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7 , THE W1LMINGTON DISPATCH,, THURSDAY, : JUNE 1 3 1918: - - V" V : 3 1 3
glNT HEGMED CUMBERLAND HAS THREEli iiriu sT -
IS MILITARY ASSET DEAD ON FRENCH SOIL White Low dMI fJP- 1 Jtie OppOlTtlllBlty Ol'
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Secretary of War Delivered
1 X. 1.1.
Jipiomas io uic vjiau
uates Yesterday
Washington, D. C, June 13. When
onsets of t.1m United
gw-
5tates military acaaemy unea up on
..u West Point vfiRterflav for
hp neiii a- , -
-.,.,1 graduation exercises they re-
, rim mm a s irnm tna saptb.
..won LL1CU w
v 0f war under conditions more so.
Lr and impressive tnan nave ever at-
famed institution.
Tn;tead 01 rectJivius tuo uuakuiuajr
n this or tTiaT. reelmflnt
!f infantry or cavalry or artillery, to
L rationed at a military post In the
rnitpd stales ui lusuiai
sessions, me mciuueia uj. tu3 yybbi
bit class of 1918 will, in all proba-
ijtV pass from the academy routine
j study and drill into the real work
0f war, with the chances that a few
months' hence will find the most of the
graduates of today actively "doing
J tX i
Military cniics anu uisiunans axe
o?rped that efficiency of an army de-
L it does upon its fightiaff men If
this true, tne vaiue oi me uniieu
States Ullli-al j xva.ucujf a xxixiilu jr
asset in the present criucai penoa oi
tie nation's history, cannot be over
estimated, for there is no institution
of its kind in the world where a mac
can attain to a higher degree of mili
tary education and efficiency than at
tfest Point.
West Point has been lor upwards of
half a century the leading military
academy in the world. Its methods
have been in several instances adopt
ed as a whole by ioreign scnoois. The
standard at the Unitea states military
icademy has been, it is said, that to
ward which other schools have aimed
The history of the institution Is a rec
ord of continual, unceasing improve
ment in this respect.
On more than one occasion in the
past history of the United States the
highly beneficial effect of the compar
atively few but well trained men from
the West Point academy has been ob
served. General Winfield Scott said:
1 give it as my fixed opinion that
but for our graduated cadets the war
between the United States and Mex
ico might, and probably would, have
lasted sdme four or five years. With
in its first half more defeats than
victories fell into our share, whereas
in less than two campaigns we con
quered a great country and a peace
without the loss of a single battle or
skirmish."
Elihu Root, when secretary of war,
id: "Since the declaration of the war
ti Spain the faithful and efficient
arices of the graduates of the mili
ary academy at West -Point hare;
more than repaid the cost of the in
stitution since its foundation."
Brigadier General Henry Knox in
C8 was the first to suggest a military
school for the United States at the
psent site. His proposals were sec
onded by Alexander Hamilton and ap
proved by George Washington, but
they were not adopted in the form
suggested until, by an act of congress.
approved in 1802, the president was
authorized to establish a military
academy, which was formally opened
July 4 of that year.
By the act of .1802, fixing the mili
tary peace establishment, 40 cadets
vere attached to the artillery and 10
to the corps of engineers, and that
corps was constituted a military
academy and stationed at West Point,
the senior officer of eneineers nresent
being the superintendent whereof.
This was the beginning of the pres
ent military academy, which Is now
one of the finest and most complete
in the world, and which has turned
out such masters of the military art
as Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee,
Phil Sheridan, William T. Sherman,
and a long list of others whose abili
ties and achievements as soldiers
have WOTl wnrM.-oHHA famo
The success and develonment. of the
est Point academy owes much to
General Sylvanus Thayer, who was
superintendent of the institution dur-
the early period of its develop
ment, ana whose statue now holds a
Prominent place in the West Point
Van Buren Hair, Among the
Wounded, Also From
That County
, (Special to The Dispatch.)
Fayetteville, June 13.With one
Cumberland county boy reported kill
ed on the front In France and the
name of another appearing in the
casualty list as severely wounded, the
war Is being brought home to people
here. John W. Adcox, of Victory
mill village, near this city, is in re
ceipt of a telegram from the war de
partment advising him that his son,
Cyrus T. Adcox, was killed in action
with a machine gun battalion on May
28. The young man, who was 24 years
of age, volunteered on the outbreak
of the Mexican trouble two years ago.
He served on the border with the
quartermaster corps of the regular
army, but went overseas with an en
gineer regiment of the regulars. The
fact that the message from the war
department specifically stated that
Adcox was killed in action with a ma
chine gun unit may mean .that he, as
American engineers have done befoie,
voluntarily went into action at a crit
ical hour, before the army of the
crown prince was brought to a halt
on the Marne. In addition to his
mother and father, Mr. Adqox had
three brothers and as many sisters,
among the former being A. P. Adcox,
of Raleigh. He is the first Cumber
land county man to die in action with
the American troops in the great war,
though two ethers have given their
lives on French soil, Gerald Marsh,
killed at Vimy Ridge with the Can
adians, and Thomas H. Kirkpatiick,
colored, who died of pneumonia, with
the quartermaster corps of the Amer
ican expeditionary force last Febru
ary. Van Buren Hair, who was listed in
yesterday's casualty report, as severe
ly wounded, is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Hair, of Elease, this county.
Mr. Hair enlisted a year ago and af
ter a period of training at a northern
camp, went overseas with an engineer
regiment. He is 26 years od. He is
a cousin of Dr. L. G. Hair, of Fay
etteville. The honor of the degree of doctor
of divinity was conferred on Rev. W.
E. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyte
rian church of this city by Hempden
Sidney college at the anual commence
ment of that institution, according to
telegraphic notification received by
the recipient of the honor. Rev. Mr.
Hill, a brilliant preacher, has been
pastor of the local church for the past
year, coming to Fayetteville from the
West End church of Atlanta. He was
formerly a resident of Wilmington;.
G. C. Davidson, principal of the
JFayetteville .high school, has. been
elected principal of the Henderson
public schools, according to a report
reaching here from Henderson, which
states that Mr. Davidson has accept
ed the post. Mr. Davidson is a grad
uate of Elon college and has had long
experience in school work. He has j
served in both the Fayetteville city
schools and the Donaldson military
school here.
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GLEAVES IS HOLDING
RESPONSIBLE POST
Washington, D. C, June 13. Few
officers of the United States navy in
these momentous days are filling posts
of greater importance and responsibil
ity than that held by Rear Admiral
Albert Gleaves, the director of the
overseas transport and convoy ser
vice. To him has fallen the responsi
bility of managing and directing the
transportaton of men and munitions
to Europe under naval convay, and to
him, more than to any other individual
officer, Is to be given most credit for
the marvelously successful perform
ance of transporting hundreds of
thousands of soldiers and shipload of
food and munitions over several thou
and miles of submarine infested and
mine-strewn seas.'
Admiral Gleaves comes from Ten
nessee and was graduated from the
Anapolis naval academy in 1881. In
the war with Spain he won distinction
In comand of the torpedo boat Cush
Ing, and since that time he has been
an authority on the equipment and
handling of that sort of craft.
He is far from the conventional
bluff sailor, and rather suggests the
student, although he .has spent over
23 years at sea. Since 1900 he has
been In command, either afloat or
ashore, with the exception of seven
months as aid to the assistant ecre
tary of the navy, and as a member of
the general board, the high advisory
council of the navy, of which the late
Admiral Dewey was so long the head.
From 1904 to 1908 Admiral Gleaves
was in charge of the torpedo station
at Newport. In the latter part of 1915
he was again given command of the
torpedo destroyer fleet at the New
port station. In this capacity he di
rected the work of the flotilla of Am
erican destroyers which rescued the
persons on the ships unk by the Ger
man ubmarines off Nantucket. When
the United States entered the war he
was selected to pilot the first Ameri
can contingent sent abroad.
Dr. Pritchett at Western Reserve.
Cleveland, O., June 13. Today was
commencement day at Western Re
serve university, when the members
of the senior classes received their
diplomas and degrees and listened to
an address by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett,
president of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching.
grounds. General Thayer adminis
tered affairs at the academy for 16
years and .historians unite in assert
ing that .to .him more than to any other
one man is due the present prestige
of the academy.
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