South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-27
Efforts Are RedOubIed to-
Complete Last Details Be-
fore Going to BOr-
der Line.
SUMMONS FOR FIELD
ARTILLERY EXPECTED
Co. F Will be Among First In
diana Troops to Leave
For South is ReIi-
able Report.
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

FORT HARRISON. Ind, June 27.
The Indiana national guard was
one day nearer the call for service
at the Mexican border today. Mus
tering officers and examining physi-
clans doubled their efforts to COM
plete the last details necessary be-
fore reporting the guard was ready
10 move.
The field artillery was on edge
again today awaiting the call. Ru-
mors yesterday were that it would
he called today. When il was learn
ed today that Capt J. J. Toffey
mastering officer, had received a
telegram saying that imperative
military necessity" demanded haste
in completing the organization Of
the guard, the battery boys pre-
pared to entrain tomorrow or Thurs
day
The infantry was drilled steadily
IL camp today. Many of the men
are recruits and the guard officers
are exerting every effort 20 whim
them into shape. New companies
which have been raised in at least
five cities, are expected to arrive
within the next day or two, increas-
ing the infantry in camp by 500. BY
the end of the week the entire guard
will be ready for call to service.
IRON MEN TODAY.
The tin soldiers of yesterday have
become the iron men of tomorrow
in Indiana, and. grim faced, some of
them will wave fareweIls perhaps
within twenty-four hours, that will
not be au revoirs. They will be
gOod-byes, forever
Co. f.. third regiment will be
among the first 10 leave-prObably
Thursday.
For it is to Be no child's play, war
in Mexico. And. as of yOre, when
the names of Hoosiers dug them
selves in" to inches in the immortal
halls of the nations famous. so will
the striplings, who today took their
first, faltering lessons in warcraft at
Fort Benjamin Harrison. have their
chances for place in the sun of
history
AS often as a crisis faces the ma
ton. the national guard. reviled and
laughed at in the days OF peace,
buckles on it's shard of American
ism and goes forth 70 be the back
bone Of the nations strength. They
are quiet. in the main, out at Fort
BENJAMIN Harrison. There are
mothers and fathers and sweethearts
and sons and laughing daughters out
there. too. to see their loved ones.
And nearly all of the forced smiles
in the bronzed faces beyond Bakers
bridge are used solely and charity
for those same mothers and fathers
and sweethearts and sons and laugh
ing daughters.
Selects Leaders
over at the statehouse a judicial
man sat MOnday-and used all his
cunning and all his judgment as he
selected the officers Of the troops
from Indiana. For. if he has made
a mistake there. il will be his cost
hest For the men he named Will.
in large part. hold within their hands
the lives of four thousand boosters
And captives of the Mexicans seldom
are released
Northern Indiana got its share OF
those appointments. And northern
Indiana troops, out at Fort Harrison.
were happy in the belief that the
men named TO lead them TO the Dor
der would be found not wanting in
the hours OF quick decisions.
The artillery probably viii go
first-from Camp Ralsron With
Major Robert II. TyndaH command
ing the battalion. three Indiana bat
teries are 10 be rushed 10 the border
TO report 10 Gen Funston. Indiana :
artillery always has been crack
and this new organization viii not
lag behind. If IL is given ONLY reason