Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-11-09

/ promise soon Of active field service in
France. General Mcintyre Is also
chief of the bureau of insular affairs.
Every part Of the Union is finely
| represented in the armed forces of the
United States The same spirit ami
mates officers from whatever part of
the country they come. 1t has been an
accident of the service more than any
thing else, probably which has given
some Southern officers the opportunity
to see first service and to carry
through" but the fact remains.
The adjutant general of the United
States army. Maj Gen. Henry p Me
Cain, whose work perhaps at present
is the most burdensome of all the staff
services, is a Mississipplan. Gorgas
Sibert. Mcintyre and Mccain rose in
the service to the point where chief
commands were certain to be their lot
when war broke out, under Republican
administrations. There has been no
politics or sectionalism in the promo
ton of these men, nor in their selection
Tor high service. 1t was Il Republican
president who sent Gorgas and Sibert
TO Panama, where they made their
great fame, and it was Republican
president also who put Mcintyre where
he is.
Same Spirit in All Sections.
Brig. Gen. George h. Duncan, the
first American regular to be given
Cross of War by the French govern
ment for conspicuous courage in the
| field, is a Kentuckian. A Southern
captain of ceEulars, because of his rec
ord, was picked by general staff COM
posed largely of Northerners to COM
mand a regiment of National Guards
men in the field in France His name
| is William F. Screws and he is now on
| duty with the Rainbow division on
| Long Island, which lin good time and
soon" probably will sail for France.
No one must understand from what
is said in Washington concerning the
willingness of the Southern soldiers to
do their duty and something more,
that the same spirit does not animate
the Northern officers. What is true of
one Is true of the other, but X is some
thing to be able as NOrtherner to
pay tribute to the unnlistakaDle spirit
os loyalty to service and loyalty to
country which is being shown daily by
the men of the South who are follow
ing the flag on land and on sea.
When the official record of heroic
deeds of individual soldiers and sailors
of the United States is read it is found
| that heroislm knows no section. The
medals Of honor which have been
granted by congress FOR conspicuous
personal gallantry in the field have
gone about equally, in proportion to
numbers, to North, South East and
! West. American heroism knows no
state, country, city, township or ham
| let. 1t abides in all.
General Gorgas' Great Task.
There are major generals in the
! field in France and major generals in
the field in the United States, and
there are major generals in Washing
ton. Sometimes ii is the way of folks
| to think that the major generals who
are not under canvas are not doing
their full war duty. Give over the
thought.
! There are major generals in Wash
| ington who are doing work which, if
| left undone, would not permit the
army to stay in the field a week.
There are several of these major gem
erals in the Capital City, but it il Of
one of them that it is the present in
! tnrf t., Fs,f
! GorgaS, surgeon general of the United
| States army.
1t Is to be wondered if any layman
In the land can conceive of the enor-
nous burden which is resting upon
the shoulders of this soldier doctor.
He is responsible today for the health
of nearly 100000 of men. OF course,
it may be said that his subordinates
on the scene Of sickness ~ Of casu-
allies are the ones responsible. but
this is not so in any large sense. If
rouble comes, responsibility quickly
is shifted from subordinate TO supe-
rior and the man at the head must
take it all.
Worlds Foremost Sanitarian.
William &. Gorgas is not only n sur
geon. bur in the. broadcast sense a fam
lily physician. and moreover he is &c
knowledged by the medical fraterni-
ties of all the world to be the fore
most sanitarian that mankind knows.
1t IS not necessary to explain nor in
the least to apologize for putting down
here this word that the world says
concerning the ranking officer of the
army's medical department The
world knows that there is proof of
the word, and so one may write II
unafraid of the charge that he is CIV
ing forth praise for which there is not
full foundation. Not long ago the
medical department of the United
States army consisted of comparative