The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-23
Mr.. Business Man
w. HONOLULU BUSINESS MAN

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lNl should come would YOU go? Would
YOU volunteer if the President called for 10000
volunteers? n' f.
II the safety of our nation demanded that we
should raise "a volunteer army, Differed mostly
by volunteer officers would YOU be among the
men who gave their services?
If not don't bother to read this; but ii you feel
that in the event Of war our country would need
your services and that your patriotism demanded
that you volunteer them, would you want to go
to war under unframed leaders, who, in the time
of danger, knew no more about fighting than they
did about the fourth dimension; who had never
had any training; who couldn't even locate camp
where the danger of sickness would be the least
where you would probably never get any nearer
the front than hospital where you would have
to lie suffering from some preventabe disease,
because your officers hadn't taken the proper pre-
cautions to prevent 1t
Would you want to go out under such
leaders?
rs, Or perhaps you feel that you have enough in
fuencc political or otherwise to secure a COM
mission in the volunteers Are you willing to
accept the responsibility of the leadership of the
men of your company, your battalion, your
regiment, without the necessary training, when
you know that the leader who needessly sacrifices
single human life whether through faulty troop
leading on the field of battle or through allowing
man to become sick and die from some camp
disease which could have been prevented if he
had known what precautions to take against it.
is actually murderer?
Would you be willing to become wholesale
murderer by losing twenty, or two hundred men
perhaps, in this way?
Al. A. &
life damned by the widows and orphans of those
who might be needlessy sacrificed through your
lack of knowledge?
If not, then why you not taking the proper
interest in the establishment of business mems
training camp here next year, The time to take
no this matter is not next spring or next June
Now is the accepted time.
p 1T takes much correspondence with the war
department to arrange for all the details of such
an undertaking.. Correspondence takes time. The
men who are to attend the camp must have time
to arrange their affairs so that they can devote
the four weeks to the camp. They cannot drop
everything at moments notice and rush into
camp and trust their affairs to conduct themselves
properly. Remember, it is to be Business Mems
camp in more than one sense if it is to be at all
"a You have in your midst the material for the
camp in the way of the personnel. You have al
perience of commanding battalion of business
men in the camp at the Preside, Captain Pau
B, Malone, Second Infantry. You have othe
equally efficient officers of the regular army who
will be only too delighted to give unsparingly Of
their time and abilities to train you and make
you, not trained officer in the small time yor
can devote to it next year, but more efficient
man for the position you may have to fiji if wal
should come.
5n. The war department is willing and anxious tc
meet you more than half way in the establishment
OF this camp.
4SWnl you do your share towards it NOW:
And will you pledge yourself to do your share
when the camp is established? Will you attend
the camp for the four weeks-nOt off and on fol
four weeks, and not for two weeks? Will you
let your subOrdinateS have their vacations at tn,
tr1e the camp is held that they can attend tn,
camp for the full four weeks? Remember tina
Hawaii would be called on to furnish at least five
hundred officers in long war. We cannot dc
II unless you do your share.
.}5 Will YOU take up this matter NOW and ap
point your necessary committees to go with
the preliminary arrangements with the command
ing general OF the Hawaiian Department so tina
this camp will be an assured thing next summer
aa.RE. --~+~-
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