The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

The excellent work of the Second Reg
| iment in rifle matches Is gone into in
detail in the souvenir. At Camp Perry,
Ohio, the District Brigade team finished
eighth in the great National Match, in
| which fOrty-eight State and service teams
| competed. Only three National Guard
| teams stood ahead of the District. Lieut.
| Cole, of the Second Regiment, who was
On this team, made the remarkable in
! dividual score OF 80 out of 100 on Skin
miSh in the National Individual Match.
winning the gold medal for high Skin
mish.
| At Blauvelt, n. Y, the team Of the
| Second Regiment won both regimental
matches, the Cruikshank and the Seven
! ty-first Regiment Trophy matches, win
ming the two hansome bronze trophies.
On the Congress Heights range Of the
| District of Columbia every team match
was won by the Second Infantry team.
! The prizes and names of individual win
Ders belonging to the Second Regiment
| at this range are also printed in the SOU
venir The showing is a splendid one.
| Indeed, the entire showing of the Sec
| end Regiment in every respect speaks
we'll for the regimental motto, Conquer
We Must"
! In a statement given out yesterday,
Col. Harvey laments the fact that the
District National Guard has no adequate
armory. The statement says:
The District Of Columbia National
Guard is one which should be brought
up to the highest state of efficiency. 1t
J is in the Capital City of the country,
under the command of the President OF
the United States, under the immediate
supervision of the War Department, and
! is organized under law which has been
very carefully thought out and which Is
considered one of the model militia or
CARNATIONS OF the United States.
The maintenance OF the Guard with
out an adequate armory and without
any compensation is one which calls for
considerable amount of sacrifice on the
part of those who perform their duties
+ thoroughly. 1t can only be maintained
| in a state of high efficiency by the peo-
pie of the District generally taking an
interest in the organization.
In other cities where all questions
affecting the welfare OF the community
are considered and voted upon by the
people at large, the Guard receives very
much more attention than it does here.
Many Of the business houses OF Wash
ington cooperate by making it as easy
as possible for their employees to get
away from their work to attend to Ma
tionaI Guard duty. but It is not uni
here who do not have the time to per-
form this civic duty would encourage
their younger employees to serve at least
one enlistment In the Guard and perform
their duties, the District of Columbia
National Guarl could be maintained as
an organization which would compare IA
vOrably with any volunteer troops. That
sort of support should be furnished.
Instances could be cited of certain
business houses here who have made it
uniform rule to encourage their en-
ployes to perform their National Guard
duties. The man who does his duty
faithfully to the Guard is quite apt to
be equally faithful toward an employer.
1t is also true that n man who enlists
in the Guard and violates his oath Of en-
listment by failing TO do his duty will
be apt to treat his employer in the same
way
IF the business men will point out to
their employees that service in the Ma
tional Guard is a public duty, that 1t Is
an honorable service, that they want
the duty performed properly, and will
treat a dishOnorable discharge from the
National Guard as indicating that the
man who receives it is unworthy Of con-
fidence, 1t will help wonderfully in main
tanning our organization.
The newspapers of the city have uni
formly treated matters relating to the
and public-spirited manner. They realize
that unless we are going to maintain a
large standing army. we must develop a
militia system which will give the proper
kind of training to a large number OF
young men. For this public-spirited sup
port the National Guard is very grateful
and appreciative.
Capt. J. B. Allison. L. S. A. inspector
instructor Of the District Guard, spent
last week in New York visiting friends
He will return to militia headquarters
Tuesday.
Owing to the lack of sufficient time to
devote to the solving Of problems by
officers of the Guard, it has been de-
cided at militia headquarters to call a
halt on the problems for the time being
The plan will be resumed later, how
ever. axa
Where Is the IncubatOrR
From the New York Sun.
A tall young man who carried a suit
case hurried into Bellevue Hospital a
few nights ago and said to the doorman:
please show me where the baby hcu-