THE CHICAGO HORROR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 6

THE CHICAGO HORROR

! RESPONSIBILITY FIXED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Chicago, July 29. " At the inquest regarding the Chicago steamer disaster, when tho Eastland turned turtle, with much loss of life, tho verdict named the head: officials of the company owning tho steamer, the captain, and ongineer of tho steamboat, and the inspector as the cause of the disaster. . • It is believed that the Eastland rested on the river bottom, settling over when the crowd thronged on boara.

Regret that tlio junior cadet system had been abolisned in:connection witii tie public schools of the Dominion was expressed by the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday, when tho board received a copy of a circular issued by tho Education Department to head teachers, requesting tho return of equipment of disbanded junior cadet corjjs. "The action of the authorities in disbanding the junior cadets was a bad move," remarked the chairman, Mr. G. J. Garland. "We should urge that the corps bo re-established. I have never been satisfied with tho Education Department's attitude in regard to this matter, and I never will bo satisfied until the movement is restored." Mr. Garland said tho system of Swedish drill which had been established in tho schools was'all right, and he was glad tltat it had been instituted, especially for the sako of girls, but ho failed to see why it should have been introduced at the expense.of the'junior cadet movement. Tho acting-senior inspector,.Mr. C. W. Garrard, supported the chairman's remarks. Ho said ho felt perfectly suro that tlio men who were fighting on the Cfallipoli Peninsula owed a great deal of their training to what tliey learned in the junior cadets at tlio public schools. For tho sake of-the discipline and the iono of the schools, and tho good of tlio boys themselves, the juuior cadet system was unequalled.

During the forties of tho last contury our regular army had sunk so low that a bare 10,000 recruits a year were all that was needed to keep it up to strength, notwithstanding the appalling death-rate, which averaged about 30 per y "■