The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-05-09
GO. B MAKING GREAT EFFORT
TO GET NEW MEMBERS

lutte right and might and viii help
the state or United States to restore
law and order. You are subject any
way as citizen, TO the call Of the
sherfn Of your county to become a mart
or the posse comitatus. How much
better for you to go as part OF a
Well trained, perfectly armed and
equipped soldiery.
Because 1t viii help you to learn
and appreciate the value Of team
work" In the army, whether two men.
200 men, or 10000 men participate in
a military movement, they move and
act at the dictation Of one mind.
Because you viii join an organiza-
| ton having the same uniform, rife.
ammunition, equipment, discipline and
| drill that the regular army has, the
only difference being the amount of
time you will have to devote to your
military duties.
Because in case of war, the national
guard win be in the first line of de-
| Tense and will be sent to the front at
the same time as the regular army
and right with the regular army
Because military work appeals to
strong men and to men Of adventurous
disposition. You will find more foot
ball and baseball enthusiasts in the
national guard than in any other
known organization.
Because you will be following the
example of the brainiest and most sue
cessfnl men in the world. In Switzer-
land the richest men In the state are
active members in the national guard
and form bulwark that guarantees
the combined existence of that tiny
but powerful republic. In New York.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt and III. III. Roy
ers, multimillionaires, and Rupert
Hughes, the writer and PLAYWRIGHT
are but few of the many prominent
men who are active members of the
state militia
Because your enlistment will help
secure other enlistments among your
friends. Your interest in the work and
your influence are wanted to help build
up military force that will enable
our country to hold her own with
other nations in time OF peace or in
time of war.
| Because 1t Is your duty to your coun-
try. The United States can never
have great standing army, but must
always depend upon its citizen soldiery
to fight for our rights, to defend the
integrity of our republican instftu-
| tions-to enable the United States to
hold UP her head among the nations Of
the world, and each man must do his
part by learning how to fight for his
country.
Because 1t is your duty to your state.
In case of war, every state In the
union must furnish its proper quota
of men. You must help the state to
be ready to do it's duty to the United
States The governor of each state
must be ready at all times likewise
| to furnish military aid to the civil
| authorities of any country or munich
pality If the same is needed. Unless
you and the other men of this state
are patriotic, and enlist in the nation
al guard and learn to do your mill
tary duty, the governor will be in
| sore straits when the time comes. and
you and your state will be iisgraced
! by the sad spectacle of seeing a lot of
unframed men drafted into the serv
Ice and sent to the front to be shot
down without knowing how to shoot
back, or to die of fever in camp be-
| cause they don't know how to undergo
the rigors of military life.
Because it Is your duty to yourself.
You owe it to- yourself to make as
much out of yourself as possible-to
equip yourself mentally, morally and
physically to fight life's battles, your
battles, the states battles and the ma
tons battles, and that is exactly what
military training will do for YOU.
Your love for your country, for your
state and for the defense OF your own
home-your own patriotism in short
should lead you into enlisting in the
national guard.
Enlist now. Learn your military
work absolutely right and YOU win be
man whom in time Of need this re-
public of ours can depend.