The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-12-19
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NATIONAL GUARD
VERY UPSETH|NG.
On Eve Of First Pay Day Receives
p" News That Knocks All
Plans Galley West
EVERY COMPANY MUST
HAVE HUNDRED MEN
a
Rank and File Had Been Getting
Down To Work On Basis ~
Of Sixty-five Only

Orders which upon their ful6lmcnt
will increase the National Guard Of
Hawaii to over six thousand men have
been received by the guard organiZa
tiOns from ,the Office of the adjutan Mt.
general. These come in the form of a
memorandum imparting instructions
transmitted through the commander Of
the Hawaiian department and outline
the strength and composition of an in
fantry regiment according to the re.
quirements of the war department.
The feature Of this new table is that
a company of infantry will have to
come up to a minimum strength Of one
hundred enlisted men, whereas the pres.
ent accepted minimum is only sixty five.
The guard companies have been re.
cruited to an approximate ten or more
per cent higher than this minimum.
A Bomb Explosion
The publication of the new memoran-
DUN has had the effect of a bomb on
the local companies, at least, although
it was not altogether unexpected. II
is not so much the extra recruiting
campaign that will have to be imme.
diately commenced, but it infers that
the local regiment has not been recog.
nized rs such by the militia bureau be.
cause it has not come up to the strength
required of regiment.
This knocks" all hopes of federal
pay for the period, if it be true. Just
what effect it will have on the com
panies is problematical but il Is known
that in order to fulfil the requirements
of the militia bureau as to attendance
and the number Of drills, q majority of
the companies have been working faith,
fully, putting in extra drills, often AZ
many as three week in all, and ia
other ways striving to do the required
amount of duty.
Looks Like Buneo y
The order, inferfing that all Of this
will not count, and that through nc
fault Of their own the guard is going
to lose all OF the small benefits the
federal government does allow, was
met by the. men yesterday with rather
wry' faces. >'..S' pa '- 20. -, ."@'t'' 50
The joker in the new militia laws
seems to be in the clause requiring q
militia company, in order to draw pay
to approximate the strength Of a com
pany of regulars, This strength turn
out to be one hundred men. The re
quired strength of a company has been
only sixty.fve men, however and as fast
as company reached this strength Il
was being recognized officially by tn,
federal instructors here and going L
work in good faith to At itself for it,
work. The clause was first noticed Q
week ago and the officers warned al
to what was coming.
Not Growing However
There does not seem to be any ex
cessive growing in the local regiment
Of militia. 1t has rather dishearteneC
some of the officers but all neverthe
less are turning to and trying to over
come this one more handicap toward
federal recognition, only hoping tina
the wise and all provident militia 0u
reau won't think of something els,
nasty by the time the citizen soldier
are again deficient according Il
higher definition.
The new memorandum requires tn,
same company nOncOmmissiOned Off
GERS as at present with the exception
that eleven corpOrals are authorized
Nineteen first class privates are ordered
a first class private being new to tn,
present militia organization. A frs
class private is supposed to be eficien
above his fellows and gets paid a small
additional sum, if he ever gets Pait
at all.
1t is foregone conclusion nov
among militia officers that no organiza
tion in the guard is going to get paiC
after it's six months hard work.
1t is noticeable that the guard wa
notified of the required strength within
fifteen days of the time it was supposed
to be paid of for six month 3 work
provided that the six months work me-
the requirements in strength and at
tendance.