Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1915 — Soldiers of the King. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers of the King.

The change which education has made in the British army in the last quarter of a century comes out again in the craving of the King’s Liverpool regiment for magazines to read —“always acceptable In the trenches and defenses.” The illiterate private of Mr. Kipling’s early stories has vanished, leaving in his place a man as physically capable and as high-spirit-ed and also of quicker and better-fur-nished Intelligence, who has triumphantly shown himself to he able to make a success of the new military training, with its wisely bold policy of evoking' the soldier’s capacity for making the best use of himself on the battlefield. The needs are not those of the old Mulvaneys and Learoyds—if these ever existed —but those of sensitive, highly-civilized men. —j Manchester Guardian. I