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undertake the necessary studies, and
I remember that once the highest
ranking officer in that army was a
hotel keeper of Luzerne. He was
an extremely able man, too, and the
maneuvers under-, his directions
called fqrth unstinted praise from all
beholders.
So this illustrates the second great
point. In Switzerland there is uni
versal military training, but anything
like a military caste or an officer class
is impossible because military train
ing is carried on simultaneously with
civiL careers and does not interfere
with them. A man may be a first
class and highly successful lawyer,
journalist, engineer, business man or
what you will and at the same time
be a skilled soldier of developed train
ing and able to serve his country at
any time in a place of high command.
There is a small body of permanent
officers, about 200 all told, maintain
ed at instructors, whose business is
ri to study and teach modern military
science. These learned men get
every wrinkle in the business as fast
as it shows up anywhere, testit, adopt
it if good, throw it away if bad, and
carefully teach the selected residue
to the soldiers under their care.
Which, as you will see, is another
good point It keeps the Swiss army
up to date, but avoids unprofitable
expense, cumbersome establishments
and the unspeakable black curse of
militarism as it is known in mon
archical countries and to the preju
dices of the American people. But
this is different -
The total expense of the Swiss
army in times of peace is $7,000,000
a year.
Each American soldier costs the
American government 28 times as
much as each Swiss soldier costs the
Swiss government.
If we had the Swiss system we
should have an army of 10,000,000
trained men, and it would not cost us
very much more than our present
army of 85,000 men.
But about that incident at Mon-
treaux. They marched out that morn
ing for their two weeks of field train
ing. I was there when they came
back. They went to their homes, de
posited their rifles, knapsacks, uni
forms and the rest, donned citizen's
attire and took up again their usual
work, the blacksmiths, clerks, plas
terers, mill hands, proprietors and
the rest Our hotel keeper beamed
again in his accustomed place, the
headwaiter affably commanded the
dining room as before. Everything
was the same except that each had a
larger share of health, a new sense
of democracy and a faith renewed to
serve the country they loved.
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SEARS-ROEBUCK IS A GREAT
CONCERN FOR STOCKHOLDERS
Sears-Roebuck & Co. paid divi
dends of $11,100,000 during financial
year ending Dec. 31, 1915, and still
had a surplus of $10,408,000 left to
tide over a possible "rainy day."
When big figures are used in
bunches they sometimes look ordi
nary and one fails to realize how big
thev are, so,. for sake of comparison,
keSp in mind while you read of mil
lions that Barrett O'Hara's investi
gation found the high average wage
of married men at Sears-Roebuck to
be $15 a week.
New, remembering that few of the
thousands of girls and women who
work for Sears-Roebuck get more
than a few dollars a week and that at
one time had to pay for drinking wa
ter, you are pf obably in proper frame
of mind to learn that Sears-Roebuck
did a gross business last year of
$112,000,000. Gross, yes, but not so
coarse!
The company is capitalized for
$68,000,000.
Evansville, Ind. 50 Evansville
school children found with their un
derwear sewed on them for winter
season. Medical Inspector Dyer or
dered parents to remove underwear
and apply baths,-
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