The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28
GUARD
IS NOW READY
Adjutant General Young Is
Prepared For Call To
Arms

According to announcements from
the office of Adjutant General Young
only a short interval will be necessary
between orders and actual perform !
ance of placing in the mobilization |
camp five thousand members Of the
National Guard of this State. Gen
eral Young has been very busy since
the outbreak Of the Mexican trouble
and the consequently apparent posi-
blllty that the National Guard may be
called upon to see service across the
border. Today he practically COM
pleted his acquisitions bringing the
equipment of the National Guard of
this State to a war footing SO that
only the bare orders will be necessary
from the office Of the Adjutant Gen
eral to the State troops to ave all in
the field by the required time. In
case of a need for the troops arising,
President Wilson will send a telegram
to Governor Craig calling for the
State to urniS it's quota of fighting
men. Governor Craig will then turn
the order over to Adjutant General
Young, h will proceed to the mob
ilizatiOn according to the methods al
ready prescribed for such an event.
The mobilization will take place at
the State camping grounds, which is
Camp Glenn. When the mobilization
is completed, Instructions to this eff
feet will be forwarded to the War
Department and the force will await
orders to move.
On December 26, 1913. Adjutant
General Young issued his formal mott
fication Of the methods by which the
mobilization would be conducted.
These orders are still in force and will
be followed in case of a call from
President Wilson. The orders in part
are as follows:
Immediately upon receipt by the
Governor of the call of the President,
Geographic orders will be sent by this
office to every r~egimental, battalion,
company, and troop commander af-
fected by the call of the President,
to the head of each staff department
and to the brigade commander and
his staff, directing mobilization to
commence at once.
Immediately upon receipt Of his
order it shall be the duty of each
regimental and battalion commando
to notify each staff officer n non
commissioned staff officer belonging
to his own headquarters.
Cali orders and enlisted men will
remain at their home stations unit
further orders are sent directing
movement. The Geographic order di
recting mobilization is merely a warn
ing to each officer and man to ceas'
his ordinary civil pursuits and t.
commence at once to prepare to leav'
his home station for the mobilization
camp. The Geographic order also tina
Federal pay and allowances will com
mence with the date each officer an
man reports at his home rendezvou
in compliance with the call.
Company and troop commander
: upon receipt of the Geographic orde
directing mobilization, will at one
assemble their respective organiza
; tons at their armOrieS give thel
! men all necessary instructions.
While the company is still at it
; home station, those men who desir
, to do so may be permitted to sleep a
= home, but they must report at tn
armory promptly each morning i
time for the first drill.
!, ARRANGEMENTS for subsisting tn
company will be at once commence
, by the captain. An allowance of sev
enty-five cents per day per man
: authorized for each day OF actus
s service after the Geographic motif
f cation is received and until arrival {
the mobilization camp. Settlement
will be made on Form No. 26, Div
: sion Of Militia Affairs BLANKS wi
be furnished company commanders.
4 I'm making arrangements for sui
h s%istence, p commanders al
f hereby authorized to assume that
It period of at least five days VIII eIaps
y from the date of the Geographic NJ
e LITIGATION until movement from non
n stations. Before the end Of five da.
further order will be sent, statir
how much longer the ~organizatic
will remain at their home stations.
Upon the first assembly of TT
} company the men will be required
dress in uniform and wear it cOnstan
i, lv each day while the company is
its home station.
1 "A drill schedule covering fOl
= hours Of actual drilling per d w
be at once announced by the CAPITA
and put in force.
Every effort should be made to r
cruit each organization to the W;
strength prescribed by the Preside
)r in call. But no man must be a
cepted who does not comply with Il
N necessary requirements. 1t shall
al the special duty of the first >ieutena
$4,000.