Show much learned through war war Is abhorrent but it has at least one innocent use says the philadel phia public ledger it la an efficient educator tn geography war teales te aies this branch of education with more in terest and thoroughness than the most accomplished professor in his classroom and on the other hand it Is urgel by many eminent military men that an accurate knowledge of geography Is necessary for successful warfare the art of war ana geography are in intimate association the latter Is called the handmaid of tactics and strategy so important Is the rela alon ot geographical education to war that the london times has opened its columns to the discussion of the sub eject one of its correspondents in true british fashion says that to think imperially with any profit we must think geographically the technical importance of geo graphical knowledge in war and the importance of thinking imperially toay not appeal to the american read er but there can te no question as to the educational value of the dis patches and accompanying alons chronicling the movements of armies on the war scene and describe ing more or less minutely regions and peoples of which the reader has had very limited and imperfect knowledge recalling conflicts within easy rec the south african and the spanish american wars were great educators no one who followed these wars closely as gazetted by tha newspapers could have failed to learn much respecting africa spain cuba the philippines and porto of which he was previously ignorant the pending titanic struggle in asia has produced a deluge of valuable in formation geographical political so caal respecting russia japan and manchuria quite apart from the in tensely dramatic features of the war the school books are always years behind that universal school master the live newspaper the mass of in formation and permanently useful in presented in the voluminous war correspondence is one of the as evidences of modern ress and of the development of the newspaper s function as p popular ed the dally newspaper faithful to its trust is the world s best text book in many lines |