The Nome daily nugget., 1914-01-07

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 4"NiV Mas L tlnIe. farther bach In ,.A A.slur! ~nen ever! man Was pre- I..lVd tu uv>unle d defender of ms ivt.,v. NAen ever! man Kept the s-.a.Ir. ril.e ana the powder horn l,.Nu. ana was ready nlght and day l. answer the call of the minute men (. u: tae sergeant of the "trainei t,nd"
 And they oid answer and they did i.eAt for theIr homes and their flag. tnvse men of the early days. But they Iere not soldiers. even then and the great general of revolutionary days bvWalIed the fact that he must fight the oppressors and invaders of his country not with soldiers trained in th, art of war" but with raw re cruits which. even in those days the great George Washington said were no, equal 10 the exigencies of mod ern warfare"
 Modern warfare" And he lived before eighteen hundred.
 How much more modern is warfare now How much more should the man who is depended upon to defend the country's honor and the country's hcmes be a trained man now. when warfare has become scientific.
 The best authorities believe that it takes three years to make soldier In these days.
 When war comes il comes swiftly and there is never one one hundredth oc tha, time allowed to turn the pa tr.otic, but unframed volunteer into soldier He is showed into d uniform given rifle and is told that he is soldier That is all he knows about it And then he Is led out and allowed to be slaughtered for the great glory of the flag and future generations.
 l, is rather pitiful Not now per haps No one will ever heed the man who breaches national preparedness for war But the pity of ii all comes home to these needless ones when their sons and their relations and ttsir friends are reported among the dead from the battlefield or the camp or, more frequently from the pest hos pita! Then perhaps the people who would not heed those who spoke for adequate national defence are sorry that in time of peace" they did not ~pre pare for war"
 We have no regular army to speak of thanks to a niggardy and political ly biased congress and a general be- iis. among people that to be unpre- pared will keep us out Of war. We have small militia force in the sey- sral states The total of regulars and militia is mol enough for one hrst . lass army corrs in time of war
 l: war should come we would hl --l n have soij': - w. would hay 2 Isie-ty of men for Americans are pz trotic But what would be most need ei in orier 10 prevent a useless waste Ct life would be soldiers At least rnen with some military training.
 How are ve 10 provide for this.
 oUt in Australia every schooltcy ,s a soldier He spends part of the time of his educz,ioa in being educated tc defend the land. I, is wonderful s, stem and II has relieved the British government of a great deal of military responsibility in that far colony. For these boys are trained to take their