Show SEEKS TO IMPROVE NATIONAL GUARD Gen Wedgwood Formulating Plans to Increase Efficiency of Military Forces To insure the thorough compliance with the provisions of the apt ait of Con Congress Congress gress familiarly known as the Dick bill relative to th National Guard or organization of the Urit States General GeneralE E A Wedgwood adjutant general of the National Guard of Utah is now tie de developing plans designed to increase the numerical efficiency of the states tar tary force and with such success as to promise Utah being up to the standard when the annual Inspection is held General entire scheme for forthe forthe the betterment of the present condition of the guard has bas not been fully di divulged divulged but It Is known to cor many of the defects brought blOught to light under the report following the inspection made last year by Major J M lI Arrasmith Fifteenth Infantry U S A AThe AThe The following circular order was is issued issued sued by General Wedgwood yesterday It is hoped that the general stand standIng standing Ing of the guard of this state may be advanced during the coming year in a marked degree No reason exists why It should not stand at the head of the list of states so far as organization equipment efficiency and discipline is s concerned The foundation of excel excellence lenee lence In all points is organization and responsibility not merely In theory but In actual y practice Section 34 or of the military laws of the state relates to o organization and responsibility and is pUblished for the Information of all Section 34 Responsibility of Corn Com Commanding manding Officers The commanding of officer officer of Infantry shall shah be responsible to the governor for the general efficiency cy of the National Guard and for the drill instruction Inspection small arms and artillery practice movements oper operations operations and care of troops 4 All other commanding officers shall be responsible to their immediate commanders fore for the equipment drill instruction and efficiency of their re respective commands II I Every officer and on en listed man shall shaU be responsible to the officer under whose Immediate corn com command mand he serves for prompt and un unhesitating unhesitating hesitating obedience military deport deportment deportment ment efficiency and the preservation and proper use of the property of the UnIted States of the state or of the organization to which he belongs which may come Into hIs possession It will be noted that the responsibility of commissioned and noncom noncommissioned officers differ only In tie de degree gree The best results cannot be ob obtained tamed unless all noncommissioned of have a thorough understanding of and fully p perform their duties and unless ss the men In the unk fully recognize the standing and responsE responsibility of the noncommissioned non officers This Is the first step In th the line of progress A copy of this circular will be post posted posted ed liT In company quarters and company commanders will cause the same to ta be read to the men of their command and give all proPEr instruction in relation thereto theN to Education In military science do de signed for officers non officers and will b be the prin j cipal work at the armory during the next few months A school for officers and noncommissioned alike will be taught In the varIous branches of high higher er military science The school this I week will be held Friday evening and the instruction in map making and I may reading continued |