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15 in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. It may be well to quote it in full : A recent experience of the New York Times with one W. P. White of Philadelphia illustrates how men professing the most exalted ideals often will distort facts and garble figures in order to sustain some personal hobby will, in fact, circulate downright lies as truth and salve their con- sciences with the notion that they are "doing good." The annual report of the judge advocate general showed, as has every such report for the last six years, that drunk- 118 Getting Acquainted. enness and the crimes flowing from it had increased in the army since the abolition of the canteen. The Times noted the fact and made appropriate comments. Thereupon Mr. White wrote a letter alleging that just the contrary was true, and giving figures, professedly taken from the official report, showing that general courts-martial had decreased from 6,680 in 1900 to 4,596 in 1906, and that cases of drunkenness before such courts had decreased from 1,645 in 1900 to 504 in 1906. The truth is, as the Times has ascertained by thorough investigation at Washington, that since the power of in- ferior military courts was extended by the act of March 2, 1901, there have been practically no trials for drunkenness by general courts-martial, and that the decrease of such cases alleged by Mr. White was merely a decrease of pleas of

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