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Show I t ItM ,J A.NLJCANOIFCERSCT 7..AUa iN CCU.Th P.cSCkIP.ION TH2 t nrr KJ.i D, n DECLARES FAMOUS ENGLISH MILITA iV WOK Dr. T. M Her Maguire Says That West Point la lnc?!ii(:arab! Superior to S&ndurst, Wl.e.e Eritiah Cadets Are EtUwiiBj Cne bt Cur Correspondents Obta.rs an Inu.vi.w Wnich is Likely to Mae a Seniat.on in Eng.anj Coinmitsiona to Your.y Sweiis ivno Are So Lack-nin Ir.teiiijencs That They Are of Incapable Receiving the Ordinary Canitcn Instruction Hunilialing Proof That Eng'and Haa Piohtrd Nothing by the Costly Le.sona of the Boer War Her Public Schools Are Declared to be Hotbeds of Snobbery, Where Intellectual Culture is Unfashlor.ab'e and Games Take the Pla--- of Learning If There Should Ever bs a War BeUneen tiia Two Countries Dr. Maguire Preoiwi That England Would be "Flattened Out Like a Pancake. IHEN "O'J have a dif cul: prcscr ptlon cr on? ! Much-Vaunte- d that Is to bs os:i la a s ricus case of lines', bring it to us. We liU every prcscript on Copy right, Wo I. By Curtis Urown. able to write a good letter or to draw cordiug to an lUhcial report, were London, Dec. 20. At West Point the up an intelligible itwui. That this la found lo be Vi waning in clou, cm-ar- y to u- incapable uf reeducation exaggerated staicuu-u- t 1 can vucii. I'nlted States his tl.e best training no 1 have had uiUrcis cuute to be fur inthe ordinary garrison lust rue school for army officers in the world. struction rich men's sous and former ceiving lion. Many of , therulnie, had lo It is incomparably superior to our pupils of our much vaunted public have recourse to the regimental schools who told me they were achooluta-Ter- s t.l r.utcdy the detects military school at Sandhurst. which had It is the fact that this statement was ashamed of being dependent na others of expensive fur them and left them Ignorant to write their ()f the simple made to me by Dr. T. Miller Maguire, show them howreporta to perform their branches of learning that are obligawhich makes it peculiarly interesting duties. tory in the higher grads classes of and gratifying, fur titer here Dr. MaNO IMPROVEMENT SINCE THE the board achon!, as wer term our five schools. Surely no more humilBOER WAK. guire It is of law hr is a Doctor is accounted aa much an authority on all But the Akers-Douglrrixirt waa iating report was ever lssut-- atioul the that pertains to militaiy education made mure than two years ago. officers of an army, as Edison is with respect to electricity. things have been improved since $tuly them Napoleon appraised the relative valHe hae made it a life ue uf brain power to one. Taking At his 1 suggested. study. famous private academy in Eaii's Court "Then have not improved a bit, said into acconut the enoruatus strides that square he hits trained more pupils for Dr. Maguire, decisively. "In some have ainre been made In the appltca army staff examinations than any mili- respects they are even worse than they tlon of science to war, laird Roberts tary coaen in the Vnited Kingdom. Just were then. If anything cuuld be more now estimates it as ten to one. And before I called he had been engaged in humilating than that exposure of lira yet wo continue to bestow commisdelivering n leeture on the Virginian contemptibly inefficient training and sions in the army on men who are not as it is wri.tcrv Exactly - That is why so many .doctors direct thwSr patients to bring prescriptions to us.! t;..-iu- WM. DRIVER, THE DRUGGIST. as iJ HOLIDAY t e GIFTS For Younj and Old ti fl'iVsVV' tmtaadUi: . -- : Perfumes .French, English and erican Odors. Am- Toilet Cases and useful Handsome Manicure sets. All appropriate gifts. Mirrors Purses H. CARR, Druggist. eJ .Cfoo FOR HOLIDAY 7 rt- - PRESENTS Go To j i 1 AS OKI HST. BXGl.A.ND'S GKBAT MILITAH COLLBGB. invalii s Is fai lalnte S That at Wait Mai. Wklefc Us lAi Un campaign of the American civil war. Lo:d Wplaeley has spoken of him aa "une of the auleat lecturers on military history and the art of war we bave in England. Lord Roberts has extolled hia military knowledge in equally flatter Ing terms. He had been talking about the state of the British army when ho startled me by the remark quoted, for while Americana a:e proud enough of the fequipment and organization of their navy, they have a general notion that with regard to their army they occupy an inconspicuous back seat. In what respect is West Point so far ahead of the great English military school? I asked him. WEST POINT LEADS IN EVERYTHING. i 'In everything that couuts lor effand iciency, he repued promptly, there la not n geneiat lu me British army who takes his profession seriously, from Lord Huberts down, who la not aware of it. The course three aa at Sandhurst, and tha training la far more thorough and severe, being based on a profound appreciation of the requirements of modern warfare and the demands It makes on cultivated intelligence. The dicipline is rigid and the penalties for offenses are inflexible. Social distinctions are not tolerated. Rich men's sons and poor mens sous stand on the name level. Each la made to feel equally that shirking- of duties and neglect of studies ia fatal. From the start the West Point cadet is mpjreased with the idea that keenness in al (things is essential. Unless be is thorough and efficient and capable of passing the verv high standard demanded at y examinations be is disthe missed. Muddling through la impoaal- half-yearl- SMALLEY'S n ! ; Ladies and Gents. The 11 neat selectloa la the city. T. ; j See yourself aa others ere you. Ebon and oak styles 4 Dl kUlulr Stain Tkat tot Tralalss gross ignorance of many of our military officers It ia the (act that, although moie than two years hava since alapsed, nothing has been dona to remedy tha defects pointed out. In an address at the Wooldlch Academy which, Royal Military though much inferior to West Point, ia considerably ahead of the Sandhurst institution delivered n year after that report had been published. Lord Roberta complained that the examinations candidates war showed that the 'strangely deficient' in 'spelling, knowledge of tha English language and map reading.' To properly appreciate tha significance of this censure it must be understood that Lord Roberta waa addressing young gentlemen who bad ceased to be cadets and having passed the enhance competitive examinations were about to Join tha commissioned rank a of the British army, it would be utterly Impossible that such words could ever be spoken of West Point graduates. For such gross Ignorance of rudimentary branches of learning they would hava been dismissed long before their final examinations were reached. It was stated In a leading Journal recently that in general education and capacity board school boys are far superior to the average Ktoa, Harrow and fashionable school buys. If the latter schools be not speedily reformed or abolished tue richer classes of England will aoon be decadent. We have profited nothing by tha numerous 'regrettable Incidents' of the Boer war that were ao largely d"e to the incapacity of commanding officers. Only a few dsys ago General Hutchinson issued a report on tba examination for promotion of officers in the regular army which reveals a state of ignorance among many of the candidates ND WE WILL NOT ONLY GUARANTEE YOU THE BEST OF BUT GOODS, GUAR-ANTE- YOU MONEY B SAVE TO ALSO. All Engraving SMALLEY, Twenty-fift- h Street. fcTox iolUue. tub most hkxuwuji ok kaglaxus rnti.ir t(iioui.s liar of lfe Pupil of This In; It ut Ian, W'b Strlnf Commission Is tbs Brills A raj la lull la. Vie Pond So DrfllrlMt la Biidlmenlux Educstlon as to B InetpsM of OoniprrbMdtBf tbs (lui rim Instructing fnr liBrvrs. Tb View Is Taken (rag tbs FIs? Inf Field, Wbn, AeesrdUf ta lb I,When rsniau Snjlna FaMf Ascribed to We Your Work Wa want everybody I n Ogdon nd vicinity tq see p sample of ur ' work. We know It'a tha best want you to know it. May our wagon. calif Phona Wa , pc' postal ua. A Wa Wes.1 . Laundry East of Reed HoteL Phone No. 174. MONEY LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE lout Real Estate and Chattel flrwlce quick, confidential and No commission. private. WESTERN BROKERAGE CQl Those 914-s-. 321 4 EocJes Bldg .j in the United States Army. Not only is the training au spied to give him tha knowleuge necessary for the proles ion of arms, but what is equally important to develop the necessary character. It la because these two things are so happily combine at West Point that I rank it even higher than Germanys military training schools for officers which, as mgards efficiency, approach nearest to it, thaugh Baron Summeyatsa haa given me a full statement of Japaneae education that startling In Ua aplrlt and excellence. , Very different, unfortunately, ia tba state of ffalre at Sandhurst, which U practically n preserve for rich men's sons. Its condition was revealed In Comthe report of the Akers-Dougleduthe consider to mission, appointed cation and training, of officers of the army. Their report showed that csdeti bad little Inducement to work in-at Sandhurst and instructors little ducement to teach. Moat of the milito tary text books In use were found be antiquated and obsolete. There was no Insistence on n high standard of aa proficiency. To get through with little trouble aa possible was the dominating Idea. Neither wasas regards the trainknowledge or character ing of the kind necessary to produce competent officers. n Chief, sal a the The Commander-ias diawt-isfle- d himself expressed has report, with both the technical and tbs and general education of the offleera, it Is that many witnesses hire statedofficer un-- 1 no uncommon think to find as Address t Wetsrle Accomplishments and courtesy that can only be characterized aa dissod msmy exemoce are preierreq to graceful. General Hutchinson slates that bad spelling and inability to exwily, boyibli games. It ia conceivable that n duffer press themselves clearly wire the fallmay get into vvesi Puiui by way ut ings of a large number of them. Many of them showed that they were unfit noiniuBUOB or omerwise, though ami geograpny are ouuga.ury, uui for the duty of instructing offletra gnd men owing to it ia hboiuieiy iiuposstDle turn a dulinler can come out o) it as an officer being themselves insufficiently nis-y- of you have the satisfaction the knowing you are getting very bent launoiywork that anybody can do. fa stylish. It's wall done In very respect and above all it'a dona without the wear and tsar that It receives at moat laun-drla- . Tb Battle Wellington, ,ble. Do Ogden Steam lama Want MlUtnj only Ignorant of all adentlfio knowledge, but likewise of the very rudiments of au ordinary education. The officer class is not t obiame. it has Glamored lor general and technical education for the past fifteen years, but social Influence! and false economy are agalnal any reform. THE WORST SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD. . The truth Is, our fashionable English public schools are about the wrest lu the world. Useful studies are neglected for Lstin and Greek, aud even these are 111 taught. The schuols are hotbeds of snobbery. They kindle no desire for an Intellectual life. Uaciva alone are pursued with enthusiasm. Their ordinary products are tha moat ignorant and uninteresting mm of social position from Toklo to Budapest and thance to Saa Francisco. Compared with the graduates of American colleges and universities, they are aim-pl- y not in it " But bow about that famous saying of Wellington's wa hear quoted ao often: The battle of Waterloo waa won on the pitying fields of Eton? I am certain tint Wellington never said It," answered the Doctor, for he waa n truthful man, and no man could have known better the titer falsity of such a statement, Wellington, fortunately for himself, spent .only a few months at Eton. He trained for entrance info the army under a military coach at Brussels Nona of his famous gene, ala were public school products At an age when Die youths of these institutions are neglecting their brains to acquire proficiency In football or chfcket they were mastering the art of war with their reglmcta ia actual service. There never was a great aoMiei or a great man of any sort who wa distinguished as a young man by bis devotion to games It la the cnlt of decadence: it represents tha abasement of intellect Lest it ba thought that I am too severe on our public schools let me read you some things that A. C. Benson, himself an Eton mauler lias said of them: 'It must be frankly admitted that tne intellectual standard maintained at Vwr end. the Enslih public action what la more serious, I do not sea any evidence that ii is lend.nq lo bnci..e 3C QC3Q O 0 000 0 3C t THE MORNING EXAMINER REACHES MORE PEOPLE over the Rural Free Delivery routes in Weber County than any other paper in the stale J J IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE It ia the Paper that reaches die Farmer and the city people ADVERTISE IN U IT n Hrher. My own belief is that a gAod many boys bave tbe germ of intellect uni iiie iu them, but. that in a good many cases It dies a natural death from Unless a buy is very inanition. FREE I4S Bat structed The General deplores Ibe fact that officers ttfegkct to keep their military knowledge up to dale by reading and atudy, a men in other professions bave to do. He describes the results of the examinations lu military engineering, tactics and topography as Indifferent, the candidates generally falling to appreciate the situations in the problema given them to solve, the majority of them ignoring the enemy or giving him credit for little intelligence. HUMILIATING IGNORANCE OF BRITISH OFFICERS. It is appalling to reflect what disasters such lncompatency as Is here shown would lead us into if wa were engased in a war with a first class Power with Russia, for instance, for tha possession of India. . "It should be borna n mind tht the sliortcomlnvs to which Gevral Hutchison calls attention Indicate not mere, ly defective military training, but In pe feet elementary education. The report. therefore, constitutes quite as much sn indictment of our swell public schoo'n Eton, Harrow, Rugby and each places where the classes from whom our officers are drawn ra cMeTy educated as of tbe Instructions where they receive their professional training. Owing to tbe shortage of officers caused by tbe casualties of the Boer war, many young gentlemen graduates most of them of these public schools received commissions without passing the usual examinations. In India large numbera of them, ac-- keeuly Interested in Intellectual things his interest is not likely to survive in an atmosphere which Is all alive, indeed, but where intellectual things are, to put it frankly, unfashionable.' AMERICA COULD WHIP ENGLAND. The degradation of education which ia fostered at' these institutions, the doctor continued, is vitally connected with the question of army efficiency, because a desperate effort haa been made and I still being made to limit tha selection of officers to candidates from certain swell schools and universities. It haa bees abundantly demonstrated that many members of the Cabinet, and manv of the War Office authorities, too, would prefer as offleera wealthy idler from fashionable schools, who would display hopeless incapacity in war, to able men wbo have been well educated at private day schools or by private tuition. c all the costly lessons wa have received aa to the vital need of scientific training for our officers, the Advisory Board 'dons and Army schoolmaster, as Lord Roberta contemptuously termed them persuaded . ie Etonian Secretary of War last February to agree to a scheme of education which la a marvel of Incompetencv The enursq would have tha effect of keeping our future officers at big boarding ecboola until they ..re 19, and by a subtle arrangement securing that rudimentary Latin or Greek shall take the plaoe of sclenre nr general history, in other words, providing fur another crop of regrettable Incidents' in our nxt big war. The fact is . our ruling classes products of the same system of defective education and men for the moat part quite incapable of earning their own livings in any indu-trior commercial pursuits are hopelessly incompetent for the government of the Em plie. Man Air min., the members of the American Cabinet are graaly superior to our. They are practical men who have demonstrated their ability by achieving success in buslnrss or profoa-lona- l life before they received their hlrh appointment. You pay them only g,000 a year each. We pay onra three times as much.. Yet when Eiihu Root comet over here to setle the Alaska boundary question be easily scores over our officials. If. after America has brought her Navy up to the high standard which she alms at. we should ever have tbe misfortune to go to war with her ' De-pit- al high-salari- ed ooooc c c which God forbid! aha would flatten ua out Ilka a pancake. In view of tha startling eharanter of this exposure of tha Ignorance end In- competence of tha average British army officer and tha defect of hia military training. I submitted tha above in tervlew to Dr. Maguire before sanding it te yon. It baa received hia full approval. He expressed the hope that the comment elicited by lte publication is Amurire wrrmld produce some affect in arousing the authorities hare ta the need of instituting immediate and sweeping reforms. E. LISLE SNELL MADE AUT0MOBILI8T DAMAGES. I BEGIN IT RIGHT PAY TO Paris, Dec. II. During a summer in an automobile Uarence Bray Dinsmors, a prominent member of the American colour and a member of tha American Automobile association overturned n peasant's car, injuring tha owner. Tbe provincial court has Just condemned Mr. Dinsmore'a chauffeur to fifteen days Imprisonment aad 96M damages. tour United States Army transport Thomas sailed for Manila, via Honolulu, and Guam, She carried a larga number of pss engers, among whom were Brig, General Moore and Major Flehiger who San Francisco. Dee. 30000 DC DC 31.v-T- he You Jo. tnnr mbits ily nt it TIub is I it while you tin? ; Ttere b ia time to stop ini lot scare t policy on Slit, Moines Life Plan Do It mm! m-la- ill in pent Camp McKinley at Honolulu, The troops on board Include MO men. for tbe Fifth, SSth and Mth hnttcrie. field artillery, 904 recruit!, n will rigU . w ed 350 infantry and 74 cavalry, and tixty-on- e members of the hospital corps. Plymouth, Dec. SI. Arthur F. Duffy, the American sprinter, arrived hare today Just in time to eatch tha atoam-c- r Artola, on which, In company with Alfred Sbrubb, tba Engltah runner of the South London Harriers, ha will go to Australia, where they will participate in the principal sports of the season. Duffy's first race will ba at Melbourne February SL John L. Herrick, Slate Manager. Castmot teed Itctel |