Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
NEWS OF THE LOCAL
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN

Columbia approved February IS. 1909.
does not provide for such organization.
Q. NJ. Sergt. Paul r. Ricketts,.
I'd Battalion, LIST Infantry. is appointed
Guard. District OF Columbia. and will re
port to Maj. Edwin IL Ncumeyer, COM
mssary general. for duty.
AS an &C; approved February Is. iao.,
does not provide for rcgimental or bat
TALON hospital stewards, the following
hospital stewards are transferred as SCR
Seants TO the Hospital Corps, National
Guard. District of Columbia: James T..
Gessford. lst Battalion. LIST Infantry. Ed
win f. Roberts. LIST Battalion. I'd lnfan-
try: William s. Klenroth. I'd lnfantr,;
Charles s. Robbins. lst Infantry: Nathan
lei P. Butler. Sd Battalion. I'd Infantry.
Malchiah NJ. Lucas. 1st Separate Bat
talon: Eugene T. Stephenson. I'd Bal
talon. I'd Infantry: Herbert j. Bryson.
Sd Battalion, 1st Infantry.
AS the act In question does not provide
for an ambulance corps, the following en-
listed men of the ambulance corps are
transferred to the Hospital Corps. and are
assigned to the Ambulance Company.
Sergt. Benjamin r. Rhees, Sergt. Harry
Davis, Corp. Henry w. Jaeger. Corp. W.
Earle Butler. Lance Corp. J. NJ. McDan-
iel and Lance Corp. G. A. Fisher, AS ser
geants, and Privates II. c. Arnold.
Bingham. J. b. Hogan. J. c. Brooke. }.
l.. Carpenter. R. W. Conklin o. {. Cox.
+. E. Davis, c. Fl. Dewey, G.. r. Dick
son. E. NJ. Ellison. J. Evans, S. Is. Kin
kiesten. w. NJ. Hanft. O. Hermann. J 4.
WINS, II. f. Kiser. j. s. I.uckett. w. \.
Mcmillan. r. C. Medley, I. A. Pelzman.
B. r. Preuss. +. S. Schwab. II. J. Sin
clair. NJ. 2. slindee. J. |. sloat. o. Thomp-
Ward, j. +. Whitman and w. l.. Will
meth. as privates.
Private Sacks Bricker. Ambulance
Corps, will be honorably discharged Oh
First Lieut. Warren D. Fales. Ambu-
lance Corps. National Guard, District Of
Columbia, is transferred to the Medical
Corps, as first lieutenant
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1t is expected that two teams from
the local brigade will go to Baltimore
next Saturday to participate in the shoot
of the Maryland Rifle Association.
The brigade rife team is practicing
three times a week on the range. and
all of the members are doing excellent
work. The team will leave this city the
night of August IL for Camp Perry.
Ohio, where 1t will take part in the
matches there. Following the matches
at Camp Perry, the team will journey
to Sea Girt. y. j., for the matches which
are scheduled TO begin there Septem
Der ).
1t was expected that a test of the new
3OOO,OW candle-poWer searchlight would
be made on the range Friday night, but
owing to the moonlight, il was decided
to postpone the event until later. BY
the aid Of this new device the rifiemen
night, which will aid the guardsmen who
are unable to visit the range during the
day.
Large supplies of books and papers
have been received at headquarters, and
are being issued TO the commands. Tie
new correspondence book will take the
place of the letters received, letters sent
and both indexes. thus replacing four
books. In this book will be entered with
ink or indelible pencil a brief of each
item Of correspondence of which a record
is necessary. The book will be supple
mented by document file. containing all
the original documents. with copies OF
communications sent out.
The regular field message book of the
army will be issued to officers for use
during the maneuvers. The book con
tains forty blanks, with duplicates and
sheets OF carbon paper.
New forms of guard reports, daily sick
reports. morning reports duty rosters,
applications for furlough, leave of alb
sence and other records and papers used
III tHC ICSoldT diIUy nave also pceH Is
sued.
National Guard is true phrase now.
says the New York Mail. Until very re-
Gently ii was a fiction. We shall have
true National Guard-when we have
the men. But at the present moment the
organized militia, on the new basis. does
not number more than 110OU men all
told, and perhaps 5000 of these would
not be found fit for active service. There
are only six states In the Union that
have an organized militia of more than
1000 men, and those six states are all in
the northeastern part of the country. All
the southern states taken together have
but few more organized militia than
the state of New York alone. Militarism:
Not In the least An organized citizen
soldiery 10 the opposite of militarsm-it
is an insurance against 1t. Without a
national citizen guard of at least 100000
men we must have a larger regular
army. With it the regular army need
never be increased even if the population
of the country rose TO 1J0.OO0.O00 1t is
plain common sense. Is Switzerland,
where every man is trained and ready
soldier. and where there is no regular
army at all. a militaristic country? And
is Switzerland the only country In the
world that is capable of defensive COM
mon sense?