Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — NOTHING LIKE DISCIPLINE AND DRILL. [ARTICLE]

NOTHING LIKE DISCIPLINE AND DRILL.

niViniiNkJi UHXIThat fine old English lawyer, Sir Edward Clarke, K. C K put considerable heart into men who are getting on in years when he said the other day Wat since he had gone in for drilling as a volunteer soldier he had never f»4t more fit in his life. . . In Montreal, the members of the Home Guard, all men unfitted for act! e service, many of them elderly, or married business and professional men, say exactly the same thing. Sir Edward, by the way, relates a good story of the house of commons. He was once on a visit to that famous plate, when one M. P. described Ireland as a sheep-producing country. “I wonder,”, said someone else jokingly, “whether a certain politician who has had some trouble over Ireland would wish all the Irish people to be converted into sheep?” „ "Oh, no,” chimed in another M. P., “because then he could not tax them. “But,” retorted a quiet-looking member who had been listening intent.?, “surely he could fleece them.”