The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-15
TWO HENRYS

Henry Ford isn't the only Henry who makes auto
mobiles and thinks and talks about preparedness tor ma
tional defense. There is another Henry who makes
gasoline buggies who doesn't agree with Ford and has
habit of talking in a way to cause thoughtful persons
to listen and this is Henry B. Joy, head of the Packard
Motor Car Company When one of the peace-at-any-
price journals recently accused him of favoring universal
training, Joy fastened to plead guilty, and proceeded to
excuse himself as follows:
The military training | have had has caused
me more benefit than any other education. wish
every youth could have the great advantage OF mill
training at some time in his early years before set
Ting down to make a living and establish a home.
1t is not easy later on to abandon employment and
the home to engage in military services a few weeks
every year. The sacrifices are very great. did 1t
for many years, and [ know. Yet some adequate
scheme for the military training of the youths of
America is absolutely necessary, to not only train us
to fight and to efficiently care for ourselves under
war service conditions, in case such an extreme con-
dition should occur as President Wilson says is
dangerously imminent, but so that through all the
years of peace we could live better, earn more, and
be better citizens. 1t is simple idiocy for us to go
along unframed and unprepared for any emergency.
We all have a right to such a training; we owe 1t
20 ourselves. Now only those Of us are able to
obtain it who are we'll enough off to pay the fees
of our private military schools
Only those who can afford it! And why do they
''afford' it? In other words, why do they buy it? WHO
supports the costly and numerous military schools anC
academies scattered throughout the land, and why? Are
they the thoughtless parents training their sons for The
inefficiencv of idleness? Are their sons going through
the strenuous course OF the military school without q SOOC
reason for it? Or just for the fun of it? Or for the
privilege of wearing a uniform? If you think so, look
them over five years after graduation and compare then
with the graduates of other institutions, and then form
your answer.
You will find they acquired three things too otter
lacking in other Institutions. First, they acquired OIL
strengthened the habits of industry. Second, they &C
uuired a "habit' Of order. Third, they acquired the
habits" Of discipline, including self-discipline, and obedi
ence without the sacrifice of self-respect or proper self
assertion. And out Of these came efficiency-the secret
and the password to modern success.
And these graduates of the military schools are not
clamoring for war just because they would know better
than the others how to fight.
Henry Joy is right. The father who has made money
enough to send his boy to a military school is a pretty
level-headed and level-minded father as a rule, and he
is the kind of a father who has a reason for what he does
And he is the kind that knows efficiency when he sees
it, and knows how to get it and knows its value.
In this democracy military training should not be
reserved to the sons of the rich or the well-tO-do. And i
a boy hasn't the work habit there is no other place to get
it quite so easy and so sure as the military school. Henry
Tov is right and he isn't ashamed of it.
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