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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTOIUA, OREGON.. TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1907. LENT.... A FEW SUGGESTIONS Broiled Mackeral 2oc per tin. Kippered Herriug 25c per tin. Snow White Halibut 2.e per tin. , Fancy Prepared Codfish 20c, box. Fancy English Bloaters "c each. EXTRA SPECIAL Salted Salmon Tips 20c per lb. Salt Herring, Mackerel. Salt Salmon. Just Received A fresh shipment of takers Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee. A. V. ALLEN, NEEDS RIFLE CLUBS AmericaFar Behind Other Nations in Encouraging Marksmen. HAS NOW FORTY-SEVEN CLUBS 8wiUeriand Hu Three and a Half Thousand Clubs, Despite Her Small Population English Government Aids Associations. WASHINGTON. March 11. (Spec ial Correspondence.) One only need know the history of this country and understand what mllHtary ef- fieency means to reallie how trem endously Important It is that our cit izens Should be more or less fam liar with modern arras. . Skill with weapons spells strength in . war. It is said that a large percen tage of the volunteers in the late war had "never fired a military rifle be fore entering the service. It is this class of young men the National Rifle Association is desirous instru cting In rifle ahooting organizing them into rifle clubs. Experience so fr gained in the rifle club movements has shown that these clubs are a help to National Guard enlistments, members, in many cases joining the guard for the practice In shooting they thus sec ure. The great advantage of the rifle t club is that it offers an open door to the man whose pressure of civilian vocation renders it impossible for him to attend drills and camp of In struction. The United States has forty sev en organized government clubs with a membership of about 3,000 (not clubs). The little republic of Swlt- serland, with Its three and one half millions of population, has 3.656 clubs. with a membership of 133.4$$. Kng Innd has 60 clubs with a member ship of 43.225. Data concerning the number of clubs in Franco, Italy, RnuH anil the Argentine Republic, countries .where great interest Is taken In this matter, are not avai lable. Switzerland gives Its riflo clubs a money appropriation of about $300, 000 annually, with this expenditure 142,704 lnlshed marksmen were turned out in 1S05. The English government gives its National Rifle Association free am munition and much Indirect assistance In renting target facilities, and detail ing regular army officers and men to assist in running the annual matches at Blsley. From the King, the Prince of Wales, and prominent citizens' generally, county and colonial subscriptions, banks, business houses, etc., are re ceived donations for the National Rifle Association of Great Britain to the extent of from $15,000 to $20,000 annually. The Association has a sur plus of $189,000. to Its credit The Dominion of Canada gives a grant of $15,000 annually to its Na tional Rifle Association; Italy appro priates $15,000 to her Rifle Assocla ion annually, and France gives even more than this to her federation of rifle clubs. The United States approp riates for the National Rifle Assoc! atlon of America nothing. To the Na tional Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice is annually given $5,900 for the expense of its members, and for the prizes in the National Matches. The regular army and military are well taken care of, but nothing has ever been done in this country to foster civilian rifle clubs except what the National Rifle Association of America has done. 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Mother Earth don't answer knocks; but let him dig, scatter good seed and behold! the earth yields abundantly. HENCE, WE DIG1 We are digging into our splendid stock, sowing the low price seed and as a result our clerks are kept on the jump ! J -2 off on winter Overcoats 1-5 off on Rain Coats and Suits J-5 off on Hats and Underwear 1-5 off on Trunks, Umbrellas etc. 42 long pant Boys Suits, Your choice $4.35 Sizes 12 & 19. 56- 3 piece boys suits, your choice $2.90 Sizes 7 & 15. HERMAN WIS! Astoria's Reliable Clothier and Hatter. BEHIND ACH ARTICLE SOLD IN HIS STORE from membership fees and dues. If the movements toward civilian rifle clubs is to meet with any meas ure of success In the United .States it would seem necessary that some indu cements should be offered for citi zens to organize clubs, in the way of aims and ammunition, permission to us e the government an.l State ranges, prizes for excellence In com petition Hhootlng, and assistance to ward the building of small ranges. In 1 004, in Switzerland, 13,000 boys were organized Into shooting corps. Reckoning according to population If the Swiss system existed In the Unit ed States, there would bo nearly 300, 000 boys Instructed In rifle shooting. and If shooting clubs existed with us in similar proportion as In Switzer land, the membership would attain to nearly 5,000,000. Switzerland has 3,200 communes (counties), and 2,735 ranges; the United States has, roughly speaking, 3,000 countries and only about 260 ranges. A bill Intro- luted by Representative Wiley, of Alabama, contemplates a range for ;a:h congressional district. We have a number of state that do not own ranges even for the use of their or ganized militia. This defect will, in a measure, be corrected through the recent act of Congress Increasing the annual appropriation for themlll- i la to $2,000,000, and requiring the , in the most effective moans to pro States to use at least T., per cent of j mote peace Is being followed by advo th.'lr allotment for building rifle J rating and promoting fide shooting ranges and practice. A State may ' among our citizens, use It.s total allotment for this pur-j ,,, n)8 m,.HHag) to Congress t.te Prc po.se, If It H..es fit to do so. Under . H,)Hlt nuH ,nH to say: "We this law many of the States have be- Hhmld establish shooting galleries In gun and others will soon begin the., llu, i,irK public and mllltury building of ranges, and It Is . hoped , m;hooU, should mnntaln national tar that when completed they will be, ranires j different parts of the CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature thrown open to the use of members of civilian clubs under proper regul ations. " country, and should In every way en courage the formation of rifle clubs throughait tnje country." , This In The National Riflo Association has not the first time the president has inaugurated a policy of working in close harmony with the military au thorities of the State", of harden ing Its sphere of Influence by secur ing life members, and by forming new clubs. Officers have been establish ed at 299 Broadway, New York, with the Secretary in charge. If the asso ciation receives the proper co-operation and support we will very soon put himself on record as In favor of promoting rifle shooting among the citizens of the country. Not only the President, but Secretary of War, Mr. Taft, Secretary Root, General Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War Generals commanding the army, and many men prominent In the affairs of the country have also recognized the Importance from the standpoint have In this country many thousands! of national defense, of this subject, of "National Marksmen," as the mem- and the necessity of something be- bers of rifle clubs are called who lng done to bring about the results for qualify under the code adopted, using' which the National Rifle Associa te army title, and It will never be'tlon of America has been striving for said again that at least 85 per cent years. Public interest must be of the volunteers (as it is believed to aroused, the people of the country have been the case In the hurt war) t must understand the great importance had never fired a rife before en- of this work, and action of Congress llstements General Washington's must follow to fully attain the desl maxlm that "to bo prepared tot war red results. BUY YOUR FROM S. A. G1MRE B43 Bond St., opposite Fisher Bros.