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Show UHH lift GUI 10 BE smiiio Members Not Measuring Up to Standard Will Be Honorably Hon-orably Discharged. ACTIVE MEN DESIRED Work of Building Up Organization Or-ganization Will Begin at an Early Date. A schedule beginning February 21 and ending late in March, by which all t lie weak men and thoe who don't attend drills regularly are to be given honorable discharge from the T'tah .National Guard and their places filled by strong, active men, to the full war strength of each detachment, has been prepared by the adjutant-general's office and Lieutenant YV. B. Wallace, instructor-inspector. This order will apply to the infantry, artillery and cavalry in the sequence named, and will be issued to the commanding com-manding officers of the different detachments detach-ments within a few days. The schedule tentatively decided upon, which each detachment will be expected to comply with and be inspected, in-spected, is as follows: Headquarters department, February 21; Company D, Jt. Pleasant, February 24; Company G. Ephraim, February 25; Company F. Manti, February 2i; Company Com-pany H, Salt Lake, February 28; Company Com-pany B, Ogden, February 29; all of the infantry. First batterv of artillery, March 13. Cavalry, a date later in March to be decided upon later. War Department Plan. It is the desire of the war department not only to have the national guard recruited re-cruited to its full quota, but to maintain main-tain the personnel at the highest standard stand-ard of efficiency. In every detachment detach-ment there are members whose lack of interest and fitness detracts from the efficiency and record of the guard. Compared with the militia of other states, however, Utah ranks high. The new interest of the war department and the general adoption of the "prepard-ness "prepard-ness ' propaganda will, officers or the guard say, make other states hustle more than Utah. Most of the work of the Utah militia will be in the matter of recruiting, as the total strength of the guard is only about half what is desired by the war department. Some time ago the company com-pany commanders were urged to recruit their detachments as much as possible. The new order will urge them on in this direction and at the same time eliminate elim-inate the unfit and the apathetic. These last will merely be given their honorable honor-able discharge and the-ir places filled by better men. A series of lectures by Lieutenant Wallace, the instructor-inspector, who is an officer of the regular army, and by various officers of the guard, is being planned to arouse the interest of that part of the public which heretofore has Known little of its citizen soldiery ex-cept ex-cept from hearsay. To Stimulate Interest. These lectures are expected to stimulate stimu-late interest in recruiting for the militia, mili-tia, both by getting actual new mem- j bers and by interesting business men ; to encourage their mule employees to I join the organization. Also, it is be- j iieved that the lectures may lead to the establishment here next summer of citizens' citi-zens' training camps, like the one which was so successful last summer at Platts-burg, Platts-burg, N. Y. Lieutenant Wallace has received authorization au-thorization from the division headquarters headquar-ters of the army in San Francisco to deliver lectures on military subjects. The lieutenant believes that if suficient interest in-terest is shown in the lectures here the army will establish citizens' training camps next summer. Here office and shop men, professional men and artisans may get two weeks of strenuous, but interesting, soldiering. Some of the lectures by Lieutenant Wallace will be held under the auspices of the Commercial club. Lectures will also be given before the Rotary club and other civic organizations. Topics Selected. The lectures will be upon the following follow-ing topics: (a) "Brief Outline of the Military History of the United States'"; (b) "Organization of the Squad, Platoon, Company, Battalion ami Larger Units''; (c) "The Individual Soldier, His Training Train-ing and Discipline7'; (d) ".Nomenclature; ".Nomen-clature; Care of Rifile, Target Practice, Prac-tice, Field Firing, etc."; (e) "Camp Life and Duties Incident Thereto''; (e) "Personal and Camp Hygiene'7; (g) "Map Reading and Orientation"; (h) "Patrolling." Adjutant General E. A. Wedgwood anil Lieutenant Wallace have conferred with Governor Spry, who is heartily in accord with the plans for recruiting the militia. They urged the governor to prepare a letter to the public to encourage en-courage this movement, and the governor gov-ernor is going to do bo. Iso letter has been prepared or sent out by the governor gov-ernor as yet. however, and lie and his secretary were considerably amazed to read what purported to be such a letter published in a morning paper yesterday. yester-day. The governor's office. Adjutant: Cro'neral F. A. Wedgwood, Lieutenant Wallace and others connected with the militia denied the authenticity of such a letter. |