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THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUX-TE1VEGRA31, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1 , 1011. PAGE THREE

MILITIA REALIZE THEIR WEAKNESS

Guardsmen Keenly Realize Country Is at the Mercy .of Any Invader. CAPT. BUXTON'S VIEWS Points Out Only Seven of Every Thousand Men Are Experienced. BV SYDNEY ESPY. Waiblngton, Dec. 31. That the national guardsmeo of the oatlou know tbe poor condition of the Unit ,.4 Etates in the event of ar ltb a flrat claaa fighting power, it made plain by Captain O. Edward Buxton. Jr.. of Providence. R. I.. U. S. battery of coaat artillery. In a communication to an army officer here be dwells at length upon the Inefficiency of our fighting material, and aaya: "Of the 15,000.000 able bodied, satire, or naturalized citizens of military age in the United States, only seven and a fraction out of every thousand have received even the military training of the organized militia. Tbts body numbers today about 109,000 enlisted men. and 9,000 officers. Only a part of this handful is efficient. "Major General Leonard Wood, chief of the general staff has published hit annual report. It contains a well timed appeal, direct to friends of the militia. He says that if the regular army and organized militia at 'war strength were called to arms today there would be a shortage of more than 60 per cent in the field artillery necessary to equip them. The real gravity of this statement becomes apparent when we realize that .the force In question represents from a sixth to a tenth of the forces required to successfully fight any of two or three leading military and naval powers. The report says that it will take congress 60 years at the present rate of appropriation to provide proper equipment and ammunition for the field artillery, and an equal period to furnish enough ammunition for the coast artillery. Three Reliefs Needed. "General Cronkhite. who is attached as inspecting officer w ith the chief of artillery, told me that Including the artillery reserves of national guard there are less than half of one relief to handle the coast artillery now in position. It requires three reliefs in ease of war. and one relief cannot physically sustain over fifteen minutes of continuous firing at the rate of a hot every thirty or forty seconds. There are sufficient coast artillery men in the entire country to constitute three reliefs for guns now in position around New York harbor. , "We can best realize how serious is our present situation by drawing a few modern comparisons. In 1S9S. we unexpectedly clashed with Spain, a second rate power. An authority haa somewhat fancifully described us in that conflict as going out like' the Cid to meet a skeleton clad in the robes of royalty! It required five or six weeks of desperate activity to place about 15.000 men In Cuba. To gain an idea of the tactical caliber of our antagonist, it is sufficient to say that the Spanish army in Cuba numbered more than 100,000 men. and yet the American forces outnumbered the enemy In every engagement of importance. At the end of eleven months our army numbered 211,000 men. partially equipped and learning the rudiments of camp life and . soldiering. The best equipped volunteers carried . the old 8prtngfleld rifle and used black powder. A regiment brigaded with the First Rhode Island Volunteers for a long period, went on guard with nothing more formidable than corn stalks. In that war we. lost fifteen men from disease to one from bullets. "In the Russo-Japanese conflict. Japan landed In Manchuria 20O.ono vet erans. eight days after war was declared all perfectly equipped and trained. She lost four men from bullets to one from disease, so perfect was her organization, discipline and prrrtioa. Trained Men Needed. . "The day in which raw levies could ucessfully oppose trained and disciplined troops has disappeared. .For

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merly great struggles were conducted with the crude weapons, used by men in times of peace, the long bow, broad axe and smooth bore employed by frontiersmen and squirrel hunters. Today war is dreadful in its scientific equipment. To expect hastily recruited 'rookies" to be effective in a national emergency with coast defence disappearing guns or mortars, or with guns of light field batteries, and all the technical applied mathematics involved in Indirect fire and the ober usual problems of later day ballistics, ia as dangerously and absurdly lmiossibl as to entrust the safety of a passenger to an engine crew of boys. "If our neighbors were In the same predicament, and we were surroundad by nothing more formidable than rioting South American republics, we could view this situation with equanimity and thankfully welcome a growing ccntictlon tha( war and its attendant horrors has become a lost art. Unfortunately such is not the fact. We have forced ourselves into tbe conflicting ambitions of nations, whkb have made armies a national profession, and was as anticipated instrument in the realization of national destinies. "Never before, even la the days of Artaxcrxcs. has the world seen the training and maintenance of such stupendous standing armies. Germany with her million subjects in Southern Brazil, and against whom we choose to oppose the Monroe Doctrine, has a trained, equipped and disciplined force of more than a million men. "We have consoled ourselves with the pleasing fallacy that we were Impregnable because of our world position. When Representative McLachlan of California appealed to the bouse last April to consider the defenseless condition of the Pacific coast. Chair

man Tawney of the appropriations committee, suggested that the disturbing facts offered by the California member could be dismissed, because of our geogrpabical Isolation. In the name of Columbus and the Santa Maria. In what period of civilization did Mr. Tawney dream he stood? Certainly not in the days of monster steamships, under government subsidy and triple expansion engines. Could Capture Gotham. Two or three years ago. in reply to a question in the Reichstag, the German general staff stated that it could land lM.OftO men in New York City in seven days. Is that geographical isolation? "Five years ago Japan had 100 transports which carried 200.000 men. The speed of the slowest transport would land that fleet on our Pacific coast In 25 days. Every two months she could augment that force with 200,ftrti more, or a million in ten months. Her army and active trained reserve numbered two years ago approximately one million and a quar ter, eight hundred thousand of whom are veterans of the Russian war. Japan has about 50.000 trained officers; we have four or five thousand. Japan has generals who have commanded the admiration of military Europe by the manner in which they maneuered over a million troops; we have no general officer now who ever handled 20,000 men in the field. Our regular army numbers about 65,000, 14.000 of whom are In the Philippines, and about. 14.00" in the coast, artillery corps. Deducting in addition non-combatants, like hospital corps, signal corps, staff, details, troops in Hawaii and Porto Rico, we have about 30.000 infantry, field artillery and cavalry to form the nucleus of a mobile army. Add perhaps 100,000 of the national guard, and' you have an uncertain army of 150,000 men struggling with unsolved problems of transportation, equipment and division into tactical units, with hardly a corporal left to teach drill to a populatlou of partly assimilated nationalities, rapidly becoming a city bred race. Most regulars wllluell you that it takes from one to two years to make a soldier. Military history supports the assertion." EGGS MEAN MONEY So cot (oko. tmt fB'TT'ttf to the hlxbest point ol intit. CONftXVS LAYING TONIC promote utivityaD1 awlmilatloenf tm. BkkiBC BiatrrtaJ TBI WBOI.B Ktn.X or uwutiw. noc,7 rws IK U pioe. I Tievm as, fiuo and u. Xak tor Cooker's Book oa Poultry. W. B. Garver. 911 Main St."

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musical director as well and that with being manager of a music publishing bouse her days are kept quite occupied all the, time. At the matinee of "The Girl Prom the Seminary" on Monday, Miss Portello will have a number of new catchy" songs which she will sing with her usual dash and vivacity, while the Dancing Pipins w ill cavort around ber o the catchy tunes of the opera. Monday night "The Yankee Doodle Boy." will be presented which will have another set of catchy airs and melodies. The great charm of this company being that no songs are repeated so that an entire new set of dances and airs are presented w ith each play.

"Jumping Jupiter." Richard Carle's popularity, w hich has reached its highest point, has never been illustrated better than in connection with "Jumping Jupiter," coming direct from the Cort theater to the Gennett, on Monday, January 9th. This is strictly a 'show!' It is defeigned, primarily., to entertain and. like the other Frazee and Lederer production, "'Madame Siierry" wins because , of the quality of cast rather than in force of numbers. "Jumping Jupiter" is now entour. Mr. Carle, off end on. in engagements, haa been a favorite coruedian'tn Richmond for the past eight years. East of his suc ceeding enterprises has shown him with increased capacity to amuse. "Jumping Jupiter" does not rely on its star alone to make its way, broad as bis sboulders are for any such burden. Edna Wallace Hopper, with marked talent for comedy, clajms a fair share of the honors. The test of "The Road" has shown Miss Hopper to be almost the equal of Lillian Russell as a drawing card. Her intelligence and personality always give her a high rating, wMle her notions of clothes make every woman take notice. The speed of "Jumping Jupiter" is helped along by several other pacemakers. There is Will Philbrick, with his roly-poly person and his une celled skill in coon songs; Clara Simpson with her diverse talent in dialect; Ina Claire wit'a her imitations; Carrick Major with his famous bass voice: Fred Stanley with his easy 6tyle as a juvenile actor. The chorus, too, is unusual. By way of correction it is not a chorus, it is a group of young women w ho know how to wear clothes and are good looking to begin w ith. They sing well and help out in dancing numbers with Mr. Carle, I particularly in his introductory song. i"The Rest of the Week She's Mine," and in "The Strains of the Wedding March." At the Murray To start the new- year w ell the man agement of the Murray will present an all-star bill composed of four up-to-the-minute acts of high class vaudeville this week. The beadliner is Fanning-Turpin Concert Monday Evening First M. E. Church Tickets SOc. Everybody Come! J. A. WALLS SPECIALIST DAYS M OX DAY. TUESDAY. niDAV

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celebrated musical directors and band ' leaders of international fame arc imi-j tated to a wonderful degree of per-' fection. The eccentricities of the j celebrities impersonated are brought out in a most ludicrous manner which,! mixed with the high class selections! from grand opera forms the niostj successful act of its kind on the boards. As a close second comes . "The Man Behind the Suitcase, an original 15 minute turn written and executed by Henry Bobker, a comedian and impersonator of abiiity. He makes his changes with Ugbieninglike quickness from the contents of a drummer's suitcase His songs are of a light and refined character, gaining for him tUe hearty applause of the lovers of good singing. His act is so good that it has been the feature on every bill with which it dps been aligned. Other treats in store for the patrons of the Murray this week are the Sloane Duo, a pair of singing and comedy artists, and the LoinbtrUs. a team of gladiators and equilibrists of remarkable strength and agility. Two thousand feet of the latest motion pic tures will open and close the program. Evening prices at the matinee tomorrow, New eYars. feanjsM wmoWing. In Jamaica canjah. a variety of Indian hemp, is smoked by the natives with terrible results. It is statod that it was this weeU that was used by the leaders of the Indian mutiny to drive tho sepoys into the passions of raging mania which tuey exhibited during that campaign. Ganjah smoking affects the begiuuer in a peculiar way. While under its influence his senses of time, sound and distance arc obliterated. A single minute may seem a month, a child's voice sounds like the rattle of a machine gun. and a little finger may seem a mile long. Continued use, it is said, causes cataleptic fits and eventually idiocy or raving homicidal madness. When you feel vous, tired, worried or despondent it is a sure sign you need MOTT'S NERVERINE PILLS. They renew the normal vigor and make life worth livipg. Be sui and ask fcr Mot? s Nervcrine Pills J-S WILLIAMS MFC CO.. Pro?.. CloraUad. Ohio For sale by Conkey Drug Co. Heavy Harness for Spring Xaas is now over and we will all look forward to spring. We nave these Old Fashioned good heavy I arness for: horses. Call and see then. Miller's HarnessStore 827 mm st. Quality in leather Goods. ITlh

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Five applications were made tor membership in the Wayne township tramp club on Friday to Township Trustee James Haworth. All were turned down. Two wanted transportation to Indianapolis, another to Cincin nati and two others to Dayton. When one of the men was refused he impertinently asked the trustee what he intended for him to do. declaring that it was furthest from his 'mind to walk out of the city. REPUBLICANS. National Republican Alliance wants capable, educated men in every, city and town in the United States to become identified with and procure members for the Alliance. The cooperation cf every good Republican in this good cause ia solicited. Excellent remuneration for active workers. Part or full time. Unquestionable references necessary. Send two cent stamp for full-particulars. S66 Fifth Ave.. New York City, N. Y. The Twins. We have beard of several cases wherein twins have borne a remarkable likeness to each other. But the most curious was the case of twin sisters who had to be told everything together because it was impossible to tell them apart. CHICHESTER S PILLS l-ltl. la U4 a4 4..M neullicV baiea. loalci u Olua Klbtooa. V Taka oibrr. llnr af Tmr V pw. Aforda-cincs-TEita UtJkVoNT liRANU lILLK. fc.& ye. known an Vat. Sfet. Always Reliable SGI H BY iMififilSTS EVFRYWHEfif

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Richmond, and tho widow, Mrs. Catherine Besselman, is made the princi pal benefactor. His . three .children, Charles F- Frederick I and Mr. Lau ra E. Seefloth are each given a thou sand dollars while his grandson, Fred erick H. Seefloth. was remembered by : a five hundred dollar bequest. These special bequests are to s be fulfilled within the next year. The residue of his estate, consisting of both person al and real estate is left to the wldow who also is named executrix without bond. GENNETT All week: POWELL CI COHAN CO. Monday matinee: THE GIRL FROM THE SECTNMtY Monday Night: The Yankee Doodle Doy MOIM. Jan. ds Richard SSV Ccrle jumping Jtipiter 21 N. 9th St.

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