Military Drill in Public Schools.
By Editor
A bill is still pending, we believe, before Congress, "to establish a bureau of military education, and to promote the adoption of uniform military drill in the public schools of the several states and territories." Special pleas are put forth in behalf of this. One is that the exercise is needed from a health standpoint; but this can all be met by regular gymnastics and calisthenic practices. Able specialists declare that military drill is defective in meeting the requirements of boys in the growing period. Even military officers are opposed to it. But above and beyond its defects as a physiological benefit, it should be opposed by every lover of humanity. It develops within the boy the spirit of killing and murder. He looks upon human life as cheap. Instead of becoming his enemy's saviour, he seeks to become his destroyer. It should receive earnest protest from every lover of boys.