Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-05-19

mere are soidlers and sailors of high rank men
s gray IN service and gray in years who have never
Len 9oie 70 hVe down some little act of their
hVes at either the naval or military academy
"hlcn made them unpopular with their fellows
ana me erect OF which lasts to this day
waning no names and giving no specific case
WI" uaee ana circumstances it may be said that
III one Oh the greatest controversies which ever
FeAeu the service one man won out with the
country but did not win out with his fellow Off
GERS and he did not win out with them simply
because they thought that the thing he was
charged with doing was in keeping with one act
ne committed as boy, act that lost him stand
Ing with his fellow students
Al west Point and Annapolis they have habit
. W cutting the boy who bears tales, or who
shows streak of timidty that is called by a
narsher word, or who does some other thing that
boys In their boyish humor do not like. When
man graduates and gets into the service he is no
/ longer cut, but his society is not sought and as
result perhaps OF mere momentary weakness
! Ut mere monetary thoughtlessness, a whole
career from the social point of view may be
oiasted There are some cases in the army and
navy To-Day, and pretty fair measure by which
10 Judge OF mans personality is the measure of
regard IN which he is held in later life by the
men who went to school with him In the day of
the boy
William w. Russell not long ago was this gov
ernment's envoy extraordinary and minister plen-
poCentary to Venezuela. He was In the South
american country at the time of the strained rela-
uohs which existed for while between Uncle
sam and President Castro
"lham w Russell is popular in the navy and
us popularity dates back to his school days He
Is grave diplomat with light in his eve that
e''ner gravity nor position put out. But he
was not always a grave one burdened with the
aAalfs OF state. Once upon time he was Pete"
russell, m1dshipman at the United States naval
Ooduemy. William was changed into Pete the
4inute that he reported at Annapolis but truth
oonpels the statement that neither the official
0ichlVes nor the middes archives disclose the rea-
oI lor turning William into Pete" Suffice is
:" KNOW that the middies would have 1t that way,
ana that way 1t went
sumo time ago had dinner with a graduate of
annapolis who had known William w. Russell IN
MS Pete" days at the academy. Midshipman
.tuSseA did not graduate, but he long enough
- me academy TO leave his mark upon the insti-
4on ana TO make his memory dwell lovingly
"a Tue hearts Of succeeding generations of mid
SS' Possibly some of the stories that the gradu-
- 1oid OF Pete's school days may account in
,S measure for the fact that he became dip
'nlat instead of becoming salt.
NHushlpman Russell had way with him, and
He mlodies and the authorities were not long in
lnaing 1t out Pete had difficulty in restraining
"nlSeif on occasions as witness:
cue sunday at Annapolis the chaplain preached
us ana droningly. The listening middies were
ECU out with the heat of the day and the bur
80 OF the sermon, which lasted hour and
"a minutes. The sermon over the soloist in the
.o,T' undeterred and undismayed by the length
.ne ehaplasn's discourse, started In to sing Sun
my soul He went through the first line I'M
1ppngly and then struck into the second. 1T is
light, ne sang. Then he repeated. 1T is not