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Show CHARLE8 HUGHES' ' j AND PREPAREDNESS , , Tboso who may have hud some iDlsconcoptloir about tlio eminent re-stectablllty re-stectablllty of' citizens' training rjimps have had a worthy example unqxpectediy presented' wlth'ln the past' few' days. ' ' ' So dispersed was tho' family of Charles Evan Hughes, u the time of his nomination for President that etily one young daughter was present pres-ent with her parents when tho momentous mo-mentous announcement came from '.Ihlcugo, Aothor daughter was on a camping trip with girls and tho other had left homo to take a lesson, les-son, little Incidents which show the simplicity of tho family's homo llio. Thero was no brilliant assemblage of persons prominent in social and odlclal circles to glvo eclnt to on occasion oc-casion of so great distinction, ns would havo been qulto natural nnd entirely appropriate, It- would havo been nn exhibition of pardonable prido If tho futuro President hod gathered his children about hint at uuch nn hour. Where was Ills boh 7 Sure enough! Whgro was Ills son? Ills only son, Charles E. Hughes, Jr Is a lawyer In Now York City. Neither waB 'ho under tho paternal roof when tho father fa-ther was nominated for tho highest olllco In tho gift of tho peonlo. At thn selfsame hour Charles E. Hughes, Jr. .was al the Plattsburgh military camp, tho same kind of (raining camp (hat Is to ho established establish-ed at Tort Douglas In Salt Lake, on August. Whllo occupying n scat In tho supremo su-premo court of tho United States Ju dicial rectitude required that Mr. Hughes abstain from discussing political po-litical questions, especially those, that could have been construed ob (ho Judicial brunch of tho federal government publicly criticising the executive branch. When freed from this restraint by resignation from tho bench Mr. Hughes Bpeedlly pronounced pro-nounced bis vlows on preparedness, ns on nil issues set forth in the platform, plat-form, saying In his message accepting accept-ing tho nomination: "I believe In preparedness, not only entirely adequate ade-quate for our defense with respect to numbers and equipment in both army nnd navy, but with all thoroughness thor-oughness to tho end that In each branch of tho service thero may be tho utmost efficiency under the roost competent administrative heads." It any doubted boforo his nomination nomina-tion that Mr. Hughes did not thoroughly thor-oughly understand tho subject of pro-poredno3s pro-poredno3s it was because they did not know his own Bon was ono of tho thousands taking tho rogular courso of n military trailing camp and making no fuss about it. Her-aid Her-aid Itopubllcan, |