The Alaska daily empire., 1923-07-05
West Point Wipes Out Enmities.
(New York Herald.

The two of the successful candidates for admission to the United States Military Academy West Point next July, Frederick Funston and Emilio Aguinaldo The of these two yout hs are the same as their fathers-two who twenty years ago were the most dramatically interesting figures in the war in the Philippine Islands Don Aguinaldo, the leader of the Filipino insurrection against the Americans, and Major-General Funston of the United States Army, his captor.
 The capture of Agunaldo was the most brilliant act of fnnstona career After years service in the Cuban insnrgent army he had been sent ito sthe United States wounded. As commander of the Twen- t1eth Kansas Infantry he to the Philippine es He had already his brigadier-g generalshps and medal of honor when he organized the expedition to ind Agunaldo He went into the mountains where the Filipino leader had his headquarters with only small number of white comrades mad the help of a native force. He made Aguinaldo a prisoner and escaped With him to the American lines. The cap ture of the leader the beginning of the end of the Filipino instruction.
 Aguinaldo has become of the wealthy men of the Philippines. After the nsurrection he devoted himself to the scientific study of sugar raising and applied his methods to the cultivation of his planta- tons His son received his appointment under the law providing for the selection of one Filipino a year 10 be trained for service as an officer of pbilin pine Scouts. Young Funston is an appointee ..at large, having been chosen by President Harding Tn accordance with the custom of naming as cadets sons Of high officers desire to follow tbe profession of their fathers
 The United States has furnished many instances where the descendants of men who had fought against each other in war became fellow studants
 
 stances where the of Northern and Southern ieauers met as students at West Point General Lees son. George Washington Custis Lee entered inc academy In 1850 and in the army before tbe war began General Grants son. Frederick Dent oraht entered the academy in 1866 and was gradu- aled Ill lSI. At that time Southern army families were almost without representation at West Point
 IL was later in the 70s and in tho sos that inc names of these families began to be on the rolls of the academy. Along with the names of sucb wall known Northern army families as the Caseys Hunts Gillmores and Sturgses there appeared thosa os southern families of Bees. Allsons Bucks and Rul iarus Ill lsss, just fifty years after the name first appeared on the academy rolls there was a saoora rhlilp Henry sheridan It was usty sixty-four vaars alter the first simon Bolivar Buckner eama fror, hehtucky to the academy that the second came
 Tn l9ol there appeared the name Clifford caheu Iariy ol virginia That the first time that tba name Eariy had appeared since Jubal Early tbe famous Confederate cavalry leader entered We, foiht h 1883 When in 1899 another ulvssas e eraht came to West Point he could find many da scehuahts or men who had fought against hjs grand father in the early eos e
 ne presence or the sons of the insurreco leadar asulhaido and the American officer Funston as eiasshates at the military academy furnishes mora evidence of the ability of West Point to wino ot forever the bitter enmites of the past