Febrnary 24, 1916. 
LAND AND WATER 
in&vidaal. and we most eucoarage that individnal to nse 
hBfanins and good sense and to kara sdi-^diance. 
T hese q oahties come readay to Tohmteefs. If dkfw Ji^ 
^ neva foiigotten. yon can produce cut of the votentecr 
the feiest soitfieT in the wwfcL The present canmaiai 
h as dtO TO It- Look at the adnevonents of the London 
Temtoriak and the Ianra<Jrire Toritorials. Or taW 
divisions of the new volmteer annv. sndi as the^di and 
the 15th. If you nnite a strict corporate training with 
ipdividDal initiative and rehance you evolve the periect 
hghting "lan 
There is one other point in this connectioo on wlucfa 
we may get some iostmction from American experience. 
It is the question of drafts. \Tha>e\-CT new levies are 
raised on a brge scale there is a taodency to make than 
into new nnits. and to forget the importance <rf keecins 
jP, tfre stro^th of the old onits, who have had some 
Bg^itzi^ experioKe. In the earlier part <rf the Civil War 
new recmtts were formed into new regiments, and the 
old battalions wwe soon rednced to a conple of com- 
panies. It was a veiy bad s\-:ftOTi, and ^lennan. in a 
^Aoos passage m hf? ^frT-H.■^ recoants the tTOoMe it 
led to. One St resohiteiv refused to 
create new re.-n^ Ji its original regiments 
2. \\ r^-,---y=m 
"BMtJt was morthan onl i mij. i « ^j m - 
^« o«nsehf«s lore not been free front Has 
"?^«F™*d Territflrial battafioos ^n been sercir 
*Ped- ^ Tha r second ine ii»«»aK«^ wttrli i hiri Ji have 
been drafting battafions far dbe fvst !?■>■. vse afcned to 
««>*r themselves independeu nsats^ „tod tUod 
ba ttai on s were oeated far diafting pvpob-v 
at^tlHse defiebed battafians^ aoai^bl 
^"^ ^*?. ^ ^""^ *^ ^ort of the ^eA mxns 
m tte wodd if yoa orer-straiB than. ^^ 
Ala gypn tt of trcadi warfare oocagts in 
^^ c. m < W h r> l a n tly aifeeting airf imj^i w. U^ 
Btt to do th^ yon mast have rnnnt.1i nmi If jon bave 
not^c them the positian iaevftaUv gets j^ rf fit f d . Ae 
pai^i^^d trenches are poor. aad'isTry gjdbotsoldKx^ 
«o««taii^to n«fc» dbonfan and. if there is an 
yac^ to neejgs danger. It e a sobfect epon nttch 
ttaeanbeno<«baiceofoi»wn. To keep a nnber 
Mweaknnite oniflie &t and to treat these Mils » if thev 
tadtliOTfan«ri«gth.isan^)|ytoconrtdBBter. It k 
""■^ «i*a to die battaScns ^eneeives and to the 
!^^i^ ^ is one practical point on which w? 
might wen leam from Ax3»ican 
GERMANY AND THE U.S.A. PRESS. 
By Cyril H. Brvtheftoo. 
IN exvn- town of coii>ideraUe size in the United 
- there was at the oatbreak of the war at 
;t^- . one agon of the German Gorcnunent. 
His bosmess was to see that the s\-nnathie5 of 
the Gemaan-.^mericans were translated into anv sort of 
actoMi that might be beneficial to the Fatheriand, to 
spoid Gennanv > mone\- for this purpose if necessarv 
and to remain imT^ibl^. The practical ofaiccts of Iik 
n n mctuded ac>-tlmig from circrdatiw bunis 
p^utioiB to stop the sale of mnnitions to the AbIk to 
Wowmg np bridges. To speak more accnratelv his 
m^^ was to cause these things to be done: His 
firstbosin^ wonid be to get in tooch with some locaBv 
mflnenml German wbr«; zeal for the Fatherland extwded 
il possible his own. Throi^ the latter the business of 
marshalhng all the available political and financial 
mflnencem the town cooid be carried on withott dffi- 
CT^-. The hrst thing to be done was to get money or 
the pr«n^ of it for the purposes in rantempbtioo 
oeaiKc the German Gotexnment, with its cnstonarv 
?!!Pr5L™, ^^ niatters. insisted that the Impexi^ 
sto^fnnd shotiki not be depleted as long ^fmds 
tor the carrymg 00 of the good work conld be rais^ 
HKaUy. 
•• Slush Funds." 
The mon«r being raised or promised, the first effect 
]^ <l^t«i to bnnsmg newspaper iRiaence to hear 
mpobhc opmion. In many cities there woe aheadv 
German newspapers. In others thev inoneAateh- 
WareA A«»«derabfepartofthepaperwaswritteii 
n &,ghsh. mo«K campaign raaterial.nBT order to get 
tnose papers widdy citcnlated. the newsnndors wire 
given not only the whoie of the monej- reoa.^ fc«B tW 
the papers, bat a bonas as wcfl. The cost of 
, the paper was paid by focal patriots oc ont o€ 
r.r^ '^"^V^ \ '° addition to the daily Genian 
F -iw. anjtetrated weekly was sometimes i^ned. 
«=* J«T^°^^°^ howENTer. that the fact that a paper is 
ostexsTb^ a German paper miK necessarilv detriTfawi 
possible a daOy or weekly paper pnrportiH' to be an 
5n^^^^ 5^ "^ •"""^^ It was conceived to be 
^moremportanttogetootan-Irish paMT. .\nd 
^«^ these (osualh issoed far econootr'^*^ h«n 
tne Geriian paper s press' appeared in dne <:o«Ke. 
mnif S?^ r.^^ **** «*«Sv sevvxal New York 
^2«ster \ week, once a writer of pocncnaphic^^ 
Or. Dember* which makes a speoalit^ ^Tah^ I 
r««= v.y^^ "^ ^ Opn ^Wrt. e&ed bv Pari 
^-arn^aMaayjrbepmtoeniovanation-^rid " 
and noe sold tm most Bieral'texiK to the 
^^aaades^ In tks naiy t^ JkaaicaB ws 
c^">»hM e with a farndaUe ^*^ f£ 
hleaalure windi far fa»»TT yi nasons ifci 
i^anxionstop^thesalefll 
.™^ 2^ ■■ ^"^^^ «^ •'^r was fivwr at fl^ 
<■ OK war. Oe ' invisible ^;ent " was aT 
r" ^'"'*?*''qP°^*g''faftfcc Santa F^ 
'**" Been dBnonaaraUv iKhIhim ii Vm. -* 
In oOcr otKs, Bb San FnuKBOD i^t «e ^w (^ tfi» 
dnty work we done thnHeh tie TTmrAir- "^ 
more v iaMe actor was a ridTaad 
keeper oamed Schwartz. He it 
SORTES SRAKESPEARL\N.€. 
% Sa SOKSEY LEE. 
THE M:aSIAXS IN 
Bttitr ieamus tie frrr cittks mf Oe emsL 
THE .\DMIKALTY A.VD T^ -TONNAGS* 
DEBATE. 
^•^^ *f* ii*j thmi en u«r zkrr 
^*fTf9t*^mi, amd cmm pmt *^m t» 
AW» ABOCr X O I HiJWi . H. S. SMI 
FAITH IN L':!vD TERST. 
ll^tn OMTj ^ did sttm t»stiiis stm^ 
T« fKit Ae wmrU mssmrwmtr wf m mot. 
