The Ozark spectator., 1917-06-16

22.O0O young soldiers in each camp for the training of the new army. This means that IT. e must be lots of elbow room. Exte q order is the order of the drill day.
 A plan has been suggested by which | the young men of the National army may be taught something besides drlll- ing and fighting. The recruits for the new army are to come from all ele- ments of the American, the half-Ameri- can. and the quarterAmerican body. Some of these men. many of them, in | fact, must be taught what we are fight ing for. what 1t all means, and why | it is that they should be willing to risk their lives for their country. Army officials realize that persons who want Germany to lick us and per sons, who do not think that there is any ideal in the wide world that is worth fighting for. say that the army life does nothing to uplift man. and that it adds nothing to his education. Officials hold that those who so think do not know anything about the army, and probably hope that they will escape contact with 1t, especially so far as fighting touch with 1t is con cerned.
 To Be Taught Why We Are Fighting. The thousands of young soldiers who will enter the service and who are not well read concerning current events and, perhaps because of environment. l have been indifferent to them, will be given lessons in lecture form in American history. and with them they will get conception or republican institutions and why it is they are worth fighting the world, If necessary, to obtain.
 The new army is to be selective army, but the chances are that the greater part of it's rank and file will be men of the volunteer spirit There will be those. however, in the ranks who will be resentful, either because they do not like to be forced to serve l in any cause, or else because they have no realizing sense of what this war means to Americans of the present generation. and will mean to those of the coming years.
 Washington believes that the sol diers of the whole-souled volunteering spirit who know that this is war against despotism. will do their own part in the work of enlightening their comrades who do not know much about it." The spirit which has pos session of majority of the soldiers in ! l,l i-A Gtnt, If ta minority Inspiration to those at first 1 indifferent comes from contact with the inspired There are scores of other things in any army which help to make the men as one and to keep them fight ing with one purpose and with one heart.
 Bird Protection War Measure.
 What have birds to do with war or war with birds? The bird protectors of the country, men who not only would save the birds but help to save the crops, answer that birds have much to do with helping a nation to win a war.
 Administration officials and espe-
 ciaIiy those charged with helping to
 StiuCiate food production throughout
 the United States are urgent in their
 desire that congress at the present
 session shall pass the enabling act
 which will permit the United States
 government to put into instant effect
 the treaty now existing with Canada
 whereby the migratory birds may be | .ivea adequate protection.
 Some time ago treaty was entered
 into with the British government by
 which Canada on It's part agreed to
 enforce certain regulations protect l ing migratory birds. The United States senate ratified the treaty and i it already has the force of law. The
 difficulty in the way of its enforce ment is that congress has not passed 1 the enabling act with the necessary provision of money to secure an ade- | quate carrying out of the terms of the treaty in this country.
 The senate committee has reported | the enabling act favorably. The house | committee has not as yet done so, but every effort is being made to show the | committeeman the relation which eN- ! ists between birds and proper con ! ducting of the war and to get them | to report the bill in order that it may 1 become law at this session. | President Wilson is strongly in fla l vor of the passage of the enabling act. | The real sportSmen of the country and | all the bird protective societies and | large numbers of the farmers insti- | tutes and other organizations are in | favor of the passage of the act which | will give the insectivorous birds, large numbers of which are game birds, adequate protection during certain 1 seasons of the year. Of course song | birds which are insectivorous and | therefore beneficial in their lives are protected under the provisions of law | all through the year,
 The officials of the biological sur vey, which is branch of the depart ment of agriculture, are receiving scores of letters from all parts of the ] eountrv telling of the good which the