The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-09-11
SIGNS MULTIPLY
THATGUARDWILL
SEESERVICE SOON
When Militia Goes Into Camp In
Few Weeks, It Wit Start In
On a Long Training
oNE-WAY TRIPS ARE
BEING ARRANGED FOR
Secretary Bakers Broad Hint
and Calling Of the Draft TAX
en- To Clinch Matter

When the National Guard of Hawaii
is mobiIized in its "anuual encamp.
ment within a few weeks. il will not
he demObilized for many n month, in
the opinion Of very many Of the guard
officers. Every sign points to the mus
tering of the local militia into the fed.
eral service for intensive training, such
ms the organized militia on the main.
land is now receiving in the national
guard environments. -. g..
The guard will not 90 into camp as
soon as was expected according TO re.
port. II Is now believed that IL viii
be the first Of November before the
two regiments assemble at Red Hill or
Leilehua or wherever il is they will
go into camp. But week or two
makes little difference if the camp is
to be n permanent one for the period
Of the war b..
The draft is to be made in Hawaii
around the first of October in time
to hnve the selected ones mustered in
to bring the two Hawaiian regiments
up to war strength before they are
definitely, called into active service.
One way Trips
According to report, the Matson
steamer Maui and Matsonia win be
used to bring the battalions from Ia
wall and Maui TO Oahu, while the Ka-
uai battalion of the Second Infantry.
N.G.H., will be transported by the ships
of the Inter Island feet As soon as
the two Matson liners have brought
their soldiers to Honolulu from Hilo
and Kahului, they will sail for the
Coast on their regular business, leaving
the Second 1nfantrymen here, without
means of getting back at the end OF
the two weeks encampment, even If the
plan should be to send them back. This
steamship negotiation is one of the
signs from which the calling Of the
guard into active service is predicted.
Secretary Bakers Hint r<...
Another indication is seen in the
wording of the recent cabled authorize.
ton from Secretary of Mar Baker to
the adintant general of the guard to
enlist married men in the guard under
conditions. When the request was
cabled for, it was pointed out, among
other things, that the militia bureau
had stated that the National Guard of
Hawaii would not be called out Sex.
cePt in case of local emergency and
that this should not be a bar TO the
enlistment of married men. Other
arguments used were that the provost
marshal had instructed the selection
boards of the mainland not to exempt
those with dependents If the federal
pay equalled that being received by the
| registrant and that for many of the
plantation hands the federal pay would
exceed that earned now. N.
Ignored Local" Part ...f'
In replying. Secretary Baker sane.
toned the enlistment of married men
on the last argument, but his reply
made no mention whatever of the sug-
gestiOu that the Hawaiian guard would
be called out only for "local emergen.
cy." Many read his cablegram as init.
mating broadly that the "local emer.
gency" matter may be disregnrded
hereafter and that the guard will be
called in the national emergency.
The order to prepare to call for the
draft at the earliest possible date
strengthens the ideas of many that the
guard will not much longer remain in.
active. 1t is not TO be supposed that
there would be draft here with the
guardsmen uncalled, especially as il
was repeated over and over again prior
t" the registration that those who en-.
listed in the guard would be exempt
from the draft. That the guard should
be onened as refuge for slackers is
the last thing to suppose. ..'