Show MAKE GUARDSMEN MAINSTAY OF ARMY That Tbd there is a livel lively inter interest st among officials of the war department in Washington ro regarding the efforts to tomake tomake make tho the national guards of or the can vari various ous Otis states auxiliary to the regular army is iii tho the statement of or Adjutant General E. E A. A W Wedgwood of oC the tab tah national guard who returned ed from a months month's II trip Out east this morn morning n General V Wedgwood Ved dg- dg wood visited New York Boston Washington Wash Was ington and other parts of oC the east on a abu bu business iDl s trip In Washington ho he spent several SG days lookin looking over tb the war ar department de de- de and getting in in touch with arm army officials Tb There re is il is a move said eaid General Wedgwood to enlar enlarge e tho the Arm army and the most plausible wa way 1 of doiD doing this is to place the national guards on theme the same me footing in military efficiency as ns I the tbt regular standing army array The German German Ger German Ger- Ger man empire forces all its t men to take a course in military drilling and in that T TV way V all of ot the men are trained ned soldiers f In the United States the national guard is ill the only organization tion which g t ve the men at large a military training The The war department has secured legislation e which has enabled regular army officers officers' to help out in in the guard work The idea of ot the department is isto isto isto to have the guard ard members member so O trained that in case of war nhen ahen troops are needed besides the re regular arm the guard will be on hand with trained men It takes six ix six months month to t-o get et men trained properly and in in an emergency enc we might some time have c to use me untrained un un- un trained troops The Tho war departments department's greatly interested in the national guards 3rd and the result will win be that the national guard will win be of growing importance im in all alJ the th states |