COMPARATIVE COSTS OR SOLDIERS.
France has 19 soldiers for each 1,000 of population, Russia
has seven, Italy six, Great Britain and Japan five, Germany has
1.64 and the United States comes last with 1.24.
The per capita cost to the people is in proportion. Every man,
woman and child in France contributes in taxes $22.33 a year to
the support of the French Amy. In the United States the per cap
ita cost of the Army is only $2.20. These figures show greater
contrast when it is realized that the United States Army is better
maintained and paid than other armies. On the basis of French
Amy costs the cost of the American Army to the American people
would probably be little more than $1 per capita.
The range in other countries is from one soldier to each $90,
OO1^ of national wealth in Japan to one1 soldier for each $250,000
of national wealth in Great Britain, Then comes the United
Stated with one soldier to every $2,500,000 of national wealth.
SALUTING FCR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM,
A question that often arises in the Army is that of saluting
when the National Anthem is played.
The paragraph which covers the matter, as it stands at present,
is as follows: If in uniform, covered or uncovered, or in civil
ian clothes, uncovered, they salute at the first note of the
anthem, retaining the position of the salute until the last note
of the anthem. If not in uniform and covered, they uncover at
the first note cf the anthem, holding the headdress opposite the
left shoulder, and so remain until its close, except that in in
clement weather the headdress may be slightly raised.
IN ADDITION TO HIS OTHER DUTIES.
A young officer recently assigned to the regiment had been
assigned several different jobs, all of them in addition to his
other duties, and finally one day an order came from headquarters
assigning him as Post Exchange Officer in addition to his other
duties. He immediately went to headquarters and requested per
mission to see the Colonel.
Stepping into the Colonel's office and saluting smartly, the
young officer said”* "six, ^ have a request to make”, "What is it?
asked the kindly old man. "When I die I hope the Colonel will
L wo printed on my tombstone, "Died, in addition to his other
duties". The young Lieutenant was relieved of all duties and
is now driving a milk wagon. Exchange
A MATTER OF RISING IN THE ARMY.
"Your wages will toe $21.00 per month", said the recruiting
officer to the prospective young soldier.
"Will I have a chance to rise?", asked the would-be.
"Certainly", was the reply. "You’ll hear reveille every
morning at 5:30 promptly [I #
. SAFE GROUND.
There are indications that the pendulum of putolic opin
ion has swung away from a dangerous pacifism toward the safer
grounds of sanity and reason. If this toe so, as all patriotic
Americans will hope, the protection of our military establish
ment may yet toe saved for the next generation of Americans#