The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-15
Mr.. DICKINSON ADDRESSES THE
GRADUATING GLASS ON MILL
TARY TECHNIQUE.
" |RREPROACHABLE INTEGRITY y
The UnchalIenged Possession of All
Great Generals-No Man SO Great
or Good to Govern Outside the Law
and Constitution.

West Point, y. Y, June l5.--Our
past wars We're crudely waged com
pared with what war would be now,
said Secretary of War Dickinson today
in an address to the graduating class
at the United States Military Aca-
deny. Specialization and technique, -
the secretary declared, ARE demanded
in military affairs as ineXorably as in
art, manufacture, commerce, transpor-
tation, education, medicine, law, and
indeed in every department of human
activity.
we have come into the internation
al limelight and has assumed the re-
sponsibilities of a first class power
II we should engage in hostilities Win
any nation of respectable strength the
clash would be quick and stupendous.
Our commanders, unless the war shall
endure long enough to forge out OF
crude metal thunder bolts of war, must
already have been trained in way
that surpasses all conceptions of mil
itary education entertained a quarter
of century back. From these conai-
tions. we may expect, if We shall have
wars that men trained in the school
of the soldier will be in the future, and
perhaps even more than they have in
the past, potential both in our military
and civil administration. What, there
fore, should more profoundly engage
our care than the education of those
who more certainly than any other
class of our citizens Of equal number
will affect our national life?
This day, that makes such an
eventful period in the careers of so
many who will be in line for leader
ship of our armies and perhaps high
civic officers, does not pass unheeded
by the American people. Our army
and navy schools are looked to with
pride and inspire hope. These senti-
ments are fully justified by what these
great Institutions have done for the
nation. With them are linked the
names of many whose fame is a price
less heritage to our people.
"The histories of countries deal
largely with the record of their wars,
said Secretary Wickinson in opening
his address. Like a selfregistering
thermometer, they seem to record the
highest and lowest stages of excel
lence OF the elements that constitute
vigorous national life. All that is s.
good and all that is bad are received
in the crucial test of war that
taxes to their limit the resources of |
people"
1T is not unjust to estimate a peo-
pie by the qualities displayed by their
military chieftans. not merely in war
but in within the sphere of influence |
occupied by them in consequence of
military leadership. Judged by this
standard, the American people have
experienced exceptional felicity Every
great war in which We were engaged |
revealed generals of exceptional ability
and character. Each has been follow
ed by the immediate elevation of a /
military here to the highest office. 1t !
is the unparalleled glory of our coun-
try that. unse duced by the tempta-
tions afforded by their military re-
nown. their hold upon the popular af-
fections and the binding incense offer
ed up by flatterers, they hold the
military in subsection to civil author
ity. and returned to the people, their
high trust unsullied by any public or
private act that could alarm them for
the safety of their institutions or
bring them national shame
The War of the Revolution elevated
TO the presidency Washington. that OF
1912 Jackson, that with Mexico TAYLOR,
that between the states Grant. and
that with Spain Roosevelt.
Where will you find in the history
of any people such record of private
and public virtue as has been shown