Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-08
NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS
IN FRANCE BY September
First "Can" for Federal Service on
July Is to Be Followed 10y
% DRAFTING, on August6.
RUSH WORK ON CASfoNhENTs
Preparations seem>to Indicate That
Uncle Sam WI Play Part In Any
Big Campaien This Fau Want
Men for Training Camps.

Uncle Sam WI Play Fart In Any
Big Campaien This Fau Want
Men for Training Camps.
WASHINGTON. July 7.-As tho now
nationai army grows under the hands
of tho War Department It became evil
\ dent to-day that the first National
Guard troops In support OF the Pershing
division will be In France by septem-
Der. All of tho guard should be ready
for trench seasoning by December.
And before they are fully In 1t. the
frst 100000 of the drafted millions
will be on their way overseas.
1t began to look hero to-day as II
Uncle Sam would play his part In any
big campaign this fall. He surely Will
be In the thick of any winter lighting.
On July is the first National Guard
units will be called into Federal SER
vice for intensive training. They VIII
come from eleven States-New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia.
Michigan. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa.
North and South Dakota and Nebraska
T, On July rs will come the boys from
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont.
Massachusetts,. Connecticut, Rhode
Island. Delaware. Maryland. District Of
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Carolina, Tennessee. Illinois, Montana.
Wyoming. Washington and Oregon.
On August will come the troops Of
indiana, Kentucky. Georgia, FLORIDA.
Alabama, mississippi, Arkansas, Louis
lana, Missouri. Kansas, Oklahoma,
Texas, Colorado, New Mexico. Arizona,
Utah and California.
This was oficialiy announced at the
War Department to-day.
All these units will be called" into
tho Federal service on tho dates set.
On tho last date they all will be
"drafted' into Federal service at the
same time.
TO PRESERVE RELATIVE
SUPERIORITY OF OFFICERS
The distinction between drafting"
and calling Is that troops called may
be sent anywhere in the United States.
Troops drafted may be sent abroad.
They will be called at these different
times and drafted all at once. 30 that
the relative seniority OF their officers
will be preserved.
This straightens out ono OF the
toughest problems the War Depart
ment has had to solve. Were the
guard made part of the army In train
Ing at different times-and 1t would
be impossible to call them all at once
tho men first called might gain by
these ten days seniority over their
later called brothers. which the later
corners had served months and years
In tho guard TO gain.
Tho assignment OF the dates for
summoning these troops was but one
indication OF the day. showing how
the formation Of the new armies is
WI.
snounced that every effort was being
mado to rush cantonments to compile
ton.
In order to obviate delay. system
OF daily, weekly and monthly pay
ments to contractors has been devised.
80 that mono OF them will have to slow
I'D for lack OF money. All Of the
eantonment sites except two In Gen
ernl Woods department have been
chosen. The failure to announce tho
campo to which the various guard
units will be aent Is attributed to the
failure to complete the selections,
There was a well-establishcd rumor
here that the New York guard would
60 to Spartanburs. S. c. The AdJu-
tant-GeneraIs Office OF the army to-
day mado an announcement that will
BIO good news to the boys in the Of
hcers' training camp. These young
sters will be assigned to the command
of troops from their own States and.
wherever possible. from their own
neighbprhood-
URGENT PLEA FOB MEN
FOR NEXT TRAINING CAMPS
Tho tAdJutant-Generars ONCE again
to-day; made an urgent plea for can
didates for the second officers train
ing camps, which open on August 81.
Its statement says:
ITO overcome the prevalent belief
that only older men who have been
to tho second camps. the War Depart
ment wishes to lay stress on the fact
that previous military experience. even
under the most favorable circum-
stances, will count for only one-sixth'
among the points which will recon-
mend the successful candidate for
commission.
THE War Department wants young
blood, ,men between the ages Of TWEEN
ty-five and thirty-one. or even younger.
TN q general way, the same princi-
hies that apply to the conduct Of a
successful business enterprise govern
the prosecution OF the business Of war.
Lieutenants, captains and majors IN
the nations industrial enterprises are
frequently men we'll under the thirties.
There Is every reason to believe that
the mon of this mettle will make cap
tains, majors and lieutenants Of our
lighting machine. The history OF our
Civil War. as we'll as that OF all wars.
shows that many Of the worlds able
and even illustrious military leaders
have, been men in the early twenties."
1t was stated to-day that the Ma
tiona1 Guard still needs 106.s8o mon to
sbring 1t up to full war strength.