Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-29
No More ''P|aying Soldier"
in National Guard.
Men Must Have Experience TO
Participate in Maneuvers.
Ballots for Coming Election to Be
Shipped Tonight.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Friday, Oct. 80, at 10 A. M.

Next Teeting OF Governor and Council
Friday, Oct. &c. at 10 A. M.
T.
In accordance with changes which
have been made during the past year
in the standing of the organized
militia of the various states and terri
tories of the United States the men of
the National Guard of the State of
Maine Will on going into camp for the
annual tour of duty next summer find
conditions much different from those
which have heretofore existed In the
past it has been the custom on the
part of some company commanders,
whose commands were short of men
at the approach of encampment time.
e. recruit the company to the required
strength in order to go into camp with
full ranks, even though the recruiting
We're continued up to within a few
days of the date of encampment. In
other words some of the companies
would go int" camp with a good sized
percentage of what might be justly
termed raw recruits"
In consequence OF this custom a
communication vas recently issued
from the War Dept. at Washington, ID.
C., by Lieut.. Col. f. NJ. Weaver, chief
of division of the Coast Artillery
Corps, to Adiutant General Farnham.
and was later issued from the
adjutant generals office embodied in
General orders No. %, the text of
which was in part as follows:
Sir: 1t having been brought to the
attention of tn" Department. through
reports of Army officers. that many of
~ Il
Militia who have been in attendance
at recent field mancuvcrs and excr-
ciScs were without adequate prelim-
mary obstruction in the school of the
Soldier" and other elementary parts o
thC instruction of the recruit, an(
that, in some instances, enlisted moi
were carried on company rolls wh'
had never appeared in military forma
ton before reaching camp, ! an
directed by the Assistant Secretary o
War to call general attention t" thi
matter and to express the view of TIN
Department. that it is considered
profitlcSS ana an unnecessary cxpcnS
to the State and to the United state
to HAY" men participate in coast de
Tense exercises or other ficlt
nIaneuvers or exercises who have no
received some previous instruction II
the home armnrics in the school :"
the Soldier" small Arms Firms
Regulations and Manual Of Guart
Duty
So important is this regarded thai
the Department will not hereafter APP
prove the muster and payment of IN
listed men of the organized Militif
from United States funds VIII" have
not been bona iidc members OF the
organizations for at least six months
prior to the date of tn" commences
mcnt Of the Joint field mancuvcrs ol
exercises. or have not had equivalent
service in the Army, Marine Corps ol
organized militia of the United States
and who have not been reasonably
we'll instructed in the school of tho
Soldier" "Small-Arms Firing ReGuia-
tiuns' and Manual Of Guard Duty.
It will be seen by the above that
every man who goes into camp at the
next cncampmcnt will have been
member of the National Guard for at
least six months prior to the date OF
the encampment This will tend to dc
away with the class of men who 20
into the Guard for the fun they get
through their incficicncy are Il hind
rance in the man"uv"rS to the or
ganizatinn of which they are a part
and viii it is believed go far toward
raising the standard of the Guard as a
whole The day; OF the men who en-
list in the organized militia mainly tor
the opportunity of going into camp
once each year and having a racket
are a thing of the past and those VINO
enlist from now on viii, after a week
in camp. have received pretty g"od
idea of what it means to be a soldier
The following list was given out at
the office of the state Commissioners OF
highways yesterday of the towns ana
plantations which had been recon-
mcndcd 20 the Governor for the pay
Inent of state aid for work done on
the State roads this season:
Plantation of Drew. Application go ~,
f"r stat" aid Observation-Disclosures. 9''' W.
Town of uclmon. Application for
state alC ...............-.. :.'.....' 80 "
Town of kingman. Application -
for Stat" aid .......::-..:.....:'. l'' ID
Town of Levant. Application Tor 60, -
Town Of I.tchded. Application "a, :.
for State aid .......:....:.....:.. =" l.
T@Wn OF Lowell Application i"f 1o7 90
Stat" aid ..................:.. iva y"
Town of Mariavillc. Application - an
fui state aid OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. "a w
Town Of Miibridee. Application 49, =.
- fo' state aid ......;;...:.....;. % W.
Town ni Monsoon, Application Tor ~
No S Plantation, Application for =, "a
state al! ....:-.....:... ;:'...:..' 81 WI
N" y Plantation. Application I'm