Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-08-19

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 justify the turning out of soldiers,
or mining engineers chemists, who know moth
ing else but it does justify of instruction
which emphasizes the speciality, while it pro-
duces an educated man. The purpose of West
Point, therefore, is not to act glorifed drill
sergeant but to lay foundation upon which a
career of growth in military knowledge can be
based, and to accompany it 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 1ncus
cation Of a set of virtues admirable always, but
Indispensable in the soldier Men may be inexact
or even untruthful, in ordinary matters and suf
fer as a consequence only the dsesteem OF their
associates, the inconvenience of unfavorable
litigation; but the ineNact or untruthful soldier
trifles with the lives of his fellow men, and the
honor of his government and 1t u.s. therefore, no
matter of idle pride, but rather of stern dis
eiplinary necessity that makes West Point re-
qure of her students character for trustworthi-
ness which knows 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 and more seek only the fundamentals, both
of education and character, at West Point, and
look and more to the special schools for
the technical, scientific completion.
"a test may be appealed to with confidence.
During the first hundred years (1sO2- 1902 of its
existence 1911 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, 1 presl-
dent OF the Confederate States, /; presidential
candidates. 3; vice-preSidential candidates, 2;
OharS Of ha coh States
ambassador / ministers OF the United States to
foreign countries, IA; charge d'affaires Of the
United States to foreign countries, q; United
States consul generals and cOnsuls. II; members
OF congress, "a; United States civil officers of
various kinds, III; presidential electors 8; gov
ernors of states and territories 16; bishops. 1 !;
lieutenant governors 2; judges, IA; members of
state legislatures, n; presiding ohicers of state
senates and houses Of Representatives, s; 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
IS; officers of state militia 1853; mayors of cities,
II; city officers, 81; presidents OF universities,
colleges, etc. 40; principals OF academies and
Schools 3d. regents and chancellors of educational
institutions, IA; professors and teachers, 1876
superintendent of coast survey, l surveyors gen
eral of states and territories II; chief engineers
of states, IA; presidents Of railroads and other
corporations 81; chief engineers of railroads and
other public works, 3d. superintendent of rail-
roads and other public works o.; treasurers and
receivers of railroads and other corporations. "a
civil engineers, 22S; electrical engineers, 5; at
torneys and counselors at law, 200; superior
general of clerical order, L. clergymen 20
physicians, IA; merchants, 1922 manufacturers
II; artists, 81 architects, z; farmers and planters
$50; bankers 49,; bank presidents, 8; bank Off
GERS %; editors, 80; authors. ITO.
"Not all of the foregoing occupations are sig
intal1 al ilx
superior training but the list is which coult
not have been made by college with an made
quate or archaic system of education. These mel
have stepped out Of West Point into civil lif
and qualified in large numbers for positions from
the very highest within the gift OF the people, II
ali walks of life list quite too large and i'm
posing to represent the triumph of talent owe
obstruction"
Discussing criticism No. 3, Secretary Bake
says that the special character of the education
which West Point must give limits the field O
selection of its teachers He defends the practic