“ Nevertheless, Secretary Baker stands convicted by evidence, collected from many sources, and chiefly from his subordinates, of ill-considered, precipitate judgment, of failure to plan on a large scale and to grasp details, of incompetent direction of agents, of confusion in execution, of mistaking helter-skelter hustling for achievement, of having little understanding of co-ordination, and of being satisfied to accept information without verifying it. ”

“ No man of his attainments had previously spoken, through the Senate committee, to the American people about the management of the army by the War Department since the United States entered the world conflict.
If General Gorgas could have commended the hygienic conditions and the hospital facilities of the camps and cantonments, or even found excuses, (not reasons,) for omissions and shortcomings, he would have done so with great satisfaction. He is not a destructive critic, and as a scientist he is farseeing and fair-minded. ”