Show I TO REJECT 11 so 80 GUARD PLANS Hybrid Form Unacceptable Major Jorgensen Declares State Wants Straight Military Organization Not Mixture as War Department Has Proposed U UTAH TAH r AH will refuse the allotment of one battalion of field artillery one squadron of cavalry and one field hospital company as its national guard organization under the plans of the militia bureau of the war department for reorganization of the national guard This was the announcement today of Major Fred Jorgensen adjutant general of Utah following unofficial advices of the war departments department's plans for reorganization of the guard in Utah Unless Utah is given a straight organization of either infantry cavalry or artillery and not a hybrid organization of artillery and cavalry the plans of the war dep department m t. t will be e disregarded i in so o far lar as Utah uran is concerned ana and the state guard reorganized on a prewar basis Major Jorgensen declared Itis It ItIs ItIs Is optional with the state either to accept or reject the war departments department's allotment though If It the allotment Is rejected the state faces the danger of the probable withdrawal of federal funds and refusal of ot federal recognition tion CAVALRY DESIRED Utah will endeavor to obtain au- au from the war department for tor organization of ot a regiment of ot cavalry and failing in that will Insist upon having a straight organization of ot artillery Infantry or cavalry preferably preferably prefer preter- I ably cavalry The field hospital comI company company com com- I pany will not be affected Under the announcement of ot the war department granting that the press dispatches are accurate the Utah guard will be neither fish flesh nor fowl Major Jorgensen declared I It will be a hybrid organization that I will be neither one thing nor the theother theother I other and will cause considerable ill m feeling among the members of ot the different organizations EFFICIENCY DOUBTFUL When Jim and John assemble atan at atan atan an outing or meet elsewhere we donot do donot donot not wish them to be quarreling about the merits of ot the two organizations but we want them to meet shake hands and say a fine tine outfit weve we've got This can be accomplished only by having a straight tion With two different branches of ot the service in the guard like that proposed for Utah there can be no harmony and consequently the organization or organization organization or- or cannot become efficient We Ve must be given one or the other We must have a straight organization Otherwise we are prepared to go ahead and reorganize the guard on a prewar basis MEANS 1030 MEN The units proposed for Utah under the guard reorganization plans would give the state an organization of ot about 1030 men Major Jorgensen stated The battalion of ot artillery re requires requires requires re- re I quires men the squadron of ot cavalry I airy alry the field hospital company seventy and thirty-six thirty officers The j I squadron of cavalry would consist of ot four troops with men in each and the battalion of ot artillery artiller would consist of ot four tour batteries with men in In each The organization table announced provides for seven forty regiments and eighteen battalions of infantry six regiments seventeen squadrons and andfield nineteen troops of ot cavalry ten regiments regiments regi regi- ments twenty battalions and seven batteries of ot fI field ld artillery artiller and seven seven- ty-four ty coast guard artillery companies companies com com- with additional forces of ot oten en engineers sanitary and signal corps A maximum expansion to about I men or per senator and congressman is provided for but the units for time being are being organized on the basis of ot sixty five men to the company of ot infantry as appropriations for tor the national guard guardI for the fiscal year of 19 1920 0 permit only the organization of ot the guard on I the basis of men for tor each senator and congressman giving an on aggregate I strength of men |