Show battery Ha tiery E to be called for training after january 1 at san luis obispo calif forty two new members to be enrolled advantages cited battery E field ar with other utah national guard units will vill have its enrollment increased to full peacetime peace time strength and w will ill be called into training at san louis obispo california after the first of jan baly this means that 42 men are to be enrolled in battery E at richfield to raise the present membership of 80 to the required men and four officers this announcement was made monday by major henry E beal of the third battalion who with captain B C luth and captain clinton mcshane of beaver represented the battalion at a meting with regimental officers ers held sunday in the armory in salt lake the battalion staff will vill meet at beaver today to prepare for requisitioning uniforms and an all e equipment quip ment necessary to meet the needs of a full strength unit securing all equipment will be a big job in addition to raising the enrollment commenting on the advantage guard members wil have over conscripted men major beal stated that he hoped it would be possible to fill 11 units of the third battalion with local men besides feeling the satisfaction of volunteer enlistment the guard members will know to what camp they are going and from their experience of three years ago the utah men know sari sail louis obispo is in an ideal climate and one of the finest camps in the country they will know the group of men they will train with the lowest rate of pay will be 30 a month whereas the lowest for the men conscripted will be 21 a month guard members qualified through experience or training have a chance to be promoted at once and those who enlist now will have the benefit of some training before they go into camp while conscripted men in the regular army are limited to the rank of buck private for at least four months without chance of promotion no guard members have to register under the conscription bill young men who are eligible to join the guard who are not em played in an essential industry and have no dependents should investigate at once enlistments of physically sound men form 18 years of age to 44 are accepted captain norman M andreason is commander of battery E equally important it is is that men who intend to claim exema ion ion should do so at once there is a chance that guard members attending school may be exempt as well as men with dependents except officers from the rank of captain and up there are national guardsmen guardsman guards men already in camps in various parts of the united states on october 15 an additional troops will vill be ordered to camp before november 18 and 25 an additional will be ordered out and after january 3 the balance of the guard will be mobilized preparations are now being made at san louis obispo for a camp of men here the division which includes the utah guardsmen guardsman guards men will train although offers certain advantages and it is hoped they will be accepted by full enlistment the passage of the selective service act of 1940 is a fair and just system because in a free society the obligations and privileges of military training should be shared generally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory training america has been well im impressed presed with the necessity of preparing for defense |