The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21


for pay for officers and men of the
naflonal guard went into effect on
May @. The compensation for enlisted
men is 81 per drill Of an hour and A
half duration. The object of the law
was to put The guard on a business
basis. Since the federal government
assumed practically the direct control
Of the national guard, it has established
certain standards of efficiency, and in
| order to conform thereto il is essential
that the attendance at drill should be
substantially uniform and sufficient at
all times TO constitute a company. This
imposed the duty Of attendance upon
each man of the organization of at
least rs per cent of all the drills held,
service was worthy of reasonable COM
pensation.
Under this law the state can reason
ably expect requirements of the serv-
ice to be complied with by members of
the guard. and man who now enlIsts
can feel that he is at least receiving
fair monetary compensation for the
one and a half hours per week which
he devotes to the service of the state.
Make Organization Efficient.
The rules governing the compensa
tion of officers and men are published
in general orders No. . from the ad
iutant general IS office. The funds pro
vided for the ensuing two years are
sufficient TO make payment for thirty
pay drills per year, and II is the IN
l'tention after such number Of drills has
been had, to order a vacation period
during the remainder Of the year. the
same as is the practice III New York
and some other states. BY this means
the federal law can be complied with
and an efficient organization built mp
1inr ff
guard required TO devote minimum
of time 10 the service.
The total strength of the guard VIII
be maintained as near as practlcable
at a strength OF $40 or 800 enlisted
men, the rules Of the war department
under the act Of congress requiring that
800 shall be maintained. AT present
the guard consists of SIX infantry or,
! CARNATIONS, a hospital corps, signal
corps and battery. Allowing for an
attendance Of so per cent at pay drills,
the limit OF pay numbers for the In
| fantry organization and signal corps
has been fixed at forty, and that OF the
| battery at sixty, as a condition pre-
cedent TO payment of any officer or en-
| listed man,
Requirements Of Order.
Order No. requires that the first
named organizations shall have on the
rolls as active members not less than
| tbirtv-fiye and the battery not less
than fiftv-five, and that there shall
be present at each pay drill OF these
| organiZatIons at least twenty-five and
thirty-five respectively. This require
ment is made for the reasons that CT,
fcctive work and value received cannot
be obtained with less number present,
and by means Of this regulation every
officer and man rs flnanciaily lhte!-
| I'D Nv
organization to use his best efforts that
n full attendance be present ..
Company B of Ogden was the hrst
| oroauization TO bring itself within the
requirements of pay conditions. and ~
is highly probable that company q or
Ephraim will meet the conditions at lts
next drill. II is expected however, that
i u,iIl take a little time before all or.
ganizations reach the proper standard
for II takes time 10 convey the under
Standing sufficiently widespread that
services OF the national guard man
have at last been recognized as some
thing substantial and for when, he is
entitled TO substantlal comPensa'iou'
Work More Interesting.
While it is true that tho standard OF
excellence in military matters is nuch
higber as required now from natlonal
omard organizations than formerly, II
dnos not follow that the service ls more
;rksome or onerous than heretofore. AS
a matter of fact, the contrary is true
Organizations now know nov; os Just Wnsa cors Is
fuIIv outlined and means Of instruction
as" as n how it shall be performed are
furnished. The days when all the re-
srnoms;b;l;ty rnr rested upon the captain are
past, rss and the responsibility undsE his his
direetiou is divided among the offlcers
and non. commissioned officers tendiha