The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-15
NEWS Of LOUISIANA
AoJutant General McNeese Plans
Many Reforms for Ma
tlOnaI Guard.
10 MAKE EFFICIENT BODY
All Organizations to Be Brouuht Up
TO Standard Required by the
War Department.
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BATON Rouge. - Adjutant General
McNeese has issued an order providing
LOT a recruiting system for the organi-
2a'lon OF the national guard.
The order provides that each com.
pany must have a recruiting officer.
Nhen the company is called into SER
vice The recruiting officer will begin
al once to recruit the command up to
war strength. When the command is
ordered to the mobilization camp the
recruiting officer is to remain at
nome and secure recruits for the COM
mand, forwarding them to the mobili-
cation camp.
Camp Stafford, at Alexandria, is
designated as the mobilization camp,
Under orders of Adjutant General
oswald W. McNeese, a board of Off.
GERS representing each arm of the
service was convened in Baton Rouge.
The board consists of Major ALI,
son Owen, commanding Battalion
Washington Artillery, New Orleans,
representing the artillery: Captain
Charles S. Miller, commanding Troop
B., Cavalry, Jennings, representing the
cavalry, and Captain Bret W. Eddy,
commanding Company K, First In
fantry, Lake Charles, representing
the infantry, with Major Owen as chair.
man; Captain Miller, vice chairman,
and Captain Eddy, recorder.
Sitting with the board in a con-
suiting and advisory capacity were
Adiutant General McNeese, Major 10.
seph Thompson, Assistant Adjutant
general of Baton Rouge; Major James
l.. Wright, quartermaster general, OF
New Orleans, and Captain Charles II.
Danforth, U. S. A., spector-instruct,
or with the Louisiana national guard
In many respects the records and
systems in vogue among the Louisi.
ana militia are obsolete, and it was
the object of the adjutant general to
have every department, record and
method of the state militia brought
up to modern basis.
The board will recommend com
| plete set of rules and regulations gov
erning the Louisiana militia, which
will be bound in book form, furnish
ed to all officers, and will cover every
point upon which information may be
desired from a military standpoint;
| and the board will also provide for
mental examination of commissioned
officers, physical examination Of en-
listed men, examining boards, and will
adopt standard forms of enlistment
and discharge blanks, muster rolls
financial reports, organization records
| etc.
Organizations which did not meaa
ure up to the proper standard of eff
cheney will be eliminated, the ole
arsenal will be abandoned and an up
to-date military storehouse will replace
it. Obsolete and unserviceable quar-
termaster ordnance stores, represent
ing an accumulation of years, will be
done away with, and courses of study
for officers will be prepared.
It will be the aim of the adjutan
general to thoroughly arm and equiv
all remaining organizations OF the
state guard up to the standard requir
ed by the war department, prepare
tory to the annual inspection by
regular army officer next year. HI
will proceed thereafter to not onl!
bring all existing organizations up tt
higher degree of proficiency, but re
place the companies mustered out will
others of the proper strength ant
standard.