Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-07-11
TO REORGANIZE
NATIONAL GUARD
Adjutant General HOlway Gives
Particulars Regarding Ser
vice i'm State Militia

Adequate provision for maintenance
having been made by the Legislature
of Wisconsin, the following initial
steps are announced toward the speedy
reorganization Of Wisconsin National
Guard in compliance with the Act OF
Congress, June 3, 1916, (National De-
fenSe Act
By direction of the Governor, coln-
mission in Wisconsin National Guard
Reserve is rendered to each person OF
Wisconsin residence who served as an
officer of the United States Army be-
tween April 6, 1917 and November IL,
1913, and who has since been or may
be discharged from Federal service,
such commission to be of equal grade
with that held or for which definitely
recommended in the United States ar
nv. This offer is extended both to per-
sons whose commissions as ofilcers
originated in the National Guard and
to those whose entry into the military
service of the United States was made
through other channels, and also TO
those meritoriOuS nOn-cOmmisSlOned
officers and privates who had been defl-
nitely recommended for promotion to
officer grade in the United States army
previous to the termination of hOstili-
ties with Germany.
Application for commission should
be addressed to The Adjutant General,
Madison. Wisconsin, and should be
accompanied by evidence OF the grade,
or recommendation for grade, held III
Federal service and of discharge or re-
lease therefrOm.
Every officer of Wisconsin State
Guard (Organized Militia) who pass
es the examination required by the Ma
ti0nal Defense Act and will take the
oath of service prescribed by that Act,
will. ON approval by the war depart
ment be also commissioned in Wiscon-
sin National Guard Reserve as of the
grade held by him in state service.
Officers of the National Guard Re-
serve. while as such subject to call ana
draft into Federal service in emergen-
cies. are not required to attend drills
for armory instruction but may, on
their own application, be permitted to
dO so.
Authorization will be sought from
the Secretary of War in behalf OF all
Reserve officers who apply, for their at
tendance at officers field schools and
field camps of instruction. 1t is pro-
posed to hold each year an officers
field school of seven days duration ana
a field camp Of instruction with troops
of approximately fifteen days dura-
ton
Reserve officers who plan to attend
camps of instruction, will be expected
to have participated in the annual cor
respondence course, Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard.
For the period of attendance at field
schools and camps of instruction, Re-
serve officers will receive from Federal
appropriations, the same transporta-
tion. pay and allowances as officers of
equal grade on the active Guard list.
The initial officer contingent OF the
active Guard will as rule be provided
by the transfer and assignment to act
i've duty, with their consent, of. Reserve
officers.
In the initial offering of Wisconsin
National Guard, which will be forth
with reconstructed and reorganized on
the basis existing August 5, 1917, pref
renee will be given, wherever practic-
able, to those former National Guard
officers, to whose diligent teaching,
wise control, and good leadership, Wis
consin military organizations owe much
of their justly earned reputation for
efficiency.
Company Reorganization
By direction of the governor there
is rendered to every Wisconsin town
and locality which furnished an organ
lied military unit of Wisconsin Nation
al Guard for the war with Germany,