The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-14

every play Exactly The same ihine
is true OF che war game much more
so because there are ma rules 10
hold the enemy back while all hands
hcef over signals. Every order
must bc carried out absolutely in
battle or the lives OF thousands of
men viii DE wasted like as not
Your life or the lie OF your hunkie
have been On tho sidclines 49,
Camp Custer for three months This
war training hasn't shown me
.hinE that cannot be paraiieied ir
football or baseball This is sim
nly "A ne and death game on q tire.
mendous scale Tangled plays and
missed signals mean actual catas
trophies FOR whole nations That's
why obedience is so absolutely im.
pcrative In tho war team. NouN
hear a lot about respect 90 your su-
perior officer and the traditions of
he service and maybe few choice
sodlos on tyranny You just recall
HE football team that always quar-
relied with the quarterback on the
Geld Then you never viii have any
.alse notions about this obedience
thing Your officer rs your coach
nd quarterback I'm a life and death
anne. That Is me best way 20 think
about him
As a matter OF fact. alacrity IN
lhcyinr orders is only a small part
n military discipline The book
san ten YOU that without discipline
in army s not AN army just
aob a mob nevef licked anybody
Furthermore. discipline is NOT so
much am officers control over h''
--4l&.4-as "a eoldicra control over
fmsclf Many day Won have
crchcd I'm tho stands az Navin
cld and seen Cobb smite Wal
Iohneon's smoke ball You have
Ircamed for yourself the athletic
rcams that every man dreams. You
nave pictured yourself down thcre
it the plate. doing every thlng tobu
lid IT. looked easy and you went
home satisfied that N ever YOU had
rr,ed you would have been n Cobo
Yourself Yet you knew that yop
we're spoohng Yourself fon mlehl
have acquired Cobh's swing ana
Tvs strategy bur when you eot mp
I'D the plate and actually saw me
Swcdes frcball opc ding toward
ou Won wouldn't have stepped into
he old horsehide and thumped u to
irhf center Tor TWO bags You
would have ninched. stuck your foot
the bucket ans famed inglort
mslv II would take y0u months
to learn 20 step into fast ball pitch
.ng with carefully aimed chop
wing Cobb has disciplined him
self to bat against fast pitching
without finchinE You haven't no
matter how much theory You may
know
That The hot stur IN this disci-
rlno thre You arc going 90 Ret
panicky when bullets and shrapn'l
whistle around your coco. Every
man does But that viii be the time
to get busy on this job OF saving
democracy You viii get busy
Yonr brain viii be highfy, hut You
viii 30 thru The motions Of battle
calamity. The habit % doing GER
,ain brave things under certain con
duions VIII be SO firmly entrcnchcd
IN YOU thar your mental panic VIII
have littlo 20 do with your Eff.
cheney as n soldier That will be
because viii have Been dis
cipllned. That IS discipline-ac-
auired thru long training and Tue
never.endlng repetition % doing The
right military thing az the right
time Tyranny Will have nothing
10 do with 81. The experience of
all history e. that armies acquire
discipline best thru the continual
performance OF all duties according
10 certain fixed procedure and par
ucularly thru frequent and strenu-
Gus Indulgence In what is known "a
close order drll That's how you
viii get o.