Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-24 | Page 35 | Voluntary Salute to be Substituted

VOLUNTARY SALUTE TO BE SUBSTITUTED Action Is Taken as Significant of Abandonment of Many Obsolete Customs. TETROGRAD, June 23. The substitution substitu-tion of the voluntary salute for the compulsory com-pulsory salute in the Russian army is significant of the abandonment of a number num-ber of iron-clad and obsolete customs in Russian military circles. One of the most characteristic of these was the Kmperor Paul's famous regiment of snub-nosed ! men, who were all brigaded together as a sort of compliment to their sovereign, who was a snub-nosed man. The Russian army In the old days frequently fre-quently collected together into regiments men unhappily distinguished by cert:i hi classes of physical do form i tics and idiosyncrasies. idi-osyncrasies. Thus there were regiments of men all badly pock-marked or all bow-legged bow-legged or all slightly hunch-backed. At coronations it was an army custom that at a certain stage in the parade soldiers sol-diers lining the route, at the word of command, blow their noses with titanic violence, lest they should sneeze as the emperor passed and so bring him misfortune.