The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-14
EVERY MAN IS
A M|L|T|AMAN
After January Fl Service in the
Army in Case Of War May
Be Compelled.

January 81 for the President to call out
the armed forces of the United States
to engage in war, every able-bodied
male in the Islands between the ages
of eighteen and forty-fve years, if
he is "A citizen or has declared his in
tention of becoming one, may be called
into service as militiaman. Should
the President issue proclamation, an
allotment of the citizens needed for en-
rollment in service would be made ana
each State and Territory required to
furnish its allotment. The adjutant
general of this Territory has the power
to arbitrarily call upon any citizen he
wishes to bear arms and that citizen
must comply, for the provisions of the
Dick military law go into actual effect
on January 81.
At present every able-bodied citizen
is militiaman. Some are active militia
men, being enrolled in the national
guard; the others are reserve militia.
Those exempt from military service, ac-
cording to the federal law as proclaimed
in the Dick Bill, are judicial and execu-
tive officers of the United States, mem
bers of congress, persons in the military
or naval service of the United States,
customhouse officers with their clerks,
postmasters and persons employed by
the United States in the transmission
of mail, ferrymen employed at a ferry
on post road, artificers and workmen
employed in the armories and arsenals
of the United States, pilots, mariners
actually employed in the sea service
and all persons who are exempted by
the laws of the States and Territories
The act does not compel any member
of a well recognized religious sect or
organization whose creed forbids its
members from participating in war to
enlist. The Territory of Hawaii, how.
ever, requires all employees of the terri
torial government, unless physically dis
abled, to report for duty and be subject
TO military service.
In case of war, insurrecton or rebel
lion, or in case of strike, all men here
are eligible and subject to the adjutant-
general s call.
With Regular Army.
At present the active militia is sub
iect to more distinct classification
with the regular army, in that in war
or in any case where both regulars and
militia are called out the militia of
| sigma of the regular army corps of this
department or division.
The war college section of the gen.
eral staff of the United States army
| during the years 1907-S made a study
of the general military policy of the
United States. In connection with this
study the relation of the organized
militia to this policy came prominently
to the front. The war college reached
the conclusion that the board regard
the question of the adoption of def
mite military policy for the United
States, with particular reference to /;
complete coordination of effort between
the regular army and the organized mil
itia as of the very first importance
The plan of the military authoritie,
contemplates that all troops within ;
military district be combined perma
nently, and carried on paper as belong
ing to permanent higher units, such al
brigades and divisions. This would in
volve the issuing of brigade and divi
sion insignia in time of peace to bt
worn at all times.
Militia Interest Growing.
Col. J. w. Jones, adjutant- general o.
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usual in the approaching closer rela
tions between regulars and organized
militia. He stated yesterday that Their
was more interest shown in militia af
fairs since the United States has beel
sending large bodies of troops, but tina
the only bar to the perfection of
militia spirit was the lack of an armory
Honolulu is particularly lacking in
suitable armory, in home where tn
enlisted men of the national guar
would feel that they had an attractiv
place in which to drill and learn tn
art Of war.
Every city of any size has not onl
one Srmory, but in some instance
, two and three. Hilo has a fine armor
, but Honolulu is using dilapidated she
, which has long since served its use
, fulness. At present it leaks and as
large amount of United States propert
e is stored there for the use of the N;
d tional guard, Colonel Jones feels thG
:, it is time new home was provide,
!, \ large armory suitable for the need
u Of an entire regiment, with gallerit
: and large unbroken floor space woul
not only. be useful to the militia bl
= could be used for large meetings an
:, gatherings.
~ Has Hopes.
"a Colonel Jones hopes that the ne,
. legislature may find means to appropi
= ate sufficient funds for an armory
n that the local national guard could fe
- that it was on spar with milit
regiments of other cities. Ii is al
"A Colonel Jones hope that some time
n the future enough young men mi
~ be enlisted to form crack company
- the regiment, ON the order of the n
az ti0nal Fencibles of the District
~ Columbia regiment, and other crack ,
i. ganiaations, young men of sutiicie
= means to provide other uniforms th
those furnished by Uncle sam.
Big Gun Pointers.
A. TO the organization of eoast
IN iillory militia companies, Colonel Iol
~ does not feel that that force will
necessary la Honolulu for some time
- least The United States VIII propl
W an unusually large force Of coast
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