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Show LP EMWgpi I I jj j) ARMY EFFICIENCY I 3 Somo people want two battleships S! tullt yearly, others want four, while I f n somo wish Bono tit all. Yet all these I , Jill f diverging points of view should agree I jj jj In this, that our military forces should I UP i ho organized with tho efllclclncy of a I j ' private corporation, and so systemat-I systemat-I j I "I tlcally that they could fight at tho tra-I tra-I In -' dltlonal drop of the hat j) During tho few days that- tho Ben-I Ben-I I i' ton Incident seemed to reach tho pro- Alt j' portions of a real war-cloud, many! clt-I clt-I l ' lzcns were anxiously asking what our I llj I army could do It they were called on I 1 1 to act In a hury. I 1 , . Over In England somo years ago h. B it government was turned out of power Bs tl v J J i I merely hecauso It allowed tho supply H 1'' of ammunition to get low. In this H ! i country ono queestlons whether a sin- j)i glo clerk would lose his Job on that, B ' account. Tho public Is not much con-B con-B ,j ' corned over military nffnlrs. What It B 'H ; principally wants Is to get nn army H ij ', post located near by, where tho sold-Bt sold-Bt jj lers will buy groceries and fodder, BJ I J H and help boom local trade. Bj H I j At tho army post life goes on sleep- It1' lly enough. Baby carriages aro n more HI 1 1 familiar sight than gun carriages. Tho BJ I 'I soldlors practice tho art of war, when BJ A J thoy aren't mowing tho lawns, repair- BJ I . lng tho well or listening to tho mill- R ' J H tary band. A lino typo of suburban BJ I vllllago is built up, and graceful and BJ I refined soclhl Ufo exists. But Is It pre- BJ I j paratton for war? BJ n American citizens hnvo reason for BJ I i prido in tho development of tho navy. H I I Where only three ot tho shots took BJ I J effect at Santiago, In rocent practice BJ I j as many as 45 per cent havo been hits BJ 1 I But tho army life Is less spectacular. HJ ff Efficiency' bore does not Interest tho Bl I : people ed'much, and thoy do not de- m i mand It so strenuously. Bitter com- BJ li plaints are made by military students BB Q that personal -friendship and political BJ a, considerations count too much In tho Hi making of promotions. If tho army Is M I called Into Mexico It will mhke a lino BBE showing of courage and science, but BB I it could do tho Job much more quickly BB ' if Buch defects could be dono away fl BB ji $ Bl I IDENTIFYING CRIMINALS HP j Tho recent death ot Dr. Alphonse H Bcrtlllon of Tarls revives Interest In ! V BKrC L former discussions as to tho rclatlvo Hl v merits of his system ot Identifying BBS criminals, and tho finger print moth- BHVj BBl The ordinary Identification ot crlm- !BBHtl lnals by photographs and descriptions is at best uncertain and cumbersome In li big o'Jlco 100,000 pictures may havo been collected In tho Roguo's . Gallery, and It would tako any ono a U . "wcok to go through them) Tho thou- Hl sana shades ot expression on tho hu- H man face, particularly when a man HL 1s reluctant to enter this Hall . of BBBBBBJKt BBjiH Fame, makes identification often du- B(' !l hious. BBBLjjgB. In tho five cent thrillers that you BHBHBBBBWBHfiBUHKfigKal buy at tho nowa stand, tho detectlvo can always recognlzo ak given face after intervals of many years.) Real detectives nro not gifted with such powers of memory. The system of measurements which Dr. Bertlllon Invented has been very widely used. It was claimed that no two people in tho world could show measurements corresponding In all particulars. Tho system encountered tho objection objec-tion that It took nn Individual with much oxperlcnco Iff such measuring meas-uring to produco reltablo results. Errors Er-rors wore occasionally made and tho measurements by different mon varied, vari-ed, even those mado by tho same man at dlffornt times. As a result, tho Bcrtlllon system hhs been to an ox- tent discarded In favor of tho finger print method. Tho criminal who Is held merely on a finger print laughs at tho dirty Uttlo smooch produced against him. But as tho enlargement is shown and tho wonderful Individuality explained' ho pales at tho corthlnty of this demonstration. de-monstration. No two men havo tho Bamo finger1 marks. A number of thloves havo In this way been Jailed as tho result of marks unconsciously left on windows. ISN'T IT TRUE? A prominent writer rccontly shld: Tho only thing that alls this country is contraction of tho payroll. pay-roll. Tho cause ot the contraction Is the continued Irritation ot business by tho government. Just now ono fourth of tho wago earners in America nro not drawing wages, because thoy aro not at work. When you attack men who maintain main-tain payrolls, you hit tho wa?o earner, kick his wife, and cuff his children. |