Show Military Department If our £ood friends of the Universal Peace Society will kindly pause and consider the condition not the theory that confronts them we who are supposed to represent the military element would like to get in a word or two edge-wis- e cid Rvery sensible vilian or soldier deplores the fact that wars still appear to be unavoidable in our day Put the remedy surely cannot at present lie in abolishing our army Human nature in the individuals that make up a nation must be reformed before wars 'an cease No one will argue that rowdyism and crime can be by discharging all the policemen of our cities The only sen right-minde- sup-nress- ed sible course is to keep in good shape what army we need until the time comes when armies can really be dispensed with We hear at times wo(principally from short-haire- d d milmen and men) that arouses and fosters itary training the fighting or brutal instinct It does not make a man a bully to be able to defend himself either with Ins hands or with weapons We believe there is not a particle of truth in our peaceful friends’ claim Vherej will you find a gentler better natured aggregation than the members of our football teams who are used to fhe giving and taking of the hardest kind of blows? (In fact warfare as carried on in the Philip- long-haire- |