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MAJ. GEN. WOOD ON ARMY. 
Points Out Poricy oF UNITED 
STATES FORCES. 
In discussing the necessity of a 
reserve system connected with the 
military policy of the United States, 
Maj. Gen, Leonard Wood, U. S. A., 
Chief of Staff, says in a pamphlet 
recently issued : 
“Tt is the experience of modern 
warfare that any given unit loses 
at least 50 per cent of its strength 
in the first six months of war. If 
this loss is not replaced, there is 50 
per cent. deterioration in the power 
of the unit; and if it is replaced by 
raw men the quality of the force as 
a highly trained team is destroyed. 
“This problem has an important 
economic aspect that has been ignor- 
ed throughout our military history. 
Military forces are maintained at 
great expense through long periods 
of peace in order to meet a brief 
emergency in war. Sound economics, 
therefore, demands ithat the peace ex- 
penditure be justified by unquestion- 
ed war efficiency. A company of in- 
fantry with three officers should con- 
tain the maximum number of train- 
ed riflemen that three capable offi- 
cers can command. This maximum 
appears to be 150 men; but if the 
company starts in the campaign with 
150 men the natural wastage of war 
will immediately reduce it below that 
number. If the vacancies are not 
filled, it ceases to be an economical 
company, because under these con- 
ditions we have a less number of 
men than three trained officers 
should control; and, on the other 
hand, if the vacancies are filled by 
untrained men, the company ceases 
to be a trained team, as under these 
conditions the three officers can not 
effectively command 150 men in ac- 
tion. 
‘The United States is the only na- 
tion that has no scientific means of 
meeting this situation. In all of our 
wars the companies first sent into 
the field have dwindled away in 
strength and as these units have dwin- - 
dled away new levies under untrained 
officers have been organized. The 
result has been that our wars have 
been long and protracted and attend- 
ed by great sacrifices of blood and 
treasure. Each battle has generally 
been followed by a period of inact- 
ivity. Such an army has no power 
to keep up persistent military act- 
ivity.” 
It is sincerely hoped that the Bal- 
kan nations will now bury the 
hatchet instead of continuing to 
bury one another. 
. afore” as the subject. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
How the Editors Get Rich. 
After a great deal of worry and 
study, says a patient pen-pusher, 
whose name we do not know, we 
have at last figured out how so 
many country editors get rich. Here 
is the secret of their success: 
There is a child born in the neigh- 
borhood. The attending physician 
gets $10. The editor gives the loud- 
lunged youngster a great send off 
and gets $0. It is christened, and 
the minister gets $5, and the editor 
gets $00. It grows and marries. 
The editor publishes another long- 
winded flowery article and tells a 
dozen lies about ‘‘the beautiful and - 
accomplished bride.” The  minis- 
- ter gets $10 and a piece of cake. 
The editor gets $000 and a request 
to carry the groom’s subscription 
account another year. 
In the course of time she dies. 
The doctor gets from $5 to $100, the 
minister gets from $5 to $10, the 
editor publishes a notice of death 
and an obituray two columns, lodge 
resolutions, a lot of poetry and a 
card of thanks and gets $0,000. No 
wonder so many country editors get 
rich_— Exchange. 
New York HIppopRoME. 
After a run of more than half a 
year at the New York Hippodrome 
the collosal scenic spectacle “Amer- 
ica,’ greatest of the shows that have 
brought world-wide fame to that im- 
nounced for early closing. «Only 
three weeks remain in which this 
truly remarkable stage creation may 
be seen. 
Widespread interest and curiosity 
have been aroused by this unusual ° 
prodedure, for “America” is at the 
very height of its prosperity and has 
been breaking all records for attend- 
ance and box office receipts. It could 
be continued for months with every 
prospect of big returns, but the man- 
agement of the world’s largest thea- 
tre has willed otherwise and is about 
to embark upon an experiment—a 
“Spring show.” 
It is a huge spectacular operatic 
revival with the ever-popular “Pin- 
Work of or- 
ganization has been under way for 
a long time, with the result that a 
surprising array of widely known 
vocal talent has been secured. In 
addition to a group of stars whose 
names are househoid by-words, there 
will be six hundred carefully select- 
ed singers, comprising the largest 
cast that has ever. been heard in 
“Pinafore.” 
Occasionally we meet people who 
are almost as smart as we are. 
BOWLING LEAGUE, 
MANCHESTER TEAMS TO CELEBRATE 
CLOsE oF SERIES WitH SUPPER. 
The six teams of the Manchester 
Bowling league, which have been 
playing all winter at the Seaside al- 
leys, are to celebrate the close of the 
series in the near future in some 
suitable manner,—probably with a 
supper at the Park hotel, or some 
other place to be decided on at a 
meeting to be held Sunday. 
Sixty-four games have been play- 
ed by each of the six teams, and the 
Speed Boys close the series with a 
lead of only 15 points in percentage 
over the Wizards. The former won 
41 games and the latter 40. The 
Red Sox hold the last place in the 
list, with only two games less won 
than Younger’s Pets, the former 
having won 23 games and the latter 
25. The Athletics and the Slow 
Boys won 36 and 27 games respect- 
ively and consequently hold 3d and 
4th places. 
Of tthe individual players George 
- Rust leads with an average of 94 
pins and Cornelius Kelliher and Jos. 
Chadwick follow along closely with 
93 and some fraction each. 
The complete ‘score, showing the 
team and individual averages, fol- 
lows: ; 
Team Average. 
Per- Total 
Won Lost centage Pin Fall 
Speed Boys 41 23 630 20976 
Wizards 40 24 615 21000 
Athletics 36 28 562 20583 
Slow Boys 27 37 420 20425 
Younger’s Pets 25 39 390 20336 
Red Sox 23 41 359 20642 
; Individual Averages. 
George Rust 94 J. McNeary 85 
C. Kelliher 93 Wm. Slade $4 
J. Chadwick 93 G. Younger 84 
Walter Bell 92 CC. Mackin 84 
J. Burgess 92 J. Taylor 83 
Hollis Bell 91 J. Saulnier 83 
Gordon Cool 90 Mark Lodge 83 
O. Crampsey 90 F. W. Bell 83 
J. Jeffries §9 D. Chadwick 83 
L. Hutchinson 89 Wm. Cook 83 
G. Slade 89 Jos. Carey 82 
J. Cool ,88 A. Maslin 82 
Harry Slade 88 B. Stanley 81 
T. Marsh 88 N. Wood 81 
Wm. Walen 88 D. Coughlin 81 
E. Dechene 87 Spinney 81 
G. Norris 87 F. Sinnicks 72 
E. Valentine 86 F. Ebberson 79 
F. Bullock 86 M. Mason 79 
O. Stanley 86 E. Lethbridge 78 
J. Nazarro 86 Burnham 78 
G. Story 86 Geo. Jones 75 
A few more exiled kings in Eu- 
rope and The Hague can be used as 
a royal asylum. 
Mareconi’s word earries 2,000 
miles. More than that, it carries 
conviction. 
