The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191?, August 19, 1910, Image 7
Leonard Wood — nin i ■■■— ai ■ ■ ■!—ir.ium— wid I — ■"■■I ‘ r**"-* ‘1 Reprinted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt In The Outlook, by special arrangement with The Outlook, of which Theodore Roosevelt is Contributing Editor. Copyright. 11110, by The Outlook Company.. All Rights Reserved. Gen. Leonard Wood has just re- | turned from South America to take up his duties as chief of the general staff j of the United States army, the h'ghest military position which the service af fords. Nearly 12 years ago, when Leonard i Wood was acting as governor of Santi ago, I wrote in the Outlook about what he had already achieved, and w'hat he | could be trusted to achieve. During j the Intervening 12 years he has played a very conspicuous part among the i men who have rendered signal service to the country by the way in which they have enabled it to grapple with the duties and responsibilities in M curred by the Spanish war. What has been accomplished in the Philippines, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, in Panama, and in San Domingo during these 12 years represents a sum of achieve ment of which this nation has a right to be extremely proud. In each locali ty the problem has been different, in each locality it has been solved with signal success. Of course there have been mistakes and shortcomings, but on the whole it would he difficult to find anywhere a finer record of suc cessful accomplishment. This Record is primarily due to the admirable qual ity of the men put at the head of af fairs in the different places. Messrs. Taft, Luke Wright, Smith and Forbes, Messrs, Hunt, Winthrop, Post and Col ton, Governor Magoon, Colonel Goeth als—to these and their colleagues and subordinated the country owes a heavy debt of obligation. Most of those I have mentioned are civilians. Colonel Goethals, under whom the gigantic work of the Pana ma canal is being accomplished, with literally astounding rapidity and suc cess, is a representative of the army. The share of the army in the honor roll is very large. The importance of work like that of General Bell in the Philippines, of General Barry in Cuba, can hardly be overestimated; but, as a whole, of all the work of the army officers, the greatest in amount, r and the greatest in variety of achieve ment, must be credited to General Wood. And, moreover, he has at times combined with singular success the functions of civil administrator and military commandant. The part played by the United States In Cuba has been one of the most honorable ever played by any nation In dealing with a weaker pow’er, one of the most satisfactory in all respects; and to General Wood more than to any other one man is due the credit of starting this work and conducting it to a suc cessful conclusion during the earliest and most difficult years. Like almost all of the men mentioned, as well as their colleagues, General Wood of course incurred the violent hatred of many dishonest schemers and un scrupulous adventurers, and of a few mono or less well-meaning persons who were misled by these schemers and adventurers; but it, is astounding to any one acquainted with the facts to realize, not merely whnt he accom plished, but how he succeeded in gain ing the good will of the enormous ma jority of the men whoso good will could be won only in honorable fash ion. Spaniards and Cubans, Christian Filipinos and Moros, Catholic eccle siastics and Protestant missionaries— in each case the great majority of those whose opinion was best worth having-—grew to regard General Wood as their speclnl champion and ablest friend, as the man who more than any others understood and sympathized with their peculiar needs and was anxious and able to render them the help they most needed. His administration was as signally successful in the Moro country as In Cuba. In each case alike It brought in Its train peace, an increase ia material prosperity, and a rigid adherence to honesty as the only policy tolerated among officials. His opportunity for military service has not been great, c-ither in the Philippines or while he was the governor of Cuba. Still, on several occasions he was obliged to carry on operations against hostile tribes of Moros, and in each case he did his work with skill, energy, and efficiency; and, once it was done, he showed as much humanity in dealing with the vanquished as he had shown capacity to vanquish them. In our country there are some kinds of suc cess which receive an altogether dis proportionate financial reward; but in no other country is the financial re ward so small for the kind of service done by Leonard Wood and by the other men whose names l have given above. General Wood is an army offi cer with nothing but an army officer's pay, and we accept it as a matter of course that he should have received practically no pecuniary reward for those services which he rendered in positions not such as an army officer usually occupies. There is not an other big country in the world where he would not have received a sub stantial reward such as here no one even thinks of his receiving. Yet, aft er all, the reward for which he most cares is the opportunity to render service, and this opportunity has been given him once and again. He now stands as ehief-of-staff of the Ameri can army, the army in which he was serving in a subordinate position as surgeon 13 years ago. His rise has been astonishing, and it has been due purely to his own striking qualifica tion and striking achievements. Again and again he has rendered great serv ice to the American people; and he will continue to render such service in the position he now holds. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. IS TOO MUCH HANDSHAKING? Other Ways of Greeting Friends That Are Much Preferable, Accord ing to Writer. Although a few have suffered the unpleasant experience of the man in the case recently reported, the bones of whose hand3 were forced out of place by the vise-like grasp of a too vigorous and unduly demonstrative friend, most people will be inspired by their personal recollections to sympa thize with this victim of a misdirect ed ardor. Everyone knows people who seek to express the sincerity and ear nestness of their good-will by squeez ing the hand they take as though they , were trying to break every one of the score or so of bones which the human hand comprises, and every one on such occasions must have wished that some other form of salutation than the one most in vogue had been de vised and were generally practiced. Shaking hands is a relic of barbar ism anyhow. It became the custom in the days when every one carried a dagger in his belt and when one friend meeting another thought it necessary to attest the peacefulneds of his in tentions by extending an open palm. Then the other man could do no less than make a similarly reassuring dem onstration and the grasp of these two extended hands naturally followed. Subsequently, by a logical process of evolution the handshake grew to be the conventional form of greeting and the refusal of a proffered hand was regarded as one of those insults whose dishonor can only be wiped out with blood. Now the custom is too firmly and widely established for ftR abandonment to be conceivable, and yet there are various things about it which render it unsatisfactory. Rather surprisingly it has thus far escaped the denunciations of the doc tors, who have spared no little else, as a possible occasion for the communi cation of injurious microbes, but one does not have to be a President of the United States, nor even a popular poli tician engaged in a canvass for votes, not sometimes to have wdshed that the handshaking habit had never been contracted. There are so many ways of shaking hands that are objection able and there are so many different kinds of hands whose touch communi cates a sensation not exactly pleasant. Hands that are too hot or too cold, too moist or too dry, or whose inert ness communicates an uncomplimen tary sense of indifference on the part of their possessors. Every one Is familiar with the hand shake in which all the shaking has to be done by the party of the first part, In which the hand one grasps lies limp and lifeless in one's own, to be taken or left, to be squeezed or let drop, as one pleases, while the atti tude of the owner suggests an abso lute lack of interest in the proceed ings. Behold, that also is vanity and vexation of spirit. So is the question which recurrently arises, and which it may be suspected is the source of much secret embarrassment, the ques tion of to shake or not to shake. Etiquette has Its rules for this, but no rules etiquette can formulate will cover every case that may arise, and to determine the right thing may not always be easy. It will be seen that the Chinese plan has Its advantages. The China man you meet does not shake your hand. He bows and shakes his own.— Philadelphia Inquirer. Bird's Powerful Voice. There is a bird known as the naked ! throated bell bird, that has such a powerful voice that It can be beard three miles away. It Is loud and plei clng and has been likened to the sound produced by a blacksmith striking an anvil. Gastronomic Prize Medalist. The man who Invents a noiseless method of eating corn on the cob, and points out how one can partake of watermelon without betting bis ears wet. will be a true benefactor. Peculiar Trick of Lightning. Lightning played a curious trick with a funeral procession near Limo ges, recently. It struck the church and burned the altar cloth. Outside the church a girl was killed and four bear ers of the coffin were knocked down. Wonderful Flight of Dragon Fly. The dragon fly can speed through the air at the rate of 60 miles an hour and more wonderful still, can stop instantaneously In Its flight or more backward or sideways without changing the position of 1U body. Builders of New Houses! People building new houses will find W. 11. CROOK & CO.’S HARDWARE STORE HEADQUARTERS for Builders’ Hardware * Good io-qt. Granite Water Bucket.65c Good 12-qt. Granite Water Bucket.75c Granite Coffee Pots.40c Granite Wash Pans.10c Granite Drinking Cups.05c Granite Tea Kettle.65c Granite Stew Pans.25c ?ime f o»"? Slaw Cutters W. H. Crook & Co. I w Store! 1 wish to announce to the general Grocery, Flour and Feed Store—two blocks east of Samuel Wahl’s—(northeast corner of the Central School block). My stock is new throughout and the best that money can buy. 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