Arizona republican., 1913-06-09
OFFICERS CAMP
 BEGINS TODAY
Under Direction of First Lieutenant La Garde, L.. $. A, National Guard EX- ecutivcs Will Receive Practical Instructions

a little tented city. Trua the city will probably not comprise more than ten or d dozen canvas ahodcS, but there will be housed throughout this week the cream of the National Guard cf Arizona It will mark the opening of an officers school or camp of in struction. with First Lieutenant R. D. La Garde. U. $. A. detailed 10 Arizona as instructor inspector. in general charge. From the colonel in commaHG "f the First Regiment down to the com panv officers the camp will he Of vital interest and no officer who can i possibly so arrange his affairs as to | be in attendance is likely to ignore the opportunity presented for per 1 fecting himself in tn" work of his 1 particular office.
 1 The camp is to be ro play 1f>air ! Hard and serious work is rft' che | feature In it every officer from lar 1 Colonel down has to go through tn" regular drill that is expected of every soldier. and in addition takes mum Der Of courses of study that do got come into the regular curriculum ,f the ordinary commissioned officer
 and private.
 some idea of the amount of work that will be done can be obtained from a short look at the tentative program The camp begins this morn ing at o'clock with the regulation assembly call. but this hour IS the
 latest hour at which any days pre- | iminarv assembly will be held for the entire week. Every morning the officers will turn out of their cots at 20. when rcVielle will he sounded ! Twenty minutes is given to prepare for assembly and this iS immediately l followed by d drill. Breakfast Is | served at ten minutes past six every 1 morning. and at seven o'cock drill IS jhad again This is regular work fac ing steps. marching drills with and without arms, drills with side arms manual of the saber. skirmish drill land signalling will fill in the time rutiI dinner call. promptly at noon
 Tn the afternoon beginning promptly lat 1:3O the drawing boards will he brought out. the officers manned with pencils. scales and paper. and a course
 in man drawing and road sketchinS
 will be engaged in until o'clock
 Two hours off in which to get supper land at o'clock promptly another lee ture will be given lasting pretty idte at night when taps will be sounded land the officers turn in for a snooZe. . 1 Rpglnnl the next IIiOi iiIiiE 1AAt -FHN4-' course will be begun with amplifica-
 lions as the officers progress in know lledge and ability until the afternoon
 of the fourth day. when the big man ieuyer problem will be staged out III / the foothills somewhere.
 The work this morning and after noon will not be as hard as that oI the succeeding days. The first thlhe F the officers will have to do after they
 arrive on the scene is to pitch theli
 ltents. make their own drawing boards
 draw a soldiers equipment from the D ouartermaster. and listen to the open
 ling lecture by Lieut.. La Garde. Ihe
 i afternoon will be taken up with a lee v ture on military road sketching' ant n the evening hours will be taken uI h ivith q lecture There is no more en- e thusiastic proponent of the officers . school camp than Adjutant Genera n Harris who in his work with the
 euard is insisting upon the quallilca : ttion for officers and men that ar'
 provided in the militaryNlaWs and reg if ulations of the army of the Ohlle' f States as applied to the organlZe' Q militia of which the Arizona Natlohd n Guard is a part. In view of his slr"h' q stand on this matter Col. Harris ha q been appointed to the executive com
 mittee of the newly organized AdJu x ltants Generals association of til II United States
 =, The war department does not la V down specified course to be follow If ed in the instruction given, 1t beln To realized that the instructor upon LII 10 ground and entirely familiar with 10 If cal conditions his judgment is supe
 rior regarding the actual needs tha ge can anything be that is set down 10 q course.
 le None but officers will be in at " tendance at the camp Those Wh is do attend will be required to remal no at the camp night and day EN 1,, perienced camp cooks have been se a. cured and every comfort possible e+ actual service will be afforded It
 the aim through such schools .4 camps. now an annual feature
 make of the national guard offlcel themselves better instructors
 <" While it is not certain. 1t IS o' .h lieved that Col. A. NJ. Tuthlll' - Morenci. in command of the regi M ment. will be in attendance Ba ul talion Commanders Major II. H. Dol
 5 kersley. of Yuma and Major F. .-u Grinstead. of Phoenix, will be amol
 " those taking advantage of the oI i nortunitv presented It is believ
 that bv going into camp, instead
 gathering in the limited office spa ,n afforded at the capitol bulldlr
 greater interest will be taken in | . work and that it's scope and eftec
 iveress may be considerably broa