Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25
Signal Corps Company Will
Be First to Enter U. S.
Service.
PROBABLY WILL BE FIRST
TO GO TO THE BORDER
Orders Are Received to Hurry Proc.
ess Of Getting the Whole
Guard Ready.

Within less than a week of prepara-
tion and field duty and within seven
days of the issuance Of President Will
sons call for troops members of the
National Guard of the District of Co
Iumbia will be mustered into the United
States service.
The first organization will go into
the service some time today. II Is the
Signal Corps Company. probably the
most efficient organization in the
guard, and ranking high in efficiency
among the signal organizations of the
country.
MASTERING of other organizations will
be followed as rapidly as muster rolls
can be prepared and the other formali-
ties can be gone through.
The speeding up of this muster is be :
lieved to have resulted from dispatches
from the Headquarters of the East at
Governors Island, n. Y Advices to The
Star from New York last night were
that a series of messages have been
sent to Capt. Hobbs urging him to
hurry the process of mastering in the
District National Guard and to report
units ready for field service as soon as
possible.
Shows High Regard for Troops.
The mastering OF the troops in so
short a time indicates the opinion
which the regulars-men who demand
perfection in every detail-hold for the
organizations composing the National
formation of the District troops from
deavor to khaki-clad soldiers. and then
so quickly accepted as fit and we'll dis
cipIined into the United States serv-
ice shows the high point of prepared
ness which they have reached.
All yesterday there was speculation
among the officers and men as to when
the first organization would go into
service. In the morning Capt. Oliver
c. Terry. commanding the Signal Corps
officer that he was ready. Muster pa
pers were Immediately issued. and he
was instructed to prepare his command
and to have preliminary inspection
this morning. However. during the
night this was changed. and he was
told, it was learned. to have his troops
on the field with their equipment to-
day and they would be mustered in
First to Break Camp.
AS the camp will be open to visitors
all of today. those who come out will
have an opportunity of seeing men,
bers of the National Guard of the Dis.
trict Of Columbia become United States
Volunteers. The organization which
will go In today. as matters looked
camp and entrain for the border. Every
bit of the detail for the entrainment
is ready. and all that remains is to
load wagons on the train, and to let
the tents down.
In view of the fact that the District
troops, as militia, are subject to the
| orders of the President it has also
been decided that they do not have to
| take another oath of enlistment. The
oath to which they subscribed when
| they enlisted into the National Guard
| sidered sufficient to require them to
| go into the service Of the United States
| The muster. then. becomes principally
| a matter of physical fitness. The medi-
| cal examination OF the troops will ne&
| take place until after the men are mus
tered in. Those unfit will be rejected
\ However, these probably will be few
| in view of the fact that the medical
requirements for enlistment In the Dis
trict guard are those prescribed by the
| War Department.
Trouble for Officers.
The only trouble now facing the Oh
GERS is that involving those men II
! their minority. Oficers of the Sd Infan
try were kept busy all day yesterday
and part of last night scouting arount
| In Washington in an effort to get from
parents of members of their commando
| copsenf for border xeryice The stain,
| Of these men II their parents do mo-
| give their consent has not been deter
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