The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-04-22
ARE YOU READY
4 TO GO TO WAR?
You May Have a Chance
Very Soon.
WAR DEPARTMENT PREPARING
To Call 100000 Of Uucle
Sans Boys To Arms
If Necessary.
KENTUCKY's PORTION is e,si4


Washington, April 2O.-The War
Department has worked out plans
for an issuance of a call for volun-
teers for invasion in Mexico If nee
essary. 1t is understood the first
call will be for 100000 men. This
will include the military reserves!
Authority for the call is necessa-
ny from Congress under an act to
provide for temporarily increasing
the militia for the United States in
time of war. The President is ex-
pected to ask authorization to raise
the army when he appears before
Congress.
The volunteers would be aLpor-
tioned>so far as practical among the
several States and territories and
the District of Columbia, according
to population, and will enlist to
serve for a period of two years, I'M
less sooner discharged.
Under this call each State of-~the
volunteer army of 100000 will be
as follows:
Alabama 5000; Arkansas 1850;
California GAIA: Colorado 2,64S;
Connecticut 3,214; Delaware 700;
Florida 500; Georgia 7,42S: Ida
no 464; Illinois 1905; Indiana s.
$40; Iowa 7,544; Kansas 1854;
Kentucky 6,S14; Louisiana $3.50;
Maine 2.512; Maryland 1884; Mass
achusetts 1922; Michigan S,73S;
Minnesota 5,746; Mississippi 4.314;
Missouri 1882; Montana 1,046;
Nebraska 4,S22; Nevada 474: New
Hampshire 1854; New Jersey $40;
New York 25,049: North Carolina
5,16S: North Dakota 522; Ohio
14,496; Oregon 1865; Pennsylvania
21,53S: Rhode Island APO; South
Dakota 2.7OO: South Carolina L.
494 Tennessee 6,120; Texas S.
ass; Utah $50: Vermont 1866;
Virginia 5,574; Washington 1855
West Virginia 2,77S; Wisconsin g.
54S; Wyoming 462; Arizona S62;
New Mexico go; District of Column
bia sos; Oklahoma 500.
In case of war with Mexico, ev-
cry able-bodied male citizen of the
United States between the ages of
4 q L., f..h int.
the service of the United States for
war purposes.
About 22,0OO,000 men. constitute
ing a little over 43 per cent. of the
total male population of this coun-
try. are interested in this statement.
An Act of Congress, approved
January 81, 1908, and amended in
| sos. commonly known as the
"Dick militia law" makes ii posi-
Bile for the President to call into
the service of the United States not
only the regularly organized militia
of the various States. but also the
so-called Reserve Militia" which
all citizens between Is
and A.
Section of this law provides
that whenever the United States is
invaded .or in danger OF invasion
from any foreign nation" or in 9TH
er contingencies named, 1T shall be
lawful for the President to call forth
such number of the militia of the
State or of the States or Territories.
or of the District of Columbia. as
he may deem necessary"
Furthermore. il is provided that
when the President calls out the
militia for such purposes. he may
specify the period for which such
service Is required, and the militia
so called shall continue to serve
during the term so specified. either
within or without the territory of the
the United States. unless sooner re-
lieved by order OF the President.
The use of the language either
within or without the territoy of the
United States shows that II Is only
necessary for the President to de-
eide that there is possibility of
danger from invasion by Mexican
troops. federals or Constitutional
lists. in order to- have authority to
ship to Mexican soil as many State
and OF reserve militia
men" as he may deem necessary.
Although workingmen's organiza-
lions made some protest against the