"I never thought of that!" said Dick, mightily impressed. "But
you're right, Harry. The Boy Scouts wouldn't go to war themselves,
but the fellows who were grown up and in business and had been Boy
Scouts would be a lot readier than the others, wouldn't they? I
suppose that's why so many of our chaps join the Territorials when
they are through school and start in business?"

"Of course it is! You've got the idea I'm driving at, Dick. And
you can depend on it that General Baden-Powell had that in his
mind's eye all the time, too. He doesn't want us to be military
and aggressive, but he does want the Empire to have a lot of
fellows on call who are hard and fit, so that they can defend
themselves and the country. You see, in America, and here in
Enland, too, we're not like the countries on the Continent. We
don't make soldiers of every man in the country."

"No -- by Jove, they do that, don't they, Harry? I've got a,
cousin who's French. And he expects to serve his term in the
army. He's in the class of 1918. You see, he knows already when
he will have to go, and just where he will report - almost the
regiment he'll join. But he's hoping they'll let him be in the
cavalry, instead of the infantry or the artillery."

"There you are! Here and in America, we don't have to have such
tremendous armies, because we haven't got countries that we may
have to fight across the street - you know what I mean. England
has to have a tremendous navy, but that makes it unnecessary for
her to have such a big army."