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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.
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