Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-20
STRIVING TO Get
ORDERS TOFRONT
FORLOCAL GUARD
Cry for Chance TO Mobilize Prompts
Messages TO Washington Ask
ing Change.
IMPETUS IN RECRUITING HERE
Probability That Company A VIII
Leave Is Incentive Towards Build
ing Up TO Full Peace Footing.

Probability that Company A Of Rock
Island will be ordered to mobilize to-
DAY doomed up as a vital incentive to-
wards recruiting the company I'D to
full peace strength.
Telegraph wires between Rock Is
land and Springfield and Rock Island
and Washington were busy late yes
terday carrying messages to state and
federal authorities requesting a change
in the orders which will make it pos
sible Tor the Sixth regiment TO be in
cluded in those in the state which will
mobilize at Springfield.
While the messages licked over the
wires there were busy scenes around
Company \ armory. Preparations
were being made TO assist the Loyal
league in every possible way in its
campaign TO secure recruits for the
company.
Every company in the regiment
started actively to bring the regiment
10 full war time footing Twenty Off
GERS OF the regiment who met in Mo-
line yesterday expressed themselves
as determined to place the regiment at
the necessary standing in anticipation
1
nav include summons to the regiment
to mobilize in Springfield with the 9TH
er regiments.
The Illinois national guard is at
present composed of two brigades. each
containing four regiments. The Sixth.
which is exempted from mobilization
in the initial orders. belongs to the Sec
ond brigade and the Fifth regiment.
also excepted in the summons, belongs
TO the First brigade.
See Reason OF Omission.
Sixth regiment officers recognize
the omission Of the regiment in the
summons as largely due to the fact
that the regiment is not on full peace
footing 1t is for this reason that
strenuous efforts are now being made
in each company TO remedy this sit
uation.
Perhaps in no city in the regiment is
the campaign for recruits being prose-
Cuted as vigorously in Rock Island,
With Loyal league striving to build
up the enlistments and Major Ed Dun
ayin and Lieutenant Benson working
strenuously TO secure recruits there is
every reason to believe at present that
the company will reach the required
number.
Is Efficient Company.
What Company A lacks in numbers,
however, 1t makes up largely in eff
cheney. Recent report on the last in
specuOn OF the company shows that in
craftsmanship and all other points on
which merit is based it is very good.
The only chalk mark against the local
militia is in number of men.
Congressman Clyde H Tavenner
was communicated with in Washing
ton TO assist in securing a change in
the orders so as to include the Sixth
regiment in the summons to mobilize
Governor Dnnne was also asked in a
telegram to authorize a supplementary
order TO mobilize the regiment.
That these messages would bear fruit
was the prediction made today by the
local national guard officers. If the
orders do come and Company A is sum-
moned s. men will be taken and a re-
cruiung officer will be left here to take
charge of increasing the enlistments
10 l42 which is full war strength.
Governor Doing His Part.
Springfield, H., June 20.-Will the
federal government authorize the state
OF Illinois TO order out the Fifth in
fantry and the Sixth infantry, the only
two commands in the state that are
not under orders to mobilize?
This highly important detail Of the
Illinois mobilization is awaiting def
mite decision at Washington. The tele-
graph and telephone wires have been
superheated by the efforts of Governor
Dunno and General Dickson to get &C
ton on this proposition.
Governor Dunno is tremendously
anxious to be authorized to call out
the Fifth and Sixth. His Office has
been assaulted with kilograms and
long distance calls from every city that
contains company in the two regi-
ments. Colonel Davis Of the Sixth sent
wire to the governor last night com
planning Indignantly that his regimen,
had been Disseminated against.
Springfield can get no inkling from
Washington Of what may be expected
Nothing has been received since the
hrst and only communication, that
which carried the formal order from
Secretary of War Baker for the Hi
nols mobilization.