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Show H ARMY FAVORITISM. B It is alreadv manifest that our newly created army is B going to have before it a big problem in personal favor- B , itiam. It will take all the resolution and independence of H our nublic men and our army chiefs to meet it. H First there will come up the question of the making gagtgB H .gt gaiiiBl ygiiiiiiiiiiAt BgalllBgailllilllllllllllllllllllllBBBia ' . MiillMga si of appointments from the men trained in, he 'new camps. There is going to be an intense rivalry. All these young men are bent on military success and look for- the, higher rewards .both of glory and money. Itis human, nature to expect that they will work personal pulls. - A certain type of men will try to get by on their social nature and good fellowship. By their smooth addressand winsome ways they will ingratiate themselves with the ones higher up and the men in power will be impressed. At the same time many a quiet fellow without social gifts, but strictly attentive to work and studious, will have more of the soldiery gifts. It will take discrimination to make appointments solely on merit and not be misled by social friendship. Then the report comes from Washington that a host of vultures are descending onthedepaTtments, demanding commissions for personal friends who up to now know nothing about military work. Now officers are going to be short, and the officials may think they have excuses for making appointments of untrained men on the basis of the promises they hold out, if not on personal pull. It will be fatal to the morale of the army if the idea spreads that appointments are going to be made through political influence. "The men who have been doing the hard work of the training camps and who now are taking their work in these camps must be given the preference over the friends of politicians. |