South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-19

Charles Hodge, was one of Prince
tons most famous theological profess
SOrs during the first half of the 18th
century. A university degree came
fittingly. too. to the man who is allied
with the intellectual life of Philadel-
phia as the great great-grandson of
Benjamin Franklin.
Chief Joseph THE AbIest Indian
Those were hard days out in the
foothills of the Rockies in 1876 and
1877, but during his first winters
service the young lieutenant had
plenty of opportunity for first-hand
contact with the Indians. The great
Sioux rebellion of 1876 had stirred up
nearly all the tribes of the west, and
for nearly year the time of the gar
rison at Fort Abraham Lincoln was
almost entirely taken up with fOrays
of pacification or punishment. Just
as the country was getting reasonably
quiet, the great NeZ Perez uprising in
Idaho occurred, followed by the great
military feat OF Chief Joseph. the
ablest Indian" Gen. Scott ever knew,
the retreat of the entire tribe 1900
miles across Idaho and Montana al
most to the Canadian boundary.
With the 18th cavalry, Lieut.. Scott
made forced marches of almost the
whole distance in an effort to head oft
the Indians But just before the Nez
Perces were surrounded, Scott was de-
tached on the mission to Sitting Bull.
An expedition against the Chey-
ennes in 1878 and a few skirmiShes,
hardly more than shooting ARRAYS, in
the mountain canyons during the SOS
were the chef of staff's early war
record. In time came his first lieu
tenancy and his captaincy. but along
with it came a still more valuable
asset, the reputation for being one of
the best peacemakers in the west and
for being one of the best healers Of
bad blood after battle in the whole
army. In 1891, almost single handed
Capt Scott stilled the Messiah craze
and the ghost dance excitement of the
southwestern Indians. The United
States army is holding down the IN
dams in the northwest; Scott is hold
ing them down in the southwest" was
a familiar army post joke in those
days. and in the more serious Ian
guage of the official report Scotts
superiors gave him full credit for the
achievement. II was the last time
any large body of American white
men was ever seriously worried about
the Indians.
The year 1898 found Scott still a
captain. but he managed so well the
affairs of Gen. Ludlow's adjutant de-
partment in Cuba. and assisted so
efficiently as Gen. Woods right-hand
man in the government of the islands,
that he went to the island of Sulu in
1908 with the rank of major and the
title of military governor.
Wounded i'm Battle WITH MOrOs.
SCOTS hardest fighting came here.
How be fought the Hassan slave gang,
how he had fingers shot off with bull
lets and kept on fighting until he
tainted; how. three weeks later, his
arms swollen with infection, he insist
ed on mounting his horse and round
ing up the routed slaveTs in their
jungle; how the high priest of Jolo
and the sultan wept 10 see him go
back TO the states in 1906. are all
matters OF war department record.
He was Col. Scott now. superin-
tendent OF West Point Military acad-
envy. And incidentally, right in the
heart of eastern civilization. he found
an uprising on his hands that took
something more blunt than isgn Ian
guage TO subdue it, He had 10 put
stop 10 the time-honored cadet Gus
tom OF lending the West Point mill
tary capes TO girl guests at the acad-
envy football contests, and II took
good deal of straight talk and disci-
pline before he and the cadets could
be friends again. But when he left
West Point in 1911. the cadets. al
though Anglo-Saxon and consequently
less emotional than the sultan of
Sulu. felt about as the sultan did when
Scott left the royal city OF JOlO.
NaVaJos. Arizona Kickapoos. Hops
and Mexican generals have come un-
der the spell Of the generals genial
diplomacy i'm the last few years. He
Is no longer a war Queller. Indians no