Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-19
MARINES AND THE PART THEY HAVE: Combination of Soldier and Seamen They are First
 In Fighting
ORGANIZED IN 1775.
Twas Marine Corps That Marched Across 66O Miles of Desert and
 Subjugated TripOlitans
(By A. VETERAN

Washington, May 1S.-lt was the campaign of the Allies against the boxers ill 1900. They had captured Tientsil by hard three-day battle. A conference had been called of all the commanders to discuss the ques- tion of advancing or waiting for re- Inducements. General Robert Meade, in command of the United States ton T. Waller, then major, was the junior officer of the representatives of many nations in the conference.
 One by one the elder men gave their opinions that there was no pressing need of an advance and that the troops must have several more days of recuperating. Finally, Major Maller's opinion was asked and he stood Up and said:
 A "Gentlemen, 1 don't know just what the rest of you mean to do, but the marines start for Perkin at 6 o'clock in the morning, taking the allies along.
 Marine Corps Preceded Republic
 This incident was recalled to my mind on seeing that Colonel Waller had been ordered east from the coast and is likely to get mixed up in the typical of the gallant little corps which is older than the republic itself. An act of the Continental congress in 1775, year before the Declaration Of Independence, organiz- ed the corps along the lines of a similar British body.
 Just one hundred years before the marines battered at the gates of the Forbidden City they did a heroic feat in Tripoli. In 1903 detachment of these soldiers ofthe sea marched 660 miles across the African desert to subjugate the iasolent tyrants of the Mediterranean. They pulled down the malodorous flag of the Tripolitans and hoisted the Star Spangled Banner over an ancient fortress before a horde which had in large number never seen it before.
 The marine as a fighting man aboard ship is said by one histor lam to date back to the Persian empire Marines are mentioned in connection with the battle of Lade, in the time of Darius I. King of Persia, about 495 B.
 In the old days of engagements at close quarters the. marines were the "cutlass crews" The fighting of naval battles at a range of five to ten miles has destroyed the useful ness of the slashing boarder, but there is plenty of work left for the soldier of sea and land. As Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy said recently:
 "The marines and bluejackets have rendered valiant service at Vera Cruz. The marines as we'll as the blue jackets have proved their calibre, all was understood by our own people as we'll as those of other nations. It is the marine who is always called upon to form the entering wedge, to blaze the trail in landing on foreign shores"
 To illsutrate the manifold services of the marine, let us take the ex- ample of Haggerty, one of the three marines who fell in the first days fighting at Vera Cruz. He had been under fire at Samar and again at Pekin. He had gone into action twice in Nicaragua and had had rifles aimed in his direction in Hayti.
 Just one hundred years after their march to Tripoli the United States marines touched again on African soil, but on the peaceful mission of escorting a representative of the state department to the court of King