Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-05-07


will be a training encampment lasting
about Is days. and for this period also
the men will be paid.
In many instances employers OF
labor and the heads of business
houses throughout the State have
agreed either to pay their men who
enlist hi the Guard their full rate dur
ing the time they are in camp or 70
make up the difference between what
the Government will pay and what
they would get if they remained at
home BY the time the campaign is in
full swing it is expected that practi-
cally every business man will be
ready TO agree TO this plan.
Tentative plans for the campaign
we're discussed at a dinner given by
Governor Richie to 200r representa-
tive business and professional men
from all over the State at the South
ern Hotel, Baltimore, last Wednesday
night.
At the dinner every speaker-and
among them were the biggest employ
ors in the State, as we'll as the Mayors
Of towns and leading professional men
from many cOuntlos-pledged his sup
port to the campaign. And every
speaker laid stress on two points
which are expected to carry weight
with the thinking people of the State.
Maryland Needs Guard
The first is this: Maryland needs a
National Guard. perhaps more now
than before the war. There has been
so much general unrest and so many
whisperings of radical efforts to make
trouble among the loyal laboring men
Of the country and for the govern
ment, that no one can tell when a
state organization of trained troops
might be needed for the protection of
the Commonwealth and the property
of its residents.
In addition to this need for the
Guard, il is pointed out that in time of
great public catastrophe, such as Wis
tied the city of Baltimore in the great
IRE of 1904, the need for National
Guardsmen can hardly be estimated.
At that time the Guardsmen rendered
service to the stricken city which no
other force could have given, and
through their work hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars were saved
The second point stressed by those
who are to conduct the campaign is
this: Men who served in the National
Guard before the war. who were taken
into the Federal service at che out
break of hostilities with Germany and
who formed the nucleus for many di-
visions which rendered heroic service
overseas. automatically became civil
ians when they were discharged from
the Federal service at the end of tie
war.
They did their duty nobly, and they
deserved a retirement to private life
and a complete rest from The duties
md responsibilities devolyng even
upon a militia organization. Thous-
lnds of them went through the ertire
war. They served the country for
more than two years. in many IN
stances at tremendous personal
sacrifice
Governor Richie ana those men
who will work with him to recruit the
lew Guard. notable among hem being
Adjutant-Gereral Milton A Reckord
former Colonel If ;ao old First Regi-
nent and for . tine its leader in
France, do not believe that these men
should be calle.i upon again TO enter
the seryice--at least that no special
appeal should be made to them
Since the armistice was signed.
many thousands of young men have
become Is years of age, have reached
the period when they can be of most
advantage to their State and can give
most satisfactorily of their service 20
the protection of that community of
which thew arc eitizouc