The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-08-19

the World War has shown could be made upon
military men. He then says, in part:
after all, West Point is a special school, as Is
the Naval academy at Annapolis, is any
school of mines, 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 of instruction
which emphasizes the speciality while ii pro-
duces educated man. The purpose of West
Point, therefore, is not to act a gloriied drill
sergeant but to lay foundation upon which a
career of growth In military knowledge can be
based, and TO accompany 1t with two indispensable
additions; first, such general training as edu-
Gated men find necessary for intelligent inter-
course with another and second, the ncul-
cation Of q set of virtues admirable always but
indispensable in the soldier Men may be inexact
even untruthful in ordinary matters, and suf-
fer consequence only the disesteem Of their
associates, the Inconvenience of unfavorable
litigation; but the ineXact untruthful soldier
tri1es with the lives of his fellow men, and the
honor of his government, and IL Is, therefore no
matter of idle pride, but rather of stern dis
ciplinary necessity that makes West Point re-
quire of her students character for trustworthi-
ness which knows evasions.
IL 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
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 QSO2-19O2) Of its
existence 2,371 graduates Of West Point left the
army TO go into civil life. The occupations Of
these graduates shown in the following
table: President of the United States, / presi-
dent Of the Confederate States, /; presidential
candidates, B.; vice-presidental candidates, 2;
members of the cabinet Of the United States 4;
ambassador. ministers of the United States to
foreign countries, IA; charge d'affares 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, g; gov
errors of states and territories, 10 bishops, /;
lieutenant governors, 2; judges, IA; members of
state legislatures, II; 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
%: officers Of state militia, 1853; mayors of cities
II: city officers, 81; presidents of universities
colleges etc, 46; principals OF academies and
schools 81 regents and chancelors Of educational
institutions, IA; professors and teachers 1876;
superintendent of coast survey, / surveyors gen.
eral of states and territories IL chief engineers
Of states IA; presidents of railroads and other
other public works, GO; superintendent Of rail-
roads and other public works, g. treasurers and
receivers of railroads and other corporations. "a;
civil engineers, 22S; electrical engineers s; at
torneys and counselors at law, 200; superior
general of clerical order, Il; clergymen, 20;
physicians, IA; merchants, 100; manufacturers
IL artists, 8; architects Z; farmers and planters
go bankers 10; bank presidents 8; bank off,
GERS %; editors 30; authors, ITO.
mot all of the foregoing occupations are sig
niicant of intellectual supremacy necessarily
superior training, but the list is one which could
not have been made by n college with an made
duate or archaic system Of education. These men
have stepped out of West Point into civil life
and qualified in large numbers for positions from
the very highest within the gift OF the people I'm
all walks Of life; list quite too large and i'm
posing to represent the triumph Of talent over
obstruction"
Discussing criticism No. 3, Secretary Baker
SAYS that the special character OF the education
which West Point must give limits the field OF
selection of It's teachers He defends the practice