"SWISS SYSTEM WOULD GIVE US ARMY OF 10,000,000 FOR COST OF 85,000!" -SuSTBBTX "iSKr2Wss.-i f-', '',s .,73SP' s? sf-a h- s i ria kxvsss, SSSKSSTO s.3SfciSS?v- .S??T C1 - V i-yrit TV, Swiss Citizen Soldiers on the March. BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL (Copyright, 1916, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) I started to talk to you the other day about the wonderful army of the Swiss republic as the only rational model for a nation that desires to have the means of defense. Here is some more about it When I was living at Montreaux, on the shore of Lake Geneva, I hap pened to stroll early one morning into the market square. On a mar ket day the place is packed full of dealers and bargaining citizens; but this wasn't a market day and it was L3 empty as a cave dweller's head. All of a sudden- two soldiers bounced in. I don't know from where; they seemed to rise out of the ground. They were uniformed and completely equipped, each carrying his rifle and even the skin-Covered knapsack and little wooden canteen. Thenext moment soldiers were striding into the square from all di rections, similarly equipped. Each went to a seemingly appointed place in regular lines until the" square was filled with silent, attentive and per fectly ordered companies, with of ficers in place. Presently a queer kind of wagon, being in truth a kitchen on wheels, rolled into the square and served a MuaiatfMlttHiitilriiliiflflfliftflifeAlrfMMMMiMariUtrtljf-flrife MiftiiaMAtiMiMflM