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HR war department Is trying to fln<l way*
a.B-1 means to Increase the number of ca-
det. at th* United States Military acad-
emy. Since the Spanish war, when the
array *m enlarged, there have not been
anywhere near enoagh graduates to fill
the vacancies In the commissioned ra®ks
of the army. The result ha* bee* that
not only has tt been necessary to promote
to the rank of second lieutenant, collated
men of the army who can paae the re-
quired examination, but to appoint each
year to thd service large number, of
civilian..
Naturally enough the war department
official, feel that the eorumUaion-ed offi-
cers should be men educated to the pro-
fession of a soldier. There seem, to be
a pretty general feeling, one hard for
the authorities to account for by the
way, that every man Is born a soldier
and' that the military profession Is th*
only one for which no special training
Is required. Ora. W1 nfield Scott, at the
clowe of the Mexican war. said that If tt
had not bee® for the officers of his army
Who were graduate, of the military
academy the war would have bee* pro-
longed for years. This praise of the in-
stitution and tha men whom It turn*
nut was given by a nvan not a graduate,
and who, therefore, could not Vie .aid to
fee prejudiced In favor of the InstltutVoa.
The course at West Point is a par-
ticularly hard one and a good many ca-
dets are found deficient every year, gen-
erally In only one study. West Point,
however, differs from all other school*
of the world. There they do not strike
an average of studies, taking all tb#
lessons taught In a lump. For Instance,
If a mnn stands at the head of his class
In four studies, but Is a little lilt below
the proficient average In ope study, the
authorities throw him out. whereas In
other schools they would strike an aver-
age and give such a man a high stand-
log
The result of 8\ich a system as this
I. that men who are qualified for the
service In practically every way, but
who may be a little lame In French or
• trifle off In geology or chemistry, are
■eparated from the army to which they might
possibly be a credit if an average of excellence
was struck by the authorities.
It Is quite often the case that men who do
not graduate but who have had several year.’
training at the academy succeed in getting
commissions In the service. There are no
records to show that any man who spent two
years at West Point failed to pass his exami-
nation for a commission after he had been
successful In getting an appointment to tha
army from civil life.
Sonic of tho boys who have been at West
Point, but have not graduated, enlisted In the
United States army In order to get their com-
mission from tho ranks. When a man doe*
ao enlist he may be sent as a private soldier
to a company In which some classmnte Is a
lieutenant. Now It must be remembered that
there Is ft deep gulf between officers and en-
listed men In tho regular army, a gulf which
It Is necossnry to have remain fixed, because
familiarity of Intercourse lvetwren officer, and
enlisted men would lead to lax discipline. It
1. not the case, as some people seem to think,
of an officer being too proud to associate with
enlisted men. The officers of the army hold
the enlisted men In high esteem. They know
that they are the backbone of the army and
they know that on their loyalty, obedience
and courage hangs success in war and the
credit of the army In peace. Every army In
the world has learned the lesson that there
must be a lack of familiar Intercourse In a
■octal way between the commissioned officers
and the enlisted men,
When a young fellow who ha. he.n at
|We.t Point enlists he Is likely, as has been
aald, to get Into a command In whtch one of
Ms classmates may be an officer. Then It I.
that a curious relation results. The enlisted
man meets his former classmate, whom he
once called Bill or Jim and with whom he
possibly roomed as a cadet, ami he must sim-
ply salute him ns any other enlisted man
.would, and pass without a sign of ‘'familiar
recognition." Now this does not mean at all
that Jim or Hill does not wnut to speak to his
former classmate. It menus simply that the
enlisted mnn wants to preserve his own stnnd-
4ng with his fellow Boldlers and does not want
to put Ills former clnssnmte by and chance In
an embarrnsstng position. If the enlisted men
nhnuld leiirn that their newly enlisted fellow
was a former cloasmate and a friend of on.
of the officers they might think thnt It was
going to he a case nf carrying favor on the
ono aide or of showing favor on the other.
The man who I. once a cadet and who enllata
la more careful If ha I* bull! right, and he
generally la, to maintain a proper attitude
toward (he men who rnnk him.
They tell a atory In Washington of a young
fellow who came of rich parentage, hut who
never had been at Weat Point, by the war,
who enlisted In the army to get hi. coinml*-
glon. He attempted lo presume on the fact of
III. wealth and he not only got the officera
down on him, hut the men n« well. HI. lot
was not altogether a happy one. It can be
aald, however, that cases like that of thla
young man are few and far between. The
man who I. willing to enllet In order to get
fell commission. generally speaking, I. of good
•tuff enough to make hint willing to tako
things a. they cornu and to take rather morn
than his share of the duties nnd the hardships
of tha' enllatcd men with whom he la thrown.
Them wm once upon a time n cadet who,
having spent time enough at tho United
Btntcs Military academy to cover a consider-
able part of the course, was compelled by the
government to sever hla connection with the
■rhool he had hoped would prove to him a
fostering mother until the end.
Thla cadet, who shall be nameless because
nf a modest desire to avoid the use of the pro-
noun In tho first person, had a yearning for
military life, and ao a few years after leaving
the academy he walked Into a Booton recruit-
ing office and enlisted, bevernl cla.smate.
%! EDWARD B. CLARK
yP COPYRIGHT'OY WsA.,PATTCR50f
aid several other army friends knew of tho enlistment and
told the enlisted one prior to his application for admission
to the service to strike out for a commission, and, above all
things, not to let any of the enlisted men, or any of the out-
ers who did not know him, have knowledge of the fact
that he had been at the military academy, for otherwise they
might think fee expected favors.
The advice was needless, for whatever else the recruit
Intended to do he desired that bis service should be per-
formed on the same level with that of every other man In
the United States army, but the truth Is that thla determl-
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ANNUAL LOSS IS ENORMOUS
nation and Its carrying out
led to some complications
, that had humor enough at
the tlmo even though they
lose the’ humor because of
lack of power In the story-
teller.
This cadet recruit was
landed at David’s Island, New
York harbor, where there
were 700 other recruits un-
dergoing Instruction, and a
green lot they were. The cadet was turned
out for squad drill with five other recruits, not
one of whom knew enough about soldiering to
keep his heels together. A talj, raw-boned
Irish sergeant with tho euphonious name of
O'Bald win was In command of the squad. He
liegan to explain the position of a soldier. He
found thnt the recruit, on the right of the line
«1 really was in the position of a soldier. The
truth was he couldn't help himself.
O'HaldwIn eyed him critically. "Fall out!"
he snld.
Tho onetime cadet fell out. "What regi-
ment did ye desart from?" Raid O’Baldwin,
pleasantly.
"Thi* 1. my flr.t enlistment," answered the
recruit, and In answering lie told the truth,
for a cadet Isn't enlisted.
"What company are ye In?" asked O'Bald-
win. though he knew perfectly well, for hi.
own bunk wa. not three bunk* removed from
that of the recruit.
"D company," answered the queried one.
and that', where he made tho ml.take of hi.
Ufa. ,
That apparently simple answer proved con-
clusively to the sergeant', mind that he had
an ex-regular before him, for all the national
guardsmen would have answered "Company
D” Instead of "II company." The regular who
would spunk of his command a* "Company D"
would be considered deserving of the guard-
house foe a month, for to put the letter after
the company save when It Is written I. to the
army man the height of things unmllltary.
"You go to your quarter.; we'll look Into
this,*’ said tho Rprgeaut.
Tho recruit went to his quarter. «nd half
an hour l.ter the flr.t sergeant of the outfit
sent for him. The "Top" opened the conver-
sation cheerfully with a query ns to what regl
mont the recruit had left In the lurch. Find-
ing thnt he was bound to he considered a
deserter, the unhappy one took tho hull by
the horns thus: “I «m serving my first enlist-
ment In the army; I never was In the ninrlua
corps and 1 never aw the Inside of a na-
tional guard armory."
"Evi>r bee* In one of them private mlllt.ry
school.?" asked tha "Top.”
"Never."
"Go to your quarters."
In another hour the recruit was given *
rifle and cartridge box nnd belt nnd was or-
dered to turn out with ths squad of recruits
who hs«l advanced far enough In ths school
of the soldier to receive lessons In ths manual
rtf arms. Now a. n matter of fact the recruit
knew tho manual of arms ao welt he couldn't
hnv* hidden his knowledge IP he hnd tried.
This time there was another sergeant In
charge, Ills eye took In the way the recruit
on tho right handled his piece and executed-
the manual.
In lees than n minute the sergeant ordered
him who was showing such proficiency lo step
to tho front, and ordered "place rest" for the
remainder of tho squad. Then turning his
attention to his victim, he snld: "We'll try the
Imynnet oxerclso a bit. Guard!"
Tho recruit came down to "a guard" po.nl-
hly with ns much precision and In probably
ns proper stylo ns (ho veteran sergeant had
ever seen It done.
"Passing yourself off for a recruit. It's *
fraud you are. Get to your quarters." And
the recruit went to his hunk again, knowing
that he was In deep disgrace.
About half *u hour later be heard two old
LJNB DRILL . tV£-J>T PQJfiT CRDDTS
soldiers talking outside of the barracks win-
dow. One of them said to the other: “There’s
a cuss In there who ain't never been In the
marine corps, nor In the mllisby, nor In the
reg'lars, nor to one of them military schools.
The sergeant says he's either a blankety-blank
liar or else he larnt his soldierin' from books,
which ain't likely.”
That night Just after "tattoo.” the first ser-
geant appeared and told the recruit that the
company commander wanted to see him at
once in the orderly room. The recruit went
to the presence of the commissioned officer
and stood attention as he had stood attention
as a cadet a thousand times before. The cap-
tain looked him up and down. "1 understand,"
he said, “that this is your first enlistment;
that you have never been a national guard;
that you have never been a marine and that
you never attended a private military school."
The recruit acquiesced wtth a respectful
“Yes. sir."
"About face.”
The recruit made an about face, and tho*
at a repetition of the command, again faced
the captain, who was grinning.
"Go to your quarter.,” said th* command-
ing officer.
The recruit went and In ten mlnutea the
top sergeant was there, saying; "You can’t
fool the old man. You’ve been made a lance
corpornl and you go on guard as corporal of
the third relief tomorrow morning."
There ar. a good many officera In the
United State, army today who .erved for *
while at the military academy as
cadets, but who were compelled to
stay five years at the academy In
order to get their commissions, hav- 1
lng been "turned back” Into the
class next below them either for
deficiency In studies or for breaches
of discipline. If General Sheridan
had not been given another chance
after he had engaged In a little
affair which was considered a
breach of discipline while he was
a cadet the wonder is who would
have been the right-hand cavalry
leader of Grant during the Civil
war.
A few months ago Gen. Hamilton S. Haw-
kins died. He entered the military academy
some time prior to the opening of the Civil
war, but the authorities did not allow him to
graduate. Hawkins was not discouraged by
the failure and as soon as the Civil war broke
out he offered his services to his country and
was given a commission. He Btaid In the reg-
ular army until the time of his death and so
strong was his love of the military academy
that before his death he asked that he might
bo burled In the cadet cemetery. It was Haw-
kins' custom each year when he could get
away from his command to visit the school
where he had spent three years of his boy-
hood. He had Just as strong a love for the
Institution as did any graduate In the army.
Recently there has been a disposition on
the part of the graduates of the military acad-
emy to give more consideration to the men
who spent some time at the school, but who
did not graduate. One class organization In-
cludes In Its membership all the cadets who at
any time were members of the class, and no
distinction 1. made between graduate and non-
graduate, even the offices of the organization
being open to men who did not complete the
couro*.
Other class organizations are said to be
preparing to follow the example of that of the
member, of 1884 and if the custom of taking
Into full brotherhood the non-graduates be-
come. general the belief I. that good will
come to the academy and the country.
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Two Hundred Million Dollars a Year
Might Be Added to Wealth
of Country.
Computing that there are In th*
United States at least 300,000 Indigent
consumptives who should be cared for
In charitable or eeml-charltable sana-
toria and hospitals, the National As-
sociation for the Study-and Preven-
tion of Tuberculosis estimates that
the annual cost to the country for the
treatment of these persons would be
$50,000,000 at the rate of $1,669 per
day per patient. At the lowest pos-
sible estimate the country loses $200,-
000,000 a year from the incapacity of
these Indigent victims of tuberculo-
sis. This would mean a net saving of
$150,000,000 a year to the United
States If all victims of consumption
who are too poor to afford proper
treatment In expensive sanatoria were
cared for at the expense of the munici-
pality, county or state. And this an-
nual gain does not Include the enort
mous saving that would accrue from
the lessened Infection due to the seg-
regation of the dangerous consump-
tives in Institutions.
He Knew the Kind.
Little Edward, aged four, was an
only child. He was anxious for a
baby sister, and was talking of It one
day with a friend of the family. In
the friend's family was a baby girl of
one year. The lady said: Edward,
you may have my baby; she U pretty
and sweet.”
*‘Oh,” said Edward, "I don’t want an
old baby. I want a bran new one wlf
noffln on but tacum powder.”—Red
Hen.
1 Statue of Liberty Grafters
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If the visitors who paid good money to *
soldier for the privilege of climbing up tha
steps of the statue of Liberty had only known
about the sixty second article of war they
never would have graduated from the dead-
head class on a reservation belonging to Unci*
Sam, the New York Herald snya. A. It Is,
under the last general order from the war de-
partment two soldiers who levied tribute are
doomed to penal servitude for their specula-
tive enterprise.
According iq the army nrdera, Axel T.
Holm, a tlmt-clns. private of G company, viff-
nal corps, and Edward A. Bngnall, of (fee
.nine grade and command, organised * syndi-
cate for the exploitation of the French evi-
dence of friendship for America, which, fol-
lowing tha actual language of the order, oper-
ated. as to Holm, after thla fashion: .
"He, th. said Holm, did designedly and
fraudulently obtain money from certain via-
Itora to tho statue of liberty, fee. for the privi-
lege of going up Into aald statue, by know-
ingly making falae pretense, that such fee.
were necessary."
And a. to the «nt*.jvtotng Bngnall:
'That h« did knowingly assist In fraudu-
lently obtaining money from visitor, to tho
stntuo of Liberty by acting n. a 'lookout' with
(lie duty of actually giving warning to tho
man collecting tho fee. In case an officer were
approaching."
All of this, according to the charge, and
•peclficnttou. upon which conviction waa made,
and approval then passed, violated the alxty-
second article of wnr. In the ca.e of Holm the
department orders his dishonorable discharge
and hla confinement for two year, at Fort
Leavenworth. Hagnall get. off with reduction
to the grade of private, four months' confine-
ment and the forfeiture of $13 a month. He
will work kl. sentence out around the base of
th. statu*, cleaning up such Utter ae the trlb-
utoleo. visitor, see fit to make.
The evid.uee showed that the two men ar-
ranged a scheme to tax all vl.ltora ten cent*
a head for the pleasure of ellmblng to the head
of the goddess, with the ever burning torch,
and the story was printed exclusively In the Her-
ald at the time. While one of them look In
the toll the other lingered about to give the
collector a Up If an officer chanced to be heart
log down upon the poet exchange. Capt. D. J,
Carr, commanding the poet, I. very proud of
thla pretty show station, nnd he broke up the
game Just as soon aa he found what waa In
the air.
•TRIKT TRAFFIC OF PARI*.
There are nearly half a mllMon home, and
motor vehicles of all kind. In Faria today, with
30,000 hnnd cart, nnd 0,000 wheelbarrow., In
1909 05,870 accident, were caused In ths Pnrlt
atresia by 81,808 vehicles. These statistics are
contained In a report drawn up by M. Emile
Mns.ard at the request of the I'arle municipal
council on the Incumberment of the Paris
atreeta. Ono of M. Manna^d'a rnleulatlnne
showa that the street truffle of Paris, If sta-
tionary, would occupy 445 ncres of the 8,079
acres of streets which Parle possesses. Last
yenr $00,000,000 persons traveled hy nmnlliuse
nnd tramway, and there were 294,000,000
•angers on tha underground railway,
spoils News.
The Ready Theorist.
“You see," explained the scientist,
“house files are dangerous becaus*
they carry germs on their feet.”
"Ah!” exclaimed the ready theorist;
“then the remedy Is simple. . All you
need to do Is to make them wear over-
shoes and leave them on the porch
when they come In."
The Real Thing.
“You eay your husband waa cut by
hla neighbors at the party?"
“Yassah, dat's so, sah."
“Did they cut him with malice pr*-
t*nse?”
“No, ash; wlv a razah, Bah."
By a patient loving endurance of
annoyance are we preparing our-
selves gradually for the discipline of
trials.—E. M. Ooulburn.
The only way to learn to do great
things la to do small things well, pa-
tiently, loyally.—David Starr Jordan.
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Hungry
Little
Folks
find delightful satisfaction in
a bowl of toothsome
Post
Toasties
Whao tin children want
lunch?- this wbaiasom* nour*
ishipg food is always ready to
serve right from the package
without cooking, nnd saves
many steps for mother.
Let the youngtera have
Post Toastieu—superb sum*
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