Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1913 — COMPANY M WILL NOT ATTEND SUMMER CAMP [ARTICLE]

COMPANY M WILL NOT ATTEND SUMMER CAMP

Inability to dot Minimum Number Makes It Impossible for Local Militiamen to Attend. A ruling of the war department requires that national guard companies to be entitled to attend the summer camps must have »t least 38 enlisted men and two officers n camp. Company M could not procure that number and advices received from the Adjutnit-/eneral are that the company can not attend the camp, which will begin next Monday, July 21st, and continue for ten days. It had been suggested by Col. Aubrey L. Kuhhnan, of the third regiment, that other companies would be in the same predicament and that a consolidation might be arranged, but this is contradictory to war department orders. During the past several months there have been a number of discharges from the local organization for removal from the county, business interference, and expjrationsof enlistment. While the military law contemplates that all members attend this camp it has not been the policy of the local company commander to enforce attendance where the interests of the militiamen or his employer were jeopardized. The camp comes at a bad time of the year for the local company, owing to the fact that members of the company are employed on farms and are busy with the harvest.