The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-11-14
Plan Of Organization Would
IT, :
Get Wide Publicity; Men Il
Are Asked Suggestions.-. II
COMMITTEE ANXIOUS ) +
TO RECEIVE VIEWS
No Time Wasted in Drills and
;"
Good Pay; Live Boosters !:
Devote Long Hours &. = :,

What it means TO beml0J1 TO lose
the national guard unit ID q factor
that must be taken into consider@-
,tion as fully as what it means to e.
cure it.
Should Bemidji fail to raise the
necessary number Of men who could
comply with the federal regulations,
the aFmory Of the required capacity
WI be lost unless the balance need
ed to complete the building is raised
by private subscriptions. But fully
a. important would be. the loes Of
prestige that could be secured by go
ing through with the plans az out
lined. Bemidji has an opportunity to
put over something really big. -
State Is Watching. ~
The effort to raise q company Of
returned service men il not only . b-
cal proposition. It il being watched
by the state officials and if successful
will be called to the attention 4 the
heads Of the national guard depart
ment of the federal Goyexnnaeutz Up
on the success 2f @14s1ia1fe df Bemtdjfs
plan rests in no small measure recon-
msndatio1s tint will shssmadsforsthe
4astablishnssnt Of national auaxd 5epua.
panies III other states. Bemidji' q: plan
is known to the state oficers; as the
returned service men plan. Should It
fail the returned Jervice man will be
the one, in the minds Of the state Of
ficials, who is responsible.
Men{Sh1uld Susse.t.
For that reason the organisation
committee is anxious to make no
false step. J The committee. wants to
base its plan on what the service men
want. It would have pleased them to
have had the service men take hold
OF it from the beginning, but failing
in that effort the:twelve men have Of
fered to take care Of the detail work
following any suggestions made by
the men who have returned.
Would Mean Publicity.
If Bemidji lands the unit and with
it the armory, details Of the plan will
be requested by cities from all states
in the union. The attitude of the
service men, the methods used in re-
~ NASAA6S SA0 way tA0 VA4CS16 "S10 Sk3s
lected; all will be put in cold print
for distribution under a Bemidji
date line and with the credit going to
the Bemidi people.
Bemidji would receive enviable' ad-
vertising it it could be announced
that the returned service men had
backed the proposition, had by vote
selected their own captain, and had
made possible highly efficient; well
trained organization from the mom-
ent of being mustered in.
No Time Wasted.
-: To the member of the company,
joining means promising to devote
one week and a half per year to
drilling. Seventy-two hours a year,
at better than dollar an hour, is
what the government asks. More
time than this has been devoted to
civic work by practically every live
booster in Bemidji every year.
It is asking too much to ask one
hundred young men Of the city to do
it so that Bemidji can secure an arm
ory, can have needed protection in
case of trouble and can secure adver-
tising that will be worth thousands
of dollars in bringing Bemidji to the
notice of other communities as loyal
in war, loyal in peace and ever ready
to serve for the benefit of the COM
munity, state and nation?