Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1917 — Major Healey Begins Drive to Give Logansport a Company. [ARTICLE]

Major Healey Begins Drive to Give Logansport a Company.

Logansport Tribune. Major George H. Healey, of the Third Indiana, acting under orders of Adjutant General Smith of Indiana, arrived in this city yesterday afternoon, bringing the information that it was the desire of Adjutant Geheral Smith that a militia company be recruited here. Major Healey met with the Greater Logansport Club last night and stated his mission here to that organization. Following the major’s presentation of the subject, Judge Rabb, Mayor Guthrie and Rev. Edwards spoke in favor of the plan to recruit a company here and declarec it was nothing short of a disgrace that this city of 25,000 did not have a company of the national guard. Major Healey stated last ngiht that a company of at least 150 men should be recruited here within the next ten days. He gave it as his opinion that many men here would prefer to join the militia to being drafted into the army. He stated further that so far as he knew or so far as. any information had reached the adjutant officer, those who have been drafted may yet volunteer and join the militia, though of this he was not certain in absence of positive information on the subject. Men joining a militia company will have their own officers, and fellow townsmen for companions-in-arms. This, of course, will not be true for the men who are drafted. The latter will be sent wherever the government finds the most need of men and many will be used to fill up depleted companies. Major Healey gave it as his opinion that those communities and cities giving men for the national guard will be allowed greater latitude in the matter of exemption from service when the draft comes.