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Show m Iron Discipline Is Abandoned by Army Salute Off Post No Longer Required of Privates. WASHINGTON. Proceding on the theory that discipline must be built upon the intelligence, sportsmanship, sports-manship, individuality and group co-operativeness co-operativeness of the men in the ranks, the army announced he abandonment of the rule requiring saluting of officers off post and made other changes in custom in a new manual of military courtesy and discipline. Hereafter the salute is authorized, but not required, off post. Soldiers in moss halls no longer will be required to stop eating and sit at attention when an officer enters. en-ters. They will remain seated and continue eating, except in the case of a soldier who is addressed, who then must stop eating and remain seated at attention until the conversation conver-sation is completed. The army also stated the correct method of displaying the national flag. Henceforth the flag should be to the observer's loft when it is hung from a wall. On a rostrum it should be displayed above and behind the speaker's stand. Suspended across a street, the stars should always point east or north, and not west or south. The manual prescribes that the flag should never be used as a drape for a platform, desk, chair or bench. In training troops, according to the manual, officers should bear in mind that "modern warfare requires self-reliance in every grade; individuals indi-viduals capable of independent thought and action, who are inspired by a distinct feeling that as an individual in-dividual or as members of a unit they are competent to cope with any condition, situation or adversary." |