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Show CV"-f.nce and Team Work. Only ii! a few American homes is prompt obedience required. Only to a llridted tcevee Is the habit of prompt obedience cultivated In the school. The boyS have done something to cultivate the Spirit or team work ty their voluntary volun-tary athletics; but only minority get ihis training. Organized industry does something to compel uan. work, but not much to Inspire it. Corporations and labor unions do something to develop de-velop it, but it is team work for a vjlaas, not for the community. If. is not easy to conceive of anything wh.ii I would do more to develop these two needed virtues prompt obedience and team work than universal military service. General Wood tells us that in this country the murder rate is 124 per million; in Switzerland it is 12 per million. What is the cause of this difference? One cause is the Ameri can vice of self wll!- What is the remedy for this defect? One valuable remedy would le the soldier's habit of respect for authority and of regard for the comrade at his side, OutVvik. |