Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — U. S. War Department Would Promote the Reorganization of National Guard [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

U. S. War Department Would Promote the Reorganization of National Guard

By NBWTON D. BAKER

, Secretary of

> In the present disturbed condition of the country there will doubtless arise, as there has in the past, the necessity for the use of organized force in the protection, and the maintenance of law and order. Our Constitution contemplates the use of federal forces for local or state purposes only when all other forces of the locality or state have been exhausted or have been found insufficient to meet the emergency,©* when it is evident that such pleasures will prove inad- . equate.?, Then, arid then only, should federal forces be called upon to hindle the situation. In view of the

above, and in order that an organized force may be provided which is suitable and available for the purposes herein touched upon, the attention of all governors and state authorities is invited to the fact that the national •defense act of June 3,1916, is still in force. The war department is in < position to furnish assistance to the National Guard formed under this law, and it is a matter of deep concern to the war department that so little progress has been made in the organization of the National Guard, which is so essential in the handling of internal problems by the state authorities. There appears to be a spirit of antagonism toward the organization ■of this local force, which it is impossible to reconcile with the duty and loyalty .of the citizen's and officers of our state government It is requested that the authorities make a special effort to immediately organize throughout the United States the force known as the National Guard, under the act of June 3, 1916, and that every effort be made to of Antagonism to the National Guard which may be