Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Not What He Said. [ARTICLE]

Not What He Said.

A recently commissioned second lieutenant was drilling his command in an Indianapolis street Something went wrong and the soldiers found themselves trying to march over a 6-foot fence. The lieutenant baited the company and said: “Men, why don’t you do what I want you to do instead of what I tell you to do?”— Indianapolis News.