Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
GIjARD CHIEFS
Reg STATE AID
FOR ARMORIES
ad;utant General Stewart
and Brigadier General
Price Ask $3,0O0,OOO
IMPERATIVE, THEY SAY
By a star Correspondent
HARRISBURG. March ~.


,-,,,sd states. in the event Of war
-, Germany. must be prepared to take
.,,cs side by side with the Allies and
"A men 10 the trenches abroad ac-
a.. N Adiutant General Stewart, head
-. National Guard Of Pennsylvania. who
..,iss4 At a hearing on the armory bill
,noropriation Of 100000.
"a. hearing vas given by the Appropria-
49,. committee Of the House. II lasted
III ,ore after midnight. Those who testi'
- nredicted that war would soon be de-
',.,,a either By Germany or the United
-, The hearing also disclosed the fact
o,,,svIyania was woefuly unprepared
for war.
.1., II. face the facts" General stewart
"a I'VE do not know when our soldiers
- =. o,dered into the trenches. II We go
sh =. q, yill not be singly. for II we do not
- N. Allies. where viii we stand'
MUST GET READY
ana, get ready not only TO defend
'so,ss from invasion, but TO send men
~ s..d IN help those with whom we must
~, ourselves II we do not want to be
s',,,A aghting alone in some great crisis
which the fututs mas !" ''' anu NV
hidden from us
y, declared that the. United states was
=. he brink Of var. and mo American
~ - what is going to happen next. nor
80 he surprised If the Government is
tund lmpotent in case Of war
n. Adiutant General who, as field coin
.,,dsr Of the Federal National Guard Of
,s,s state. has ben in close touch with the
NJ, nenartment At Washington since the
rated States severed diplomatic relations
.i,b Germany, made no attempt 10 disguise
a, alarm. He bIuntly described it az mill
,,,v unpreparedness Of the State and ma
tor.
"pEPLoRABLE" CONDITIONS
The State armory board wants $4,000. 900
a, ,rrnories and concentration camps
Facts concerning existing conditions
rtich were described as "deplorable" were
brought out at the hearing.
Abul providing for the amount desired
xD be drawn up and introduced in the
Ifrislature AZ the earliest possible mo-
rsni the Adjutant General announced
Senator Clarence j. Buckman, Of Bucks
chairman Of the Appropriations co nmittee
Of the Senate. gat with Chairman lanes f
woodward. Allegheny. Of the House Appro.
2. prations Committee. at She hearing.
Besides the Adjutant General there wer'
present Brgadier General Albert J. Logan
n Pittsburgh. Mayor General Charles
Bow pougherty Of wikes-Barre Brigadiei
General william e. Price, Jr., Colone
Louis A. Watres, Of Scranton, former Lieu
tenant Governor Of Pennsylvania. an,
Colonel George e. Richards, all prominen
ehcers Of the guard and all members o
the Armory Board. of which Governor
Brumbsugh is the president.
PRICE SHOWS NEED
Brgadier General Price. commander .
he First Brigade. y. G. p, Philadelphia "a
declared that when the Second Infantr.
returned from the Mexican border as al
artillery regiment its equipment had 4
}. housed in an old car barn in Phila
delphia.
Major General Bow Dougherty, nj Wilkes
Barre. field commander Of the y. q. =
pointed out an instance Of the unprepared
ress Of Pennsylvania National Guard II
zd the Third Artillery, now on its wa
back from the border, would find itself upo
iu arrival at Wilkes-Barre without a
stmory and with only the buildings Of a
abandoned farm in which to house its equiv
nent valued at $1,000. 900 with which tn
sedersl Government provided H.