Seen in Germany . severea training as the two-year men. Usually they arerequired to live in barracks only a short time, andafterwards they may board where they please, pro-vided they are always on time for work. It iscommon also for them to employ aputz kamerad(cleaning comrade), who looks after their clothingand rifle, and they escape much of the drudgery ofbarracks, but they are compelled to take the sametraining and drills as the other men. It costs theparents ot a volunteer from 2000 marks (:j^50o) up-ward to pay his wav through a years service. Germany is said to manage its militarv syste
Seen in Germany . severea training as the two-year men. Usually they arerequired to live in barracks only a short time, andafterwards they may board where they please, pro-vided they are always on time for work. It iscommon also for them to employ aputz kamerad(cleaning comrade), who looks after their clothingand rifle, and they escape much of the drudgery ofbarracks, but they are compelled to take the sametraining and drills as the other men. It costs theparents ot a volunteer from 2000 marks (:j^50o) up-ward to pay his wav through a years service. Germany is said to manage its militarv systemconsidering its equipment more cheaply than anyother nation. The whole vast armv of Germanvdoes not cost the government as much each year as The German Private Soldier 85 the United States pays in pensions. The ordinaryarmy expenses of Germany for the year 1900 were1131,308,900, and the total for the year, inckidingextraordinary expenses, was 1161,500,000. Yet thisis an enormous increase over the expense of a few. Ca-ualrjmen tilting with Muffled Lances years ago, being more than double that ot 1872and half more than that of 1890, showing that mili-tary prowess is yearly becoming a heavier this sum, great as it is, does not inckide thewages of over a half million men lost to industry, S6 Seen in Germany agriculture, and commerce. According to the esti-mates of 1900 the strength of the army on its peacefooting was 571,692, of whom 491,136 were privatesand 80,556 were noncommissioned officers. Be-sides these there were 23,850 officers and over5,000 other miHtary officials of various kinds. Andnot included in these estimates are about 9,000 one-year volunteers who serve at their own cost. Rigid economy is the watchword of the entire sys-tem. Only a rich man may become an officer, for to alarge extent he must pay his own way, a major generalreceiving a salary of barely ^185 a month from thegovernment, while a second lieutenant gets onlyabout ^20 a month, or about the pa
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