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Show RECRUITS Issues a Proclamation Asking Enlistments in Utah Military Organization Organi-zation as a National Necessity and Duty of Patriotic Citizens in Grave Emergency. DRAFT PROVISION CALLED TO MIND Veiled Allusion to New Law Authorizing Compulsion Com-pulsion in Filling the Ranks to Standard Is Made by Executive in Appeal for Voluntary Service in Militia. That the National Guard of Utah may be in readiness to respond to a call for duty as a part of the defensive forces of the United States and to be prepared for any emergency that might arise, Governor Simon Bamberger, Bamber-ger, as commander in chief of the National Guard of Utah, yesterday issued is-sued an official proclamation calling upon all the eligible, able-bodied men of the state to voluntarily enlist in the national guard. This action by the governor was taken following a conference with Major Ma-jor W. G. Williams, adjutant general of the Utah guard, and other state officers. of-ficers. While the' governor would not say so, it is understood that the call upon the men of Utah to rally to the colors is the result of information which has been placed in the hands of the executive of the state relative to the present strained relations between the United States and Germany. In connection with the issuance of the governor's proclamation, it is announced that active recruiting of men for the guard is to begin in Salt Lake and throughout the state Monday morning. To Open Recruiting Stations. Three recruiting stations are to be opened in this city Monday morning, and stations will be opened in Ogden, Logan, Provo, Manti and Ephraim also. With the approval of the governor, Major Ma-jor Williams will today designate the recruiting officers for each station and they will be in readiness to begin their work tomorrow morning. It was announced ffom the office of the governor last night that one of the three recruiting stations to be operated in Salt Lake will be at the armory on Pierpont street, and another will be in the state capitol. The third station is to be located in the business center of the city, but the exact location had not been determined last night. The recruiting stations in the outside out-side centers will ne at the local armories in those towns, and officers and men from local troops will be detailed to the work. As explained by the governor last night the first aim of the call for volunteers volun-teers is to recruit the LU-ah guard up to a full war strength for the nine troops and one field battery which the state organization now has. It is stated stat-ed that later, if needs be, the guard may be recruited up to full regimental strength. Five Hundred Men Needed. There are now about 800 men enlisted enlist-ed in the guard of the state, and it is estimated that about 500 more are needed to bring the present units of the guard up to a full war strength, as required under the terms of Lne national na-tional defense act. It would require (Continued on Page Eleven,) G0VE1QB ASKS FOR REIMS FDR GUARD (Continued from Page One.) about 700 men to bring the organization up to a regimental basis, it is stated. Troops A and C and the First battery bat-tery or field artillery are located in Salt Lake. About fifty men are needed to bring the battery up to a war footing, foot-ing, and it is stated that from thirty to forty men each are needed to bring the two troops up to this footing. A similar number is needed by all the other troops to fill them out to war strength. The other troops are stationed as follows: fol-lows: B and K at Ogrien, D at Manti, R t Mount Pleasant, F at Provo, G at Cphraim and H at Logan. In his proclamation Governor Bamberger Bamber-ger recites that the present International situation unmistakably indicates the likelihood like-lihood of this government being called upon to muster its land and sea forces in defense of tta national honor and integrity, in-tegrity, and that in such event the state of Utah would he called upon to furnish its full quota of able-bodied and trained men for the service. Trained Men Necessary. The governor further recites that history his-tory has demonstrated that trained men are necessary in times of warfare and to prepare the men of Utah to perforin the services which they have always been ready and willing to give to their country coun-try whfMi emergency arises is requisite. To the end that the men of Utah may he thoroughly trained to perform their duty in c;i.se of war, the governor urges that every able-bodied man of the state, not exempt from military service, voluntarily volun-tarily enlist in the guard and prepare himself for eventualities. YVhilf the proclamation of the state's chief executive merely calls for volunteers volun-teers to the colors, it is issued under the terms of the new si 3 te military law, passed Hy the last legislature In conformity conform-ity with the national defense act, and which empowers the governor to draft men to fill up the guard to its proper war footing. The governor has not signified sig-nified his intention, as yet, of using the authority given him under tho new military mili-tary act, but it is understood from his office th.it in ense there are not enough volunteers- to brine: the present units of the state organization to a war footing, he will avail himself of the authority carried car-ried by the new law and will draft a suf- nVient number of men to ma he up the full ouota of each unit of the organ-z organ-z ition. Draft Authority Given. Under the r.ew law it is provided that nil fihlc-bnlied m:le citizens, and ail HMr-b.-id'.d Tviiilns of forev.'n b-rth who h 1 vf- d.-clare.i ib'Mr in! rnt ,on of berom-i"i berom-i"i ' izens. --ho are between X'.'.c aces of j;. y.avt: mv'i -1:, ;-'irs, r.re s;:bbvt to ;c:i::.i;'y duty In -.v cuard of the ss'. except persons exempt by the federal law, persons exempt by the laws of the state, persons honorably discharged from the armv. naw or volunteer forces of the United States; members of regularly organized or-ganized police and fire departments, persons per-sons who have served five active years in the state militia, judges and clerks of courts of records, elective state and county coun-ty officers, ministers of the gospel, practicing prac-ticing phvsicians. superintendents and officers of-ficers of hospitals, prisons and jails, conductors, con-ductors, engineers and firemen of railways rail-ways in active service, and all persons of unsound mind. The law provides that anv person who is ordered into service or drafted for enlistment en-listment who fails to respond within- for- tv-eignt nours aiter rectrii-n. ui lug notice no-tice shall be deemed a deserter and dealt with accordingly. Under tho new law the governor has authority to designate districts for the organization of national guard units and authority is given to draft men in these districts to make up the full quota of enlistments en-listments for the unit. As under the old law, the county assessor as-sessor of each county is required to take a military census of his county each year and file the names with the county commission com-mission and the adjutant general. It is provided that notices calling for volunteers shall be posted in the districts and if there are not enough voluntary enlistments, en-listments, then the names of the eligible men are to be placed in a box and enough names drawn to make up the full quota of men needed. The persons so drawn are considered drafted into the military service and must respond subject to the penalties for desertion. It is pointed out by the governor's office of-fice that under the new national defense act the national guard organization of each state is the volunteer army of the government and It is through tills medium that volunteer troops for the United States are raised, and not by a general call for volunteers by the president, as has been the method of procedure heretofore. |