Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-26

tive service, which includes training
period Major, $3.50 per month; cap
tain, 5000; first lieutenant, $166.67
second lieutenant, s141.67.
In time of actual or threatened
hostilities the president may ordel
officers of the reserve corps to TEN
porary duty with the regular army
according to the plan, in grades
thereof which cannot for the time be-
ing be filled by promotion; or as Of
ficers in volunteer or other organiza-
tons that may be authorized by law
or in such other duty as the presi-
dent may prescribe; for example, the
recruit, rendezvous and supply de-
pots. While on such service the re-
serve officers, by virtue Of their COM
missions, will exercise commands ap-
prppriato to their grade and rank in
the organizations to which they may
he assigned, and shall be entitled to
the pay and allowances Of the corre-
spending grades in the regular army,
with such increases Of pay as are al
lowed by law for officers OF the regu-
lar army, and they may be promoted,
in accordance with their rank, to va
cancies in volunteer organizations, or
temporary vacancies In the regular
army thereafter ocucrring in the or
ganization in which they shall he
serving; but they shall not be enti-
tied to retirement or to retired pay,
and shall be entitled to pension only
for disability incurred in the line of
duty and while in active service.
All the officers and employees of
the Southern Pacific system have
been sent notice by W. r. Scott,
vice-president and general manager,
which says:
"Officers and Employees: "1t is
desired to organize the forces of this
company to meet any military emer-
gency that may arise, wherein the
Pacific coast may be involved, both
to realize maximum efficiency in the
operation of the property when
working under the direction of the
United States army, and in any
event to secure to ourselves a mini
mum of disturbance with cur normal
functions as common carrier.
"To this end the attention of our
officers and employees is invited to
the article, "Officers' Reserve Co., U.
s. Army; The responsibilities as
sumed by holders of commissions in
the officers reserve corps are:
"1. They are subject in time of
peace to duty in training camps or
elsewhere for two weeks each year,
or
"'2 They arc subject 10 order for
duty by the president of the United
States whenever war is actual or i'm
minent, in a rank not below that held
in the reserve corps
Railroads involved in the possible
theatre of war operations will be
managed and operated by the on
gineer corps; railroads outside of the
theatre of operations, but involved in
the line of communications, will be
operated by the quartermastcr corps.
Engineers especially will be in de-
mand. One of the war pamphlets in
circulation on the roads states:
Engineers now have offered to
them their opportunity to give their
services to their country, most ef-
fectively, when she will have most
need of them, with the assurance
they will be given responsibility and
rank commensurate with their ex-
perience and ability.
The question may be asked, Why
do it at all? Tho answer is, II there
is real trouble there will be enough
to 80 around-which means that
every man will have to do his bit.