The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-19

F1G COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER,
upon the woTshiper too. Military de
pertinent operates i'll like manner: it
affects the seer and doer. That this is
So but let well set up soldier pass
before our eyes and we Will see. All
spineS straighten and shoulders 90
back, and the man too knows and feels
it. 1t moves his pride and selfrespect
and he feels the worth of his bear
ing. For this multiple effect. military
department is a thing Of far-reaching
power. The reasons for its observance
are sound. MEN live more by exam
pie than even by reason Nor is it
any sad Commentary upon mankind
that il initiates IN this; for, example
| is action and action-is the finest, most
attracting thing in nature. This power
of military department for Influencing
| Others constitutes for the officer its
strength and value. Leading. intiuene-
ing, IS the officer S business. II he is
military, correct. gentleman1y, precise
in his department. he affects his men
TO the same thing; you will see it in the
company. battalion or regiment. The
| commander of men who negIects it is
a fool
! From a consideration of its object
We may arrive at fair conclusion as
TO what constitutes. or does not CON
stitute. military department The OBJ
| ject of military department is the pres
ervation of such agreeable relations
between military men as will secure
the smooth. orderly, courteous prompt
and efficient discharge Of business.
! Whatever in personal or official conduct
conduces to this end is military deport-
fment and the duty of the soldier; what
does not, IS nothing, empty FORM not
| military department.
Promptitude Is Important.
The element of promptness is of the
first Importance and the reason is plain ::
| First-If i. is war, the enemy will beat
you while You are dawdling Second
If it is peace. if YOU are not prompt.
you waste the time not of yourself
alone, but of every man YOU are called
upon to work with. If YOU are the
| captain of a company of sixty men and
YOU are two minutes late for drill YOU
have wasted 100 minutes, two hours.
of the government s time divided up
among those sixty men.
For an orderly and agreeable dis
charge of duty, as a prime element
| courtesy must enter; for an efficient
discharge, a sense of duty, punctiIi-
BUSINESS in rendering to Others what is
due them and a frmness in requiring
of them what is due us.
These four things, promptness, cour-
'tesy, sense of duty and frmness. con
stitute the worth and the dignity of
military department. Of the second
element "Courtesy,' say the Army
Regulations, paragraph 4, s'is indis-
pensable TO discipline; respect to SUI
periors will not be confined to ODE
dience on duty but will be extended on
all occasions. This regulation speaks
volume in three lines. To attempt to
add to or explain it is but to take from
| its clearness, scope and strength. l
may only remark that it shows the
| wide range of conduct outside of the
touches. In military courtesy the sol
der can never be "off duty
| Martinetcy Is Fanaticism.
! Military department. excludes both
| looseness and martinetcy. Of looseness
I will not speak. The ''easv' officer
or solder is no soldier and not the sub
iect Of this talk. As to martinetcy it
is military department gone mad. No
mailman should have anything to do
with directing or supervising the lives
or conduct of others. A martinez is a
| mailman left in military authority !;
| nothing else. He is a worse curse to
the military service than a fanatic is
| to religion. Unfortunately he is often
pointed to as an example of military
| department because he shows its ex-
| IRENE. Extremes are fair examples of
| nothing.
| Military department is again nothing
| less than the outward visible mark and
sign of the soldiers discipline, his
training. his preparation and Of his
| heart and fitness for his work. It is at
once the means and exponent of discip-
line, that thing which the world is com
| ing more and more to recognize as
above money and above price, the basis
of all national strength and power;
there is none other. Power does not
rest in superior numbers, nor just
cause, not in greater riches nor even
in willingness to fight, but in dis
cipline, that force which directs all eff
forts to one end. Military department
in its best sense stands for this, for
discipline.
| Build Uc Self Respect.
| Whether we are instructing our sol
diers in the military art or our sons in
the daily duties of their lives, there is
one thing that we always try to incul-
| cate. 1t is selfrespect. Ask yourself
what in your common experience as a
soldier oftenest and most regularly
| leaves you with the greatest feeling
| of self respect. Is it not the conscious
ness of having adhered upon any occa-
sion to a worthy, becoming, dignifed
military department in whatever you
| have had to do3 | feel sure it is. It
is prominently the means Of impart-
ing to men that prime quality of the
soldier. self-respecJ. For this there IS
nothing else that comes near it, not
| more pay nor better food, nor less work
| not coddling, nor all the liberty that