The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-31

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Governor Bickett's proclamatfo,
calling for more than five thousand
volunteers to fill the ranks of the Ma
ttona1 Guard follows:
The War Department has ordered
the North Carolina National Guard
10 Dc recruited to full war strength
40 meet this requirement the follow
ing recruits are necessary:
First Regiment I OOf
Second Regiment .1Of
Third Regiment .2OC
Other organizations SOC
These other organizations include
the Coast Artillery, Cavalary, Engi
neers, and Sanitary Troops It is seen
that over 5000 volunteers are needed
to bring the National Guard up to
ful war strength. It is apparent.
therefore, that any one who may have
opposed the selective draft because he
did not like the thought of being con.
scr1pted Is now given a chance to vol
unteer for militry service.
Then, too, there S=7 several distinct
advantages in enlisting in the National
Guard:
1. While those who enlist in the
National Guard will be required to
register they will be exempt from
draft.
2. He who enlists has the privilege
Of selecting the command and branch
OF service he desired to enter.
8. He will serve under officers he
knows and among his own friends
and acQuaintances.
4. A person volunteering for SER
vice in the National Guard will be re-
Quired to enlist only for the duration
OF the war.
5. A permanent roll of those who
enlist will be preserved and the names
will be published daily in the news
papers.
6. The man who volunteers for SER
vice in the National Guard has a bet
ter chance for promotion than he who
is taken into the army under the
selective draft.
Considering these advantages to-
gether with the appeal the country
makes for men, confidently expect
the patriotic young manhood of North
Carolina to quickly fill up the ranks
of the National Guard. History does
not show where a nation has ever
made a worthier appeal than our coun-
try makes to its sons today. This Re-
public has unsheathed it's sword in de-
fense Of humanity and to prove that
have right to live. Amer
lea has planted the emblem of liberty
and democracy in the pathway of the
tyrant and the autocrat. And she now
calls upon her sons to keep it there.
We like to sing of the "sweet land Of
liberty" and "the home of the brave
and the free" But the time has como
when it is not enough to sing only.
We must back the sentiment with act
ion in order that that which gave birth
TO the sentiment shall not perish from
the earth.
America has Lifted her arm in de-
tense of Christian civilization and she |
now calls upon her sons to save that !
This is no ordinary war.
It Is a war of ideals. For in 1t civ
lizatfon that exa1ts love and service
g pitted against civilization that ex-
alts power and selfishness. A civiliza-
hon in which the strong must serve
he weak is at war with a civilization
n which the weak must. serve the /
strong. It is, in short, a war to de-
;ermine whether the ideals of Jesus or
he ideals of Thor shall dominate the
world. We like to pray, "Thy king
lom come" But the time has come
when it is not enough to pray only.
Now, therefore, I, Thomas Walter
Beckett, Governor of North Carolina,
10 hereby call upon and urge unInar-
led men who are At for military SER
ice to enlist in the organizations To-
,ated in the community in which they
eside. And the people Of all COM
nunities in which the various COM
ranies are located are earnestly urged
o take an active interest In bringing
10 the organization to their full war
trength.
No citizen of the State should be
ontent until this is done. Never yet
as the nation called and failed to
acefve prompt answer from the peo-
le of North Carolina. Let us not
oreet that in every crisis in the Rs
uhlic's life, from Kings Mountain to
ha nresent momentous hour, the peo-