Show TI THE ae SOLDIER th there cre is 1 a I decided need for a I 1 sentiment in ft favor avor of the military arm of our government this was ably pointed out by judge hayes in his fourth of july jul speech at tile the opera house on oil wednesday the reaper endorses those sentiments and wants to add to them there I 1 is s probably no arm of the government service so 30 little understood and so widely crit as the army and navy and with little facts or information to bolster up this criticism tile the charge is openly made that men of tile the army and navy are arc habitual drunkards gamblers and moral degenerates and yet there are as fine a class of young men going into the service all the timo time as the nation affords in ili a recent issue of colliers weekly is in an article by a former soldier one who served in it the campaign at the same time richard IV young was as there tile the writers name is aaron hardy ulm and lie he presents some startling facts under the caption why id like my boy to go to war it is an all intimate view of life in ill the service and it will hearten any parent who has a boy or boys who have answered the call to the colors let us its quote a few illuminating paragraphs ag from this pertinent article speaking of tile the general conception of depraved life which is the general idea in ili utah lie he says according to the fears of maternal concern he the boy in ili tile the army will risk everything from mines to mumps and from pneumonia to moral depravity and will likely suffer stiffer from nothing except a growing appetite a ppe tite again lie he says now to fond parents especially to mothers your boy if lie he is not too near or too far from boyhood will be better off in ill the army than at home or perhaps in ili school and the danger of his returning under a furled flag though real is not so great as you may fear the life of tile the soldier says this writer tends to develop a sound philosophy of life tile the soldier learns 6 0 that many things regarded as necessities are really superfluities he is taught the simple life by rote self care a difficult science constitutes his primer what the community needs is a few lessons in routine life in the army or the navy there is no more chance for a boy falling by the wayside in ili the service than in ili private life in fact the chances for physical degeneracy are smaller in the service as the physical fitness of the soldier is the prime requisite for service and greater safeguards are thrown around him than there is in ili private life until people generally learn tile the lesson of tile the glory of service under the colors there is little chance for the enthusiasm tor for the service there should be if there are arc things wrong in ili the service a carping criticism will never make them right |