A BONE-DRY ARMY.
General John F. O’Ryan, commander of the National Guard of New York, who fearlessly blazed the “bonedry” trail for soldiers, by last year putting his 20,000 New York troops on the Rio Grande “on the water wagon,” wiping out drunkenness, prostitution, venereal disease, and lawlessness from his division, has just been romnrrssioned by President W ilson and the Senate as MajorGeneral of the United States Army. He is to take a “bone-dry’’ division of 37,000 men to France. In concluding an address to his troops, he says: “How can 1 division of troops be ever ready ever up on the bit to drive ahead or thrust back the enemv’s drive -if through the presence of this insidious evil (strong drink) some soldiers forget their orders or become noisy when silence is essential, fall asleep when every faculty should be alert, or are absent from their posts.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 270, 18 December 1917, Page 15
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149A BONE-DRY ARMY. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 270, 18 December 1917, Page 15
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