The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-28
NATIONAL GUARDS
NINTH ANNUAL MEETING CLOSES
 AT COLUMBIA.
Feature Was Address by Colonel Hein- tand Who Advocated CompuIso- ry Service i'm MiIitia--TO Meet
 in Boston

Columbia, s. C., March 2s.-The National Guard Association of the United States. the name by which the Interstate National Guard Association is to be known in the future concluded It's ninth annual convention here to- day. Boston, Mass, was selected as the next annual meeting place.
 The subpects covered by papers and discussions were interesting and par ticularly the paper on fIndividual Sanitation and Hygiene" by the sec retary. Col. Carroll D. Evans. was given attention as this matter is one of the most vital of any phase of the entire work. The particular business feature of today's session was the constitution and bylaws to meet new conditions and to correspond with needs arising in the light of experi- ence.
 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Ma jor General Charles Dick. Ohio; vice. presidents, Major General George H. Moulin. Ill.; Brigadier General F. B. Wood, Minnesota; N. H. Henry, New York; William Stafford. Massachu- setts; J. c. R. Foster. Florida: J. B. Louck. California. F. w. J. Hughes, Kansas; Lawson Riggs, Maryland; J. F. Armfeld. North Carolina; w T. NAS01A SOlCs COh- necticut; Roger D. Williams. Ken lucky; Secretary, Col. Carroll D. Ev- ans, Nebraska; Treasurer. General John D. Frost, Columbia, s. c.
 The address of Col. H. O. s. Heis- tand, U S.. A, was the feature of the days session Colonel Heistand's address was we'll received by the dele gates.
 T deem 1t proper and opportune on this occasion to say to our people that if they would enjoy peace and it's blessings without humiliation, they must constantly impress the world with the evident fact that the United States is in a position to resist aggres- sion and to enforce its just demands /"
 The above statement was made by Col. H. O. S. Hiestand. Adjutant Gem eral of the United States Army in his introductory remarks on the subject, ''The Adjutant Generals Department as a factor in military training and its value to the nation.' before the Interstate National Guard Association tonight
 Colonel Hiestand called attention, to the great attention for military train ing on the part of civilians. Continu- Ing he said:
 There are those who combat the idea that soldiers constitute safe guard to civilization and that the peo- pie profess to see in them only a relic of barbarism; yet practical persons see in efficient and ever ready armed forces the chief instrument by which civilization was fashioned. the watch ful guardians of liberty and the best guaranty of peace on earth that man has yet evolved.
 Notwithstanding our enormous pen- sion roll,' he continued, there are doubtless thousands of old men who in the vigor of their youth freely offered their lives in defense of their country, now in feebleness and with health broken down due to that service. they are denied a portion of its generous bounty because some uninstructed cap- tain failed to make the necessary no- tations on muster rolls and returns, or careless adjutant generals failed to in- clude his organization In a strength 
 In conclusion Colonel Hiestand said that he would be glad to see as a re- quirement for any position in the class filed civil service of the Government an honorable discharge from it's mili- tary or naval service or from the or- ganized militia of one of the States or territories.
 Camp Sanitation" was the subject of an address by Colonel Vellery HaN ward, U. s. A.. while Major w. H. Hart, U. s. A. spoke on Subsistence of the organized militia"
 The time of the next meeting will be selected later by the committee.