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The Age of Militant Leaders
No; long after the attack n
Pear'. Harbor, de? patches froir.
Washington said that President
Roosevelt had decided there
must be m:re your.g blood in the
h ; ' ra
Navy We do r ■*' know t what
erter : that deo. r. has beer. car
ried y. .r. the many shift? that
have beer made ir. fficer per
-301 th< .
Th* re #a> *. striking prefer
of Adrr .ra! Ktr.rr ‘C/ 1 Ad
min] Nimitz (57 Genera! En -
mor.- years yconp r ’.ra
,Genera Short his tre iet r ir
command of the .ar d force- .r,
haw a.
I* is to be borne ir: mind * hat
, . .* ■
mea- - red .r year- One mar rr.av
re’a.r *re : :gor f•. vr, .•
mind
aro* r.* -
are ti r r
offe er.- wv ' r > ' re- tr - - *.erj t'
• ■ mn nd
time ■' grta* oa 1 p< r v *b<- na
tion'' It i- a ..terribly tiifficu.*
que-‘ion, and the person who
must an-wer it the Pre-iden’.
Os course he ha- his ad iser«. or
this a- on other que-t or.- but the
fin a word i? hi- He is the man
w ho .- responsible to the Ameri
can people for making ’he right
selection- In fur.r.y this obliga
tion. no doubt he trunk-- many a
time of the disheartening effort
of I- incoin, in.the first two years
of the Civil War, to find a com
mand' r who could do the job at
hand
The most recent
char go in a high cornrna.nd ha
been tbe rej act ment of the
An r can Admiral Hart <64i by
the Dutch Admiral Helfrich (34j
a- chief of the United Na’ions’
naval forces in Asiatic waters.
“Why should an over age of
ficer have been appointed to th;-
posit to begin with?” ask's
the N< w York II > raid Tnbvru,
“or why, if there- was a younger
and more vigorous commander
avadable, in the person of Ad
miral Helfrich, with a long arid
intimate knowledge of Par Ea-t
--err. water* and the pr<* -i.se stra
tegic problems now involved,
should the change ha’.e only been
made af’er the supremely critical
battle of the Netherlands Indies
was: already half lost?”
Perhaps the most obvious
comment on this question is that
it is quite in the pattern of after
the-event sideline criticism. To
have displaced Admiral Hart by
Admiral Helfrich several weeks
ago would hare required, it seems
to us, a degree of foresighted
ness—clairvoyance, indeed—not
reasonably to be expected of any
individual or council.
“Over-age” is the word applied
to Hart in the foregoing quota
tion. Yet MacArthur, command
ing in the Philippines, is only two
years younger than Hart. We
doubt if there are many people
who could be persuaded that Mc -
Arthur is that close to being
“over-age.”
The statement, that the high
est military capacity is found in
young men may of course be met
by the citation of notable cases
—such ok Von Hindenburg—that
constitute evidence to the con
trary. Hut the exceptions are not
numerous enough to weaken the
generalization. Even Robert E.
whom most of us picture as
venerable, was only 54 when the
Civil War began—eight years
younger than Douglas MacAr
thur is today. England’s great
est general in modern times, the
first Duke of Marlborough, was
regarded as old for military
leadership when he went into the
field as the Allied chieftain
against the armies ot Louis XIV;
yet he was only 54 when he won
the victory of Blenheim. Prince
Eugene, his partner in that bril
liant enterprise, was 53.
Alexander overthrew the Per
sian Empire at 25 and was dead
at 33. Hannibal's military career
ended when he was 45. Caesar
had conquered Gaul and crossed
the Rhine at 45. and had come
home arid finished Pompey by the
time he was 52., Charles Martel
defeated the Saracens at 42.
Charlemagne was a great con
ueror before he was 35. Gus
tavos Adolphus was 38 when he
gamed the victory, and died in
gaining it. at Luetzen: and the
mar. he defeated on that field.
Wallenstein, had reached the ze
treer at 49
_ _ . - - j j ; j _ . . g
umph at Marengo when he wa
. ... r ed Emperor at 35,
ar.d was dead before he was 52
WelhngT' n wa- 46 at Waterloo.
- igb 4 • rn
wailis was 43, at Yorktown. Ar
t ho, th ig r :
farn;., deserves, the chief credit
or the •>ictory at Saratoga; was
37 on that glor is Octo
- r day in -1877. Mad Anthony
Wayne was 34 when he stormed
Stony Point and was commander
.ntf-hief of the- United States
Arm) at 47 Nathaniel Greene
had distinguished himself in
many battles and was in com
mand of the Revolutionary forces
in the South at 38.
At th< jt'break c f the Civil
War th< 75-year-old W.-g •
Scott had such great prestige,
from a military career which had
rx-gun in the War of 1812 and
reached a climax in his victories
in the Mexican War, that as; a
matter of course he was placed in
command of the Union armies ;
but after a few months he faded
out of the, picture, and McClellan
became general -i n -chief at —35.
The ages of other Union leaders
at the beginning of the war in
3 861 were: Grant,39; Sherman,
43; Hancock, 27; Hallcsk, 46;
Hooker, 47 ; Meade, 46 ; Sheridan,
30; Burn ide, 37; arid Thomas,
45. The ages of eleven Confed
erate leaders at the beginning of
the war were: lx-e, 54; Jackson,
37; Joseph E Johnston, 54 ; Al
bert Sidney John.-.ton, 58, Long
-treet, 40 ; Hood, 30 ; Forrest, 40 ;
J. F B. Stuart, 28; Farly, 45;
Bragg, 44; and Beauregard, 43.
Pershing was 57 when he Ixr
came commander of the A E. F.
Among naval leaders, Hawkins
was 56 and Drake was 48 when
! hey fought against the Spani-h
Armada, and both of them had
been distinguished long before
that. Nelson was 40 when he won
the Battle of the Nile and 47 when
he wax killed at Trafalgar. John
Paul Jones was 32 when his Bon
homme Richard beat the Serapis,
and he was in his 40’s when
Catherine the Great made him a
rear-admiral in the Russian navy.
Farragut was 63 in 1864 when
he took his ships into Mobile Bay.
Dewey was 61 when he destroyed
the Spanish fleet at Manila.
Although this record shows
that most of the great leaders on
land and sea have been young
men, and justifies the President’s
determination to search out and
use young blood in the Army and
the Navy, it would be a grave mis
take to take the record as justifica
tion for discarding officers simply
because they are approaching or
have passed 60. The great leaders
whom we have named here were
not great because they were
young; they were great because
they had exceptional natural
abilities that came to early de
velopment. Imagination and dar
ing in warfare are by no means
the exclusive possession of the
young. Far rag dt is the oldest
man in our list—and Farragut
is famous for having uttered, and
acted upon, the words: “Damn
the torpedoes! Go ahead!” Dewey
is in the over-60 bracket, and we
recall reading the statement of
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
an officer in the Navy that
Dewey’s entrance into Manila
Bay was so risky that he would
probably have been courtmar
tialed if he had not happened to
win the victory.
MacArthur is at an age when
by the regulations he could apply
for retirement, yet he is display
ing all the vigor and dash that
are commonly associated with
youth. Here is a thought, too, for
those who may be too hasty in
demanding young men as com
manders: the splendid perform
ance of the commanding general
in the Philippines is surely the
result not only of his great na
tural ability but also of his ex
perience—of the mature judg
ment that has grown out of his
long training’, his study of mili
tary science, and his active par
“ : : Tar
A celebrated story about Fin
coin and Grant is that, when
.somebody opposed the appoint
ment of Grant a- commander-in
hief because he drank too much,
TSficoin, having in mind Grant’s
recent victories in the West, -aid
he wished he could find out the
brand of Gran* .- whiskey and
give an ample supply of it to some
of the other Union generals.
Roo-«v<-lt might be d: -posed to
expre-s the wish that he could
inoculate both Army and Navy
with MacArthur’.- brand of old
age,
Knight to Lecture in Far West
Edgar W Knight of the Uni
versity’s department of educa
tion has gone to San Francisco
.to deliver, next Tuesday eve
ning, the annual lecture at the
Convocation of Kappa Delta Pi,
national honor society in educa
tion The lecture, “Progress
and Educational Perspective,” is
announced for publication on
’hat date by the Macmillan Com
pany. While in San Francisco
Mr, Knight will attend sessions
of the annual convention of the
American Association of School
A 4 minis trato r- - Among—edu--
cator- who have held the lec
turo-hip which Mr. Knight holds
: this year have been John Dew
ay, Thomas IF Briggs, Edward
F. Thorndike, Lyon Phelps, the
late John Finley, arid Stephen
leacock. While in San Francisco
Mr Knight will attend sessions
of the annual convention of the
American Association of School
Administrators.
The Alumni Assembly
The University’s annual Alum
ni Assembly will lx; held here
March 13, it. was announced yes
terday hy W. A. Dees of Golds
boro, president of the Alumni
Association. It will be attended
by officers and directors of the
Association arid hy representa
tives of alumni classes and local
alumni clubs. The program will
| include the nomination of new
officers, who will be elected by
mail balloting by dues-paying
members of the Association.
|
Co-Ed Swimming Tomorrow
The University’s co-ed swim
ming team will meet the William
and Mary co-ed team here at 11
o’clock tomorrow (Saturday)
morning in the Bowman Gray
pool. There will be competition
in freestyle, backstroke, breast
stroke, relay, medley relay, and
diving. The public is invited.
Miss Ellen Wimberly is manager
of the Carolina team, and Mrs.
Andrew Mclntosh is the coach.
The Basketball league
The Chapel Hill Alumni de
feated the Old Grads, 29 to 11,
in a league basketball game
player Tuesday evening in the
Tin Can. The leading players
were George Jolley for the win
ners and Tom Rost, Jr., for the
losers. Next Tuesday evening
the Alumni will play the All-
Stars and the Old Grads will play
the Ball Hawks, who are leading
the league with four wins and
one defeat.
Story of Cloth through the Centuries Is
Told in Book by Elizabeth Chesley Baity
The story of cloth, by Eliza
beth Chesley Baity, was brought
out this week by the Viking
Press under the title, “Man Is
a Weaver.’’ Mrs. Baity has been
working, on this book seven
years: not steadily, however, for
within, that period she has be
come the mother of two children
and has been subjected to vari
ous other interruptions.
When she embarked upon the
task she thought of making a
start with the spinning wheels
of Colonial America. But she
soon realized that if she %vas go
ing to tell the story of cloth she
had to go back to ancient times.
In her tour through the cen
t -rfi - she was aided generously
by archaeologists, historians,
and other specialists in the Uni
versity faculty, and she made
extensive researches in the Uni
versity Library.
The following awards were
made a* the Boy Scout Court of
Honor held last week at the high
- hool:
First Class Award to Bill
Browne and Milton Heath, Jr.;
‘Second Class Award to Robert
Ix-e Brooks, Benton Johnson,
Owen Marsh, and Frank Pitt
man; Star Scout Award to Ted
Browne; and Merit Badges to
Fred Bowman, Bill Cobb, Bob
DeLaney, Lee Wiley, arid < arl
Durham, Jr., and Ted Browne.
Harold Meyer presided over
the ceremonies. E. T. Browne
[presented the Star Scout Award
to his son Ted and spoke briefly
to the Scouts about the part they
rnay lx? called on to play in the
war.
During the meeting.the lights
Projects Suggested by Rotary
The following three sugges
tions, for help to the community,
were made by toe Rotary-Club’s.
board of directors at the club’s
meeting Wednesday evening at
the Inn. (1; That the club Co
operate with the U.S.O. in en
tertaining soldiers here at the
week-ends. (2) That the club
recommend to the Rotary Dis
trict Conference that the district
set up an annual scholarship for
a South American student to
study in a state-supported insti
tution in North Carolina. (3)
That the Rotary Clubs provide
means for remedying defects
found in 10th and 11th grade
high school ■ boys during the
physical examinations now being
given throughout the state. The
suggestions will be voted on next
month.
A Lecture on the Far East
Paul H. Clyde of Duke Univer
sity's history department will
speak on "The Emergence of the
United States as a Colonial Pow
er in the Far East” at 8:15 Sun
day evening at the Presbyterian
church. This will be the second
of a series of lectures by Mr.
Clyde on the general topic, “The
J*'ar East in This War.” Every
body is invited.
Co-Ed Fencing Meet Tomorrow
The University’s co-ed fencing
team will meet the William and
Mary co-ed team at 9 o’clock to
morrow (Saturday) morning in
the Woollen gymnasium. Every
body is invited. Miss Catherine
Henley is manager of the Caro
lina team, and Miss Mary Mc-
Cormic, who is majoring in phy
sical education, is the coach.
Miss Ruth Covington Marries
Miss Ruth Covington of Chap
el Hill and Mike Roberts of
Philadelphia were married Jan
uary 17 at Bennettsville, S. C.
Both of them are graduates of
the University. Mr. Roberts
works for the Arthur H. Thomas
Company, laboratory equipment
firm in Philadelphia.
! “Members of the Library staff
have patiently ferried textile
books to my little cubicle for
years,” says Mrs. Baity, “and I
am deeply grateful to them.”
How the people of Egypt made
cloth 6.000 years ago; how the
Chinese made silk (for 3.000
years a closely guarded secret);
the origin and development of
India prints and the batik cot
; tons of Java, and of cottons
made, by the Indians of Peru*,
of ail sorts of fabrics that have
been used by mankind, from
’princes to. paupers, since the
dawn of history—all this is told.
But “Man Is a Weaver” is no
technical treatise. It is a spir
ited story of the exploration, col
onizatien. invention —of strug
g'le and adven’ure and achieve
ment. Its basic theme is the
making of cloth, but the story is
real human stuff.
Boy Scout Awards
suddenly went out. leaving the'
auditorium in total darkness. It
was announced that a practice
blackout was in effect, and the
members of Troop 39 quickly and
quietly helped everybody out of
the auditorium. The lights were
then turned on, the audience re
assembled, and the program was
resumed: Many parents and
friends of Scouts were present.
It was announced that, accord
ing to figures released from Ral
eigh in the Occoneechee Scout
Council- News Bulletin, Chapel
Hill Scouts are leading the Coun
cil in the amount of waste paper
collected. Troop 39 has collected
20,000 pounds, and Troop 9 has
collected 15,000. The collections I
are made under the direction of
the Chapel Hill Civilian Defense
Board.
COOK WANTED
Cook wanted. Telephone 3696.
, LOST, A DOC
Lost: black and white spotted
dog, resembling small setter. Call
5226.
LAYING HENS FOR SALE
I*or sale; Twelve New Hamp
shire Red laying hens, 8 months
old, for $1.35 each. Now at their
laying peak. Phone 7626, Mrs.
|C. W. Pegram
DEFENSE SAVINGS
STAMPS
.
Absolutely Free
During* FEBRUARY we will
give one 25-CENT DEFENSE
SAVINGS STAMP with every
ton of COAL sold for CASH.
Bay All the COAL You Can!
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HARBOR
Keep ’em Flying Keep ’em Rolling
MORE PLANES - - - - MORE SHIPS
MORE GUNS FASTER
Fitch Lumber Co.
Phone 7291 Phone 7291
V.
Friday, February 20, 1942
PIANO FOR SALE
For sale; Wing concert grand
piano. 850. Good condition. Five
pedals. Telephone 9521, Mrs. W.
D. Hinson.
CHIHUAHUA FOR SALE
Fcr sale: Chihuahua (toy dog)
puppie three months old. H. C.
Buff. Mgr. of Pender’s Store.
APARTMENTS FOR RENT
For rent: Two furnished
apartments, within five minutes
walking distance of the campus.
One with kitchen, one without
kitchen. Call 8191 or 6791.
SPENCER CORSETIERE
Spencer Corsetiere: Mrs. J. J.
(Pattie C.) Baldwin, 203 Parish
Place, Durham. N. C. Telephone
J-2241.
BABY CARRIAGE, BED, AND
CHAIR
For sale: Baby carriage, baby
bed, and high chair. All in good
condition. Mrs. D. A. MacPher
son. Telephone 4966.
COTTAGE FOR RENT
For rent: Small cottage on
Hillsboro Street; formerly occu
pied bv the Whichards. Central
heat. Call Elizabeth Branson at
6296 or 7921.
HOUSE FOR RENT
For rent: Six-room house par
tially furnished. Lights, bath,
hot and cold water, electric
range. Two acres of garden and
orchard. Three miles north Old
Hillsboro Road. Sec John H.
Maddry.
SHRUBS AT HALF PRICE
There will be a workman at
Copeland’s Nursery tomorrow
(Saturday) to dig shrubs and
voting trees, which will be sold
at half price to customers on the
grounds. Come and make your
own selections. For further in
formation phone Mrs. Poe, 6736.
SPECIAL NOTICE
We continue to serve while
you save
He sure to insure
The Farm Rureau Mutual Way
See or ('all
Paul H. Robertson
Telephone
Office, 657 H Residence, 9311