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Show 1HE PROVO POST excellent training of hla officers and of rust quantities of service'' ammunition. lie is trained by cum ( panics and b.ittalious. not as an army But if you u cccd la making a reg ular army of --T.O.nuo men and half or, them ai.d a fourth again, thus becoming professional solVII. The Nation Should Have One diers for life, you have removed a large Army force of adult males from faking any part in civil occupations. This is un-- ' Our Officers, Says Freder-- Plattsburg Military Camp democratic. bad sociol Last . Summer Did More ick Palmer, Are Among ogy. For a Man Than the NaIn Europe there are no professional Best Trained In the World, soldiers except the officers and the tional Guard Does In Five but Are Kept Idle Rifle noncommissioned officers. Every man Years. Not Obsolete. after he has served his time returns to civil employment If Jhere be advantage in the discipline and physical i By FREDERICK PALMER, who has rifle bullets which are cracking all day training he receives its application is hen only official rape antatlva of tho i long over the parapets of the trenches, nnlvereaL Thus the army is tbe naantir American preaa with the aJilee. which pick off any soldier who. care- tion, ita blood, sinew, character. Copyright. 1915, by the Wheeler Syndicate. 1 lessly puts up; bis head. We must The German army is renewed every Inc. have machine gtjns. but that does not two years. Every year half of the pri' iW N Europe universal service each mean you can do without infantry. - It vates return to their homes and half rear brings its big draft of new Is the infantryman who takes and start in as raw recruits. Germany with J recruits who must be trained. The holds a position. One man cannot her hard and fast military ideas reauthorities require that the plant charge a trench single handed drag- quires only two years to make a solbe kept running at full capacity and ging a machine gun. He will immedi- dier suitable to the ideals of Prussian . the officers kept busy. But when a ately be killed by a sniper. Thousands adaptable, energetic, quick learning ef . young American officer goes to a poet must charge. Those who survive and militarism. We think four years are be finds that out of those alxty-flv- e reach tbe position must hold It' necessary we, who are the most men In the company of which be is a adaptable, energetic, quick learning of Good a Making Infantryman. second lieutenant many are all peoples! If this Is ever One result of this war has been a invaded it will be bettercountry ed men who know their drill already. to have a half There is nothing to be gained in drill- change of opinion as to the time it million men in a composite force who ing them further. The officers work takes to make a good infantryman. have had a years service than only becomes necessarily more or leaa per- Some of the German volunteers who 200,000-- who have had anywhere from i V had received no previous training were four to sixteen years service functory. or a milAn American officer rarely has any in action three months after they bad lion of a. hybrid organization of four chance to take that company out in enlisted. Perhaps they were not as kinds of troops. For you must have maneuvers with thousands of other good as the first line German troope at numbers. The day of the short hat- - men and learn actual war conditions. which gives the European officer con-- 1 the lEKsansH t)M Europes Battle Front Lessons , $ . i , f 1 The greatest epoch in the worlds history placed oh the motion 'picture "screen. Pictures such as jou have never seen before ami never can 'see again. THERES Usual practice and keeps up his ambl- tion Tbe American has to treat his soldiers very gingerly. He has to make life very comfortable for them. He must not work them hard. Why? they are hired. They are in the army more or less because existence Is easy, without long hours or hard work. They get their 17J50 a month .And a good home. If he wants to put "them out on a long march or digging i trenches he finds he has made the .army unpopular.- - Desertions will follow,,, .Congressional complaints will pour in on the staff. What Is the use? The directing force of tbe most efficient Industrial plant In the United States would soon lose spirit under such eoodltions. jOwnOffieara Net Allowed to Grew Up. Our officers have tbe brains, the possible rudimentary training, but they4 are never allowed to grow up. Congress keeps them In leading strings. It pays them well and refuses to allow i them to make an adequate return to itbeir employer. Why? Because for generations busy brains have been, weaving webs of red tape, making more Jobs for clerks. --Wbatris tbe object of the red tape? .Mostly It is to prevent peculation. We go on tbe principle that an officer of the United States army can be prevented from the grafting only by keeping him under espionage. If be spends 5 cents be must account for it on different forms, which cost five times 5 cents. These are checked off by clerks ; whose labor costs ten times 5 cents. But tbe honesty of tbe United States army survives in spite of such distrust It survives in the sense of honor taught at West Point the honor of the service. European armies hold officers responsible for tbe efficiency of their comPhotos by American Press Association. mands and allow them some latitude of as as well of In time peace authority IF YOU THINK RIFLE OBSOLETE EXPOSE YOURSELF BEFORE AN war. This .Is true no less In demoENEMY'S TRENCH GERMAN SHARPSHOOTERS PLATTS BURG cratic France than In Germany, and no CAMP, WHERE MEN RECEIVED INTENSIVE TRAINING. one considers .France as a militarist nation. The test of an army, however of the war, but they cer- - tie front Is over. Should as enemy large or small, is ita readiness for war. the outbreak won encomiums from the Ger- ever land in tbe United States with tainly Our Assay Must Be Standardized. man commanders. In England the' 400,000 or 500,000 men he will cover a If we beep an .army ef only 10,000 new army recruits made excellent sol- - j battle front of anywhere from 100 to see want the best possible results dlers In three months- .- They were so 200 miles. - Any small band of regufor tbe smallest .expense. These we good In six that some officers spoke of lars, however brave, must be surroundmay not have with three different them as overdrilled and stale. It ed and outflanked. kinds of , troops regulars, national was the want of rifles and guns to Ths Nation Should Have One Army, guard ahd volunteers. Borne trained, support them which kept them back ; And have not one army? why Why some balfv trained, some worse than contrary to general opinion in Amerl-- 1 not start It on the basis of wbat we untrained, they would be iberded to- ca. The new army men represented already have the regular army? If gether in time f war to be called an the intelligence and the application of a Frenchman serves three years and French in .the an net but army civil life. They were used to working a German two, army, we serve should why or German sense. No staff eneartb eight hours a day and modem war is four? The reason the French. serve . Is clever enough to 'organize the herd business and work, work, prork which three is not that a Frenchman is unInto homogeneous force on short no- Is from two to three times that of oar able to learn bow to be a soldier In tice. Such medley is a violation of army soldier, wo would not less than three years, but because tbe v w" tbe first principle ef organisation. The regular be had to work eight They, smaller population of France if enlist staff" would be ' marked for public put their Tacks Into It, for they had" longer service In order to haverequires a first come out to fight for patriotism. clamor, the soldiers for slaughter by line of adequate size. v modern military machinery. If we compart them with our naSuppose that, aside' from the men In Europe the? have learned by hard tional guard, what do we find? That who enlist in the fegulars to get the experience, as hare the men In our in- thenational guardsmen, being Ameri- pay, a little adventure and A comfortadustrial organizations, to stick as simple cana and therefore quicker and more ble life, we include men who enlist principles, in Franca and In 'Ger- adaptable, ought to learn faster.' Bo for patriotism, training and experience many there ls only one kind of ftsoopa they would, i But In one year the na- Many a young man who had nevar so many regiments of Infantry and tional guard gets less drill than the thought of becoming a professional oo many of cavalry and artillery in new army got In ten days The new soldier would come in if be knew that tho standing army, trained to an even - army drill was continuous. It was car- at the end of a year or even six quality of efficiency. Thus a earn- ded out in the fields under something months ha could receive his discharge mander knows what to depend oa; the iilke war conditions. With the very lat- with the recommendation of n board ztaff knows how to organize the caa est teachings of the experience of the of officers aa having filled the requiref ' paign. trenches at the call of the instructors; ments. If ou put 100,000 young men : train while every Europe Again, Our national guard drills on Srrhory through the established regular school, ablebodied man two or three years and fleers. It Yet' almost no chance out In an unexcelled school, with its forms Insists on only one kind of soldiers In the open except in Its summer camps. set. then you would have a real rewould stmt tnrwtth'snw" One national guardsman and an able serve Those who like the soldier's one srtny.-w- a oral kinds.- In defense, where yon soldier, too, told me he learned more life and wish to remain regulars would must stand repeated shocka ef concen- ins mouth at Plattsburglast summer form the trained nnclens and become trated surprise . attacks pf superior than ho had learned in all his five tbe material for noncommissioned offn timbers Against chosen points, this is years In tho guard. Again it is not icers drill Sergeants And corporals overwhelmingly essential, and our mil- tho fault of the national guard; it Is They could go on if they itary policy, tike that of France, must tho fault of tho system. Wo go around chose. . They might form oar garrisons be defensive. In Panama and in the- Philippines. Robin Hood's barn to make a soldier. To another point. There has been a A young man. having served hla In tone! floldisrs Europe. Ne Prsfs good deal of loose talk to the effect year, might be promoted for another a When people talk of regular army that the rifle ia becoming obsolete;, the service as e commissioned offiyears machine gun haj taken Its place. No of 250,000 they wBl please answer 'the cer. Thus you would have started reto tbe we are get one ever bears that on tbe actual front. question. Where serve forces of officers. Then, once In defense the machine gnn Is inval- men? We have to advertise an4 plead the telegraph instrument began clicksome take and 100,000 to pretty get uable. Until it Is put out of action by In Washington in case of danger, ing physical types. A regular has both reserves artillery it mows down an infantry poorserve and officers and men is he If s and for four to years, But if any one thinks that charge. each knowing where would respond, to he la expected the day of tbe rifle is past let him ex- man of character he was to got as every French and to But nation. it the his word pose himself a thousand yards in front keep custom not to not be- German officer and man knew In of tbe enemy's trench first making has become a 1914. A great army would form not we are cause patriotic, but because bis will. In five minutes at least they itself automatically a single army unbecome has situation accepted tbe of the rifles sharpwill get him the der a single staff. At any rate, as the - the indifference of tbe public. shooters wBl. At 500 yards they will throughmost businesslike people in the world, automatic an excellent becomes He is ths It mlnnte. get him in half a soldier, an excellent shot, thanks to the let ns get down to business. For the wonderful efficiency e -- - , 1 -- - - , fi L?'-vy-'F m1M e pictures of war as it really' happens Fjghting Fronts of Euroje. . Men .bein&jnoweil down like chaffIJue d leLkburstuig, in air Inf antrvattack-""" ' ing fortress Gennan cannon reaping wholesale death. , r. Remarkable, vivid, awe-inspirin- g on-tb- 7 L . . COLUMBIA fJatinee2:30 10c Thursday , June 29 th Even)n0ec 72l0:30 Eighteen persons were wounded: There were no foreigners tmoa ; them, however: No trouble occurred at Colon. One Panama June 25. Serious rioting occurred in the city of Panama to- man was killed in the province iff day on the occasion of the elections. ChlriquL RIOTS OC?. BREAK OUT AT PANAMA POLLS ALX VA, 3$ 7 - THE CROWN PRINCE. Appearing In the Mutual Special Fea ture "The Fighting Germans THE FIGHTING GERMANS" Coming to The Columbia . Thursday, June 29. , FIRST ACTUAL BATTLE 8CENE8 EVER FILMED! The first adequate idea of what real war ia like is obtained in the Mutual special 'releaser The Fighting Germans, which comes to The Columbia on Thursday. This is a complete and detailed spectacle of the Teuton armies engaged in the important' campaign which' led to the demolition of the strong fortifications of Ivangorod. It shows the actual bombardment of this stronghold in all its phases and aspects. The only views of the big Austrian Skoda guns ever photographed by a motion picture camera are shown In this picture. These escaped the German war. office, censor who had planned to destroy them. - The big guns, which require sixteen trucks to haul, two days to assemble and which fire a 700 pound, shot twenty . miles, are shown being mounted, loaded and fired. . Then the devastation accomplished Is seen by means of the telephoto lens with which the cameras , were equipped., .. . All the technical arrangements controlling tbe operations of heavy siege artillery, including the observations taken by range finders in captive balloons, Is also seen. There Is more actual fighting in these pictures than in all the other war films put together.-I- t stands by Itself as tbe most accnr-tiand 'vivid" recorff br modern war- fare and if it could be preserved a century, would be the most remarkable historical document in existence. -- Ad-gu- 1 vwwaji The Delight of Children The inner flavour Post Toasties bear a unique attraction for the kiddies they even like them dry from the package for their eats-thlunches. 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