Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-01
Comment on Quick and Eff
Cient Organization is Heard
From Different Sections

The National Guard of Hawaii. its
personnel and the rapidity with which
ii has grown in the past few months
is beginning TO attract the attention
OF newspapers and periodicals on the
mainland and besides favorable COM
ment there is a note OF surprise in
most of the articles The building Of
an organization of such size in Hawaii
with the mixed population and the
comparatively small numbers availa-
BILE is evidently regarded as a unique
achievement.
The Portland Oregonian recently
printed the following:
Hawaii is setting the pace in pre-
paredness. The Hawaiian militia has
been recruited up to a full brigade.
whereas in the past few hundred
made up the Hawaiian citizen sol
diery. Isolation in the remote sec
tions of boundless ocean does not
add to the Hawaiian sense of security.
Rather. this condition appears to have
provided the Hawaiian residents with
realization of their share of the re-
sponsibility that devolyes upon all
America to be ready for. defense"
Praise From Los Angeles.
The Oregonians opinion that Ha-
waii is setting the pace in prepared.
ness is evidently concurred in by the
Los Angeles Times, which in an arti-
Gle headed Hawaiian Preparedness
says:
Another of our X boats has been
stranded at, Honolulu The United
States has conferred most of its de-
tense about the Hawaiian islands and
it is natural that accidents of this ma.
ture should occur where there. is so
much activity. Pearl EIarbor is the
most strongly fortified fort in United
States territory and remarkable
feature of that defense is the fact that
this little group of islands, with to-
tai population of only 20S,000, has a
National Guard of $500 members. This
is still more astounding when one con
siders the curiously-mixed population
Of the islands The people over there
are sufficiently isolated to know tho
necessity for preparedness and. al
though the United States keeps 10000
soldiers at Fort Shafter. Schofield and
Diamond Head, and Governor Pink
ham is now requesting additional
troops, the people stand in readiness
to take their own part in case of an
emergency If the United States man.
Tested the same disposition, every
man who said word about prepared
ness would not be looked upon as a
destroyer of the peace The truth is,
most people in this country are in IA
vor of being prepared, providing some
body else will do the preparing"
journal" Prints Comment.
Still another and more lengthy COM
ment on the National Guard was pub
Hshed recently by the Army and Navy
Journal.
The Hawaiian islands, according to
reports that have reached the war d.
partment, are setting pace ii Mill
tary preparedness which the United
States should follow says the lollr
nal. THE Hawaiian senate having re-
ieeted compulsory military training,
On account of the Japanese issue, over
80 per cent of the citizens of the coun-
try have volunteered to serve in the
militia of the islands. II
there was an equal movement in the
United States to strengthen the Ma
tional Guard the organized militia /
would soon consist of force of 5000
300 or 100000 citizen soldiers.
Volunteers for the militia in Ha-
vail are offering themselves in such |
great numbers that the war depart
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