Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-20


out that there is more permanency in the aca-
demic staff than is commonly supposed OF the IL
heads Of departments are permanent and are
detailed for periods Of 4 years
Secretary Baker says, in part concerning
criticism No. A
Nothing short Of omniscience can anayze the
intricate multiplied and scattered activities OF
the war department during the recent war at
home and in the field, give just weight 20 the
circumstances surrounding these activities ana
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 Reguiar
Army officers drawn from civil life, reserve ON
GERS officers of the National Guard ana the
vastly larger body of officers hastily instructor III
officers training camps altogether comprised ap-
proximately POS 900 men, of whom the west
Point graduates numbered 3,O81. In the per-
Torrance of their work these officers were alaeu
by an immense body of cfvilians-captafns Oh
industry masters Of business; Scentlnc tecnhlcal,
commercial, industrial and all other kinds OF ex-
perts worked side by side 1t is my settleo con-
viction that the commercial and industrial or
ganization of America during the war was
colossal success; but whether it was or not the
result was not an outcome of the system OF euu-
cation at West Point. The thing was done by the
nation and all the varied processes by Wnicn our
citizens are trained contributed"
He explains why federal statutes and govern
that the system may be slow at times, but holds
that conservations of public safety require tnat
these transactions be matters of record and tnat
the person responsible for a decision should make
the decision. His explanation of passing the DUCK
is that "there is as to each question a proper
person to decide it to ask the wrong person can
have but one or the other of two results, either
to be referred to the right person or get an I'M
authorized answer" He says the lighting was
not new but old. Then he says:
1.-The comment seems to imply belief, on
President Eliots part, that graduates Of West
Point have not shown up well in the military
history of the United States. It 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. Ihey 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 Lee Mcclellan, Beauregsrd, Huger, Reno,
Grant Jefferson Davis, Early.
Civil war: General officers in Union Army, 294;
in Confederate Army, 151; Grant, Sherman Sheri-
dan, schofeld, Buell., Burnside, Gilmore, Halleck,
Hancock Hentzelman, Hooker Howard, Hum
phreys, Fitzpatrick, Lyon, Meade, Merritt, Nc
Clean, 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. II.
HILL Holiness Jackson, S. D. Lee Longstreet,
Pemberton, Polk, A. P. Stewart, Wheeler, F1tz
Lee, Lowell, Pickett, ]. E. 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, Abb
bott Warren, Humphreys, Talcott, Comstock,
Bache, Wheeler, Wright, Whistler, Sidell, Porter,
Wilson, Greene, Du Pont, Ludlow, Meigs, Griffin.
Holden, Black, Goethals Sibert Gaillard, Casey,
Hodges.
public life: Grant, Polk, Mcclellan, Hancock,
Porter, Buckner, Lee, Longstreet, Du Pont, Briggs
'World war; Pershing, March. Bliss, Billiard,
Liggett Goethals, Summerall, Jervey, Scott.
Graves, Riddle, McAndrew Black. Richardson,
Connor ct al"