Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-13
EDITOR
NEW YORK:S MILITARY TRAINING LAWS.

Hawaiis experience with the compulsory military
Training bill in the Legislature Of 1912, and the prob
ability that similar blu will he introduced next year
give special interest 10 accounts Of what the New
York legislature has just enacted. sz Z. g
The 'Stpers law" which became effective when
Cove nor Whitman signed it III May, provides what
amounts to actual conscripton in the event OF the
citizens of the state not enlistng in sufficient numbers
to maintain the national guard Oh New York at the
strength prescribed by the war department
According TO recent summary, the law gives the
governor power to order draft. which to be made
up OF all able bodied citizens of the state between the
ages of eighteen aud o-ty-five for the national guard
at am time to bring il am OF its detachneits up
to full strength This is one of the most significant
preparedness measures yet -t1ken and advocates OF
plans to better the military condition of the country
are much in favor of it. >a,.., .s... -1sf.-sr :.
Another significant measure which became a law
with the governors signature was the Slater bill,
which provides for compulsory military training for
all boys between the ages of sixteen and nineteen ex-
cept those who are regularly Employed in earning a
livelihood. Provision is also lae for the physical
training of all school children above eight years of
age up TO sixteen
The compulsory military ira ming law has many adj
yocaes and opponents as wfli. Some Of tie private
school principals are opposed to the measure. The
law reads as follows relative to compulsory military
training:
After the first day of September 1876 all boys
above the age of sixteen and over nineteen except
boys exempted by the commission shall be given n-
tary training as the commission may prescribe for
periods aggregahng not more than three hours in each
week during the school or college year. in the case
of boys who are pupils in public or private schools
colleges and for periods notexceedng those above
stated between Sept of each year and June 16 next
ensuing. in case of boys who are not pupils, but any
body who is regularly and lawfully employed in any
Occupation for a livelihood Shall not be required to
take such training unless he volunteers and IS ac-
ceptedl
From this it can be seen that every boy in the state
whether he be schoolboy collegian, or in the idle
class, pkosIded becomes within the age limit and is
physieally6t vail have to8tae aEcourse inlmiiitary
training, unless he is exempted BY the commission
which will have charge Of the work Provision for
Is leld training 81 boys IS made iT the
yesi the mishap on the aptol: grounds last night
attested to the great public in the re-
viEal of Kamehamela Day elaonies and IN tlls
ly-developed Hawaiian pageant features The crowds
were that the tnents commit
taken entirely by surprise and found accommodations
so inadequate that the pageant was postponed until
tonight karneharneha Day and the week have been
spendidly commemorate
War stocks continue to multiply Now the Rock
away Peninsula Mosquito Company has been incor-