The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-03
FRON OTHER PENS
TRAINED CITIZEN soLDIERY.

It was a wise provision to include
military tactics in the curriculum of
the agricultural and mechanical col
leges which the nation has endowed
for the higher education of the boy
and the girl of the farm. for of the
total number of cadet soldiers gradu-
ated in the country yearly, these insti-
tutions contribute nearly one-half.
From the fifty colleges come about
4,500; of $4,000 students, 5000 are
enrolled in the cadet corps. The fact
that these colleges represent thirty
two states and territories indicates the
national scope Of this influence. The
public high schools of principal cities
have also introduced military tactics to
such an extent that 5000 boys are
cadet soldiers-the most notable COM
mand being the high school cadet
brigade of Boston, which represents
several public academies in the city
and suburbs and has an average mem
bership of 1000.
But of strictly military schools there
are 176 throughout the land. Nearly
every state has at least one, New York
has thfrty-two, New Jersey nine, Penn
sylvania eleven, North Carolina seven,
Texas nine. Wisconsin four. California
nine and Illinois five. These states are
quoted merely to show how widely
distributed are the centers of soldier
making And the means are within
reach Of any reputable school that can
muster a corps of $50 or 200 boys.
Under these conditions the federal
government will furnish field pieces
and caissons for the battery and arm
the crops with saber and rifle. 1t is
only necessary for the school authori-
ties to give bond to return the equip
ment in good condition. Thus with
weapons of actual warfare the routine
of the regular army may be faithfully
followed. Ten thousand youne men
coming from these institutions every
year means an addition of hundred
thousand men in a decade to the class
Of American citizens available for the
countrys protection.-Outing Maya
zine.
TWO WAYS TO JUSTICE.
1.-THE object of the English rules is II
provide the best and quickest and sim
plest method of bringing before the
court the merits involved in any partic-
ular case" This, says the New York
Times, sis the statement made at the
recent meeting of the New York State
Bar association by Mr.. Elbridge L. Ad-
ans, of the New York bar, In summing
up the results of an investigation into
English rules of civil practice and their
working, made at the request Of the
hoard Of statutory consolidation. Gre
ated in 1904"
But this is not the object of the
American rules The object Of the
American rules, and of the practice un-'
der them, is to obstruct the presenta-
ton of the merits of each particular
case: to keep the actual facts away
from court and jury, to object to all tes-
tinony that would throw actual light
on the case as incompetent and ire
levant, and to fortify the objections by
quirlzs and bubbles built up on the law
of evidence. Then, II testimony should
be got in that throws light on the par
ticular case, exception is taken, and
often allowed, on one shallow pretext or
another; until, through obstruction and
delay. the proceeding is dropped and
the matter is forgotten. Our courts in
general are wonderfully fond OF all this
1t covers their proceedings with mystln-
cation, increases their dignity and I'M
portance and inspires the beholders
with wholesome awe. And yet perhaps
the plain way of bringing all the facts
out is better. Still, one might say II
all depends on fine query whether JUS
tice Is wanted or not.-Portland Ore
goniAn-