Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-20

the World War has shown could be made upon
military men. He then says, in part:
"After all, West Point is special school, as is
the Naval academy at Annapolis, as is any
school of mines, or Of chemistry, or of languages.
This does not justify the turning out of soldiers,
or mining engineers, or chemists, who know moth
ing else but it does justify course Of instruction
which emphasizes the speciality, while 1t pro-
duces an educated man. The purpose of West
Point. therefore, Is not to act as glorihed drill
sergeant, but to lay a foundation upon which
career of growth In military knowledge can be
based, and to accompany 1t with two indispensable
additions; first such a general training as edu-
Gated men find necessary for intelligent inter-
course with one another, and second the incu-
cation of q set of virtues admirable always, but
indispensable In the soldier. Men may be inexact
or even untruthful, in ordinary matters, and suf-
fer as q consequence only the disesteem of their
associates or the inconvenience of unfavorable
litigation: but the inexact untruthful soldier
trif1es with the lives of his fellow men, and the
honor of his government, and it is, therefore, no
matter of idle pride, but rather of stern dis
ciplinary necessity that makes West Point re-
qure of her students a character for trustworthi-
ness which knows no evasions.
81 ought to point out that West Point Is but the
beginning of education in the army. In each of
the services there are continuation schools of
growing breadth and usefulness, and the plan
toward which army education is tending will
more anu more seek OuIy lLe IuuudloELdlS, DOLn
of education and character, at West Point, and
look more and more to the special schools for
the technical, scientific completion,
"a test may be appealed to with confidence.
During the first hundred years (1S02-1902) of it's
existence, 2,971 graduates Of West Point left the
army to go into civil life. The occupations of
these graduates are shown in the following
table: President of the United States :; ; presi-
dent Of the Confederate States, 1; presidential
candidates, 8; vice-presidential candidates, 2;
members of the cabinet of the United States, 4 i;
ambassador, 1; ministers of the United States to
foreign countries, IA; charge daffaires of the
United States to foreign countries, 2; United
States consul generals and consuls, u; members
of congress, "a; United States civil officers of
various kinds, III; presidential electors, 8; gov
ernors Of states and territories, IS; bishops, 1
lieutenant governors q judges, IA; members of
state legislatures IT; presiding officers of state
senates and houses of representatives, 8; men,
bers of conventions for the formation of state
constitutions, 49, state officers Of various grades
81; adjutants, inspectors and quartermaster gen.
erals and chief engineers of states and territories
2S; officers of state militia 1853; mayors of cities
II; city officers, 81; presidents of universities
colleges, ETC., 49, principals Of academies and
schools, 80; regents and chancellors of educational
institutions IA; professors and teachers 136
superintendent of coast survey, 1 surveyors gen
eral Of states and territories II; chief engineers
of states, IA; presidents of railroads and other
corporations, 81 chief engineers of railroads anC
other public works, 63 superintendents of rail
roads and other public works. 81; treasurers anG
receivers of railroads and other corporations "a
civil engineers 228; electrical engineers, 5 at
torneys and counselors at law 200; superior
general Of clerical order, i; clergymen, 20
physicians IA; merchants, 122; manufacturers
II; artists 8; architects, z; farmers and planters
230 bankers, 1S; bank presidents s. bank off
GERS, %; editors, 30; authors, 179.
"Not all of the foregoing occupations are sig
nifcant Of intellectual supremacy necessaril!
superior training, but the list is one which cou
not have been made by college with an made
quate or archaic system of education. These me-
have stepped out of West Point into civil lif
and qualified In large numbers for positions fror
the very highest within the gift Of the people, 1
oil walks of life; list quite too large and in
posing to represent the triumph of talent owe
obstruction"
Discussing criticism No. 3, Secretary Bake
says that the special character Of the educatio
which West Point must give limits the field {
selection of its teachers He defends the practic