The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-08-27
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the World War has shown could be made upon
military men. He then says, in part:
After all, West Point is special school, as IL
the Naval academy at Annapolis, Is any
school of mines Of chemistry, 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 specially, while it pro-
duces educated The purpose of West
Point, therefore, Is not to act a gOrifed 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 edu-
Gated men find necessary for intelligent inter-
course with one another, and second the incul-
cation Of set of virtues admirable always. but
Indispensable in the soldier. Men may be inexact
even untruthful. In ordinary matters, and suf-
fer as consequence only the disesteem Of their
associates the Inconvenience Of unfavorable
litigation; but the inexact untruthful soldier
trhes with the lives Of his fellow men, and the
honor Of his government, and 1t is, therefore no
matter of idle pride, but rather of stern dis
cplinary necessity that makes West Point re-
qure of her students character for trustworth
ness which knows no evasions.
II ought to point that West Point is but the
beginning of education In the army. In each Of
the services there 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 more and to the special schools for
the technical, scientific completion
"A test may be appealed to with confidence.
During the first hundred years QSO2-1902) 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 presi-
dent of the Confederate States, 1 presidential
candidates, 3 vice-presidental candidates, 2;
members of the cabinet of the United States (;
ambassador, l ; ministers of the United States to
foreign countries, a. charge d'affaires of the
United States to foreign countries, 2; United
States consul generals and consus, u members
of congress- "a: United States civil officers OF
various kinds. III; presidential electors. s. gov
errors of states and territories, 49,: bishops, ;
lieutenant governors, 2; judges IA; members of
state legislatures, II presiding officers of state
senates and houses of representatives, 8; mem
bers Of conventions for the formation Of state
constitutions 10 state officers Of various grades
81 adutants. inspectors and quartermaster gen.
erals and chief engineers Of states and territories
% officers of state militia, 1881 mayors of cities
IT; city officers, 81; presidents Of universities
colleges etc. 40 principals OF academies and
schools 80; regents and chancellors of educational
Institutions IA; professors and teachers 1875 :
superintendent OF coast survey, / surveyors gen.
eral of states and territories IL chief engineers
OF states, IA; presidents Of railroads and other
corporations 81; chief engineers of railroads and
roads and other public works, 90; treasurers and
receivers OF railroads and other corporations "a
civil engineers. 22S; electrical engineers 8; at
torneys and counselors at law, 200: superior
general of clerical order. l: clergymen 20 .
physicians, IA; merchants. 1872: manufacturers
II: artists. 81 architects 7 farmers and planters
$50; bankers. 1S; bank presidents. 8; bank off,
GERS % editors. 80; authors. ITO
Not all of the foregoing occupations are sig
nifcant OF intellectual supremacy or necessarily
superior training. but the list is which could
not have been made by college with made
ouate 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 In
ali walks of life; list quite too large and Inn
posing to represent the triumph OF talent over
obstruction
Discussing criticism No. g. Secretary Baker
says that the special character of the education
which West Point must give limits the field OF
seection OF it's teachers. He defends the practice