Show IX 1 WU At t a time when there thoro Is much talk talk of oC enlarging the standing army of the United States a letter leUer of oC n a correspond correspondent ent of the New York Evening Post on tIme the life of oC the United States Slates soldier Is I of much From hi his It appears as If It would bl b more sat eary to improve the conditions of the arm army wo we have tae than to Increase the number And the writer In the Post Pall may be on that subject As n a war correspondent lie he has even army lif both nt at home bome and In I Cuba and the Philippine and ho he Is en entitled entitled titled to flit an impartial hearing heMin The correspondent lit in the first place Calls attention to th fact that the aol lire are not provided with pack animals In support ot of this ho he quotes Q em letter from a war correspond I eat nt In China In which the experiences of Uncle Sama boys bos are arc graphically As the sun lIun rose rOBe higher ond the tho fierce rays heat beat down on the men the cruel blanket rolls roll weighed welchel tons ton and the sweat rolled down don and soaked the khaki suite and amI dripped on the burning earth oarth thIng seamed to matter matler and Ind the Inca cursed and earth and the lie am ceIs tn and the nation that t sent them Soon th h weakest reached his limit and out nUt on the sand aRnd A ned lied Cr Croes s maii maim rod rode back and saw that the am ambulance ambulance picked him up Then twos and threes fell out and 1 a halt bait had to be i called The men muttered and swore Sortie were too far gone Ione to swear they lay IllY like animals gR for Cor breath and suffocating In that burning aIr Then Than thc Iho order came to throw away RR hat could not be carried The Irea great n blankets went first Some I dogged dogge spirits thinking of the raid old nights still clung desperately to their loads Others threw everything away but tIme the canteen and and who ho have carried that and Ind II a gun under nn an eastern sun lIun know that heaven healen made nade mul mules and ponies to carry what 1 a milan Inon needs and his strength will vIll not bear the ChInese plains are thou sanda of miles from Washington The Themen Won men will lilt under their loads or sleep cold null and at night while the Chinese Oodles who picked up lbs blan blanket blankets ket that 18 lay dotted on our trail will LI n au Warm and as 11 the lu l In Washington ton who ho do not nol care Uncle all wont IJU pack p ok ant male milia to bear benr the loads that kilt kill the men menTh menThe The Th mon must mut be pack animals and men In one Tile The result Is that the they are arc neither Tho throw away aAY their parks and become suns truck lUnAtics before the time Ume corn comes to de deploy plo ploy and taco the thc enemy And this he be says Is no new nel story In Cub and the art familiar with It The remembrance ot of long days of monotony In camp III poes RIIA away but tUt few of If tile the thou thousands sands ad who cho hao It will 11 ever er turret furget that on em and on tinder tindera A sun that to burn the lIh and grill rill the bon bones Tile The eyes ee are aNI coals coall Ule brain reele but the man must MAu America go 0 on until ht he expects her lier soldiers to combine the functIons of lighting men and pack ant ani mats The writer next call attention to tb the enlistments for Cor a rlou campaIgn this system too 00 many join the army merely for tite fUn of or It II It 21 attracts too of oC R a bail Till ThIS accounts for tb the us un usual number of punishments by martiAl and the of drunken drunkenness n ness II Iii that arm army is Ie for or purpose but that It should b 4 if t the ery belt bat material and properly equipped point Mint mad b by the writer Is that Ihen are t day a number of veter veteran ler nn an 1 t tile tue Civil War who after aUt 1 a lang faithful hive have not the to which such them The They should be belI lI va retired on n a suf coin lAt This would serve fOre as a Altton of their and It woW clear the h way on the higher ot at dl the ladder for it a number of man who bo also alao have claims upon ll he lIaU It t be admitted that tb the point are weta taken The rb of oC an am arID army II more Important than numb It wouW be lvell olt for the of t the American people to I Ua when the Ih army up for In this Ulla coult annot hi be tilt the h ii In iii Europe ery soldier un ever everIt It r d costs COllie n times that ot of IlL a warrior An Amer Amert h t 11 fl amI tn In I t I the tho French or uld be ILl 1 Ien ten t I tile the c c flut I a small I qu pre pIt Lit I 11 path paid arm army Will WillI I lit for alt 1111 purposes In time ot oC peace while It ld III for f or In an er Cf nuCleus for a larger fIghting force should war be creed upon ullOn the The Tb matter I is ot of the to tory Ier clUsen and sit u to thoe un on whom wheat the fInancial burdens of Ih time government always fall |