Show TO DEPEND UPON THE GUARDSMEN I General Wedgwood Says Actual And Available Strength Is to toBe toBe Be Increased VACANCIES IES ON TIlE THE ROLLS Must wt Stop In Mid And All U Need More loro Now Law General E A Wedgewood e sewood comment commentIng Ing thIs on the tho changes made this week In the lice ro regimental organization tl tion n of at the National Guard or at Utah anti further changes to be made before Jan Jann n 21 the date ot of ert effectiveness s of oC the tho Dick militia bill stated emphatically that by bythe bythe the time tino the tho government Inspection lion tion Is made swooping changes wilt will havo been effected and that the Inspector tor will seo aco a m marked improvement In all lines In the tho state force The Tho plan of oC Wedgewood I is to maintain the tho two infantry battalions ono with Its center In Salt Lake Lako and tho oilier In Manti As to tho interests of oC the National Guard or of Utah IIi as a whole GeneraL will con continue continue at tile the head as its chief admInis admInistrative nod W r G WillIams senior field officer has been designated as the tho commandinG officer or of the tho two battalions or of infantry antI he hc attached organizations the tho Hospital corps First battery and Signal corps WIth Wills the tho abolishment or of regimental headquarters tito tho band goes out of at existence though some may many bp be made mudo to pro pru vide ride n a band for Cor tho National Guard of oC Utah but It cannot bo be recognized by the war department until a full tull regi regiment mint ment is 18 maintained General Wedgewood explains that the mAintenance of a full Cull regiment under renditions conditions would impose n a greater financial burden upon the lice state than would bo be prudent The annual appropriation made b by the federal hov government for tOI lice tho arming and equip Ing of at the militia anti and for the expenses Incident to the annual camps of at tion et nr LII f I nn p n I that It li i h ot applied r c to the support u or of an organization larger than that proposed Tho addItion ot of four Cour or 01 live companies In order to Oil fill up tie tho regi meat ment would be n a heavier drain upon this than would be wisely It Is proposed to maIntain In the tho two battalions and In the lions attached to then them for tito tho purposes an actual strength or of fron Crom to In tOO 00 men all available at all 1111 times time This plan Is now being work worked d out In detail In the higher offices and will do away with the former custom of maintaining R a large strength only a portion ot of whIch would bo be available nt at all times o as a force Corce to be called upon for tor service In this wa General wood ex expects to maintain n a greater greatel efficiency than over ever before MUST ENLIST SOON That the tue benefits ot of the tho maneuver camp to be held In August of the com log InS year rear ma may bo be and not In m ported parted to some sone men nion Who ho frequently fOI the i urpo o ot of mit at f i the fu tu sort of th wa n has recently l provIded that all Inca attendIng mUst have at least six months service camp provIsion will nean that aU all en must be discontinued after Fob 1 In vIew of oC the fact that the strength Is to be made nade actual and nil paper strength discontinued nil organizations are preparing to drop from their iii men man who are out or of the stale or city and ciot In a position to attend rEgu larl to their duties Such inen non as are dropped however upon return to th city aro alo liable to be taken and carried again on the rolls roll An order about to bo be from the ot of flee fico of oC the adjutant general based aipo an opinion by the judge advocate G gen m oral will require that dropping a noncommissioned officer er from tico tho roH he shall shaH cease to hold his warrant or of rank and to take his place In the j n erl of tue tic other othor members may cony bo be ad 11 II cell The noncommissioned ot of fleer r upon his return to his station ma may however bo eligible to promotion Ir if the tho commanding officer or of his organization Is so 50 minded The Tho organizations stationed In thIs elt city nil all or of which have h in their rolls are Company H whIch meets Monday Monda C which meets Wednesday the I signal con corps Tuesday eve II I the tho hospital corps nt at the samo time the First baUe battery meet ings Monday INVITED TO ENLIST I want to extend through Tho News said Id Gen wood tills thIs morning an Invitation to the tho mn or of this city all residents between th the ages of oC iS 18 and 45 years ears 00 being In I included d to visit the armory In Pierpont street wIth the vIew of at getting with the work the National Guard or of Utah is 15 doing It If the servIce was bet better t ter understood there would be no a candes In the ranks We Va want a lIum cuc bor of men whose hose residences arc per permanent manent here to and make moro mora valuable citIzens by reason of r their service with this stale Institution to prepare themselves to 10 bear arms In an intelligent ent manner It Ir Irn Ita n a contingency demanding It should over eer arise Tic The old army and the tl old guard both are now tradition fOI 0 military has now reached tho ho point where It Is an science and the tho time has passed wh 1 an bOd body of at mon arnieS wIth rules antI anel clothed In uniforms constitute an arm arms the tho of oC the modern arm army must bo be trained and that training some time anti nueh preparation on the tho part of oC the tho officers The Tho Is patriotic In the sense and n nm m opInIon no man should consider that he ices hils fulfilled all the tho requirements ot of citizenship until lao he has hns hasso so 50 educated himself that lie he Is capable ot of responding to n a call and rendering the tle b betit it service J Jan ban an offer orter to the lice nation In Its agaInst an enemy THE SECRETARY OF WAR Gen Con Wedgwood Ved wood has received a copy or of the tho New YC Years IS from tnt thu secretary or of war which follows The Hon J 1 H DIckInson secreta secretary of oC war the followIng Now New ears greeting through tho National Guard Magazine to tM the national guards o of the count country Th time allowed b by the ac act of 1903 3 I for or the tho conformation of oC the militia In Inor or and discipline to that ot of the rO regular armoy anny wilt will elapse lap lapon on en Inn 21 1 1910 10 The Tue progress made in these AAen say en years ears by the tho national gerard luna IUlI been beon most encouraging und sund deserving ot of the lice highest commendation and the tho which t the 1 of 1 1903 3 and esS 1909 1008 evinces great patrIotIsm public spirit and on the tho part or of those citizens of oC the el States who oo been n willing to enroll M U tico defenders of at theIr country In Ina Ic a IC of oC trouble Dy By this leg the tico national guards bo be become como come In truth and In net fact the tho national volunteers of oC tIcs the country and have taken lalen upon them themselves elvel those duties whIch the volunteers or of n and d 1861 assumed It Is now po In time of oC peace to prepare a scheme of oC or of I th tho combined land forces of oC the United States with a view to mo nb on n time the ot of war wor amid Uld to avoid the and congested conditions whIch have In the past char the tho Initial periods of at some ot or our Much has been bee dono In rate rais raisIns log Ins the tho standard or of and but much moro more remains to be bellano bedone done llano In border order that the tho national guards ml may he II a more adjunct to the army But It if the tho une which has guided the guard dur durIng log Ing the tho last seven oon years ears there thero I Is but little doubt that In time the tho gov can feel that It hIlS II a relIable I and valuable force to depend upon In ens or of trouble read ready to Immediately obe obey the summons of oC the tho pr president It Is hoped that the state slate authorities I will tire the standards whIch are now upon tie tho mIli mIlitia tin tia anti and will generously do all In their power to support und and encourage o theIr state forces furnishing then them wIth prop proper er armories and rub ranges wIthout whIch the results desired are almost ImpossIble It Is ii also hoped that the people at large will vill appreciate the self seU And patriotism which induces men to join the tho national nail will gIve to then them that standard or of honor which today Is accorded to thu tho volun volunteers teems of oC the tho CIvil war nr |