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(’OliDoYA. ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1015.
CAN WE TRAIN ARMY OFFICERS
Tn about every war wherein the United States has beer
involved, one of the great handicaps has boon the lack oi
trained army officers. From the Revolution to the little affaii
with Spain this want has been apparent. Tt has sent mam
gallant soldiers to their deaths, not a few by reason of prevent
able disease. It has prolonged strife in several instances. I
has made war, which is always terrible, more terrible than il
might otherwise have been.
This great nation can get volunteers, enlisted men, in vasl
numbers if cause for their services should arise. Given good
physiques, common sense in taking care of themselves and a
knowledge of how to shoot, and such an army becomes formal
able in a much shorter time nowadays than ever before. Gom
beyond any revival are the old-time maneuvres, tactics, formal
drill and all the fussy technicalities of former wars. We hov<
only to look over into the European trenches to perceive that
the whole art of war has changed. In a few months the United
States could gather a dangerous force of fighting men—call it
an armed mob” if you like; it could fight neverthelesss. And
it could fight to tremenous advantage—if properly officerer.
There’s the rub.
West Point does admirable work in turning out officers,
but it does not turn out a fifth part of enough if a war were to
be forced' upon us. Its student body should be increased.
Meantime the government is on a new tack, and one that
ought to prove of much help. This is to take the form of a
volunteer training camp for officers, to be held at Plattsburg,
N. Y., from August 10 to September lfi. New Yorkers are
taking much interest in it. More than 200 business and profes
sional men, among them well-known Wall Street bankers,
lawyers and brokers, have already signified their intention of
taking the month’s training that the government will provide.
It is the belief of those behind the plan that 1,000 men will be
in attendance when the camp passes to the command of regular
army officers on the morning of August 10.
There will be a lot of fine and instructive work for the
citizen aspirants for military knowledge. As each man reports
he will be assigned to a tent. A blanket, mattress, mattress
cover, pillow, cot, mosquito bar, and necessary bed linen will
be issued to him. The recruit will then be ordered to get into
uniform.
From the start the formations will all he military, and in
the first 24 hours army officers will give informal talks on the
purposes of the camp, sanitation, and personal hygiene. On
the third day of the camp the permanent organization of the
companies will be affected. After the company organization
will follow the formation of permanent squads and platoons,
and the preliminary work in marksmanship, close order forma
tions, and the mechanism of extended order.
As the days pass the exercise will become more and more
involved, the problems at first being those dealing with patrol,
in the working out of which the civilian soldiers will probably
be pitted against picked detachments of regulars from the
garrison at Plattsburg.
When the camp is disbanded certificates will be issued to
those who have taken the entire four weeks’ course, and in the
event of a national crisis, it is believed that they will all be
eligible for appointment as second lieutenants in the volunteer
army.
This will be intensive training, of course, brief and con
centrated. But no one can say that it will not be worth a great
deal if continued year by year and in many states. At any rate,
it begins to look toward' the filling of a great need.
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THE MAKER OF MEXICO
The final sepulchre of Porfirio Diaz will be the City of
Mexico. He died in voluntary exile in Paris, hut the resting
place of his bones can be nowhere else than the soil upon the
western continent where he established a new nationality.
Until he was called, or assumed without calling, the domi
nation of that country, Mexico was prey to ineffective revolts
against Spain; the land was torn in pieces; it was in a way the
victim of internecine warfare. There was nothing in its then
condition or its future prospect but anarchy.
Peace came to Mexico when Porfirio Niaz forcefully arose
and grappled the warring elements. He compelled the support
of the factions left from the Santa Ana regime and as a revolu
tionist at the head of Indian fighters from the north lie made
an end of the Juarez rule.
It was peace under a dictatorship; hut Diaz made evident
that this was the only policy that would preserve Mexico for
the Mexicans. He made himself the absolute tyrant of that
country, but only through his wise exercise of tyrannic j>ower
could Mexico have been lifted out of the slough of antagonistic
factions.
For 35 years Porfirio Diaz, in his controlling personality,
was the republic of Mexico. There was an interim, in which
Lerdo came to the front; then he was almost unanimously
elected to the presidency; and when, in 1911, the Madero revo
lution sent him into exile, flowers were strewn in his path as
he walked between rows of bayonets to the wharf where he
was to take passage, never to return.
Were Diaz in Mexico today, would he not hold the solution
of the unfortunate difficulties of that land! “I look to Porfirio
Diaz,” said Elilm Root when Secretary of State, “as one of the
greatest men to be held up for the hero worship of mankind.”
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
We must really be more careful in the future. Every time
we protest against something Great Britain is about to do,
Great Britain cites an American precedent for doing it.—
Chicago Herald.
The automobile has proved itself a worthy successor of the
toy cannon.
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Bishop Hughes is another thinking man who believes tha
love of country is a commendable quality, in spite of a grea
deal lately put across by sob philosophers to the effect that al
flags should look alike to us.
The religious organizations that are praying for peace an
at least having as much success as the diplomats.—St. Loui;
Globe Democrat.
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i As the war goes on, international law shows a greater am
greater tendency to retire to the dignified seclusion of tin
dictionary.—Chicago Herald.
An experienced aeronaut asserts that the ninth day of tin
moon is the most rainy of the whole 28 and 4 o’clock ii
the afternoon the rainiest hour of the day.
The dictum remains a pretty good sort of dictum: “Ti
. keep out of war, keep out of the war zone.”
Alfalfa, they say, will cure indigestion and the blues, bu
who wants to be a cow?
Men in “high places” are safer today in an airship thai
on the ground.
Krupp subscriptions to war loans look suspiciously lik«
rebates.—Wall Street Journal.
Tf it takes the sultan a long time to pack his trunk, w<
advise him to begin right now.—Charleston News.
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