The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

Corps will promote Capt. Laurence Fl.
Moses to be major He is a Georgian,
from Columbus, l think, and married
a sister of Samuel Spencer of the
Southern Railway. Con. NJ.
Perkins, another Georgian, is already a
major in the corps. 1t is not
generally known that the comman-
dant of the Marine Corps, who is Brig.
Gen. George F. Elliott, is native of
Alabama, but all the colonies were
born north of the Potomac river.
There are ia cadets in the
next June graduating class at West
Point, but at present only about sixty
vacant second Heutenancies in the
army to be filled. OF course there will
be some additional vacancies before
June, but there seems to be a pros
pect for lot of brevet second lieu
tenants about that time. The
William MCGEE arrested for an as
sault in New York is not, as claimed.
the sole white survivor of the Custer
massacre at Little Big Horn. He may
have been trooper but he was not in
that fight. The sole survivor of that
terrible battle was "Old Comanche."
the horse Of Capt. Miles w. Keogh, as
l have before stated in these letters,
and the government made this famous
horse pensioner upon it's bounty.
Honor to old Comanche,
The sole survivor he
OF the fierce fight where Custer died
With all his chivalry.
Honor to Keogh's charger!
Only his flashing eye
Saw the Three Hundred fighting
Saw the Three Hundred die!"
S. M. Crothers, in the Atlantic
Monthly, tells of his attendance upon
the meetings of the recent Interna-
tional Peace Congress in Boston, and
imagines that he there saw the secret
of war. Nearly all of the speakers and
listeners were middle-aged or old peo-
pie, so he infers that young men are
the source of modern wars. Nothing
could be more ridiculous than this
idea. Why, take Savannah, for ex-
ample, how long would the old Guards
Battalion, The Chatham Artillery. the
Hussars. the First Regiment live If the
old men, the exempt and honorary
members and supporters were to
hands off" and let the young men
take care of themselves? And then
the noble, patriotic old mothers of these
sons, how they help to keep I'D these
venerable organizations. / grant that
young men are patriotic and heroic.
but they would not be so IL fathers
and mothers were generally opposed to
the military spirit. Why. even the
Red Men and the Woodmen of the
World are now following the Knights
Templar and Knights of Pythias and
other secret organizations into a mill
tary branch. And the Catholic
Knights, as well as the students in
Catholic Schools now have their milf
tary organizations. Mr.. Crothers
ought TO look elsewhere than in that
peace congress TO find out the reason
why the military spirit prevails. He
VIII md that middle-aged and old peo-
pie are behind the military spirit in
all our church schools, Agricultural
colleges and even female colleges and
Sunday-schools. not 20 speak OF the
famous boys battalions OF the Boston.
New York and Washington public
schools. All this military spirit comes
from the sanction, N not support, OF the
fathers and mothers OF the young peo-
pie concerned. For years past the
military spirit has spread wonderfully
Into our schools, our churches and our
secret organizations. and no peace
movement however strong and world
wide, can check ~. Ia Syracuse. NJ
r, they have a fine military company
~ young women, and in Atlanta. 0a
the II, q. v. have a uniformed COM
pauy ~ young women, out in Texas
~ wei AZ al some other pfnfeH. female
colleges have firl companies. Only a
little while nFo the young women or
Troy Ala. my home in iff9-fa gave
"A public drill against the reHulnF mlur
fafF company ~ fhr Elty anl nal Ga