HIS READING WAS DEFECTIVE Otherwise Senator Beveridge Might Have Been a Soldier Owen County News Journal; May 5, 1930 Senator Beveridge of Indiana takes great interest in military affairs and while in the Phillipines spent much time on the firing line with Gen. Lawton. One day he made a remark of such military aptitude that Lawton said: "Mr. Beveridge, you ought to be a soldier, not a politican". "I should have been in the army", replied the senator, "but I couldn't read aloud well enough". He then explained that he was beaten in his examination for a cadetship at West Point by one-fifth of 1 percent, his defective oral reading having turned the scales by this fraction against him. Submitted by Kathy Bargerhuff