The Coconino sun., 1921-02-04

T idSSLdu, It IS cApeCteu dfIiOTleS VIII be provided by cities and states and the property, horses, etc., issued state will be properly cared for and the necessary stables built and the of ficers and men of the guard taken in- to the local life with appreciation, with understanding and with enthu- siasm and given proper drill places by the construction of these armories, etc. The United States government now assumes the expense of nearly all oth- CT items of cost of maintaining an eff ficient national guard in every state. With the reorganization and increase in strength of the national guard dur ing the next four years, more almor- ies will be needed, and it is recom- mended from the chief of the militia bureau in Washington that adjutants general of state take up the matter of necessary appropriations with their respective localities,
 Paragraph 558 of the national guard regulations says, "The annual armory inspections (held once year and to be made in Phoenix and Flagstaff within the next month or so, by me- shall be formal occasions, and the re- port of the inspecting officer shall form the basis, the principal basis, for deciding as to the issue or retention by the national guard of military property provided under the Act of June 3, 1916, and for determining what organizations and what individ- uals shall be considered as constitut- ing parts of the national guard within the meaning of said act" and the in spection must include armories and the lack of them. When an inspector finds there are no accommodations or those furnished are crude and wholly unsuitable, he must so report. Know ing the war departments desire to as- sist the reorganization of the national guard, every inspector is imbued with this same desire to help and to have his annual inspection reports as favor able, within the bounds of strict truth, as he can make them.
 l believe the above will present the national guard situation to your read CTS in sufficiently detailed light and enable them to see the purpose behind whatever is said or done by any in- spector-instructor sent here. It is his duty to bring to the locality the need of armories, the need of stables where horses are issued, and to endeavor to cooperate with localities in every way to accomplish the best ends. There can exist no desire on his part to in- | terfere, for he is solely working for the general good of the locality and | of the nation as whole. Where a city decides not to erect suitable armories storehouses and stables, the inspector seeks to bring the need of these things before everybody and to create in the locality an understanding interest ir what congress has said is the will of our people-a strong, well-supporteo national guard in every state. Where the inspector finds great enthusiasm and material public support, as .ir | Flagstaff, he becomes enthusiastic and very glad to see it, and where il seems, for the time being, to be over looked, he feels sure there is the same deep interest, if he can but find the right way to awaken it. That and only that, is what the present inspector instructor of the national guard il trying to do. hope to see an armory built here in Phoenix, and soon, tha will make us all glad-and keep ou national guardsmen warm, clean, com fortable and enthusiastic and that il that fine armory, many times, the cit! of Phoenix will gather for many ; great occasion and appreciate the val ue of such building to the capitol O Arizona-God bless it.
 Very sincerely yours,
 JNO. J. BONIFACE,
 Colonel, Cavalry, U. s. A Senior Inspector-Instructor of Ari
 zona, New Mexico and Colorado.