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Show pa. i 0 , ARMY DISCIPLINE. B An officer in an army training camp remarks that B one of the worst difficulties the army meets is the America Ameri-ca can boy's lack of training in obedience. Our young re-8' re-8' emits are splendid fellows, as alert and clean as those of, i py ce on earth. But American family discipline is 8 A loose. H I Plenty of orders are issued to the young folks, but in 'l comparatively few families are these orders followed up q aml obechence instituted upon. The American boy listens 8 l amiably, and then goes and does as he pleases. ' We are B J a Sod matured people antl'p'unishmohgoes against our BBBBvl ' m bbbbVj BBBBBBBBBBBBBBV' BBbIBbBbBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsBBBBBBBB iiisissssnsBBBBl grain. The" ABericWlwyomfesoutofitelf-tieli&flt? but without muchjitiOTpfaUthortty:, If will o hard with boys developed in .thisatmBspKereto stibmitt6 the strict regimen of army life.. 'Many of the regulations will seem 'arbitrary fand without with-out any basis in reason to the boysli'ThIwill want to. stop and argue, and may land in the guard house for cuV respect. Yet army life is built',dn!f tKerf idea of instaht obedience. Only thus can. a'grobp'oi menT acquire" thQ habit of action as a unit. Thesoldier ;who is "allowed t6 use his own discretion in the one thing will try to fuse-it at the wrong time in the moment (of conflict". f He may then endanger his own life and those of others by his individual individ-ual action. fl " ' 4 " It is the unity of a military force thatgives it its striking strik-ing power; The doing of things all in one second, the exact precision of action, makes a company of men formidable for-midable and multiplies many times the effect of individual action. To secure that unity the habit of instant obedience obedi-ence must be acquired until it becomes involuntary "Their's not to reason why" is the motto. The private soldier must assume that his officers have' had a better , training, and that they are in possession of wider information informa-tion than he has, and that there is a good reason for every order. As a matter of fact discipline is a great safeguard. Every time insubordination is quelled and irregular action -avoided, a body of men are enabled to protect themselves t to the best advantage. ' |