Show Want Young Men of Character Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON March 16 The adjutant general of the army has recently recorn mended to the secretary of war as an encouragement en-couragement to young men of character and ability to enter the militia of the United States that appointments in the army from civil life be exclusively reserved to officers of the national guards of the states who can successfully pass the prescribed mental and i physical examination i this competitive examination i ex-amination to be confined in each case to the officers from any one state The adoption of this prSposition General Drum is convinced con-vinced willjjefome of great benefit to both services to the army in securing it the services of men of soldierly instinct and martial training and to the militia in offering offer-ing t youi officers of promise the prize of a commissicm in the permanent military es tablishmenv |