Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-16
What THE NATIONAL
GUARD Offers
W. N. Graham, Captain of Des
Moines Company, Issues In
teresting Pamphlet.

lOTWer MISS AUD f1OuCk OL ILLS clLy
and captain of local I. N. G.. com
pany in Des Moines, has issued a.
interesting pamphlet entitled
"What the National Guard Offer
YOU Mr.. Graham says:
The military service is usual.
attractive to young men, and right
ly so. There is always about it al
appeal to patriotism and to thos,
sentiments that make for a larger
manhood.
The service of the National Guard
is the only opportunity offered in
this country, to obtain a military
education without the attendant
hardships of regular service. The
regular army is small and it's SER
vice and discipline rigorous, and
while it is the training ground of
thousands of the finest soldiers in
the world, it cannot offer a military
education to one who would be a
citiZen-soldier.
It is the duty of every young man
who wishes to serve his country and
his state, to know something of the
military art. Sometime the call may
come; sometime it certainly will
come. And when it does, there must
be thousands and hundreds of thous-
ands of men ready to answer 1t.
It is to fit those men-the Sec
ond line of the national defense
for readiness, that the National
Guard exists. You should be one of
them.
To the young man who wants to
learn, to the chap who is ambitious
anxious to know the hows and
why-forces of military things, the
National Guard offers liberal edu-
cation. ....s-.
1t teaches you how to keep your
self we'll and strong and active, by
its practical lessons in hygiene.
1t teaches you how to prevent
to keep pure and wholesome
the air you breathe, the water you
drink and the food you eat.
1t teaches you how to take care,
not only of yourself but of others,
in it's practical lessons in camp san
itation.
It teaches you how to make and
bake, to prepare and cook your own
meals, in it's practical lessons in
field subsistence.
1t teaches you how to take care
of injured and wounded persons;
how to reduce fractured bones, to
bandage and splint and disinfect; to
bring to life the drowned; to nurse
the sick, all in it's practical lessons
in aids to the injured.
1t teaches you how to select
healthful camp sites. how to keep
them healthful, how to make and
break camps with order and system.
1t teaches you to respect law and
order, and to stand for the right be-
cause it is right. 1t helps, by sub
ordination of self, to self-respect and
discipline.
1t teaches you to be temperate in
'ood and drink; to be careful and
in your actions and
'our language.
Are not these things all helps in
life? Don't they all make
or better citizenship? Isn't
of all these things a real
lsset to any man?
And they are part and a very
important part of the military edu-
alton. Every good soldier must
now and understand and practice
hem all.
But that is not all.
The National Guard teaches you
low to wear the uniform; to follow
he flag Of your country, in honor,
n military formations. 1t teaches
'ou a little of parade and great
eal of field work. 1t shows you in
mimic fights, in which you take
art, how the art of war is conduct
ID. 1t teaches you to estimate for
es, to make use of concealing COW
r, to patrol and scout, to march, de-
10y and fight. 1t shows you, by
ctual experience, just what the
older has to do and how to do it.
'he only thing that is absent is the
ullets.
And it teaches you to use bullets
90; for in It's course of instruction
n the use of military rifle, the Ma