The Nome daily nugget., 1918-04-02

can people and has so great revo- lutionary change in our mode of prac- tice ever been adopted so splendidly and sensibly as the operation of the ,selcctive service system?
 We have got those young men in camp and they are surrounded from the day they left home until the day they come back to it, if In Gods provi- dcnce they can come back, With more agencies for their protection and conf fort and health and happiness, physi- cal, spiritual and mental, than any army that ever went out on q field.
 They are classified by system un- der classification so that men who have mechanical intincts and training will be gt, ph mechanical opportunities in the army The round man is not sought to be put into the square place The Y. NJ. c. A., the Amcri- can people have subscribed liberally for the purpose; the Knights of Co., lumbus, the Young Women's Christian Association, the training camp activ- tiles committee, the training camp ath- letic committee and the Red Cross, have all been brought in to live with the soldiers; and by virtue of activi- ties started in the War Department, the communities which surround these camps have been instantly gotten away from the notion which used to prevail of a certain alienation between a civilian and soldier group, and the soldier boys in these camps have been adopted into the homes and hearts of the people among whom they live. No such relation has ever existed between an army and civilian population as exists with regard to this.
 And then, with your aid, the army has been able to practically stamp out intemperancn and vice among the soldiers, by the establishment of zones,
 
 of one kind and another, by the tram ing of these young officers i'll these training camps. young men of eXper- fence, and fine feeling and all that, we have gotten into this great army the idea that it can be a strong and effective military army and stlll be free from things which have hitherto weakened and sapped tho vitality and virllity of armies.
 q have gono from camp to camp among these cantonments and my first question almost invariably is to the camp commander; What about your disciplinary problem?
 old men in the army. men whose lives have been spent in 1t from their boyhood and who have been all over the continental United States and thru it's insular possessions wherever our armies have been, who know the life of the soldier and the camp and the post all say with one accord, and no exceptions that they have never seen anything like this. that the disciplin- 7ary problems of the army are reduced to a negligible quantity and instead of the melancholy and pathetic parade thru the Secretary of Wars office of court-martial after court-martial of men who have fallen down and yield cd to temptation under these unusual circumstances, which used to obtain, | have an infrequent case now of court.martial by reason of such weak ness"
 1 Here, at the request of the chair man, Mr. Baker put into the record statement showing the number of hospitals, army and Red Cross estab- lished in France, with the number of the personnel of each.
 The Secretary then rrs fred his testimony.
 When Lord Northcliffe returned to England, he was invited, as I recall 1t, by Lloyd George, to accept a position in his cabinet He wrote a letter which was printed in the papers, and in that he made this causual reference to the United States. He spoke of his visit here, ana spoke of our war prep srationa in this fashion:
 "'Wnr preparations proceeding in the virile atmosphere of the United States and Canada with fervor and enthusiasm little understood on their side of the Atlantic
 "He was then in England. I happen to have copy of a confidential in- struction issued by the German gov ernment in June, 1917. to the German press as to what course they should