The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-03-30
BUILDING UP BIG
ARMY AND NAVY
Preliminary Steps to the MObiliz.
ing of Millions.
ARMY SYSTEM REORGANIzED
Two New Departments Created In At
Iantic Coast Region-National
Guardsmen To Police
Coast Points.

Washington. - President Wilson
took steps Sunday to place the nation
on war footing.
BY executive order he directed that
the navy be recruited without delay
to it's full authorized war strength of
$1,000 enlisted men. Taken in con-
nection with emergency naval con-
struction already ordered, this means
that the President has exercised the
full limit of his legal powers as Com
mander-in-Chief to prepare the navy
for war.
For the army, the President directed
that two new military departments be
created in the Atlantic Coast region.
The order means that the task OF Or
ganizing whatever army Congress
may authorize will be divided among
six departmental commanders, instead
of four, in the interests of speed and
efficiency in mobilization.
State Troops Called Back.
The third step was to assume as a
national duty the task of protecting
American industries from domestic
disorders in the event of hostilities
For this purpose IL full infantry regl-
ments, two separate battalions and
one separate company of National
Guard were called back into the Fed
eral service to act as national police
In important districts. Supplement
ing these troops, regiment of Penn
III Nd fNUn nnmnaninS nf
Georgia Infantry, en- route home from
the border for muster out, were Or
dered retained in the Federal service.
The Presidents orders were made
known in terse official statements
issued by both departments. No ex-
PLANTATION accompanied them except
the statement that reorganization of
the military departments, effective
May 1, was designed to facilitate de-
GENERALIZATION of command.
Official Statements Issued.
Following is the executive order
bringing the navy up to war strength:
"By virtue of the authority vested
in the President by the act of Con-
gress approved August 30, 1916, en-
titled AN Act making Appropriations
for the naval services for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1917, and for
other purposes it is hereby directed
that the authorized enlisted strength
Of the navy be increased to $1,000
men.
WOODROW WILSON"
The navy must enroll Immediately
approximately $4,000 men to reach
the required strength. Secretary Dan
iels- supplemented it tonight with per-
sonal kilograms to newspaper editors
all over the country urging them to
aid the department in every way in
their power to obtain the men.
Baker Designates Troops.
The War Department statement con-
corning the calling out OF National
Guard troops follows:
Many States have deemed it ad-
visable to call out the National Guard
for police purposes of protection. AS
the necessity for such steps arises
from issues which are more national
than local, it has been deemed advis-
able by the President to call into Fed
eral service for the aforementioned
purpose the following organizations of
the National Guard:
Massachusetts, Second and Ninth
Regiments.
Pennsylvania, First and Third
Regiments.
maryland Fourth Regiment.
"District of Columbia, First Sepa-
rate Battalion.
virginia, Second Regiment.
vermont, Company B, First Regi-
ment.
"Connecticut, First Regiment.
'New York, Second and Seventy
nrst Regiments
New Jersey, First and Fifth Regi-
ments.
.Delaware, First Battalion, First
Regiment
"The following organizations which
are now in the Federal service will
not be mustered out
"Thirteenth Pennsylvania, A and B
companies of the First Georgia"