Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-07-21
NATIONAL GUARDS GO TO SEA
GIRT

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The National Guard units of the
Hath Regiment Infantry will leave
their armories on Saturday morning
for their summeT encampment OF two
weeks at Sea Grit, N. j. This is the
third encampment since the reorgani-
cation of the guards and over n
thousand men will attend. The ces-
sation of the animosity that has ex-
listed during the past year etween
B~rigadier General Howard S. Borden
and Colonel Winfield S. Price was
stopped by the passage of the Powell
Bill by the State Senate. Since the
passage of this bill the guard units
have been functioning perfectly and
have attained a higher state of eff
cheney than ever before.
The Hath is composed of companies
located at Elizabeth, Trenton, Burling-
ton, Camden, Salem, Vineland, Bridge
ton and Millville. Each company has
an average of 100 men. Elizabeth has
two companies, Camden has four and
each of the other places one company.
Lewis Marts, a glassworker, is captain
of the Melville company. Maskell IT,.
Maurada, reporter on the Five Mile
Beach Journal, is a member of this
company and the company clerk, and
holds the grade of corporal. Corporal
Maurada will go with the company to
Sea Girt. The captain of the Bridge
ton company is Jonathan Kirchon,
owner of a bus line between Bridgeton
and Port Norris. The clerk is Ma
thaniel Morris, who is spending the
summer at Wildwood and has a cleri-
cal position at the Ocean Pier. The
captain of the Salem company is Will
liam Harris and the clerk is Claude
Berry. Lieutenant Carroll Adams is
in command of the Vineland company,
due to the resignation of Walter Bar
clerk is William Hall, ticket agent at
the Pennsyl station in Vineland.
There are only four officers in the
Hath regiment who have not seen
active service and q per cent of the
enlisted men are ex-service men. With
these competent instructors and with
intensive training the men will return
in excellent physical condition and
with a sound knowledge of the prin-
ciples of close order drill and military
tactics. There will also be instruc-
tors from West Point and the various
regular army camps in the country.
The rookie will be taught many
A6s-o J,r;,o ls1 noo1onvaop hI,f
camp sanitation will be the first thing
he learns. He will find that he must
spend a lot of time in keeping his
equipment in spotless condition and
that one piece of paper thrown on the
drill field is apt to cause him a lot of
inconvenience. Bayonet drill will oc-
cupy an hour each day, and the IA
day program includes two days on the
rifle range shooting a real 5000 1910
model Springfield rife. The recoil
of this rife is terrific and a black and
blue shoulder often follows a day on
the range.
The life of the guardsman is not all
work and no play, for he will have
evenings, Saturday afternoons and
Sundays for recreation, and dur1ngf
that period the Y. M. c. A. has some
thing doing every minute. There are
baseball games, foot races and field
events held almost every evening on
the large drill field. In the Y. M. c. A.
auditorium there will be movies and
music by the Hath Infantry Band, one
of the best in the state. Asbury Park,
the playground of North Jersey, is
near and the lads can get there by
trolley in half an hour. The boys are
kept busy, but the work is not too
strenuous for the average lad and does
not lack variety. He will enjoy the
life in camp and find that the training
he has received will be of great benefit
later in life.
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