Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-02-24

their civil war out of Arizona's front yard
 That's always the way Scott never gets we'll started army job anywhere but what he is yanked away to go somewhere and do some pacifying.
 He is Uncle Sams star pacifier.
 Dark-skinned people, whether they be Mexican or straight Indian, Cuban Filipino, take to him as children take to a fond uncle. Some times he has to lick them first. When he does, he licks them thoroughly. But that is only on -are occasions As a rule he has them eating out of his hand within week.
 Two years ago, with lifetime of experience behind him, he went down to the Mexican border colonel of the Third United States cavalry. There he remained until last April, when he came to Washington to become assistant chief of staff and brigadier general. Only few weeks ago he moved up to be chief of staff.
 Those two years on the border made him, ob viously the to settle the new trouble that has arisen. All through his army career he has made 1t a rule in all problems with which he has had to deal to study the personal equation.
 So he studied the personal equation of Pancho Villa, for one, and of Benjamin H the Carranza general, who has been making most of the recent fuss Naco Ariz. He came to know both men we'll and they, in turn conceived pro- found respect for him and a sincere a.fec tion. His hold over them is said to be remark able.
 It is admitted that no man living knows the American Indian more thoroughly than does Gen. eral Scott. He has fought the Indian and con- quered him, but many times more he has req soned with him and conquered him even more completely. The pre-eminent master of Indian sign language, the author of standard scientific works on American ethnoogy, General Scott is quite as well known in the field of scholarship in his profession
 Lacking political influence or powerful friends, General Scott was thirty years in the army be- fore the country at large came to know his name at all. His work, remarkable as it was, was done out of the public eye. He did not have the faculty of pushing himself forward. But in cent years the reward has come. Promotion, so long delayed, while younger men leaped his head, has been rapids And he heads the army.
 Observe him at his desk in the war depart ment, his bullettorn hands, shy several fingers, busy with the multitude of papers presented to him, giving his orders in gentle, conversational tones, his appearance, his manner his attitude precisely the same as when he was major of the line those few years ago, modest, democratic. kindly. The erect head the keen, searching eyes, the strong jaw proclaim the man who is master of himself, fit for command.
 Cautiously. the dependents of Uncle Sam know him even better than the civilized folk know him. With the Indians of the West and with the say age peoples of the Sulu archipelago the name of Scott is held in reverence Their faith in him 1 is absolute their devotion unswerving. Away back in 1891, when occurred through all the West the last serious Indian outbreak, 1 when, in some mysterious manner the Indians l from the Canadian line to the Mexican border suddenly fell victims to the Messiah craSe, went 1 to ghost dancing and left their reservations for l tho war path. the grim jest that was handled about through the army posts ran: "The United States army is holding down the | Indians in the Northwest: Scott is holding them I down In the Southwest.
 It was generally admitted that Scott did the | better job of the two
 I Every since then, whenever the Indians any where get restless and trouble starts. both the l interior department. which has jurisdiction over l the Indians; and the war department set up the cry Send for Scott!
 l Experience has shown that yp Tis far better, 1 cheaper and more s4p. Scott on the