Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-06-19 | Page 3 | Says National Guard is will Equipped

I SAYS NATIONAL GUARD IS WELL EQUIPPED j .1 , . "The national guard," said Gen. Alfred Leopold Mills, "has never been ' better equipped or better trained or better officered for service than it is today." Which may be an important factor fac-tor in the present situation if the i states' militia should be called on for .action. General Mills' statement may be taken as fairly representing the ; situation. In the first place, General Mills knows. He is the head of the division of militia affairs at the war department and as such would havo charge of the transfer of the militia -to the service of the national government. govern-ment. In the Eocond place, Mills wouldn't say it if it were not true. His specialty is seeing and saying 'the truth. Mills is the man who reformed West Point. Before his day there as superintendent the cadets were treat-i treat-i ed like prisoners, fed upon theory and , clothed In uniforms that fitted like . the skin of a mushroom. If a regiment of West Point cadets had ever charged an enemy, the sound of popping seams would have been heard above the rattle of musketry. They knew a great deal about the manner in which J Napoleon was whipped at Waterloo, but they didn't know how Geronimo used to lie behind a rock in order to pot soldiers. Mills changed all that.