Show what nation needs is not schoolboy soldiers tiers but soldierly schoolboys by DR DUDLEY A SARGE NT of harad I 1 can remember that twenty or twenty five years agro ago 1 I had occasion occasion to io prepare a paper on this very subject of preparedness that is now again so eo much in the public eye this is a fever which sweeps over the country every ten years or so BO and we generally trace its origins to the same sources the public mind is more confused than ever over this subject but certainly one thing should be clear the utter uselessness of military drill in the schools as such what we want is physical vigor of course course putting muskets into the hands of these boys and making them think they are soldiers tin soldiers is nothing short of pathetic what we want is not schoolboy soldiers but soldierly schoolboys that is schoolboys who are well set up physically resolute alert and mentally keen military drill in the schools will not create thi this s type as well as even the present system of physical education and athletics docs it our country has been very slow to ae learn a i rn humiliatingly slow and when we think over the war experiences we have leave had and how ai little ittle wo we leave learned from them it makes us its think less of our government wo we have been prepared for the sp spanish a american war on the lessons of the civil cj vil war and for our present emergency on the former and yet at this day we see men being sent off to war who on account of their physical condition and lack of knowledge of how to care for themselves are e simply being sent 0 off ff to die from disease iti it is a bitar lesson a and d apparently we have not yet learned it |