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[April ii, 1908. 
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National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practit 
Washington, D. C., April 5.—Within the next fe 
days the headquarters of the National Rifle Associatic 
of America will be removed to \\ ashington, where th< 
will remain permanently hereafter. This move has lor 
been in contemplation and will doubtless meet with tl 
approval of all interested in military rifle practice. Tl 
relations among the War Department, National I’oai 
for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, and the Nation 
Rifle Association are such that co-operation is essenti 
and the presence of the headquarters of the Associatic 
in this city, near the department, cannot fail to increa 
the efficiency of both organizations devoted to th 
patriotic work. W hile the headquarters will be tind 
the direct charge of Lieut. Albert S. Jones, who has 
long been secretary of the Association, Gen. James . 
Drain, president of the Association, will also remo 
to Washington, where he will edit Arms and the Ma 
which devotes' so much space to rifle practice, that 
might be called the unofficial organ of the Associatio 
Speaking of rifle practice, Gen. George -W. Wingai 
of New York, popularly known as “the father of ri 
practice” in this country because of his long devotf 
to it, said recently: “The Spanish War was wor 
more than it cost because it pointed out that the Unit 
States was living in a fool’s paradise. We had all t 
resources of a rich, intelligent and energetic country. A 
had all the men and all the money we could use. Y 
Gen. Shafter told me that when the 71st New York 
ported to him ai Tampa, to form part of his expediti 
to Cuba, after being in a camp of instruction for soi 
two months, he was horrified to find that it contain 
four hundred men who had never fired a shot from th 
rifles. The volunteers who were first sent to the Phil 
pines were equally unskilled, with the exception 
those from Tennessee and from a few Western sectio 
who had used the rifle from boyhood. The same v 
also the case with most of the regiments organized la 
as the U. S. Volunteers, who were carefully instruc; 
in everything but the one fundamental necessity of 
soldier, the ability to shoot straight. It is indeed f 
tunate that these volunteers were required only to m 
the disorganized soldiers of Spain, and the wretche- 
armed and worse shooting Filipinos. There are nil 
theories as to how the military strength of this coun 
can be enhanced. Experience shows that in time 
peace we will not increase our army; we will not ere 
a reserve worthy of the name, and we will not make < 
National Guard into anything much different from 
small force it is to-day. There is, however, a way 
which we can create a force of skilled riflemen fr 
whom we will obtain volunteers in time of war and wll 
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