Show THE SAME HERE In one respect Great Britain is like the United States She never is ready when a war is sprung upon her There has to be a world of unnecessary expense in getting read ready a needless sacrifice of If lives and loss of property and the forcing of her soldiers to fight against heavy odds Just now in parliament Lord Roberts is urging the time drafting and training of one million men and pointing o out t the total redness for the defense de do- by the time governments of India and Eg Egypt pt But the impression in England is that the great veteran soldier Sollier is too cautious and pessimistic that there really reany is no gl great eat danger The he chances are arc three to one that none of his ideas deas will be accepted and and ani acted upon The feeling apparently is that there will be no trouble from within in those countries and that the fleet will take care of an any enemy approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap by the sea It is the same way in our country we have only sufficient ships to patrol one coast and tenths nine-tenths of the time young men in the country yes country yes one ninety-nine-one hundredths of our young men men are are growing up without any m military training or an any knowledge of how armies are arc marshaled marshaled marshaled mar mar- or even how a sanitary military camp is pre pro pared Should a war come the situation would reveal that we had taken out practically no insurance against it and there would be the old hysterical scramble the same mistakes to be immediately followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by the oh ole needless loss of life and property |