The National Board of Rifle Practise

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FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 14.

The National Board of Rifle Practise

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The National Board of Rifle Practise, the Springfield Republican tells us, `

is meeting with considerable success thruout the country, altho the work will not be fairly inaugurated until provision is made for its support thru the War Department at Washington. General Robert Shaw Oliver, assistant secretary of war and president of the national board for promotion of rifle practise, has recommended that a provision for $100,000 be embodied in the army appropriation bill for the promotion of rifle practise in public schools, colleges, universities, and civilian clubs, including the cost of arms, ammunition, prizes, and other incidentals.'' This, we suppose, is to help on the work of The Hague Conference. Train these young men to shoot at dead targets, and military ambition will never be set at rest till they can shoot at live ones. Truly it is the fulfilment of the cry of the prophet,

`Prepare war.'' Joel 3: 9-13.