The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-02
ARMY EFFICIENCY
IS TnRASHED OUT
Military Experts Say Annual
Waste Is $4,000 900.
SEE CONSTANT WAR PERIL.

Congressman eutisr's Election Is Con
tested by Opponent on Grounds II
Used Religion ~ Means Of Winnin,
out-cartsr charsss Five Hundrse
U. 9. Employees Dssraud indians.
BY ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 1.-tSpeeiai. Gar
the United States army he made more
eficient9 IL . question which a grea'
! many military men are asking In lee
lures and debates. ana the answer
seems to b that without legislation
providing for q bsttss military organi
nation 1t will b Impossible to improve
the status OF the army Experts IL
military affairs have demonstrated
| that the army can b reDrganixed. i'm
proved and enlarged and at saving OF
100000 q Sear eemeared with the
present cost II congress would only
provide for means Of better mobiiiza
ton and Management.
| or course It takes IN expert on mill
tary affairs TO demonstrate these facts.
but II IL true that military men and
most Of the writer's on military affairs
agree that the present army costs too
much for what We get out Of it and
| that something ought to be done to
make Il more formidable.
Gee Nc Danger Ahead.
Most people zee no danger ahead
Nearly everybody is convinced that all
lighting days are over. Why should
the United States 20 to war?. is a
question asked whenever military
measures are discussed. And get
everybody is aware that the United
States Il sitting ON the brink Of inter
vention and long drawn out lighting
In Mexico. There II war dynamite in
the canal situation. and we win ever
have the japanese menace ~ long al
we remain In poaseasion Of the Phil
ippines and Hawaii.
( Though most people think that there
Il no necessity for war and that peace
ought to prevail everywhere. yet there
II every possibility Of trouble. and ac
cording to our experts our army II in
adequate to cope with q serious situs
don on account Of lack Of organize
ton.
A Religious Contest.
Congressman Butler Of Pennsylvania.
although elected by something like
1000 plurality. has contest on his
hands, brought by an opponent who
makes religion the grounds. He ayers
that Butler ii Quaker and that he,
the contestant. being 4 Catholic, Butler
used religion to elect himsslf and com
pass the defeat Of bis rival.
Butler comes Of Quaker parentage.
but II not Quaker He adopts some
Of the Quaker customs and IL Friend
Thomas' to many Of bin people. He
a6lrns instead Of sweass when he
takes the oath Of eGace In the house,
but that II more Of compliment than
anything elss to his fDfebean. butler
does not think he with have much treu-
BILE In this contest ..,sa
Tiieen Frem Tennessee.
One would scarcely expect to see |
Connecticut yankees claiming the Ten. |
nessee mountains a. hiS native land,
but Congressman TihoD b proud Of |
that fact and more especially that his |
ancestors weee Of that evolutionary
band who fought 1t KIng mountain
md were with jackson at New Or
leans. II b hard to ny whether state
pride h stronger IN uea on account Of
their nativity q because 1t their adopt
ID homes. Speaker Clark - Nilsson
Ian through and through. but be il
proud Of Ksntueky n BIZ birthplace.
Five HvNdped q Muskesss.
It came out In the debate on the
indian bin that thsre ass U0O persons
- the payroll 1t Musk0gss IN the In
liam SERVES.
What DO thee go DOR ssksd Coop
Il Of Wisconsia.
They do. The 1aA3ana, !. sstsrssa Car
er OF Oklahoma. who b one Of thu
Indians. 49,
0tg0 pVOO0tvVUs
Following the success Of eame pre-
eFves, the policy Of having psfuees
Or birds b proving Q sueesss. The
Of the general office in
recent report says that Their. are
ow nfty-six bird preserves Under the
atOnai government. and he points
ut how agriculture IL benefited be
ause OF the destruction Ut insects By
be birds which are saved from the
uns OF hunters. The bird preserve
E says. ..is~spposed only BY those who
the living plume into the
Millinery monstrosity and temporarily
roiit BY the tremendous sacrifice"
orissns Territory.
Che men who have been delving into
V past history OF this country for
le purpose of compiling an accurate
biography complained
at n no encyclopaedia were they
BE 70 tird anything abon, Orleans
rritory. And yet that territory was :
'gantxed By law Of the United
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