Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
ONLY SIX MORE
MEN ARE NEEDED.
Better Feeling Among Our
Light Infantry.


The monthly meeting of the Am
CIRCUS Light Infantry on Tuesday
night was we'll attended. About thir-
ty of the men were out and were
put through good drill by Lieut..
Fort. The men have improved con-
siderably in the manual and in gen.
eral military appearance and are de-
veloping into an organization that
must reflect credit on the city.
Capt Van Ripper made a brief adj
dress to the men before the drill be-
gan, explaining how the finances of
the company, which have been in
bad shape, have been materially i'm
proved by the donation by the city of
$500. This and other assistance will
remove the financial worriment the
company has been Iaboring under. The
men were much enthused by the re-
port.
Capt. Van Ripper expressed his sat
isfaction with the general personnel
of the company. He believed, he said,
that the men would manifest a great
er degree of interest in the drills and
other company work now that the
burden of debt hanging over them
had been removed. While the State
expects greater things from its mill
tary than in the past he saw no rea-
son why the Americas Light Infan-
try should not rise fully to all obliga-
lions put upon it.
There are now 50 men enrolled in
the company Under the new law,
in accordance with the Dick law, it
will be necessary to have So enroll
ed men on January /. 1t is not be-
lieved that there will be any great
trouble experienced in getting the adj
ditional six men.
How to Handle MObs
General orders No. 10, which are
a compilation of the law and regula-
tons covering the use of troops in aid
of civil authority, in cases of riot,
lynching and the like, has just been
received from the press by Adjutant
General A. J. Scott, who is prepared
to distribute copies of the document
to military and civil authorities.
In the matter of firing on mobs the
order states that under no circum-
stances is any shot to be fired with
out orders from the proper military
superior.
Troops are not to fire for slight or
inconsequential attacks, but in this
connection the order says: Shots
fired or missiles thrown are not to
|, be considered slight attacks. Nothing
SO emboldens mob as a passive re-
sistance, and it should never be al
lowed.
"The first stone thrown or the
first shot fired at troops should draw
two or three shots fired under orders
by one or two marksmen designated
by the commander, great care being
taken that the rest of the troops I'M
derstand that no other shots are to
be fired without orders. q
Any man in a crowd or on a roof or
at a window, plainly seen to fire a
shot or throw stone at the troops
should be shot, not by an indiscrimi-
nate volley, but by marksman fir
ing by order at that one man, more
caution, of course, being observed if
the man to be shot is in a crowd
than at window or on a roof, or at
some other place where he can be
seen apart from other people.
ut would also be wise where it is
possible to do so to have a few dis
Greet marksmen stationed on the
roofs of some of the higher buildings
in the neighborhood of the riot to
keep down single firing or throwing
missiles or bricks from chimneys,
from buildings upon the trops."