Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-17
PREPAREDNESS
IS KEYNOTE At
GRAND REVIEW
Spectators Display Keen En-
thusiasm Over Manuevers.
Need of Recruits.

Twenty-six hundred Newark people
had enough preparedness zeal Satur-
day night to get to the First Regi-
ment Armory for the First Regiment
review. Two thousand were specta-
tors and 900 We're in the ranks. The
spectators We're enthusiastic about the
work Of the citizen soldiers, more SO
than were the soldiers themselves.
The majority of the latter felt that,
looking the thing squarely in the face,
they made a poor showing. That was
because they we're seyerer critics than
the onloollers. Christian w. Fiegen-
span. chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Newark branch of the
National Security League, by whom
the troops were reviewed. declared
himself highly pleased with the con-
duct and soldlerly manner of the
guardsmen.
Comments by the troops were to the
effect that however pleasing the re-
view might have been TO spectators,
TO the men themselves it was an oh
ject lesson of the need for more gen
eral response by the public to the
preparedness needs of the hour. They
pointed to undermanned companies
and blank files and skeleton squads
and declared that they cant COM
slider the regiment an actual effec-
tive unit in the national defense
scheme until the gaps are filled with
recruits.
Officers of the company stated after
the review that they expected its ef-
feet would be to promote recruiting.
Comment among the spectators indi-
Gated the latter believed the First
Regiment n good place to get military
training. judging from the degree of
efficiency displayed by the command
in the close order movements.
NotabIes in Reviewing Stand.
With Mr. Feigenspan in the review
hg stand We're Augustus V. Ham.
burg president of the Board of Trade;
Brigadier- General Edwin S. 11inc,
commanding the brigade consisting of
The First, Fourth and Fifth Regi-
ments. n. G. n. j Captain Walter
l.. Reed, L. S. A., formerly an officer
In the Tenth United States Infantry,
but now inspector instructor for tho
State of New Jersey: First Lieutenant
John V. Hinchcliffe, of the Fifth Regi-
ment, aide on the staff of General
Hine; Captain G. Z. Lanterman, of
Battery A, of Orange, and First
Lieutenant Edward Jones, of the
same command.
At the reception to officers and in
vited guests which followed the re-
view Mr.. Feigenspan made an i'm
promptu address in which he sug-
gested that a meeting of employers be
called by the officers of the First and
other regiments, at which prominent
army officers should be speakers. An
effort should be made, he said, to ac-
quaint the employers with the ad-
vantages their employees would derive
from the military training they would
receive in the National Guard.
Nothing short of cooperation and In
terest ON the part of the employers
will instill effective interest into the
organization, he believed.
Colonel John ID. fraser, of the First
Regiment, who commanded during
the review, was another speaker. He
termed the guard a military insur-
ance. as reasonable a precaution as
fire insurance and life Insurance, or
any other sort of insurance. He sug-
gested minor military instruction in
the primary and secondary grades of
the public schools.
State medals for twenty-five years
of consecutive service were conferred
on Quartermaster Sergeant George
II. Bowman. of Company L; Corporal
Charles Mockler and Corporal
Frederick Schuetz, of the band sec
ton.
Amid enthusiastic applause, Gen
eral Hine bestowed ON Private
Sweeney Blackmar, who made a score
of 200 on the Sea Girt ranges In 1914,
the National Rife Association medal
for the recruit of the regiment making
the highest score that season.
Medals for ten years continuous
service were given to Quartermaster
Sergeant Joseph j. Carr, Company I;
Sergeant Edward +. Rubsam, band
section: Sergeant Louis LurZ, Com
pany I; Corporal Wilbur Cornell,
Company G, and Private Edward +.
Joeger, Company L.