The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-20

sny tead commentary tyson mankind
| chat "a initiates In Ihit. faf example
is arti0n aud action The finest, most
I Attracting thhg n nature This power
III military department inf influencing
others constitutes Tor che officer its|
strength and value Leading. innucuc
ing. u the oniccts business Is he ia
military, correct, gcntlcmanly, precise
in his department be- affects his mcn
to the same thing; you viii see u In the
company battalion or regiment. The
commander Of men who neglccts 1t Isl
n fool.
From consideration Of iis object
We MAY arrive 40 fair conclusion as
/ 10 what constitutes or does not con
stitutc, military department The oh.
/ iect Of military department is the pres
! cryaton 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.
ment and the duty of the soldier; what
does not, is nothing. empty form not
military department.
Prompsitude Is Important.
| The element of promptness is Of the
/ first Importance and the reason is plain.
! First-If It is war. the -euemy will beat
| YOU while Won are dawdling. Second
If il 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
G''-"g those sixty men.
'N- an c~'e;lv ana agreeable dis
charge OF duty, as prime element
courtesy must enter; for an efficient
discharge, a sense of duty, punctili.
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, "is indis-
lpensable to discipline; respect to SUI
periors viii no. be confined to ODE
dience on duty but will be extended on
all OCCASIONS This regulation speaks
a volume in three lines. To attempt to
1 huu W VI tA liHiu II 10 uWA W Adht AIhUl
| its clearness, scope and strength L
may only remark that it shows the
wide range of conduct outside of the
official, that military department
touches. In military courtesy the sol.
der can never be Golf duty"
Martinetcy Is Fanaticism.
Military department excludes both
looseness and martinetcy OF looseness
lT L TI, { G.,u,g "a. -
or soldier 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
Wadman left in military authority;
nothing else. He is worse curse to
the military service than a fanatic is
to religion. Unfortunately he is often
lpointed to as an example of military
department because he shows its eX-
treme. 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. 1t 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 a Just
cause, not in greater riches nor even
in a willingness to fight, but in dis
cipline, that force which directs all eff
forts to one end. Military department
; in it's best sense stands for this, for
discipline.
Build Up 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 self.respect. ASK yourself
what in your common experience AS a
, soldier oftenest and most regularly
leaves you with the greatest feeling
of self-respect. Is ii not the conscious.
ness of having adhered upon any occa-
, sion to a worthy, becoming, dignfed
military department in whatever you
have had to do2 feel sure ii is 1t
} is prominently the means of impart.
: ing to men that prime quality of the
t soldier, self-respeet. For this there is
nothing else that comes near it, not
more pay nor Detter 1000, nor less work,
not coddling, nor all the liberty that
the most exacting can demand.
True Officer Gentleman
Finally, gentlemanliness is INSOFAR
ably connected with military deport.
ment. 1t matters not who he has been
or from what class he comes, the Off
Ger who but tries to be military in his
department, thereby appears and in
fact is made more of gentleman
Consult again your observation and ex
, perience; you will find this true. This
! effect alone would justify us in the
: observance Of far more elaborate mill
= tary department than we do observes
: for there is nothing else, absolutely
nothing, not better social standing non
brains nor knowledge, not even BRAY
J. cry, that the soldier so much demand,
e in his officer as being a gentleman. II
;. IS for this reason that the Articles of
d War and military Gus ouls everywhere
g do not allow you to separate the words
u officer and gentleman. Il is for this
d reason that until recently when war be.