockets, incendiary shells, flame throwers, steam guns, centrifugal guns, the breech loading cannon, mortars, and submarines.

One "Submarine No. 12" Is recorded as docking for repairs at the Mound City yard near Cairo in 1863. Through at least the first two years of the war, the president was constantly beset by those wishing to interest him in their lavorite project. To most of these Mr. Lincoln listened pa- tlently and considerately.

Oth ers were disposed of more promptly. One promoter of armored vests was Invited to "put It on, go out there and let. them shoot at you." (Likewise credited to Wellington,) Perhaps the president was most disappointed at his failure to have the army equipped with breech loading rifles and cannon. His advococjrof-thi! brrecrrtoHrt irig rifle was repeatedly justified. Particularly was.

this true at Gettysburg when one company equipped with these arms held General Sickles forces at bay forty minutes, just long enough to allow the Union forces to deploy to receive their at tack. Perhaps this was the most critical forty minutes of the en tire battle. Time has demonstrated that Mr. Lincoln was far in advance of his time in his thinking concerning the useful of military devices. Mrs.

Myrtle (Byars) Wescot died last week at the Centralia Hospital, The funeral was held at the L. R. Osborn Funeral Home. Myrtte lived In this neighborhood until the past few yonrs, when she made hor home KELL NEWS with daughter Mr. and Mi's Ernest Halney in Centralia.

She leaves her daughter, one grandson and two great grandchildren of Centralia; and one sister Miss Opal Byars of Salem. Myrtle has been In failing health the past year. Our sympathy goes out to her family, Don Dial of Fort Riley, spent (he weekend with his par rnts Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dial.

Visitors at Ihe Me Daniel home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Boozer and Judy of Oklahoma, Mr, and Mrs Joe Boozer of Centralia, Mrs. Opal Purdue, Mrs. Alice Simmons and Evelyn Summers, Mrs.

McDanlcl is feeling much better. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Boozer and Judy spent Friday night and Saturday with Mrs. Opal Pur due, Visitors Sunday at the Johnny Boozer home were Mr.

and Mrs, Joe Boozer of Centralia, Mrs Jim Boozer and Mrs. Opal Purdue, R. Osborn Monday had the funeral of Mrs. Fay Butcher's mother. She lived near Paper town nml has been ill the past few months.

Mr. and Mrs, Gene Heflin visited Sunday afternoon with Mr, and Mrs. Rob Simmons Mrs. Mattie Bundy of Koll fell on the ice and broke her hip, She Is in 1he Cenlralln hospital. Mi's.

Sylvia Bnlrd broke her foot ont day this week. Mrs. Anna Fields has been on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs.

William Wlne- mlller, two children and his grandmother of Whittington, visited Saturday with his sister Mr, and Mrs. Gene McDanlel. SWAP Thtf Idlt mutlul Initrwnsirt to MI ipptUntit el Or till for enh, VMKCL 9 Phone 880 25 Tears Sales Service Experienced Secretary Wanted Permanent position in our Company tt available to you, with steady advancement in salary. Write or call for interview if you can qualify. THE SUGARIHE CO.

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and Mrs, WAREHOUSE AUCTION FRIDAY NIGHT 7 OXIock Pace Building on U. telle Rive, Illinois, S. 460 All kinds of household furnishings, some tools, including repossessed furniture, trade-ins, new linoleum Other new odds and ends. No reservations, anything bid on will be sold. Some of the items to go are: 2-Cushion Living Room Suite Chrome Dinette Set.

6-Pc. Dining Room Suite. Complete Bed Outfit. Blonde Table Group. New Step Tables.

New Gray Bedroom Suite. Solid Oak Round Table. Gas Heater. Refrigerator. New Quilting Frames.

Drain Tub. Sofa Beds. Swivel TV Stand. Magazine Rack. Book Shelves.

2 Step Ladders. Used 3-Pc. Bedroom Suite. New Throw Rugs. Table and Bridge Lamps.

Plus many other useful articles Any amount under $25 terms are cash except any item can be added to your account at Belle Rive Furniture Store. John Williams Walter L. Williams, Route 2, Ina, 111., completed eight weeks of ad vanced infantry training Feb. 2, He is stationed at the Army's Armor Training Center, Fort Knox, Ky. FORT BLISS.

TEX. Sergeant First Class Gene L. Aydt, 35, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L.

Aydt, Dahlgren, 111., recently was graduated from the Army's Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missile Center at Fort Bliss, Tex. Sergeant Aydt completed the center's 27-week electronics material maintenance course. He entered the Army in 1341 and served in the Asiatic-Pacific theater during the World War II and in Korea during the recent con flict. His decorations include the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazi in a com bined goodwill and training cruise to South America is Bob R.

Askew, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvie R. Askew of 812 North Fourth Mt. Vernon, aboard the escort destroyer USS Lloyd Thomas.

The task group of destroyers and submarines will provide training services and demonstrate modem methods of anti-submarine war fare to their host countries during the 11-week cruise. The first port visited was La- Guaira, Venezuela during the period 12-31. Their present stop at Rio de Janeiro will include the period 2-11, followed by a visit to Montevideo, Uruguay Feb. 15-23 and several cities in Argentina during the period Feb. 24-Mar.

4 CAMP HAUGE, OKINAWA (FHTNC) Willie Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Edwards of 1300 S. 28th Mt. Vernon, was promoted to Marine Private First Class Jan.

16 at Camp Hauge, Okinawa. He is serving with the Motor Transport Section of Company, 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Marine Division at Camp Hauge Before entering the service in December 1954, Edwards attend cd Mt. Vernon Township High School. SAN DIEGO, Calif. Selected at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, as ap prentice petty officer third class was Thomas T.

Piper, son of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Piper of Route and husband of the former Miss Nancy S. Duncan of Route 1, all of Mt. Vernon, 111 The Apprentice Petty Officers, scheduled to graduate Feb. 9, are chosen from the ranks of the seaman recruits to assist the Company Commanders.

The selection Not responsible in accidents. case of V. W. MERRIMAN Owner Knox Hirons, Auctioneer Doris Merriman, Clerk is made on the basis of aptitude qualities of each at ng Cen and leadership individual. FORT KNOX, KY.

Army Pvt. Allen L. Tate, son Mr. and Mrs. Herman V.

Tate, Route 7, Mount Vernon, recently completed the intermediate speed radio operators course the Army's Armor ter, Fort Knox, Ky. The 12-week course trained him to receive and transmit by Morse code over various types of radio equipment and to service the equipment. Tate entered the Army last ing at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo, July and completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo, The 23-year-old soldier attended Mount Vernon High School. DONT WAIT! D0NT HESITATE! Early Birds Get The Creaa ef the It is not strange that Lincoln would be interested in the tools to be used. Several Incidents in his earlier years may help to explain this interest.

First, his. father was a competent carpenter and cabinet maker and the boy helped him in this work. From, his boyhood, Lincoln had been acquainted with the rifle and was skilled in its use. It was the ingenious manner in which, he got his flatboat over the dam at New Salem that first brought him to the atten tlon of the men there. Then there are letters and accounts of other lawyers who rode the judicial circuits with Lincoln that tell of his custom, when opportunity came of pausing to carefully and thoroughly Inspect any new piece of ma chinery be found.

He prepared and delivered a lecture entitled "Discoveries and Inventions." As an attorney he was interest ed in some patent cases. In 1849, Lincoln drew the plans, constructed the necessary model, and was granted a patent for an apparatus to float fla boats over shoals. Thus it can be seen that he came to the presidency with more than the average understanding of things mechanical and scientific. It was certainly well that he did, When Lincoln began the duties of president he found a chaotic situation. Many of the more able military men were resigning their commissions to cast their lot with their native states.

Others were hesitant concerning the course they would pursue, some permanently leaving the service rather than be partisan. This left a group, many of them older and somewhat stodgy minded but definitely loyal It was to this group that the president had to choose his trained military advisers. In some of his selections from those available, Mr. Lincoln was indeed fortunate. One of his most competent, trusted and valuable aids was commander John A.

Dahlgren, Chief Ordn ance Officer at the Washington Naval Yards, then as now the place where naval cannons were made. It was this Dahlgren who designed the famous Dahlgren gun and for whom the Hamilton County, Illinois village named. Another trusted and competent helper and adviser was Captain Stephen Vincent Benet at West Point, grandfather of the poet bearing the same name The approval of either of these men concerning arms and often secured more than casual atten tion of the 'stodgy minded' ones. Armament carried great weight with the president. On problems lying outside the fields mentioned, Lincoln most often turned to the noted scientist, Dr, Henry, able director of the Smithsonian Institute.

It was with him that the president personally worked in testing flashing calcium lights for night signaling. Dr. Henry also advocated an "air force" of balloons for regular reconnaisance. Not all the president's advisers were so helpful as those named Among those who hampered progress, often apparently on purpose, were Simon Cameron Secretary of War, and Brigadier General James W. Ripley, Chief of Ordnance.

Cameron's usefulness was also lessened by his incompetence and political ma neuvering, Ripley's decisions sometimes appear to have been arrived at because of his petulance, slavery to precedent, jeal ousy, or plain vindictlveness. His office gave him great power to help or hinder as he chose. New weapons, particularly rifles and carbines, were often personally tested by the presi dent and some helper, perhaps a secretary, a private soldier, or even the Inventor. It was common sight to see the presi dent and one of his secretaries trudging toward some open space where a satisfactory range could be found. On one such occasion a corporal with a squad of soldiers came to enforce the ruling that firearms must not be discharged within the city, only to find that the violator was the president stolidly firing away at a target set against a nearby woodpile.

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