Show It MILITIA The retiring AdjutantGeneral of the New York National Guard Gen Andrews An-drews suggests in ills annual report that In order to supply the National Government a trained volunteer force Instantly available In the emergency of foreign WIllOHL regularly organized United States reserve should be created cre-ated wholly Independent ofState cpn trol and consisting of one or two regiments regi-ments In the largest States and a regiment regi-ment or battalion In smaller States enrolled organized equipped drilled and commanded by the United Stales officers That will not do The United States may at Its different military posts train reserve volunteer forces If It pleases to but the Stales have no authority for such a business neither ought they to have But the States can do much better than they are doing with their i State Guards and one thing ought Lobe Lo-be done by them That ID the militia i should havo annual maneuvers in i force and when there Js not nough In i one State to call out every branch of the service then two or more States should Join American noldlcrs will I fight without any training but the militia ought to get an Idea of how I i great camps are organized and kept In i I a sanitary condition how soldiers In I the field arc fed and how large bodies 1 of armed men Infantry cavalry and I artillery are moved and how supplied I when on the march In that way too the competency or Incompqtcncy of their officers could be shrewdly estimated esti-mated and after two or throe seasons practice of that kind a call to war would not to such men seem such a II tremendous and Incomprehensible event For these maneuvers doubtless the General Government would Sla hon h-on request detail regular army officers to command and in a few years to be a member of the Stale Guard of any State would have a dignity and significance signi-ficance not recognized now I |