Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-08-19

of teaching by recent graduates. He then points
out that there is more permanency in the AGA
demic staff than is commonly supposed. OF the L
heads Of departments are permanent and are
detailed for periods of years.
Secretary Baker says, in part concerning
criticism No. 4
Nothing short of omniscience can analyze the
intricate multiplied and scattered activities OF
the war department during the recent war at
home and in the field, give just weight 10 the
circumstances surrounding these activities anu
apportion either the credit for success or the
blame for mistake as between the persons en-
gagged In those activities. The handful of west
Point graduates, the larger handful OF Regular
Army officers drawn from civil llfe reserve ON
GERS officers of the National Guard, and the
vastly larger body of officers hastily instructed III
officers training camps altogether comprised up
proximately 100000 men, of whom the west
Point graduates numbered 3,081. In the per
Torrance of their work these officers were alded
nv an immense body Of cvilans-capta1ns OF
industry masters of business; scientific, technical
commercial Industrial and all other kinds OF eX-
merits worked side by side 1t IS my settled con-
viction that the commercial and lndustrlal UT
ranization of America during the war was u
colossal success; but whether 1t was or not uie
result was not an outcome Of the system OF edu-
cation at West Point. The thing was done by the
nation and all the varied processes Dv WHICH, ou'
citizens are trained contributed
He explains why federal statutes and govern
mont regulations produce red-tape; he aQmts
that the system may be slow at times, nut nous
that conservations of public safety require tn't
these transactions be matters OF record anu ula'
the person responsible for decision should lh"he
the decision. His explanation of passing the DUCK
is that "there is as to each question proper
nerson TO decide 1t to ask the wrong person cah
have but one or the other of two results, either
to he referred to the right person or get an uh
authorized answer" He says the nghtmg was
not new. but old Then he says:
THE comment seems to imply a belief on
President Eliot's part, that graduates OF west
Point have not shown up well in the mliitar!
history of the United States. 1t is incredible that
he could really entertain this belief. In every
war in which the United States has been engaged
since the academy was established, its graduates
have been conspicuous, alike for heroism ana sue
cess The following list Is made up of names
which illustrate American history. They are
graduates of the Military academy and they are
men whose memory we teach our children 10
revere:
oIndian wars: Custer, Crooke, Wright Macken-
zie Cooke. A. s. Johnston, Jefferson Davis, Aber-
crombie Casey, Mccall, Candy, Rains
"Mexican war: Swift, Sherman, Totten, Bragg
r + Lee Mcclellan, BeauregGTd Huger, Reno,
Grant, Jefferson Davis, Early.
Civil war: General officers in Union Army 294 !;
in Confederate Army, 151 Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
dan Schoheld, Buell., Burnside, Gilmore, Halleck,
Hancock, Hentzelman, Hooker, Howard, Hum
nhreys. Fitzpatrick, Lyon, Meade Merritt NC
Clellan. Mcdowell, Ord Pope, Porter, Reynolds,
Rosecrans. Slocum, Thomas, Warren, Wright
paourerard. Bragg, Cooper, Hood, a. s. Johnston,
I +. Johnston r. f. Lee Kirby Smith, Anderson
Buckner, Early, Ewell, Hardee, A. Z. HILL u. H.
nm Holiness Jackson, S. ID. Lee, Longstreet'
pemberton. Polk, A. p. Stewart, Wheeler, fltz
Toe Lowell. Pickett, ]. f. d. Stuart Van Dorm
"spanlsh war: Otis, King, Fltz Lee, Wheeler
Roll pershing, Lawton, Barry.
"Explorers, builders of railroads, canals light
bouses etc. Swift Totten Mcclellan Poe, Alb
hott warren, Humphreys. Talcott, Comstock,
pocbe Wheeler Wright, Whistler, Sldell, Porter,
wilson. Greene, Du Pont, Ludlow Meigs, Griffin
Holden, Black Cocktails Sibert, Gaillard' Casey
Hodges . 1,.,, ,,.,.
"Publc life; Grant, Polk, Mcclellan, Hancock,
Porter. Buckner Lee. Longstreet, Du Pont. Briggs
aWorld war: Pershing, March, Bliss, Billiard,
Ijouett Cocktails, Summerall, Jervey Scott,
Graves, Biddle McLndrew, Black, Richardson,
ConnoT, ct all