The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-10
OLD TIMERS WILL
SOON Be SHELVED
GENERAL WADE, SOON TO RE-
TIRE. HAS ONLY PRAISE FOR
YOUNGER OFFICERS.
STILL FAvORS CANTEEN
In the Army Believing II to be 6ene-
fit to the Enlisted MEMS Op-
posed to Compulsory
Enlistment.

James +. Wade, u, s A.. command
ing the Division Of the Atlantic, who
will retire from active service next
Sunday, told today of his IG years IN
The army. He win leave New Yorl;
nj soon as he retires. He expects Il
make his home in Jefferson. Ohio. the
little city where he was born, and
from which he was mustered into tho
service as a lieutenant Of the Sixth
Regular Cavalry in May. 1861.
There are only a very few Of the
Civil war veterans left in The service
| said General Wade, and today there
is not single officer II The army who
| held a commission. when | came into
II away back in the sixties. In a
| little over three years the last officer
who saw service in the Civil war will
and the younger generation Of Off
GERS will be in command
How do you think these officers
compare with the old-timers who are
leaving the service?" General Wade
was asked
Wen, these officers" answered
General Wade, have not had the &C
tive war experience that fell to the
lot of us older fellows. but taken all
in all, they are as fine a set of men
as have Differed our army at any
lime in our history"
Not in This Country.
What ahont the compulsory milf
tary service in this country? Are you
one Of the officers who think it would
be a good taing for the United
Statas?"
''Nt; | am on the other side In
my opinion 1t is not feasible. Our
people don't ant it, for ii is contrary
to the spirit of our government and
the ideas of our citizens
How about the enlisted men? Do
you consider them as body equal toI
the soldiers of the paste"
NO. hardly think that do, for
the men are not staying in the service
long enough at the present time. The
the great prosperity of the country, |
and men who might prove good SOIL
hiers prefer 10 stay outside the army
and make more money. | believe that |
the service should be made more at |
tractive and that the pay of the en-.
lis ed men should be increased. That
would 20 q long way towafd keeping
desirable men in the service
Than General Wade there is prob-l
ably no officer in the service who is
moie firm II his advocacy of the post
canteen. He has commanded posts
in The days of the settler. tho post
trader and the canteen. and he is
thoroughly familiar with the present
in The army. which have
resulted from the adjustment OF the
post canteen. and he is thoroughly
convinced that the canteen is the only
sensible solution of the liquor prob
lem
Believes in the Canteen.
III was 4 great mistake when con
gress abolished the canteen" said
General Wade. for under the old sys-
.em the men were much better off in
every way. The young recruits were
better protected for they were not
brought in contact with the low
places that always find place to do
business in easy access of military
posts. When the canteen was lawful
-hese young men were kept in camp
inder good influence The liquor
sold In the canteens was also of a bet
Ter quality, and II was dispensed I'M
Ter the watchful eyes of careful Off
,ers."
General Wade is a son of the ia
nous Senator Ben Wade. of Ohio.
who represented the Buckeye state
In The senate in the Civil war. In ad-
iiiion To his Civil war record General L
Wade has also participated in the
Indian campaigns and was the officer
selected TO command the camp at
Tampa. Fla in the Spanish-American
war. II Is said by many of his friends
ment that was his by right at the
hands of the war department in re
cent years
General Wade was the ranking
Prigadier General of the army. and in
The ordinary course Of events should \
have been the officer 10 succeed Gen
erll Miles as Lieutenant General in
command Of the army. Instead. he
saw nine of his subordinates pro
NOTED 10 Major Generalships over his
head General Wade has one son
Captain John p. Wade. of the Second
Cavalry. General Wade has been in
command Of the Atlantic division
since December, 1894. when he sue
ceeded Lieutenant General II. c. Cor
bin.