Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-20

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 permanent and are
detailed for periods of years.
Secretary Baker says, in part, concerning
criticism No. A.:
Nothing short of omniscence 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 to the
circumstances surrounding these activities and
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 life, reserve OIL
GERS, officers Of the National Guard, and the
vastly larger body of officers hastily instructed in
officers training camps altogether comprised ap-
proximately 205000 men, of whom the west
Point graduates numbered 3,0S1. In the per-
formance of their work these officers were aided
by an immense body of civilans-captains Of
industry masters of business; scientific, technical
commercial, industrial and all other kinds of ex-
perts worked side by side. 1t is my settled con-
viction that the commercial and Industrial Or
ganization of America during the war was a
colossal success; but whether it or not the
result was not outcome of the system of edus
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 conservations of public safety require that
these transactions be matters of record and that
the person responsible for decision should make
the decision. His explanation Of passing the buck
is that "there is as to each question proper
person to decide it; to ask the wrong person can
have but or the other of two results, either
to be referred to the right person or get an un-
ortbo the fighting
not new, but old. Then he says:
1.-THE comment seems to imply belief, on
President Eliot's part, that graduates of West
Point have not shown up well 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 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 teach our children t(
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. E. Lee Mcclellan, Beauregs,rd, Hugeri 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, 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.
Hill, Holmes, Jackson, S. D. Lee, Longstree
Pemberton, Polk, A. P Stewart Wheeler, Fit
Lee, Lowell, Pickett ]. e. B. Stuart, Van DORM
Spanish war: Otis, King, Fitz Lee, Wheeler
Bell, Pershing Lawton, Barry.
Explorers, builders Of railroads, canals, ligh
houses etc.; Swift Totten, Mcclellan, Poe, AL
bott Warren, Humphreys, Tslcott, Comstocl
Bache, Wheeler, Wright, Whistler, Sidell, Porte
Wilson, Greene, Du Pont, Ludlow, Meigs, Grff1
Holden, Black, Goethals, Sbert Gailard Case.
Hodges.
public life: Grant, Polk, Mcclellan, Hancocl
Porter, Buckner, Lee, Longstreet Du Pont, Briggs
"World war: Pershing, March, Bliss, Bullar
Liggett, Goethals, Summerall, Jervey, Scot
Graves, Biddle, McAndrew, Black, Richardson
Connor, ct al"