Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Simplest Way of All. [ARTICLE]

Simplest Way of All.

The following story the Saturday Evening Post says is told of CoL George W. Goethals, who at the time It took place was an instructor in engineering at West Point One day, hi a recitation, he gave out this question tcv a class of cadets. “The post flagpole, sixty feet high, has fallen down. You are ordered by your commanding officer to put it np again. You have under your command a sergeant and ten privates of the engineer corps. How would you get the pole back into place?” ’r * Each cadet; after long consideration and much figuring over the derricks; blocks, tackle and so on, evolved a different method. “No,” said Goethals, “you are all wrong. You would simply say: "Sergeant, put flagpole!’”