The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-10-27
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The mau is ever to be regarded
as higher than the soldier. In
trnth, soldicrship is but IN in
ciQent Of manhood. TO educate
one to serve On the battlefield Of
his counlry is one Of the necessi-
ties Of the times in Which we
live. This necessity will doubt
less not soon pass away. True,
"Were half the power that fills the world
with sorrow,
We're half the wealth bestowed on camps
$685.. and courts,
| Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need Of ;.rsenals and forts"
But little is given to redeem
the human mind from error, and
hence the world is yet far from
/, that milienniaI era when there
shall be no call for the sword. no
need for arsenaIs and forts. And
yet high and useful as military
training Is tor the purposes of war
it serves a higher and more use
ful Office in institutions Oflearning
desi igned to prepare its members
for the civil duties Of life.
1t is when the military element
is used as a means to:an end-to
form character, TO maintain dis
cipiine, to develop manAood-tha
it accomplishes its best results. 1t
is when used to make the man
rather than the soldier that it
fulfis it's larger mission. Using
it as u means to an end, what bet
ter than military discipline to
smooth the scholars path and to
surround bin with wholesome
bands, with conservative infu-
ences?
Consider, first, how military
methods, being Mother more nor
loss than effective business meth
DDS, lit the youth for the practical
duties Of life. The military way
of reaching the object-what is it
but the true business way? What
is the rule for business ? If a
certain piece Of work is to be
done. the NAH Of business habits
does it: promptly, systematically,
thoroughly. What, now, are
promptness, system and thorough
ness but military qualities j.? Mr..
James Parton, in a lecture on the
Kings of Business the uncrown-
ed but sceptred monarchs Of the
mart. finds the secret of. their sue
cess in honesty, knowledge, self
control, resolution and persever-
ance. What are these but mi IL
lary quaiities-wbat bat. such.
soidier!y characteristics as are
i'm pressed on the student, sub.
jected to military rule? ... .
We hold that military training,
in every welI.ordered educational
scheme, is valuable instrument
taIity. .. ...:...... 49,.
Apart from its preparing the
young citizon to meet the issues of
war, it is, when rightly understood
and inteIIigentiy administered ),
the most convenient and efficient
Of all disciplinary methods. 10
establish this proposition, we pro-
pose TO consider the leading elo-
ments Of the military discipline
that we would introduce into the
school and the academy. 80.
What are these elements ?
First, we suggest that military
discipline is NOT mechanical If
the habit is mechanical, the spirit
underlying the habit is moral an d
intellectual. /"
In the second place, military
discipline is not slavisb. They
who consider it Slavlsh code
understand little about it and de-
grade it, for the basis Of military
discipline is duty-duty which,
the sanity Herbert says, gives
music at midnight, and which
Gen. Lee calls the subIimest word
in the English language. The
true military idea contemplates
duty as honor and honor as
duty.
Again: military discipline en-
braces the idea Of self-controI.
The creed of the world is self
Indulgence. The doctrine Of Christ
is self.restraint. Ire soldier: as
the loyal subject Of Wholesome
law, is called upon, from the very
nature Of his obligations. to illus
tratc that prudent, cautions self
;ocr,r0i' which RurnS calls wv is