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TEN Some of Switzerland's 300,000 Soldiers — - . . .. ■ \.kum iiinw wm+ r ' > NEUTRALITY DEFENDERS. Rwlfserlind hap 300,000 mm under ru n s tn <lrff*n<J her neutrality If it shall become necessary. The photograph above shows i point on the (Jemum-H w If- - honlev when* .1 mad cTonms, near Basle. On the further side are German sentries, with their curious pointed he lute's while on tin- nearer side with fixed bayonets nro two Swiss on guard. Tlie Swiss uniform and cap remind one strikingly of tin- Confederate and Unionist troops in the American Civil War. Like them, 100, they are citizen soldiers Below arc seen two soldleis partlctput itig in the remarkable mountain manoeuvres of the Swiss army. On the left « Su' ■- is lying on Ids hack, tiring a machine nun up a very steep slope. On the tight a fully equipped sol dier is climbing a mountainside which might well balk an unencumbered Alpinist. CHRISTMAS Suggestions A box of Kino Cigars, Meerschaum or Kivnuli Briar Pipe, Kine Amber Cigar or Cigarette Hold er, Cigar or Cigarette Case Will Make a Most Acceptable as Well as Appreciative Christmas Gift for Your Gentlemen Friends. Cigars of highest qual ity ranging from $1 per box upwards. Some of our well known brands: Optimo, Sanchez & Haya, Tadema, La Preferencia, Santaella, San Felice, La Folwin, Cinco, C. H. S. Careful Attention Given Instruc tions Regarding Deliveries. Ladies Specially Invited to Call. Burdell - Cooper Tobacco Co. 711 BROAD ST. PHONE 23 Never Such Smart Styles in Boys' Clothing for So Little Before “Never” la a very strong word to tire, but those splondld values warrant it rtght now and light her*' Supply and demand never quKe equalise themselves for supply ta either too great or the demand too small and that's why were overstocked. ('losing cwt all boys' fine salt aftock* before the boeinees year etoeee December Slat included are the amart and popular Norfolk and Double Breasted Suits. MS CREAKY’S “HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES-" MILITARY SYSTEM OF SWITZERLAND 15 FOR DEFENSE ONLY, WITH NEVER A I NOUGHT GIVEN FOR AGGRESSION The Swiss Have Never Been Conquered and Have Never At tempted to Conquer Another Nation Public Speakers and Writers in United States Have Recently Written Much in Praise of the Swiss System in Bemoaning the Unprepared ness of America for War. Switzerland has never been conquer ed and it has never attempted to con quer any other nation. Its military system Is for defense only and mill : larj aaKresslon is unthouKht of. Many (lines reeently piddle speakers and I writers in the l T nlted States have i praised the Swiss system in hemoan ! liir the unpreparedness of America for I war Tile Swiss system Is admired FOR RENT INo Street. Rooms, Me*. j arts Taylor St 9 SIB.OO | 802 Telfair St 5 18.00 I 814 l'hllllp St * 19.00 ; 821 Phillip St. 6 18.00 i'll Walker St 4 12.00 449 Reynolds St 4 11.00 1 445 Watkins St B 15.00 1845 Jenkins St 8 20.00 1705 Jenkins St 5 20.00 108 Reynolds St 5 10.00 i"5 Reynolds St 8 26.00 120 Centre St., (store & deuce) 85.00 - ' Reynolds St 9 85.00 441 Welker St 9 40.00 4 41Walker St. 5 80.00 1041 Itroad St IS 40.00 1545 Rroad St 8 12.50 I >347 Kilts St 8 8.50 K\» St, near \V. Way 5 22 00 429 Calhoun St 6 22.50 902 Centre St ; 22.50 1718 tlwlnnett St 5 10.00 : 1470 Sllcox St 4 12.00 , 1488 Cooper St 8 6.00 712 Kollock St 4 18.50 j 8445, Broad St 5 33.38 Lockhart, Lucky & Co. 211 SEVENTH ST. Telephone 640. because It costs little nnd keeps the young men of the nation from Indus try scarcely at all, yet produces a trained body of men which the strong est military power In the world could only attack with the assurance of meeting it fearfid resistance und suf fering enormous losses. II is interesting to note that the adoption of the Swiss system would change the United States from the weakest land on the great nations of the earth to the most formidable. Here ore the figures. To defend her neu trality Switzerland has now mobilized 3 00,000 men. Her population is 3,800,- 000. In the same ratio of army to population the United States would have 7.800.000 soldiers in time of great m ed. Kven Germany had only 5,000,- 000 trained men when this great wir started: while Russia probably had about the same number on whom she could depend without further instruc tions. Reserve. It is this sense of the enormous re serve of men, “ounnon fodder,” In the 10(1,000,000 population of the United States which gives superficial persons a sense of security. Man plus gun equals soldier, they reason. Hut as a matter of fact the trained man is the only one who counts in the first six months of a great war. How many trained men has the United Stales today? That is a hard question to answer, for our militia, or N itional Guard, is an uncertain body of varying efficient) But giving the National Guard all the benefits of the doubts, both as to numbers nnd tmin ing. the regular army of the United States und the guard together only number 175,000 men. Thin Is a little more than half the forces of Switzerland und loss than one-forty-fourth the army the United States would have If the Swiss sys tem were adopted, if a major power attacked us, our present little army could only die bravely—and uselessly. Small Size. Partly due to the smalt size of the country, mobilization In Switzerland 'a the quickest In the world. it took Just forty-eight hours for the entire army of 800.000 to be at their posts In the early part of August last, whrtt it was feared that the French and Germans might violate the neutrality o the little state. German military experts expressed their admtrutlon of this fact. • The Swiss forces are a citizen army. Kvery citizen is liable to serve with the colors at any time from his twen tieth to his forty-eighth year. The forces are divided Into the Aus •ug, or elite, the young men up to the age of thtrtv-two; the 1-undwehr. or first reserve of soldiers from thirty three to forty years old: and the " I .andstrmn" or second reserve, of men from torty-one to forty-eight years of age The cantons, corresponding roughly t our states, recruit the infantry, field artdlery. and cavalry, while the con tecerates enroll the engineers, guides, sanitary and administrative troops. Uniforms nnd equipment are fur nished by the cantons but the fede ral government reimburses them for tla se. and also supplies the troops with arms. livery man keeps his uniform and l rifle at home and here it ta guarded I more closely than the family bonds or THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. tlio baby. There is a yearly Inspec tion of armament and equipment, at which every soldier has to appear and show that all his implements of war are in Rood order. Kvery man is at liberty to decide whether he shall serve In the infantry or cavalry, a member of the lutter providing his own horse. Rich and poor march side by side and a mer chant may find he Is a private under a corporal who Is his employe in peace time. The recruits of each year are sent to one of the schools for recruits lo cated in different cities. Here the in fantry receive sixty-five days' prelimi nary training. the cavalry ninety days, field and mountain artillery, seventy five; engineers, seventy-five; transport men, forty-two, and ambulance men, sixty. The instruction is Imparted by a spe cial corps of instructors aided by the officers of the higher and lower rank in the small standing army. Since 1907 the cavalry and all the branches of the Auszug must attend a repetition course of eleven days ev ery year. The lguulwehr forces have a repetition course every four years. The Swiss are especially proud of their rifle shooting. Every reservist must do a certain amount of rifle prac tice each year and his record is care fully kept. Every village, too. has its rifle club, or “Schuetzengesellschaft." It will be remembered that the Swiss took the world's championship on the occasion of the rifle shooting contest at Camp Perry, Ohio, in IRIS, and that this was the fourteenth time out of sixteen that the little nation had cap tured this coveted honor. L'ttle Money, The Swiss army is run on very Mt USEFUL XMAS SIFTS AT SPEWS Practical Suggestions for the Entire Family at Sacrifice Prices. Every Article in the House Reduced 25% to 40% EXTRA SPECIAL $1.50 Wizard Oil Floor Mop (limited) 97c Our Line oi Brass Goods Is the Most Complete we Have Ever Carried. Brass Wood Boxes, Screens, Fire Sets, Fenders. Nothing so highly appreciat ed as a nice piece of brass goods. Very Swell Chafing Dishes While They Last. Regular SIO.OO, will g oat $6.79 Regular SIO.OO Coffee Machines.s6.7s Brass Kettles, very special $3.75 SB.OO Steak Plates for . $5.75 $2.00 Casseroles 85c Every article in Our Entire Stock Greatly Reduced. STOVE DEPARTMENT We are over stocked on Heating Stoves, and prices have been slashed re gardless of cost. $75.00 Monitor Radiator . . . . .$64.75 $70.00 Monitor Radiator .... $59.75 $65.00 Monitor Radiator .... . . £54.75 $65.00 Jewel Base Burner . . . $47.75 Franklin's from . . . ~...510.00 up Heating Stoves as low as . Toys tor the Boys and Girls $30.00 Automobile . ... . .. .$22.75 $25.00 Engine $19.75 $12.00 Wagons. $9.75 $6.00 Irish Mail. . . . , $3.75 $2.00 Drums. .............. .$1.25 SI.OO Drums. 79c 25c Drums . 17c Tool Chests for Boys, from .... 25c up Foot Balls from.. k .. . mu..i. .75c up L. P. SPETH. Broad St. tie money—by American standards. Only the instructors, the general staff and a few other officials receive a reg ular salary. The reserve officers re ceive pay only for the period of their brief training. The private when on duty has his traveling and living ex penses paid and gets also 16 cents a day. The recruits of all services re ceive only ten cents a day, yet It Is recorded that many a thrifty Swiss youth has returned to his village at the end of his training with almost ev ery centime of his pay-. The United States army costs one dollar per inhabitant a year; while the Swiss army, forty-four times larger in proportion to population, costs $2.25. Every Swiss cltlsen must become a reservist unless he Is physically un fit or less than five feet one and one half inches tall. The officers for the Swiss forces ure trained In several schools. There is a central military college at Thun for the instruction of officers of the gen eral staff and another for regimental officers There Is an Infantry Instruc tor training school at Basel and there are special shooting and ambulance corps courses. Many Suggestions. The Emperor William honored the Swiss with his presence at the man euvers in 1912 and got many sugges tions for his own army. In these man euvers six hundred mountaineers at tacked an Imaginary enemy occupying the Egglahorn. a mountain 9.625 feet above ti e sea level In height. The battalion descended from the Jung fraujoch. 11,140 feet high, where they had camped over night in the snow, executed a forced march across the great Aletsch Glacier In a snowstorm and then stormed the Egglshorn. 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Pocket Knives from ... t . . —.sc to SB.OO CARVING SETS From SI.OO to $15.00. $6.00 Rogers Knives and Forks. .$3.75 a man dropped out of the ranks from exhaustion. In the present company of soldiers from Fort Savatan carried artillery to the greatest height In the mountains yet recorded in any army. In full uni forms they dragged their maxims and mitrailleuses to the summit of the Dent-du-Midi, 10,695 feet high! tn the full portion of the climb, the men were obliged to cut footholds in the Ice. The artillery practice, including an attack on a mountain pass occu pied by the “enemy” was Successfully carried out. Every man was present at the roll call when the exhibition was over. Germany. While Switzerland in the north Is pro-German In sympathy, the nation realizes that their most probably en emy. that Is, the one with whom there is mots likelihood of trouble, is Ger many. A popular picture post card in Switzerland shows a supposed Inci dent of the emperor's Inspection of the maneuvers two years ago. It Is labeled “The Kaiser in the l.and of the Best Shots.” The emperor. In full war ac coutrement. Is shown looking at a sim ple Swiss soldier holding a rifle. Tn the distance Is a target. In which the soldier has Just made a bull's eye "So, my son,” says William, "there are a hundred marksmen like you In Switzerland. But suppose I come wltn two hun'red Prussians?" “In that rase, your majesty.” replies the mountain soldier, "we must each fire twice.” - -f- ■ ■ LEAVES FOR ROME. Amsterdam, (via London, 8:55 a. m.) — A Berlin telegram announces that Prince Bernard von Bueiow. the former German chancellor, who recently ac- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 cepted the post of ambassador to Italy left fdr Rome on Tuesday. General Bronsart von Schellendorf, the former Prussian minister of war, is dead. 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