The Kansas State Register from Wichita, Kansas • 5

Need of a National Reserve By LIEUT. COL. H. R. BRINKERHOFF, U.

S. Professor of Military Science and Tactics, Chicago University. If you would be a healthy man, row. As a physical training for young men rowing stands preeminent in the field of athletics. It is especially beneficial to young men filling sedentary occupations.

No matter what a young mans physical condition may be, lie cannot harm hint-self by rowing. The resistance of a shell in the' water is so light that lie cannot possibly pull hard enough to do himself an injury. True, he may tire, but fatigue induced by proper physical exercise does no one an injury. The young man who adopts rowing as a daily exercise will find that each day he can go a little farther than the day before without suffering fatigue, and almost unconsciously lie will develop into a long-distance oarsman. Of course speed is another question, -and depends entirely upon the man.

FAERY OARSMAN CANNOT BE A WORLD'S CHAMPION. Rowing develops every muscle of the bodv proportionately. The legs, shoulders, back and chest muscles are brought into full plav at every stroke. I bey are all regularly extended and relaxed, and, while? the muscles of the arms and the shoulders come in for the heaviest part of the work, the others arc In no means inactive. Rowing develops the grip in the hands without destroving their contour or enlarging the joints.

The vital organs of the body are benefited as in no other exercise. The lungs are full expanded with-each backward movement; the heart, which plavs such an important part in tests of endurance, is strengthened and given ample room for action. 1 he pure air usually met with on our lakes and rivers sends the blood tingling through the veins and arteries and gives the flush of health to aenemic men. I am 41 years of age and have been rowing regular! for 25 vears. To me rowing is both recreation and exercise.

To rowing alone I attribute my present sound physical condition. I am as strong as I was at 25. My physician tells me 1 am in a perfect physical condition, and it is rowing that has kept me so. My advice to all young men looking for healthful exercise is to get a shell and have a pul! at the oars cverv morning or evening both, if possible and they will have but little use for medicine. YOU ever stop long enough to count the cost in politics? Of course you never did.

You are a good citizen and good citizens never stop to count the cost in politics. But the professional politician knows all. about it. lie counts the cost. He makes out the bill and presents it to you AND YOU PAY IT.

Never mind counting the cost. It will not be pleasant unless you derive pleasure in contemplating figures. And besides it might make you pessimistic. The totals are big and if you examined the balance sheet loo closely you might find a pretty big bill of expense. In your business you count the cost.

on figure where you can get the best results for the least money. If one clerk or salesman can do the work of two you keep the better one and let the fellow who is merely interested in vour business on pay day seek employment elsewhere. In some respects the professional politician follows your example. )f course he does not figure as closely over the balance sheet and he would rather have two men on the pay-roll than one. But if one of the men does not "deliver the goods, that is to say, if he does not see to it that the voters are kept properly in line in accordance with the wishes of the "boss," he loses his job.

His place is filled, however, by another "hustler." But how about public business? you ask. that amounts to little in the calculation of the "boss." If it gets so far behind that it threatens to provoke a scandal the politician merely asks for more help and more appropriations and he gets them. 1 he increased force catcher up with the neglected work and the additional employes serve to strengthen the boss at election time. When the polls close and the boss wins he counts the cost. He finds out just what it is, and then he adds a little for good measure and sends the bill to you.

1 )U PAY IT. Perhaps you do not see it in the bill, but it is there. You remember the store of the traveling salesman who asked his employer to par for an overcoat He was new in the business and put it in his expense account. His employer promptly erased the item and when the salesmans account was handed to him next month said: "I do not see any overcoat in this bill." "No," re sponded the salesman, of course you don't sot- it, but it's there just the same." It is an old and well-worn story but it points a moral. ver time vou pav vour taxes you pay a round sum for the benefit of the professional politician.

You pay him, you pay his followers, vou pav the expenses of the machine You don't see it in the bill, but it's there )f course there a wav to rietily this. There is a way to stop the overcharge. There is a way to get rid of the professional politician There is a wav to cut vour taxes in half. But in order to do this vou must begin at the beginning. The organization of the national guard on the basis of a reserve force for the national government will once more be brought to the attention of congress at its next session.

Col. Britton, of the NewYork state national guard, is first in the field this year with a proposition for congressional action. The measure he has prepared contemplates the appointment of a commission to prepare and submit to congress a bill defining the 'status of the national guard and providing for its organization in accordance therewith. The colonels h. r.

GrinkerhofT, sition requires that the commission shall u- s- A- consist of nine members appointed by the president, one of whom shall be a United States senator, one a member of the national house of representatives, two officers of the army, and five officers of the national guard. To this proposition the adjutants general of 36 states have given their approval with some others yet to be heard from. The reluctance of congress to legislate upon any subject connected with the national guard has almost become proverbial. Strong influences have been exerted in the past to induce congress to fix bv law the status of the national guard, but without avail. NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE ON THIS SUBJECT HAS FOUND ITS WAY TO THE NATIONAL STATUTE BOOKS SINCE 1872.

The act of that year provides that, "whereas, sundry corps of artillery, cavalry and infantry now exist in several states by which the laws, customs, or usages thereof, have not been incorporated with 01 subject to the general regulations of the militia: That such corps retain their accustomed privileges, subject, nevertheless, to all other duties required by this act in like manner with the other militia. Bevond this Fare recognition of the national guard organizations the congress has done nothing. The national guard, therefore, finds itself a body CREATED by state law and RECOGNIZED by national law, but without legally defined status as to its relations to the national forces. The subject is bv no means a new one. For over too years it has claimed the attention of public men.

and has been before every congress convened since the davs of the first president. Col. Britton calls attention to the fact that Washington, when president, recommended the revision of the laws affecting the militia in no less than six messages to congress. Jefferson followed wth six more upon the same subject. Madison tried seven.

Monroe three, Adams two, Johnson three, Wan Buren three, Arthur two. 'frier, Haves, Lincoln, Harrison and Cleveland one each. Possible the main difficulty in the war of accomplishing national legislation for the national guard has heretofore been found in framing effective measures that would not trench upon the rights of the states. But. whatever the difficulties hare been, it is evident that THE.

NATIONAL GUARD IS NOW AND MUST BE CONTINUED A STATE GUARD. The recognition of this principle would seem to clear the wav for national legislation in constituting the national guard a reserve guard for the national forces. (dn this broad basis the reconstruction of the national guard can doubtless be effected, and its relation to both the state and the nation definitely fixed. It must be borne in mind, however, in working along this line that the members of the national guard, as a rule, labor for their daily bread and can devote only a fragment of their time to military in st nu tion. If the national guard is made a reserve for the national forces much more time must be spent in military training than at present This would necessarily involve abandonment at times of a part, at least, of the daily labors of the members of the national guard, and would result, doubtless, in loss of wages or business opportunities The question of remuneration for this loss must be considered and provided for.

Altogether the organization of the national guard on desirable lines is a perplexing problem, but it should be met, as it doubtlcs; will be in due time, in the spirit that becomes a great nation with worldwide interests at stake. A NOTABLE EXCEPTION. Youve got to hustle every time To get your list in Fortunes casket. If ever you intend to climb And wont a certain thing, just ask it. You may not, even then, you know, Get right into the push and head it, But ask and you may stand some show, Excepting when you ask for credit.

The Card -Catalogue Century By FORREST CRISSEY, Author of Odd Adventures in Queer Callings." NY attempts hare been made to catch in a single phrase the spirit of the present century. "The age of machinery" is expressive, and the "electrical age" i equally significant. Both arc typical of important phases of modern progress. Neither, however, gives hint of lie RULING SPIRIT (I" Tills HOUR: Intense, ex acting, SYSTEMATIZED C( ERCIAL-ISM. "RESULTS is the watchword of the great industrial world to-day- and the CARD CATALOGUE is the TH in which the changing atmosphere of business conditions registers with scientific precision its minutest alterations.

This modern dev ice reduces, for the imlivdu-al enterprise. theentire volume of itsoperations to the compass of the hand and to' the simplicity of the alphabet. It epitomizes the traffic of an extensive establishment and focuses for the eye of the busy executive a searching, analytical and comprehensive view of the business. 1 his is the spirit of the age the concentration, within the span of the hand, of all the vital information needed for a clear comprehension of the traffic of any enterprise. Lifting in his hand a card-catalogue tray, an extensive manufacturer recently remarked: "Here is where 1 feel the PULSE OF' MY BUSINESS.

Every patron of the house is listed here. One glance shows me the amount of his purchases for any month of the present year, the past year, or the two years preceding; the population of his city, the number of other dealers in our line located there, the promptness of his payments and other vital points of information. At regular intervals the correspondence man goes through the tray and writes to each customer whose orders show a decline, asking the reason of his dimin-shed trade. These letters are systematically followed by others, and every move made is indicated on the little card bearing his name. "SYSTEM is the KEYNOTE of commercial life to-day and the card catalogue is its type and symbol." When the applicant for assistance enters his appearance at the office of the modern metropolitan charity organization his fate is settled by reference to the card catalogue, where all his prvious relations with the bureau are summarized on the face of the little card.

The social settlement has kept pace with this phase of business system and the names of neighbors tajc the place of those of patrons. PHILANTHROPY and democracy thus pay tribute to the system which aids Commerce, Industry and Science to keep in instant touch with the whole movement of their vital statistics." GUESSWORK AND GENERALITIES NO LONGER SUFFICE. They are not in pace with the swift movement of the spirit of the day. System and concentration are the demands of the hour. THIS IS THE CARD-CATALOGUE CENTURY 1 I have been in business now for wars, and mv advice to voting men is to guard against laziness and wastefulness.

I dont give advice unless I'm asked, and then I give only the precepts which I have followed myself. They are precept's which I have followed for 07 years of the last century and for the first eight months of this one. I was 85 years old this month. 1 am still in the harness and I hope to die in the harness. If I gave up business I would rust.

I would play out, and I dont want to do cither. SC) FROM CHAT RECORD ANDFKOM THE INTENTION 1 HAY EXPRESSED, I AM IN A POSITION TO TELL YOUNG MEN NOT TO BE LAZY. The United States has grown in population from 3,000,000 to 75,000,000 since 1 began business, and during all that time no laborer lias worked harder and no thinker has thought more than I have. And I'm not boasting about it. It was a duty to myself and to my fellow man.

SO DONT BE I.AZY. AND DON'T BE WASTEFUL. Don't waste time. The chances are if you waste your time you' IE waste your money. Start with the right principles and then live up to them to the letter every minute of your life.

Then theyll become a part of yourself. I began that way and I have never failed to keep an engagement or fulfill a promise. I tell you this now because I want to show you that I live up to my advice. I got my principles from my hither and mother. My mother taught me reading, writing and arithmetic.

That was the only school-' ing I ever had. I left the farm at 16 for a job in a grocery store it Troy and nty wages were five dollars a month and board. 1 MADE UP MY MIND THEN NOT TO BE WASTEFUL AND I SAVED THAT FIVE DOLLARS EVERY MONTH. Before I was 21 1 had saved enough to go into business for myself. If you are not wasteful you probably can do the same thing.

And if you have fair health and sense you need not he poor. Saver your money from the first dollar and the time will come when your money will take care of itself and you. REMEMBER THAT THE WHOLE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN BUSINESS IS TO SPEND LESS THAN YOU MAKE AND TO SAVE THE DIFFERENCE. SO DONT BE WASTEFUL. Study men and human nature.

That knowledge will be invaluable to you. And study useful books that is part of your work. And build up your character. Character is the life of your manhood. Join a church and take an active interest in the church organizations.

You cannot help but profit many fold by Christian work. Thats about all I have to say. The rules have laid down arer general. In each case you will have to act according to particular circumstances, and you cannot tell how you will act until the circumstance confronts you. But if you have worked hard, made good use of your time, saved your money and built up your character, you'll be independent.

And if you're in comfortable circumstances you'lE probably be far happier than if you have millions. To enjoy life thoroughly it is not necessary to be wealthy. One hundred, fifty, even as late as twenty-five tears ago, small beginnings were considered necessary to ultimate success. It was the office boy who became the bank president. He rose front servant to master by years of toil and by a careful economy that husbanded every nickel.

Do the same conditions exist to-day? Yes and no. The office boy may yet become the bank president; the devil in the newspaper office may yet become the publisher of the metropolitan journal the section man on the railroad may yet become the general superintendent, but he rises; differently. IT IS A DAY OF BRAINS AND IDEAS AND NOVELTIES. The man with either of these has a marketable commodity for which he can find a ready purchaser. In the old days the office boy became the bank president at 50 or more; to-day the office boy may become the bank president at half that age if he has the ideas and is not afraid to express them.

He does not wait for promotion until the man above him dies; he discounts that man's ideas and methods with better ones and steps up a notch, while if he has not the ideas he will be an office boy all his life. To-day it is voting men who are running our railroads, our great newspapers, our factories, our stores, and we might almost say our government. And the reason for this is not that the old men have become despised, that the young man is coming to the front with new ideas. The individual or the corporation are looking for results, and keen competition in all lines has made new methods necessary to those who would succeed. The man who can produce the methods, and carry them out successfully, is the man that is wanted.

Years do not count for what they once did, and in the race for supremacy today the young man has an equal chance with the old man. It is brains against brains only. In every calling it is the brainy man's century. Ideas are in demand. Cultivate them for the market if you wish to succeed.

By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON I -J.