Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10
WASHINGTON, July 10.

WAOhlNGIOLN, july ~.
President Wilson has issued a procla-
nation calling all national guardsmen
into the service of the United States.
The call is effective beginning July
a. On August the President will
draft the men into Federal service under
the recent military act. Until they are
formally drafted the National Guard
units cannot be sent out of the country.
The National Guard of Pennsylvania,
New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Michi-
ran Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North
and South Dakota and Nebraska will be
called into the Federal service on July 10
and sent to concentration camps in the
South, although the draft will not apply
formally to them until August 5.
Similarly the State troops from Maine
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia,
Virginia, North and South Carolina, Ten.
nessee Illinois, Montana, Wyoming,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon are called
into the Federal service on July 20.
Units from other States are to be sent
70 the camps on August 5. The call
covers all members of the National Guard
and its reserve not already in the Federal
service except a few officers and special
anits not required for tactical organiza.
tons
No officers above colonel in the National
Guard will be taken into the Federal service
as such The new military act provides
that all officers above that rank must be
nominated by the President and confirmed
BY the Senate. The President followed that
idea In his proclamation and made 1t plain
that officers above colonel will not be called
into the Federal service or be drafted In
| huao pt which will follow the
formal call.
An officer Of the militia division said that
major generals and brigadier generals for
most Of the National Guards would be
promptly nominated by the President. BY
this procedure It will be possible to displace
officers in the Guard who are holding their
places by political preference
The remainder of the Guard that will be
mobized at its home stations is virtually
the same as saw service at the Mexican bor-
der, except that since that time the truck
companies have been organized or are now
being organized Three truck companies of
the supply train are now complete, three
will be completed this week and twelve
truck companies of the ammunition train
are now being formed.
The officers and enlisted men exempt
tfom the Presidents call in the Pennsylva-
MA Guard are very limited in number,
there being but twenty-five officers and
men that will not be summoned eventually
TO the coors
The commands that will be called as re-
qulred are the quartermaster's corps, the
stan corps and departments. medical Off
GERS, ordnance, inspector generals, adjutant
generals and the Judge advocate generals
apartments. In these commands there are
l7O officers and $50 enlisted men. Those
mat Will not be called out are connected
with the inspector generals, adjutant gen.
erals and Judge advocate generals depart
ments.
The various commands will report to
tnelr local armories on Sunday, the time to
Oe nxed by the commanders In cases where
new commands have no armories the sol
olers will be mobilIEed at Mount Gretna
The War Department has already desig.
mated the commands that will go there
lhey Will include some of the truck com.
panies one command Of cavalry and some
ci the Held hospital organizations. An ad'
uIuonal Held hospital and three engineer
"mpanies are also being formed.
Ine State will have equipment for mos
~ 'he men except arms and ammunition
sss' The Government furnishes these anG
VII not be able to equip all the men fol
% ne ume For weeks the Adjutant Gen
vars department has been purchasing
rvo,nlng, shoes tenting and blankets. Tn,
ssuerai Government will reimburse th'
State for these.
Vhe Dig problem that will have TO b,
Ss nss Is the physical examination of the mer
ys'O' 70 their being mustered into the serv
~ rms work will be done while thu
Ss.,. ,eI are at their armories, during the tive
snn,S period before they are sent to thu
rsS,nH1 srh concentration camps Fedora
sasnSs men must do the work. or II enough
s@huot De found these Federal offlcers may
Ssputize local physicians to assist.