Ephraim Enterprise | 1915-03-06 | Page 4 | Uncle Sam's Star Pacifier

I NL SAM 1 5 I I J. lf f j I I 7 7 i iI I f A I. I l s. s I r i iF Rf 1 t i to I r J t i 1 i. i FROM io u t r ll A 4 L EN HUGH L. L SCOTT was Just getting get I. I ting the chair of chief of staff of the y I J army comfortably warmed when the theother theother they y t other day he was hurriedly disc dispatched dispatched dis dis- c patched to fth the Mexican border to persuade persuade per per- suade the turbulent Mexicans to take C their civil war out of Arizona's front yard That's always the way Scott never gets well 1 started on an army job anywhere but what he is yanked yanked away to go somewhere and do some someI I pacifying He is Uncle Sams Sam's star pacifier r 1 I skinned Dark-skinned people whether they be Mexican t f or straight Indian or Cuban or Filipino take to toi i I him as as children take to a f fond nd uncle S SameS Some Same Sometimes me tit S times he has to lick them first When he does r c he licks them thoroughly But that is only on I i rare occasions As a rule he has them eating i o out t of his hand within a week IV io Two years ago with a lifetime of experience t behind him he went down to the Mexican border t as colonel of the Third United States cavalry 1 i There he remained until last April when he 1 came to Washington to become assistant chief chieft t 5 of staff and a brigadier er general Only a few it weeks ago he moved up to be chief of staff r. r t Those two years on the border made him obviously ob R the man to settle the new trouble that thata a I has arisen All through his army career he be has made it a rule in all problems with which he be has had to deal to study the personal equation So he studied the personal equation of Pancho Fancho Villa for one and of Benjamin Hill the Carranza general who has been making most of the recent f fuss near Naco Ariz He came to know both bothi i men well and they In turn conceived a profound profound pro pro- found respect for him and even a sincere a ec- ec tion His hold over them is said to be remark remark remark- able It is admitted admitted that no man living knows the American Indian more thoroughly than does General General Gen Gen- eral Scott He has fought the Indian and conquered coni conquered con con- i him him- but many times more moxe he has reasoned reasoned rea rea- Boned with him and conquered him even more J completely The pre-eminent pre master of Indi Indian n sign language the author of standard scientific J works on American ethnology General Scott is ia quite as well known in the field of scholarship f as in his profession f Lacking political influence or powerful friends S General Scott was thirty years in the army before before be be- fore the country at large came to know his name at all His work remarkable as it was was done out out of the public eye He did not have the theral ral i. i I fac himself But faculty of pushing forward in recent recent re re- cent years the reward has come Promotion so so long delayed while younger m men n leaped over his head has been rapid And now he be heads the army Observe him at his desk in hi the war department department depart depart- v ment meat his torn bullet hands shy several fingers f busy with the multitude of papers presented to 0 him giving his orders in gentle genUe conversational l tones his appearance his manner his attitude t precisely the same as when he was a major of the line those few years ago modest democratic i kindly The erect head the keen searching eyes I I y S the strong jaw proclaim the man who Is master t himself of fit for command S S Curiously the dependents of Uncle Sam know r him even b better than the civilized folk know him With the Indians of the West and with the savage say sav r age peoples of the Sulu archipelago the name of Scott is held in reverence Their faith in him 4 Is absolute their devotion unswerving 4 Away back in 1891 when occurred through all the West the last serious Indian outbreak I when in some mysterious manner the Indians t. from rom the Canadian line to the Mexican border suddenly fell feU victims to the Messiah craze went 1 5 to ghost dancing and left their reservations for forthe forthe for i the war var path the grim jest that was bandied about through the army posts ran The United States army is holding down the Indians in the Northwest Scott is holding them down in the Southwest It was generally admitted that Scott did the better job of the two i Every since then whenever the Indians anywhere any anywhere 1 where get restless and trouble starts both tile Interior department which has jurisdiction over overt t r the Indians and the war department set up the cry Send for Scott I Experience has shown that it is far better cheaper and more efficient to put Scott Scotton on the t l I. I 5 5 5 iIi j job o b o 0 of f bringing peace to the troubled troubled trou trou- bled Indian souls than to send out a squadron of cavalry caval caval- ry as was done in ancient days B Back a c kin in 1908 when Scott was serving as superintendent superintendent ten den t of the military academy at West Point the Navajos in New Mexico and th the Mexican Mexican Mex Mex- I x ican Kickapoo in inA A Arizona r I Z 0 n a started trouble Scott was yanked away from West Point sent among the hostiles practically al alone ne and presently the trouble w was s all aU over AC Again in in 1911 1011 co v. when the he Hopi Indians in Arizona flew fiew the track Scott went down and brought them back Only a year ago when more of these disturbances disturbances disturb disturb- an ances es started t this is time in the Navajo country Scott cott had to leave his cavalry command on the Mexican border and adjust a matters These are but a few instances How does he do it Because he knows the savage and the savage mind He lie knows how the savage thinks He has the ability to put himself in the place of the savage Brothers he begins when he has to do with witha a band of Indians who are war dancing tell me what troubles you And straightway they tell him of this wrong they have suffered at the hands of the officers appointed over them of that indignity which in their opinion has been put upon them My h haart jart bleeds for you he tell them I grieve that this trouble has been made between you JOU ou and the great father at Washington whose soldiers soldiers are as the leaves of the trees I do not want them to come among you and kill you Is there not some manner in which we can adjust the differences some way to restore the friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship between you and the great father who wishes you well And then they get down to a settlement One of General Scotts Scott's ancestors was Benjamin Franklin the Franklin the generals general's mother was a great- great granddaughter of the immortal lien Den It would appear appear that some of f the genius the philosophy the diplomacy and the conciliating powers of this the first American diplomatist has descended descend descend- ed upon the new chief of staff But like old Ben Den whose phrase on the signIng signing signing sign sign- ing of the Declaration tion of Independence We must all all all' allhang hang together or we shall hang s separately sepa separately sepa- sepa pa is immortal General Scott knows when to abandon pacific measures and to fight So it was when in 1903 h he became governor of the Sulu archipelago he determined that this was no time and no place to brother the belligerent belligerent belligerent bel bel- natives The Malay mind he mastered as he had mastered the Indian mind A licking first and afterward plainly was the course marked out for tor him And such a licking he gave them Then came the he task of breaking up the slave trade in n the islands of the archipelago Alternately Alternately Alter Alter- and punishing Scott achieved his his purpose He wiped out slavery ab ab- ab- ab And when in 1906 he came to leave the people wept Here was a man they could understand aman d a man whose word always was kept They asked through their chiefs that he remain to rule over them but his tour of duty was ended Back Dack he he- came to the states to instill other lessons as superintendent of ot the military academy acad emy at West Point for tor a period of four years Adaptability that is one of his qualities He HeIs Heis Heis is adaptable because he knows men civilized men as well as savage men Is it any wonder they made him a doctor of the humanities Seldom does it occur that a young officer just out of West Point Point Ua a as the army knows such an officer officer gets gets his baptism of fire within a few weeks of his graduation Scott Isone is isone isone one of the few ci Born in Kentucky in 1852 he was graduated from West Point In the class of 1876 That summer Custer Custer Cus Cus- ter had gone out with his regiment the famous Seventh cavalry as part of General Terrys Terry's column in the expedition against the Sioux Custer and five companies of his command were cut off and wiped out to the last man on the Little Big Horn river in Montana Scott and a r of other graduates of his class were hurried West to take the places in the regiment of those killed He Joined his regiment at Fort Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri river in Dakota territory and he with five other officers slept their first night in the room formerly occupied by Custer Then to the field Through all the Northwest country the Indians were in arms The Seventh was sent down the Missouri to disarm and pacify the Indians It was bitter trying work a mixture j ts rr 3 r a a 5 a ai i H v jf i OF or ZED N of pacific and warlike measures here her e a tribe to be won to peace by palaver there to be whipped Into docility As his fellow fellow officers cers tell it- it Scott had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been in the field twenty-four twenty h hours o 0 u r s when he became fascinated fascinated fascinated fas fas- fas- fas by a study of the Indian Indian and particularly particularly par par- of ot the Indian Indian In In- dian sign language He was forever talking talk ing n with the Indian prisoners learning from them gaining an insight into their mental processes The next year year year- 1877 came 1877 came the Nez Perces s uprising in and that wonderful wonderful won won- retreat of Chief Joseph from Idaho 1500 miles through Montana and almost to his goal the Canadian Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian line Howard and Gibbon pursued from behind Mlles Miles from the east attempted at at- tempted tempted and and finally succeeded to to head off the wily Indian strategist before sanctuary sanctuary sanctuary sanc sanc- could be found in Canada The Seventh Sev Sev- Seventh cavalry was Inthe in inthe inthe the front but just before before before be be- fore Joseph and his band were caught at Snake Creek and just before that two day battle in which Joseph Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph was was forced to surrender Lieutenant Sc Scott tt was detached for special duty In 1878 Lieutenant Sant' Sant Scott's Scotts and part participated regiment ci mated was in the at Camp Robinson Neb f expedition Then until 1891 the young Cheyenne the plains fighting fighting fight fight- on continuously officer served And presently learning Ing and studying and Indian authority acknowledged he became the the ghost dancing craze in the army So when sent alone to do the of 1891 came along he was work which ordinarily a column of cavalry to do and do-and and he did It would have been called upon You have heard of old Geronimo the famous who the government so Apache warrior gave much trouble in the days when the Apaches were on the war var path in the Southwest Well General Scott and Geronimo for three years came near being buddies You see after Lawson and Wood and the rest of or them had brought in Geronimo and his band of Chiricahua Apaches the problem of ot whit wha to todo todo todo do with them was difficult Finally they were held as prisoners at Fort Sill and in 1891 General General General Gen Gen- eral Scott was sent to take charge of them He lie remained on that duty three years 1894 Here was a first-class first ethnologists ethnologist's laboratory ready to hand a bunch of the wildest st Indians ever assembled on the continent herded together er unable to get away offering a fruitful field for study and observation The keeper and the kept became fast friends and the Indians imparted imparted im im- im parted all their plains lore to o the but extremely military person who had them in rand land Thep naturally General Scott was ordered to Washington for duty in the division of military information and assigned to the bureau of ethnology ethnology ethnology eth eth- in the Smithsonian Institution where he proceeded to write his famous report on Indian sign language language- But then came the Spanish-American Spanish war General Scott closed the door on that portion of his mind devoted to abstract science and opened up the military section to its Hs fullest Once more mor he was the figl fighting cavalry man As Ludlow's adjutant general he went to Cuba and presently after the fighting was over he was adjutant geni general general gen gen- eral to General Wood commanding the island For three years from 1898 to the evacuation May clay 20 20 1902 he was General Woods Wood's right hand man manIn manin manin in doing In Cuba that historic work that has reflected re reo d so much credit on the nation Higher in rank now he was just as eager and enthusiastic in his study of the Cuban people as ashe ashe he was in those days of 1876 away off oft on the Northwestern plains in studying Indians And as General Wood tells tens Jt it vert much of the success of Am American r c n administration in tho Island was due to the thorough understanding of of or te tie people possessed by this working hard-working adjutant and to that adjutant generals general's sympathetic attitude attitude atti aUf tude toward them Then to the Philippines as major of th the j Third cavalry went Scott there again to justify his reputation a ak as t the e greatest little pacifier In the army Equally apt in pacifying with a machine gun and with sympathetic acts and words Scott once more demonstrated his many It Is given to few men to be able to shoot up upa a country and make the people like it Scott Is Isone isone isone one of the few He did that very thing in the C