Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-28
STAFF OFFICERS TO MEET
At ARNORY TONIGHT
To Organize Campaign for Active
Work al Bladen St. Armory.
COMPANY MS FULL QUOTO.
Needs Twelve More Recruits to Bring
it TO Full Strength Of 60---Failure
Reflection On Patriotism

Beginning with meeting OF the Off
GERS and on-commisisoncd officers and
such field and staff officers of the
First Regiment who are stationed i'm
this city, which viii he held at the
Bladen Street Armory at s o'clock this
evening q campaign is 10 be inaueu-
rated which it is believed viii result
in making Annapolis "A most import
ant center of the work of the Mary
land National Guard.
A determined effort is to be made 10
bring Company NJ TO the fun quota
permitted 10y law, and 20 organize the
machine gun company. TO be attached
90 lhe First Regiment This is the
beginning OF what the local Guardsmen
are determined to do, but they intend TO
follow il up by making both Of these
units as good as any OF IDS kind TO ne
found anywhere in the country.
Taking into consideration the dis
charges which must be made during
the fall and early winter. Company NJ
viii need about twelve to fifteen re
cruits in order to bring it TO its fun
strength Of sixty men There are a
considerable larger number of Young
men in Annapolis who have stated that
they intend to join the company, but in
most cases they fail to take the neces-
sary step to enlist 1t is the intention
that the meeting this evening in the
Armory shall devise a method 10
reach this condition.
It is proposed that the list of sug-
gested recruits shall be considered
and each officer and non commission
ed officer shall be assigned one or more
of these young men, and asked to try
to bring them into the company. 1t is
well known that a great many young
Annapolitaus are inclined to enlist in
the Guard, but for some reason or
other fail to do so. There is good rea-
son to believe that in some cases their
parents refuse to give their consent,
while in others they come in contact
with those who are sufficiently ignor-
ant and unpatriotic as to permit them
to try 70 injure the Guard by constantly
opposing and misrepresenting it. The
attention Of such viii be called to the
fact that they are taking stand
against one Of the vital supports of the
nation, and are, in essence, traitors to
the United States.
At the meeting this evening a date
will be fixed for a meeting of the whole
Company This meeting Will be the
opening of the regular drill season.
Every effort will be made to secure a
substantial number of recruits by this
time, and if there is any further need
Of men, it Will be put up to the whole
Company If each three or four Of the
present members Of the Company
would secure one new man, the Com
pany would easily reach its full
strength. The present members of the
Company are enthusiastic about the
rganizatiOn, and are doing all they can
for it, but they often have TO face the
opposition that was mentioned above
The members of Company NJ are not
satisfied that it shall be a good com
pany merely. but are determined that it
shall be the best company in the reg
iment and in the State In discip-
line, shooting and drill there is no bet
ter now, but it needs a greater numer-
ical strength. With the help of the
right minded people Of Annapolis,it can
get it in a very short time With the
splendid advantages offered by the new
armory, it is strange thing that
every young man in the city does not
try to become a member, even if the
patriotic obligation to serve such an
enlistment did not exist.
Tomorrow evening there will he
meeting at St. Johns College of those