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Show BROOMSTICKS AS GUNS. TJnpreparedness for war brings about many strange incidents, some .tragic and some amusing. One of the tragic incidents occurred when the Russian Rus-sian soldiers were compelled to fight with clubs and iron bars in the early days of the war after making a victorious victori-ous advance upon the enemy and being be-ing finally routed on account of a lack of munitions. Some of the amusing amus-ing incidents are occurring here in the United States, where thousands of the National army soldiers are using broomsticks broom-sticks because there are not guns enough to go around. Fortunately, this situation will soon be remedied and the real training of the men with real guns begin. It would be tragical if the Germans Ger-mans occupipd adjoining territory, but in that event perhaps we should not have been caught unprepared. We dare say. that never again will this country coun-try go . to sleep before filling tho arsenals and storehouses with guns and munitions of war for use in case of a rude awakening such as we have recently re-cently experienced. Broomsticks may do great execution in the home, but big, strong men look foolish while pretending pretend-ing they are shouldering arms. |