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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

What I have seen in the military pris- ons helped to convert me. Take Fort Leavenworth, for instance. Among it's 1 300 prisoners the largest humber are there for selling arms and lothing to spend in the dives that surround the army posts. A soldier pawns his pistol or his clothes to get money for the saloonkeeper, and we proceed against him a thief for stealing government property, with sen tence of two or three years. If he had been permitted to get his beer at the post exchange there would have been no chance for him to sell his arms or his clothing In this way and In the sup port of big military prisons. this anti-can- teen situation is an unnecessary and enormous expense to the government.
 About ten years ago, when the can teen was in existence, the sergeant of the post exchange was not permitted to let soldier exceed a reasonable amount of beer. If he saw signs of intoxication in the man, he merely sent him back to his quarters. There was bridle on the alcohol instinct that guided while 1t dist ciplined mans appetite As it is now,
 
 class he must belong to, that he, be- yond all other men. should be singled out for exceptional restraint
 Few Men, Knowing Restrictions, Care
 to Enlist In Army.
 "It is an odd fact. when you first look at the statement I am going to make, but nearly all the difficulties that embarrass the government with it's army can he traced to the anti-canteen law and the dive outside the army post"
 Tt has affected the recruiting sta tions?"
 ITO the extent that man will not easily enlist if he realizes the present restrictions
 AS told Mir. Root when he was Sec retary of War, and I was adiutant gen eral in Washington, I was kept awake nights wondering how I could make the enlisting department success For awhile was fortunate in having. as chief of that department, General Johnson, who has since retired, and is now at the head | Of big corporation in Pittsburg He was 1 a keen business man. and he conducted his department on business lines
 He believed in advertising for ie- | cruits advertising widely. and wherever there was a strike in any part of the | country, that was his chance to increase the enlistment rolls"
 The general did. not smile. but as he recalled this method of recruiting allure ment his tone of voice was that of man who was remembering an amusing incf= dent
 Tt has always been difficult to get re- cruits?" I asked.
 There seem to be periodical times when 1t iR easy and when 1t is difficult. There Is no explanation of these varia- tions in army enthusiasm will say this, however, that the time is coming when the officers will have to go after men to carry muskets, when 1t will be necessary to coax and work for a military spirit, without avarice and without rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
Army Laws Need Refor1nl," Says Gen. Corbin

, paratory school of training for efficient | defense of the flag and the country against invasion"
 Still, we have National Guard," 1 suggested.
 Yes, but that is not enough. The regulars should be our front line, then there should be a first regiment of .e- serves of New York, let us say, for the second line; then the National Guard be- hind them then the volunteer regiments and last a body of yeomanry rihemen picked from the young men of the coun- try, expert in craftsmanship and volun- tarily drilled at state targets under the instruction of an army officer , Soldiers Show High Standard of Intel. lgence.
 Tn England they have competitive rife ranges, free to all, where the young men, armed with government rifles. blaze away at a target for practice. An officer scores the hits, and prizes are given for the best shots, So as to encourage military spirit in the people. I should like to see some- thing of the sort in this country, some- thing for the young men to do, and to think about, besides dissipation incidence and good jobs"
 The standard of men In the United States army is high?"
 There is nothing to complain of on that score. The constant surprise of the commanding officers in the Philippines has been the usual intelligence and the high department of the soldiers on foreign service. General Chaffee was sent with q detachment from the Philippines to China, and, as Count Waldersee, who was in command Of the allied forces sent there, said to me during the army maneu- vers in Berlin, the difficulty he found most to contend with among the Amerl- cans was to distinguish the soldier from the officer, because they both looked SO well equipped and were equally efficient in military department"
 'The difference in rank was not so out wardly visible as in European armies?"
 Tn that respect l think the United States army can be proud of itself. 1t was suggested, some years ago that our
 
 attractive; that they might reasonably reflect a greater splendor of army pros poets. But l find it is better to make the gateway as modest as possible that there may be no false promises to fulfill later.
 Ut used to be the custom in the army to pay recruiting sergeant g for every recruit. We soon found, however, that the shrewdly imaginative sergeant. eager to increase his pay, painted the prospects in colors that were false, and the law was repealed You think the anti-eanteen law is re- sponsible for the falling off in enlist ments?' T do. I spent a great deal of time in the Philippines in erecting post ex- changes that cost s4o,oOO and s5oOOo. I gave the men gymnasiums. swimming pools. | anything that a first-class club almost | could provide, and still they wandered | away--for a drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
DOES NOT LIKE THE OLD HIGHLAND HOME Queen Alexandra Pays Visit to
 BaImoraI TO PLEASE THE SCOTCH Queen Victoria of Spain Is Said to Be Getting Homesick for Old Eng
 Iand-She Writes Daily
 Letters to Friends.
TO PLEASE THE SCOTCH
BY PAUL LAMBETH.

Special Cable to The Age-iIerald from
 the Hearst News Service Copyright
 1907, by W. R. Hearst
 London September 7.-Queen Alexandra who. merely for forms sake and to gratfy the Scotch people, has been pay ing a flying visit to Balmoral shares King Edwards dislike of the late Queen Victorias Highland home.
 The King shortens his Bamoral visit every year, and the next visit to tho castle, which will be paid in October, will only extend to ten days.
 Balmoral is always associated in the Kings memory with the late John Brown, Queen Victoria's faithful attendant. whom not only the King, but all his brothers and sisters, even Princess Henry of Bat tenburg so heartily dislked
 One of the first things the King did when he began to make alterations, was to remove the memorial to John Brown which stood in the gardens, to a remote spot. Members of the Brown family still live in the neighborhood and still draw pension.
 Friends of the Princess Henry of Bat tenberg state that her daughter, Queen Victoria of Spain, who writes daily let ters to her mother, is becoming terribly homesick for England, and that only the Joy she takes in her baby prevents her from becoming very depressed
 The Spanish ladies-in- waiting have been getting on the young Queens nerves. These ladies adhere to the strict Spanish court etiquette and follow the Queen everywhere. The Queen in fact, has more than once complained to her husband that she Is hardly ever left to pursue her own sweet will.
 Her only escape is a long brisk walk with her dogs; the Spanish ladies, who never take exercise, are usually tired out half way through the walk and crave Her Majesty> permission to return to the palace.
 King Alfonso Is just as anxious as the Queen to pay another visit to England and it has now been decided that the young couple will pay a visit to King Edward at Sandringham in November This will not clash with the Kaisers off cial visit, which will be paid to Windsor Castle.
 King Alfonso will also, of course visit his mother-n-law, Princess Henry at Battenberg. at the Isle of Wight, and very probably the Duke and Duchess of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey.
 An amusing story comes from Marien- bad, where MT Beerbohm Tree is the social lion of those hostesses who are not yet 'in the Kings set
 Mr. Tree is one of tue most absent minded actors in the world, but even he noticed that when he arrived very late at a dinner party the other night there was no. place for him at table and that the hostess was exchanging anxious whispers with the head waiter of the hotel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
DRUNKENNESS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
German Methods Furnish Great Re-
 serve Strength.

Take the German army, for instance, which is always held up before the world as the greatest of all armies. I lemem- Der, some years ago, attending the Ger man army maneuyers in Berlin. There were 600,000 men in a perfect state of military perfection. and remarked to the German Emperor how impressive the ex- perience had been. He told me then that in weeks time half that great body of men would have gone back to the people. and that another detachment of raw re- cruts would make such maneuvers as we had just seen impossible
 But think what that meant to the mil- itary reputation of Germany
 "It meant that every one of those 3OO,00O men who had finished their enlistment were so much added to an immense re- serve of men available for any service for the next twenty years. The enlist menf of those men had meant a pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

The general, being a soldier born and pTeu' shlhed at this condition, as one of '"e inevitable mysteries of the recruiting problem,
 am glad to see that the army ts awake at last, to the importance of tar- get practice. We can get plenty of cap- 'aIns and colonels and commanding of 'cers put the man who understands tbs business end of rifle is the man wa most need
 had to go to Australia, a few year. ago. on army business. and I was s,u- p'Seo to see through the vast hegions of Sparsely settled country. q number of rifle butts for target practice. During England's war in South Africa Lord Tob. erts told me that the men who saved tbe day In emergency were the Australians trained to expert craftsmanship, to ride well, to meet difficulties and overcome them"
 What states furnish the best material for the United States army2"
 Anywhere from the mountains" said the generally crisply, Our best material comes from East Tennessee and North Carolina, where the pay seems large 10 them, and where, after three years ser vice they can return home with $500 or SioO saved up.
 Ihe vest material in the army are the young men, from IS to 2l. They are more ainenable to training and best suil- ed to the fighting spirit, There is always patriotism in youth. even in the United States army
 Wlli the diseourasement of the army officer be increased by legislation?" Dive Keepers Among the Subscrib
 to Temperance Fund.
 Neither the lower nor the upper house in Washington cares to touch army matters in the face of the temperance enthusiasts. who are themselves mislsd by the paid organizations they support. II is a complex and involved condition of affairs. when you realize that the very dives outside the army posts that lure the soldier to disgrace, are the greatest subscribers, in a round about way, to the temperance find.
 The paid temperance agitator does not care, of course, and the poor people all over the country, who in the grief that liquor has brought to their own homes. sees 1t only a permanent evil, contribute sincerely from sense of high resolve, to save their neighbors fro mther own mis- fortune
 "i have little hope from legislation to Improve the endorsements of the army officer. I can only hope that the officer himself will exert every energy and force he has to enlist q patriotic pride in the dignity Of his uniform, and that of hs men.
 We cannot all be as fortunate as was. when a captain tc command a com- pany of re-enlisted soldierA'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

Its all very well, and I suppose 1t want to be a commanding officer. but it is more important 10 see that there IS material to command first I look and hope for a long con tinued term of peace but let tho regular army be school of preparation during this spell of good for tune for the future.
 "The officers of the United States army are too lesurely in their rela tions to the spirit and purpose of their service at the army posts. They leave the greater part of the drilling to the non-commissioned officer, and, naturally enough, prefer to command a company of three-year men to a company of one-year recruits. It would be well if they recognize the importance of persistent and individual industry working early and late, and every day, not for promotion and higher pay. but for the greater efficiency and military pro gross of the service"
 "T'he officers are too indifferent?"
 An officer in the United States army Is of the highest intelligence, for West Point graduate is equal to the graduate of any college in the world: but he be- comes discouraged when he sees the apathy of legislation to help him out, to recognize his service, or to render him any assistance. Of course, 1t is 8 small army, G0,000 men, but it represents a na- tional insurance against the future, and as such it should be most jealously safe guarded in law.
 T know what the officers problem Ia but he must face it bravely with cease less energy endurance and industry to entice the patriotic instinct into an active incentive for military service"
 "The patriotic spirit Is lacking in the army"
 Tt Is fading, peace is prolonged, and unless we do something beyond an ap- peal to the avarice in men, the army will fade with it. That is why see no spe- eial significance in the proposed increase of pay to officers and men. It will only nean giving them more money to spend in the dives and less of the motives that insure our military fame to posterty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
Plea for Repeal of Anti=Canteen Regulations Which Have Tend- enCy to Demoralize the Soldier.

From the New York Times.
 Major General Corbin. who retired from the army about ten months ago, reviewed at length what may be termed it's psy- chologic embarrassments.
 During a term of forty-fve years ser vice, including two years in the Philip pines, and through an experience in every rank, from the bottom to the top Gen eral Corbin has acquired a knowledge of the personnel and regulations in army service, that few, if any, other officers possess.
 Among the many sins of Congress, it's neglect of the soldiers, or rather its en- forced indifference to the canteen regula- tions, has, in the opinion of most army officers, discouraged enlistments, and caused an unfair discrimination against the soldier, that has led to condition today of an army short of its full com plement of men by a0000.
 The United States army, which General .Corbin describes as our national nsur- ance' he finds equipped with the high est order of intelligence among its of ficers and men, but, owing to the organ ized interference with Congress, in Wash. ington, of the temperance "enthusiasts" of the country, the laws that should en- title the soldier to the same privileges of personal judgment as all other depart ments in the service of the government enjoy, are turned Gin direct violation of a majority of the congressional con- science'D against the liberty of the man in the regular army. The recent recom- mendation that the remuneration in the service be increased, the unusual failure of enlistments, the general lack of mill tary industry among the officers them selves, are all traceable, General Corbin insisted, to the inertia of Congress to take positive stand in favor of canteen priv iIeges.
 Ninety-fve per cent of the men in Con- gress understand the importance of this measure, and are in sympathy with it. but under the watchful supervision of their temperance constituents, they are powerless to act, says General Corbln The other per cent are openly in office by temperance votes, and hold their posi- tions by virtue of an anti-liquor energy, whether sincere or not in their conten tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
Drunkenness Rare Among FiIipinos,
 Though Liquor Easy to Get.

'I remember taking a camp of Apache Indians once, who had stolen some cat tie, and in their camp wecfound pots filled with a plant that was distilling a form of intoxicant, and yet during my two years command in the Philippines I never saw a Filipino drunk, although he always has the stuff accessible. I mention these mat ters merely to illustrate that it is impos- sible among human beings, civilized or savage to take away their stimulant; but what I do say is, let's bridle it. let's control it, and in the compromise prevent a worse disaster than the teetotaler some- times faces
 'The soldier sees the officer enjoying the privileges of his club. he sees the men in the postoffice department, in fact, in all government departments, permitted to exercise their discretion, and yet he Is told that he cannot touch liquor or beer on the grounds of an army reservation You know l am a convert to the idea of a canteen. I opposed it once very stren- uously, but I have reached by present after long experience in the army, and I hope the anti-canteen law will be repealed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
Soldiers Resent Laws Which Discrim- / mate Against Them.

Questions involving the membership of the general staff, or the appointment of commanding officers, are easily settled, but the restriction of certain army resu- Ia tions that have made the soldier won- der why he should be discriminated from other men, in his privileges of conduct, by denying them to him. is at the bottom of all the difficulty between the govern- puent and the army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

The military prison, says General Cor bin, are filled with soldiers who have become the victims of the dives" that surround the army post, while these sa- loonkeepers are the most liberal sub scribers to the fund of the temperance bureau in Washington, which is under heavy expense in supplying and dstribut-
 ing literature against a repeal of the can- teen law.
 Tt seems as though alcohol has been put upon the earth for some reason, for among all races, in all climates, it ap- pears in some form as rational stim- ulant," said the general, sitting on the porch of his cottage in Maine, as he scanned the far horizon over the sea where he had seen many strange people and crystallized conclusions
 'This is my only dissipation" he said tapping his pipe affectionately; "t gives me happiness. it contents me, it assim- Hates the agreeable things about me. I never cared for wine or liquors because they do nothing to improve my comfort or my energy. On the other hand, there are men who require a drink to inspire their moral and mental faculties, to n- tensify their objective point in life have met a great many men, I have un- derstood them, and, while i can undel- stand the temperance plea that is born of some family grief through liquor [ cannot take so narrow a view as to be- lieve that when man needs drink he is damned if he gets it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08
Monument to Women.

Definite steps have been taken In Ricn- mond towards the erection in that city of $10000O monument to the women of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-14
WITH THE EDITORS.
Look Out for Themselves.


Both the senate and the house have
voted members Of congress a fifty per
cent increase of pay, and they already
had mileage But a proposal In the
senate to allow the railroad companies
to transport families Of officers Of the
army at half rates-under the railroad
rate law they must pay full fare-has
provoked much declamatory opposition
and some pitiless logic, the latter from
senators, who talk solemnly about a
violation of the spirit Of railroad rate
legislation. Mr.. McCumber Of North
Dakota drew a picture Of the swell
military man going down with his
wife and family IN his carriage to the
depot" and said his heart bled TO
think that they must pay Just the same
prices as other citizens"
The true condition of the pampered
army officer and the demands upon his
purse for living expenses, rearing a
family, and carrying his wife and
children about with him does not seem
to worry the senator's. The proposal
to allow transportation Of army OFF,
GERS families at half rates is not a
revolutionary or unpatriotic. Unless
congress tndorses it, or some similar
plan Of relief, congress should increase
the pay OF army officers to keep pace
with the rise in living expenses But
why should 1t not make the increase
without regard to the question Of trans
portation?-New York sun.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-14
English Quick Witted.

Forbes Robertson's company of Eng
fish actors, here for a week, are look
ing for the person in New York who
told them that Pittsburg was so dirty
that it was no use to take a bath; that
no one ever did so here, and that there
were no bathtubs in the city.
Each member brought a collapsable
bathtub When they began setting up
the tubs in their rooms the clerk
charged them for rooms with baths.
The eollapsable tubs were shipped back
to New York.
''Deuced queer country. this" ex-
planned Ian Robertson, a brother of the
star. Its quite impossible to know
when & chap is telling the truth, We
know. There seems to be quite a mum
Der OF bathtubs here It's deucedly
queer,"-Pittsburg Dispatch to New
York World.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-14
The President Playing Truant.

The other evening the president
evaded the secret service men and went
for a lonely walk in a remote part Of
the White House ground The New
York Times comments on the incidents:
That was boyish, no doubt, but the
presidents boyishness is not the least
amiable Of his traits. We would all
like to think that a president Of the
United States was In no danger from
the people who have chosen him for
their most honorable service and that
he could move about among them safe
~ anywhere, but lamentable experience
has proved that this Is not true. And,
really, 1t Is less the president than the
country that the secret service men pro-
tect. His personal peril from insane
attack. while measurably greater than
that of men less obviously set apart
for public attention. is hardly large
enough in Itself to reconcile him to the
burden OF his merciless followers, but
iuealculable interests are involved with
his. and he must endure the restriction
OF his natural liberties with such pa
thence as he Gun command. Which. OF
course, he does.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-14
It Makes a Difference.

Tha report OF the legislative visit
fng committee shows that state In
stitution located at indianapolis isn't
slzImped for funds The trustees of
the institution for the deaf and dumb
asked an appropriation of S325.o00 with
which to buy a site and erect new
buildings. The trustees proceeded to
exceed the appropriation with all the
assurance in the world that they would
be sustained. The institution when
completed and equipped Will have cost
s1.044,714 And all this fer q school ac-
commodating but I'VE hundred pupils
This is almost as great a sum as
the state has invested in Purdue. Tndi-
ana and the Normal combined. What
a howl there would be should Purdue
board exceed an appropriation in any
such ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Journal.