Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-08-24

Of teaching by recent graduates. He then points
out that there is more permanency in the aca-
demic staff than is commonly supposed. Of the II
heads of departments are permanent and are
detailed for periods of 4 years.
Secretary Baker says, in part. concerning
criticism No. 4
Nothing short Of omniscience can analyze the
intricate, multiplied and scattered activities OF
the department during the recent war at
home and in the field, give just weight to the
circumstances surrounding these activities ana
apportlon 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 life reserve ON
GERS. officers of the National Guard, and the
vastly larger body of officers hastily instructed III
officers training camps altogether comprised APP
proximately 2O5 600 men, of whom the west
Point graduates numbered 3,0S1 In the per
Torrance Of their work these officers were alueo
by an immense body of civians-captains OF
industry masters of business; scientific, technical
commercial, industrial and all other kinds or ex-
perts worked side by side. 1t is my settled con-
yiction that the commercial and Industrial Or
ganizatiOn of America during the war was
colossal success; but whether 1t was or not, the
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 by which our
citizens are trained contributed"
He explains why federal statutes and govern
ment regulations produce red-tape; he admits
that the system may be slow at times. but holds
that conservatons of public safety require that
these transactions be matters Of record and that
the person responsible for a decision should make
the decision. His explanation of passing the buck
is that there is to each question proper
person to decide it to ask the wrong person can
have but the other Of two results, either
to be referred to the right person or get an I'M
authorized answer" He says the fighting was
not new, but old Then he says:
1.-The comment seems to imply a belief, on
President Eliot's part, that graduates Of West
Point have not shown up we'll in the military
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 and 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 to
revere:
"Indian 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. f. Lee Mcclellan, Beauregard Huger, Reno,
Grant Jefferson Davis Early.
Civil war: General officers in Union Army 294 !;
in Confederate Army, ISL; Grant Sherman. Sheri-
dan. Schofed, Buell., Burnside, Gilmore Haeck,
Hancock, Heintzelman Hooker, Howard Hum
phreys Fitzpatrick Lyon, Meade, Merritt, Nc
Clellan Mcdowell. Ord, Pope, Porter, Reynolds
Rosecrans, Slocum, Thomas Warren, Wright
Beauregard Bragg Cooper Hood A. s. Johnston
J. E. Johnston. r. E. Lee, Kirby Smith, Anderson
Buckner Early Ewell Hardee. A. P. Hill, D, a.
Hill Holmes. Jackson. S. D. Lee, Longstreet
Pemberton, Polk, A. P. Stewart, Wheeler. Fitz
Lee Lowell, Pickett, J. z. B. Stuart. Van Dorm.
Spanish war: OTIS King Fitz Lee, Wheeler,
Bell, Pershing, Lawton, Barry.
Explorers, builders of railroads, canals light
houses, etc.; Swift, Totten. Mcclellan, Poe, Alb
bolt, Warren. Humphreys Talcott Comstock
Bache. Wheeler, Wright Whistler, Sideu Porter
wilson, Greene, Du Pont Ludlow Mefgs Griffin
Holden, Black, Goethals, Sibert, Gaillard Casey.
Hodges.
"Puble life: Grant, Polk, Mcclellan. Hancock
Porter. Buckner. Lee, Longstreet, Du Pont Briggs
"World war: Pershing March, Bliss, Billiard
Liggett' Goethals, Summera, Jervey, Scott
Graves. Riddle, McAndrew, Black, Richardson
Connor, ct al"