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IS IT A DEGRADING SERVITUDE?
A correspondent gives ità con- temporary Some i creating "quotations from Rob Blatch ford's book, "Mỹ de in, the Army, which he lietes dis- count the strong condemnation Blatchford passed on the life of the soldier as he experienced it. He calls attention to the following passage:-
"Lethe civilian imagine that in these papers, or in any novel or story, he has seen the British Army and the British soldier as they are, or, rather, were.
The common speech of the barrack groom in my time was unprint-
able,"
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Again, in the concluding chapters of Blatchford's book lo writes:-
I left the Army tore than thirty Fears ago. inded has happened since."
"These Then are better soldiers than the men of the serenties. They look
more intelligent, more alert, keener at their work. I shoubl say, from their appearance, that they are steader men than those I served with. I did not see a single cauteen face in my lay's ride."
The men are sober, steady,
clean, and intelligent; they have
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"For military training, if cun- ducted on reasonable lines, is jino: a bad thing, but a good thing for all young men. And I u sure, and most soldiers will agree with rae, that no gymns-
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ties, nor athletics, nor sports can speaking mainly from hearsay, or Bennverats, which is beea cons- replace it. Because military from what he has observed from tantly quoted in the Times and training infuses a collective the cutsitle. Even so it must be other Northcliffe journals as spirit and an instructive discip-admitted that the passages are evidence of the fact that even line which can be gained in no inconsistent and contradictory. German Socialism was militarist other way.
In the extract we quoted giving Blatchford is continually his conscien- .."I have seen coster boys, Blatchford's own experience he torn between mill hands, town-bred hooligans, says that he has seen "clean, tious desire to represent the evils
service round-shouldered, good, nice nice boys come into of military
as he iguorast, pallid, unwashed, and murally the army and go the devil injexperienced them, and his con- lose came into a regiment; and less than a year. Inviction that military service is! in six months they were clean, the extract given above he necessary and therefore a good smart, well-conducted, well-speaks of seeing "ignorant, round-thing. But the conscript smy -spoken, well-built soldiers. Ishouldered, pallid, unwashed, that he would like to see organised the transformation and morally loose" men coming is totally different from that effected. I have myself gone into a regiment and becoining of militarist conscriptionists through the mill. I am convinced "clean, surt, well-conducted, like Colonel Arthur Lee, that the Army-saved my life. I well-spoken, well-built soldiers." who supports conscription be- Head Ofice No. 47 & 43, Connaught Road. Mental, Hongkong Telephone No. 1219 & 2234. am sure that it did me more good All the white we are to suppose cause he believes it would than any other experience love that this is accomplished unter be cheap, Socialist national had."Military training com- "discipline unnecessarily severe service such as Blatchford wants pels cleanliness and order and and often stupid," which at the would be used for objects con- good behaviour. It gives a youth same time provides an amount cerning which the military at the right time, and in the of licence which is dangerous to conscriptionist would shudder, right way, good food, good cloth-all but those of strong good sense yet the National Service League, ing, healthy, open-air exercise and strong will" Again, Blatch-with its staff of retired military It provides a course of physical ford attributes much of the evilsin officers, bas no hesitation in culture. It enforces early rising, the army to the barrack system, quoting Blatchford as if he and habits of discipline, and regular where the language of the men was they had the same aspirations. hours of sleep. It improves the unprintable and the moralsshock- -bealth and the physique, ing, yet he speaks of the soldiers and it sharpens the mind of the later time, with the barrack "and breeds the habit of system still in being, as mach Calcutta, February 25.-The self-reliance and alertness. superior to those of his own day, Committee of the Bengal Chamber "But it does very much more proceeding to destroy any con-of Commerca hase recently 1han that. It trains men in com-clusion that the army is the cause addressed the Government of radeabip; it infoses what I call of the improvement by pointing India on the difficulty of securing the collective spirit." "Ito the superiority of the modern homeward passages and also on
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