The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-01
MOBILIZATION PLAN
FOR NATIONAL GUARD
ORDER ISSUED ADOPTING RULES
FOR WAR eMERGENCY-RE-
CRUITlNG OFFICERS.

/ TEN for moblliZlnS the Nauondl
! guards and recruiting the organiZa-
/ ton to war strength. A general order
was issued by Adjt. Gen. Canton today
( in accordance with a request from the
/ war department, adopting rules for
/ such emergency. Owing TO the fact
/ that the state and federal government
| have established a rifle range at Chan
/ der, that point is designated as the
state mobilization camp.
1t is provided that an officer of each
local organization shall be designated
rs recruiting officer for the war, and
when the organization is called into
the service of the United States he
has instructions to at once begin re-
cruiting the company TO war strength,
according TO the designated number
then TO be given. The order provides
that when the local organization goes
to the moblizing camp the recruiting
officer remains at the first station
with a detail of enlisted men to con-
tinue the recruiting and forward them
to the main body of the mobilization
camp. In addition the order provides
that a general recruiting body shall
be maintained at the state capital
for the purpose of gathering men for
all the organizations, during continu-
ations of hostilities. and from the gen
eral recruiting point recruits are to
be forwarded armed and equipped,
after being examined physically and
! instructed as time will permit No
tee is given that the present system
O. peace enlistments will not be dis
/ turbed, anC captains are enjoined 10
| keep their companies TO the proper
/ peace strength as heretofore. The
! following officers are designated as
recruiting officers for war, subject TO
| change by order of the adiutant gen
! eral
Second Lieut.. Robert Macarthur,
! Company \, Tulsa First Lieut. Frank
/ g. McLain, Company b. Chandler;
First Lieut.. George Christner, Com
pany c, Shawnee; Second Lieut.. Ru-
( lus Johnson, Company ID, McAlester;
/ Second Lieut.. L. c. Johnson, Com
pany f., PaWnee; Second Lieut., c. r.
/ Gilmore Company f, Muskogee; Sec
| ond Lieut. Alfred B. Hayes, COmf any
/ G.. Ardmore. Second Lieut.. Lewis j.
Paulin. Jr., Company H. Durant; Sc
| Crd Lieut.. Clarence G. Williams, Com
pany |, Alya; Second Lieut.. James
/ T. Cullison, Company X, Enid; Sec
ond Lieut.. Paris Pipkin, Company l.,
Antlers. Company VI, Oklahoma City
not designated; Second Lieut.. Enos
| \ Hurd Engineering Corps, Lawton;
Capt. F. II. Clark, FL Reno, field hos
pital First Lieut. Charles McKowan
Signal Corps, Blackwell.
For the time being the officers are
instructed to theoretically familiarize
themselves with the duties involved
in case of war and captains should,
the order says, supervise the instruc-
ton. At the annual inspection by
federal officers, under the Dick bill,
reports will be made as to whether
| the local organizations are prepared
| to meet the requirements Of the serv-
ice
Other than brief instructions ac-
cumpanyng the request from Wash
ington. nothing is locally known why
the order is placed in force, unless It
/ is to take mp all the lost motion.
| as one of the guards expressed it to-
day, and have the .JationaI Guard
upon a footing in case of necessity
! that would permit of few blunders. 1t
/ is pointed out that retardng feature
| OF the war with Spain was the inabl-
| ity of company commanders to rapid
/ ly recruit to the war strength, then
| lO3 men and officers, with no recruit
| ing organization in working order
save for the regular army. Until
recruiting system could be gotten out
! from Washington, the volunteers op-
Grated largely in field of blunder,
and the order of today, it is ventured,
practically affords to the National
Guard the same facilities As the reg
uiar establishment maintains always.
The order dismisses such matters