The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-03-07

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The board s report contains a strong
recommendation that its officers be sub
! iected to physical examination once a
| year and that they be required to at
| tend officers school, and that those
who show by their work, that they are
not proficient, be ordered up for exami
nation by the board of examiners There
is a clause, however, to the effect that
I'll questions used for. examinations be
fret approved by the adjutant general IS
Office.
Would Select officers.
| In connection with the paragraph re-
I iating to the efficiency of officers, it
said that something over week ago,
Colonel Jones, the present adiutant gem
eral, met with body of ex-soldicrs
who were willing to enlist in the guard
providing they could come in as one
company and select their own officers.
Colonel Jones, thus given an oppOr-
tu.rity to strengthen the guard by the
addition of trained body of soRFrers,
| is said to have demurred with vehe-
mence to the plans He, it is said,
stated that the mem wouldn't be- ac-
cepted as a body, but. would have to
enlist and permit him to assign them
, to varfous companies. This the exsol-
diers' refused to do, ON the ground that
! they did not wish t0 servo under Gffi-
GERS who did not know as much as they
/ did.
Them it is said, Jones objected that
| he would have no means of knowing
| whether the men selected as officers
were qualified for commissions. I'm an
swer 10 fins several mear stood up. Ev-
rey one of them had either been a first
sergeant or sergeant major in the
regular army, holding the highest non
commissioned rank, and 1t was mildly
suggested to Colonel Jones that it WIGS
n~ohahle that these men knew as much
about, IniPftary tactics as he did, or
any of the officers of the militia.
The board suggests that there should
i always Ire an incumbent IN the office VI
inspector general, which, it is said, will
! provide convenient slfslf for officers
WHO have outlived their usefulness
The Board finds that the guard is de
II oralized. first because it has no ar
morv and second because it received nc
nay for rhc last encampment. 1t makes
no Recommendations calling for chance.
in the present administration undel
which the guard has Become democrat
lied.
/ However, Governor Frear. who, STATED
; reeertlv that the militia needed an mr.
mory and new blood, upon receiving tn,
Z report of the board. ordered that tn
r election of colonel for the first regi
meut re postponed until he had tim
to study the reeomm endatiOns made.
Tie report of the board is as follows
Official Report.
Headquarters National Guard of H
wall, Honolulu, II. IT., March 6. 1911;
From. General Staff Board; G.. o.
Janu'rv %, 1913. To: The Adiutan
General. Sutjeet: Report in re +!
organization.
1, Pursuant to the provisions c
Gere""' Orders No. l. A. G. o., Januar
90 1918 the fe'lbw ng recommendation
hare made:
a. That the national guard be REQ
ganized alosg the lines of having
twelve-company regiment in Honolulu
upon the completion of which the cor
panies on the other islands be formd
into separate battalion.
b. That companies in Honolulu r
ceivinp training in coast artillery wol
in addition to their infantry duties.
c, That officers be physically exaI
lnt1 once each year.
d. That oiieers pursue course
study in an officers school, and tho
who are reported or whom show
their work that they ap not prefirer
be ordered up for examination befo
the board Of cNamineH.
, +. That all questions used for G
: aminatioos be FIRST approved by the t.
. jutant general IS office.
: &. That at all times there should
: an incumbent in the Office of inspect
/. general.
: h. We believe that il is for the b,
{ Interests OF the national guard that
= should be ofiieeged entirely by eitizc
o of the Territory. This view is a
: shared 10y high officers Of the Depa
o ment OF Hawaii.
9. We further find rs reasons N
i the enlisted personnel absented tho
selves from drill and instruction
following;
q, AlmorY conditions
b. The fact that tho men Teeei,
, no pay from the Territory for ate
Rnse nt the last eneampmant,
3, Ia the select on OF d colonel
= the dFsl Infantry We believe the Z,
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