Show THE NATIONAL GUARD There sccniH to be a commotion In the National Guard of Borne of the Western Stated In Utuh there are resignations and uncertainties The force Is not what wag expected In homogeneity and effectiveness In Wyoming a portion Is reported to be altogether missing And in other States there Is nn Infection Infec-tion of the tremor When the statement was published some time ago oC the Wai Departments award of funds to tho various National Guards In the States of thin section we directed attention to tho apparent discrepancies dis-crepancies not only In the totals of tho supposed membership ns compared with aggregate populations but also In the amounts awarded per capita In the several sev-eral States It appears that others noted the same differences and that the War Department hns begun a quiet In vestigation by sending regular army officers to Inspect the National Guard organizations of the various States The late Congress appropriated twd million dollars for arming and equipping equip-ping the Guards with the regular army guns and nccouterments It Is the division di-vision of this sum that Is Involved It should be a great stimulus to the National Na-tional Guards of the various States and will undoubtedly so prove but first the ground must be cleared of the old 1 before be-fore the new order can come In and be put upon a solid vital basis Now IE In fact the time for thorough reorganization reorgan-ization and a new start on a basis that will bo approved by the Departments Inspectors and that will do credit to tho State |