Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-31

Soma Of tho old men would Also come
back. II you can got II good captains
wc can got IL good companies, : reg
mont, with regimental pride" He be-
cruitod in Dover, including fair per
ccntagc At service mon. He made poll
of the men present last night and Is
expressed their willingness to go back
with the guard under proper conditions
! Major Lcfcvre said he would do what he
could to help build the guard up. Lett
revive the First Delaware Infantry
| he said, land not an engineer corps.
Lieut.. Tomlinson of Dover said he
had found mary OF tho service men anxious
to get back into the service, but tho
force must be q unit to attract them.
| He said 65 men could be recruited in
and around Dover Capt. Henry Hazel
| of Dover conceded in this view. Capt.
| Robert Simmons of Dover said there
are many young men coming in who can
be counted on. He wanted TO sec the
First Delaware Regiment rcorganixed.
Capt. II. NJ. Jones Of Dover suggested
that the America Legion sound its
| members as to enlistment.
Major Cannon of Milford said the naw
men will not come back.
Mai. Harry M. Van SAINT Of Milford
said difficulties would be encountered in
recruiting any guard, but We ought to
| to have one and the start should be made
at once He thought it possible to get
the men He didn't think the country
had got To point where it had to depend
on so cents q night to get out its man
power,
Lieut.. Kim of Milford favored 40
infantry regiment, but he thought it
would be difficult to recruit IS men in
Milford.
Col Theodore Townsend, former COM
mander of the First Delaware regiment,
whose home is in Milford, became reminis-
cent. The National Guard in Delaware
he said. had its inception in the American
Rifles, organized in Wilmington early
in the 70's, which supported itself and
represented Delaware in tye Centennial
military parade in Philadelphia in 1876,
The American Rifles later became Co. A.
National Guard of Delaware, Co. b WAS
next formed in Milford by DIR. George w
Marshall, Col. Townsend and others
The du Point Guards Of Wilmington later.
Co. c, followed; then the Dover Company,
Georgetown, New Castle and other
towns. Today, he said, we are just as
loyal "a we were then. He agreed with
Major Lefevre, that with earnest, ethcl-
ent men ut the head, any unit can be
formed and ought to be. He said the
State is badly in need of National
Guard and also State police. He
believed the guard can be organized, but
chiefly of the youths who are coming up,
with some who have been in the service,
but Go WAS about the limit for any OF the
towns down the State. Ii WAS done in
1899 and can be done in 1920.
Lieut.. Henry I. Bush of Co. A, the
new company in Wilmington, said there
would be no difficulty IN raising two or
three companies In Wilmington, with or
without pay. The necessity for a State
guard certainly exists.
Lieut. Warner of the same company
advocated compulsory military service
also some form of military organisation
Lieut.. Harry T.. Speakman of the same
company. told OF the difficulties IN re-
crlrting. The New England States took
things in their own hands. enacting such
laws as were necessary He promised Ia
help the movement here as much Ks he
can and TO stay with it
Capt. c. NJ. Dillon thought il would
be hard to get enough service men now
to organize the guard.
Major Joseph c. Lawson told OF the
difficulty In maintaining an organized
force He said labor unions opposed their
members going with the guard, while
unorganized capital had also thrown
obstacles in the way though the latter
opposition had been removed. He would
favor any unit that would reduce the
demand on the man power of the State.
Lieutenant Warner asked whether 1t
nd fls. n,
ize effective machine gun companies IN
Delaware.
Gen. Wickersham said they could be
formed with complete infantry regiments.
The governors guests were AdJutant
General /. Pusey Wickersham, Secretary
of State Everett c. Johnson, J. Warner
Reed, Theodore Townsend, John W.
Ramsey. William H Conner, c. NJ.
Dillon, C. Marshall Townsend, Meredith
/. Samuel, Harry b. Smith, J. Austin
Ellison, Harry +. Schiller, Daniel M.
Tonlinson, Harry Mailman, j. Lester
Scotch, BENJAMIN II. Miller, John p
Eckles, Joseph H. Davis, Horace n.
Wilkinson, Walter G. Newton, William
A Russell, Fred P. Davidson, ]. Henry
Hazel, Dauphin d. Wharton, David NJ.
Salter. James W Cannon, John E. Kern,
Jesse E. Mckay, John P. lie Fevre, b.
G. Parker, w. T. Turner, Harry Z. Speak
man, J. c. Lawrson, J. c. Berger, S. F. |
Stewart, II. NJ. Jones, P. c. Southland,
A. s. Hirzel, John ]. Latferty, Clifford j.
DR.. A. Halprin, A. d. Warner,
Jr.: James G. Hastings, S. B. Irwin Dun |
can, ]. n; Robinson, Charles /. Weldin,
Clarence A Short, Harry T. Bush, Henry
c. Raw, Charles R. Jefferis, Jr., Robert d. |
Simmons, George J. Schulz, II. B. Van |
Sewer, Fred l.. Manion, Robert B. Kelton, /
P. A. Steinbach, w. II. Baker and A. 0. II. |
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