Show MILITARY PROMOTION it la Is now plain that the law which bich makes a private la 16 the U B S army eligible for promotion to a commission after two years service whoa lie ho to Is ablo able to pass par a factory competitive compell liTO examination Is 1 a wiss wine one when it woi was before boford contreas Con groin greas it was wa prod doted that it would attract many am bilious young men of good character and an d flue fine ability to enlist in the army for the purpose of trying to become commission officers officer that a private in our army could feel as R tho the great napoleon once said of tory every private in his bis army that he ha carried a Maisti als baton la in br big knapsack ln in other words that it is i for him to become becom a commander of the army it if he possesses po the proper army officers say ay that this law has liu already made ft a marked markoul improvement in ia tho the kind of men who enlist enllie instead of a majority of the applicants for enlistment being mon men aho vho have their unfitness for other occupations either irom from laziness or other habits they are young mon men who adopt the profession because of their love for it and who enter it with tho the de stion toma to mitote kelt it a lifetime occupation we have had two striking illustrations illustration of this abl in washington Wath lugton within a short abort period only oaly a low weeks ago a young man mail from baltimore who Is ia wealthy educated and upon military manners manner enlist ed ad in the cavalry co valry brunch branch of tho the service for the purpose of entering the examinations for a commission its aboon soon BI as he bo had served ong enough to make mak him eligible and more rece a aly a young washingtonian who lacked tho political influence to got get an appointment to in west point and who was wai at the iha buot luot at school session captain of the prize drill company of the washington high school cabets cadets in the infantry bran branchi cli of 0 the service with the same ame object in view so bo long as an we have to maintain a standing army however small mall it to la greatly to bo be desired that it should be composed of 0 young men of this stamp the great ereal drawback to this law la Is the alsa ati position of the west pointers to look down upon their aiho nh ohavo have risen from the rauka kg but bat time will probably bo be the beat cure for that as aa tl it Is I 1 arraut arrant non senio to claim that going to west point makes a man bian better than his hi follows |