Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ivaldancing clubs over dates at the Tivoli Hotel ball-room. On all controverted questions there was butone court of last resort. As an Isthmian poetasterput it: See Colonel Goethals, tell Colonel Goethals,Its the only right and proper thing to do. Just write a letter, or even betterArrange a little Sunday interview . Engineer Stevens in a speech made at the momentof his retirement before a local club of workers said: You dont needme any longer. Allyou have to do nowis to dig a you want is astatesman. A statesman wasfound and his finding
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ivaldancing clubs over dates at the Tivoli Hotel ball-room. On all controverted questions there was butone court of last resort. As an Isthmian poetasterput it: See Colonel Goethals, tell Colonel Goethals,Its the only right and proper thing to do. Just write a letter, or even betterArrange a little Sunday interview . Engineer Stevens in a speech made at the momentof his retirement before a local club of workers said: You dont needme any longer. Allyou have to do nowis to dig a you want is astatesman. A statesman wasfound and his findingexemplifies strikinglythe fact that whena great need arisesthe man to meet itis always at hand,though frequently inobscurity. MajorGeorge W. Goethalsof the General Staff,stationed at Wash-ington was far frombeing in the publiceye. Anyone whoknows his Washing-ton well knows thatthe General Staft isa sort of generalpunching bag forofficers of the Armywho cannot get ap-pointments to it,and for newspapercorrespondents who 162 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. are fond of describ-ing its members asfusty bureaucratsgiven to lolling inthe Army and NavyClub while the Armysinks to the level ofa mere ill-orderedmilitia. But evenin this positionMajor Goethals hadnot attained sufficienteminence to havebeen made a targetfor the slings andarrows of journal-istic criticism. As amember of the Boardof Fortifications, however, he had attracted the attention of SecretaryTaft, and through him had been brought into per-sonal relations with President Roosevelt. Of course when a man has made good every-body is quick to discern in him the qualities whichcompel success. But Roosevelt must have been ableto discover them in the still untested Goethals, forwhen the Stevens resignation reached Washingtonthe President at once turned to him with the remark,Ive tried two civilians in the Canal and theyveboth quit. We cant build the canal with a newchief engineer every year. Now Im going to giveit to the Army and to someb
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