| Show M MUCH G l INTEREST rf f ll IN NATIONAL 11 l GUARD U But Little More Than a Month I Remains Before Big Encampment A VACANCY TO BE FILLED I I of If Iii i lint lias I Tendered Col Lund I Hut lint Ho Ito lias Not ot Decided Jr to 10 Accept I i I I I 1 With a little more than a month re rt remaining before the tho National Guard luard of I I Utah Ulah Is I due at Fort D A for I Its III annual encampment Interest I l guard circle Is Increasing every Jn I Within a week enlistments will be ho stopped until after w so that Hi tb usual rush ruin of mm men at the tho eleventh hour who do 10 not enlist In good faith to serve serge through the required three years c u will trill willbe 1111 be checked I Ithe The Interest now no chiefly hiM renters centers In Inthe inthe n the i Personnel of the governors staff and I the line command In at the en tn When Col Co Geoghegan re resigned resigned signed some rome months month ago as us acting ad general It and Inspector In general only the position of adjutant general was wan all filled tilled and that of Inspector gener sener general al was wu left temporarily vacant LUND Ll D RECOMMENDED It was known that Just before the I occasioning Cad Col Geoghe gans resignation It was Wat pro ITO gramme that when Col ol Geoghegan acc accepted l pled the tender of the adjutant I generalship permanently he be would rec tee recommend the Ibe promotion of Col H M 1 H n Iund to the th position po of gen general genral eral ral ns tie II he was Wild a strong etron advocate of ot the of making makInI promotions to the governors governor so a staff depend on military sir ser service strIte vice Ite Ih r than personal preference and wished to Inaugurate It with lh filling this vacancy from the tho line When Hay lI Naylor was 05 appointed tent tam general the question qu rested for fortim a time tim but with a view Iel of filling up the lilt vacancy before befort the encampment the appointment was 5 tendered by b GO Cut Cutler Cutler ler to Col Lund This would make mako an another another 11 other vacancy at the he head of the line and an election would have to be ed for the th colonelcy of the First regiS regi regiment ment mint who under the new nl system Is In the field NOW SO ov COMICS COMBS O IKS A t HITCH hUTCH lien Her 11 come comes the hitch In the pro proS that JuK Jun now lOW Is u a center of interest t Col ol 01 Lund lurnS talked over his promotion with a 11 largo large number of hi his hll friends antI ami as u many of the these were w re In touch with lIh officer anti and who bear ar no love for the colonel In their hearts And who ho have hn long maintained that ho he would be a R better staff eta r then than a line lint r they th advised adIM him tutu against accepting the tito promotion It Ital was wai al made they the l him At lit the In Instance Instance stance of ot these dissatisfied people who paw In III it a chance to get JH him hint safely Nel out of th the way before tor camp limp and open up Ull an fl opportunity for the tle promotion of one of their number an It Is alleged to the principal line position DECLINED ID TO ACCEPT Col Co Lund LurnS apparently accepted ac their t lr lrI i advice and nd failed to 10 return a favor favorable able attic r reply ply to the tho governors tender londer of n II I position at al the tho head of the staff Another Item ent enters r the situation hero here 1 on 0 account of ot the live fact tact that dl Ion of ot recent date has hues carried many manyi mn men i officers out of the service and as a soon lOOn i i a all as they the have gone gont the th activities of Col ColI ol I 1 Lund who hi has always teen been one of nf the hardest hardt workers In the service HrIe have resulted In the election of other I cers ceril ef to take their places fl These nutty new officers are Ar not oot In sympathy with Col rol 01 Lunds opponents and anti some twenty or them have hae written K their confidence and declaring that Ihal they do not think It II Is a MI eq ar are alf deal to 10 promote him at al this time hut when ben the big encampment will give Ie him a special opportunity to serve In III the Held field a as f They would HM see seeto to 10 It the colonels friend declare that no ne man aAn tom la is elected who Is III an en roomy m mI I of ot hit his and nd they have hn a controlling number of 0 vote In their hand hande I CONDITION 01 OK The general situation If is I such that bat bati i Interest in is I being manifest I ed fit In the outcome ou I com and all al friends of I the Ih guard who are art acquainted with the hard It ha has hili had ha l to 10 keep alive Un ever er sine since Utah became blam a 1 state tate are an hopeful that the present situation will III adjust Itself without friction or oc occurring turning that would b be harmful to the service at t this thle period which U ii I regard regarded ed flit as II a critical one oneTh on oni i Th The strength of ot the guard In Is now I considerably I more lnore than lien It has hu been for tor several nral years yean and lint this thin condition Is conceded to 10 be due dee to the efforts of CoL ol Lund Iund who bo has baa been very r active arth sine since assuming control as colonel colons It will take Uke over tilt officers ePIcene and men to tamp camp for tor or the tile Kt Ft conjoint maneuvers |
