TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
FRIDAY^^UGugi^
• vu
will' Thus the
exhibition
of a men they had led r-
“ot first public de
,„„ whlch
too 014 u
ground. He would probably call his 1 This is the citizen army, which in
fight again. The result
Was
son>ttU,
. 1 Washington, an Rreeident, sought to our histories like to
lieutenants and non-commissioned offi­ peacetime exists only as a shadow. be named by the *'>v®™°r' “
w committee by th.
'
worked „ „„
Poss
ove/?
cers together on Defense Day and dis­ i Every one of these divisions is com-
swiftly as possible. With,
“
introduce
cuss the organization of the company. , pletely organized on paper, and every officer of the corps area in which your I during
the War for Independence that cant forces the British lickeJT*
So when an emergency really comes small move has been thought out community is situated. By the time I the first President thought it good
out of our green troop»
,
he will have thought it all out.
enough
to be used as a basis for our
,
—
-
-
' against the contingency which might this is . printed _ these steps probably
the
capital at Washington,
- of - the permanent plan of - defense.
- -
But
“Without such preliminary train­ i necessitate their organization, in fact. will have been taken. The job
ing, without a demonstration of our I To each division is allocated so much mobilization committee will be similar j Washington, it seems, was one of our Navy, which gave his Bri?
mobilization plans to the country, one I territory, from which it must draw to that of the local draft boards dur- thoge dangerous militarists who went Majesty’s sea fnrnn«
forces the ontu^
could not expect them to work when 1 its recruits. In the sparsely settled ing the war. It will be their duty to around with a chip on his shoulder, of trimmings they have lw
i ever
By Marquis James
a crisis is upon us.”
regions of the west a divisional sec- obtain the personnel which, for the (congregg had another idea. We had in all history, saved the «Wrtryfn»
The law authorizing this new I tor may cover a couple of States. day of September 12th, will give sub- won our freedom and there wouldn’t ( worse disaster and
___ possibly
.ill— ¿k
..
’
nf
.
. the
scheme of prenaredness is the An”»
Where the population Is denser the stance to the shadowy ranks of the be any more war. Congress declined of the Independence whlch^wJ'u*
I Reorganization
Act of 1920.
The sectors are smaller. New York City, company of Captain X. . This com-( to appropriate the trivial sum Wash- ton had won. We triumphed““*
The Big Plan of the Government’s for Demon
American Legion strove hard to get wth as many people as several States mittee will appeal to local community ¡ngton needed to organize an officer’s sea because our Navy had « •
it passed. For four years the War
strating the Nation’s Power for
combined, must raise a division—the organizations such as the Rotary and reserve corps, which are the very ver­ reserve of seamen to draw fZ*
Department has been working on the 77th. Divisional sectors are divided Kiwanis clubs, the churches, the Boy tebrae of such a plan of defense.
Defense Here Explained
the shape of our merchant Zl?
i plan this act made possible. The de­
Congress could point with pride to This is just what Washington^
1 into brigade and regimental compo­ Scouts, to turn out and enlist for the
partment thinks the time has come to
nents. Regimental domains are split day. And, of course, the Legion will this move toward universal peace for for the land forces, but
(Editor’s note: The following story graphical unit—would be ready for give on account of its stewardship into company areas. Not an acre of be appealed to. Hundreds of posts about fifteen years. Then the War of with the approval of the e'ecta^
| by demonstrating these plans to the
ground in the whole United States have made their plans to show up in 1812 came along. The old Revolution­ had said no, that would be miliZz
by Marquis James appeared in the war.
Every citizen and every j
Thus the gathering for the national country.
has been overlooked. Wherever you a body.
.
I ary leaders mostly were dead. The ___
(Continued on page 7)
August 15th issue of The American
I community will be shown the part he
reside you are in one of these com­ The job of the military committee
Legion Weekly, and is deemed of such defense. The word gathering express­ and it are expected to play.
The
interest, in view of the approaching es it better than any other mobiliza­ ' thing will be done publicly and open-1 pany areas. Save for a few Regulars is to acquaint Captain X with what is
tion
the
military
men
call
it,
but
it
is
at the division headquarters,, these expected of him. The captain will
Mobilization Day,, September 12th,
ly. The United States has no hostile
merely
a
succession
of
gatherings
to
­
twenty-seven Reserve divisions are muster his one-day company, and
that it is here reprinted for Head-
gether. Men gather and form small feelings toward any nation or any officered by Reservists. Your com­ maybe lead it in a parade. He will
lght readers.)
units, small units gather and form people, and hence no need for con- pany area has its commander—Cap­ explain to it, and to all others who
To rally the memory there is noth­ larger ones, and so on until you have i cealment of the fact that it means to tain X.
will gather to listen, just what would
ing quite like an old song. Take this an army of proper size to cope with ' be intelligently prepared to defend
The object of the defense test is to happen if this mobilization were the
fragment:
the situation. The embattled farmers itself.
give this shadow force of 4,000,000 real thing. Company headquarters
used the same system in Revolution-1 The official announcements of the' men substance for a day. Regular would be established at the firehouse.
You’re in the Army now,
Portland
ary times. They had no big canton­ War Department point out that Sep­ troops in post and garrison, wherever There recruits would be sworn in as
Tillamook
You’re not behind a plow.
tember 12th, which has been selected
ments
then.
Pho
colonies
were
poor
they may be, at home and in our ter­ they were accepted by the draft
You’re doing your hitch,
49 No. Front St.
209 1-2 Second Are. E.
and couldn’t afford to pay carpenters i as the date of the defense test, is an ritories overseas, will be mustered, in­ board. The first platoon would be
You’ll never get rich,
appropriate one. It is the sixth anni-
fifteen
dollars
a
day
or
pass
out
cost
spected and paraded, put through mili­ billeted in the vacant store on Marble
You’re in the Army now.
plus contracts to contractors to build V!r8oary„°fJh,e ^ginning of the Battle tary exercises most likely to interest avenue, the second platoon in the old
These lines—slightly amended, it is
of
St.
Mihiel,
the
first
full-scale
all-
true—are from a roundelay of the a cantonment for 40,000 men in ninety 1 American offensive of the World War. the civilian population round about. ice house across the railroad tracks,
Regular service which had a certain days, to congregate thirty or forty The American First Army, command­ The Army will keep open house. Vis­ and so on. Or the men could sleep at
vogue during the World War. The thousand men in one place and then | ed personally by Pershing, began the itors will be cordially welcome. The home if it did not interfere with their
roundelay is very old—just how old try to sort them out and organize drive which swept the St. Mihiel sa­ same with the National Guard. They military duties. Smith’s grocery and
no one seems to know—but the pas­ them. British armies were on the lient clear of German troops who had will be called out for the day by the Jones meat market would supply pro-
governors of the respective States. vsions for the mess and receive Cap­
toral flavor of the second line indi­ ground making menacing motions.
We had to get armies together as | been there four years. There is no They will assemble on their armories tain X’s I. O. U.’s on Uncle Sam.
cates that it goes back to a day when
I gainsaying that the demonstration
C. F. Lincecum, Prop.
the standing army was drawn consid­ quickly and inexpensively as possible. ’’ planned should form a suitable ob- and on their drill grounds. The public Uniforms and equipment would arrive.
W
e
hit
upon
the
gathering
process,
1
is
invited
to
come
and
see
something
The
fair
grounds
would
be
turned
into
erably from country boys who wear­
anniversary.
a drill field. Within thirty days the
ied of the farm and joined the Army , which first comprehended the com-I I But another event transpires on that will be worth seeing.
pany, complete and ready for action, I
This part of the defense test is company would be on its feet pre­
to see the world.
that day, which the defense test also simple. The Regulars and the Guards-1
Wholesale and Retail
senting a creditable appearance and
The fourth line, incidentally, un­ then the regiment, the brigade and so suitably marks.
Pershing was too men have been called to active service
i
on.
Sometimes
a
company
had
to
do
|
ready for orders to concentrate at the
masks a truth which the American
i modest to permit it to be noted in the
Legion has been harping on for a long , a little fighting on its own hook be- | official announcement, but this test so many times that they know what re^nental meeting place.
.
fore
it
had
a
chance
to
join
up
with
to do and how to do it.
Captain X will explain these things
time. A man doesn’t join the Army
I marks Pershing’s farewell to the
The picturesque and interesting, at a big gathering, which, the war,
with any expectancy of founding a the rest of the regiment. If ready to | Army. September 13th will be Persh­
“Good Meats at Reasonable Prices at All Times.”
fortune. Which is proper. But the fight it fought. If not ready it dis- ing’s birthday. He will be sixty-four and also the vital, part of the test department suggests, should be open­
people who have rendered the neces­ pursed and took to the woods, reas- | years old—the age at which army will be the theoretical calling up of ed with prayer. A speaker, some pub­
sary service of supplying the soldier , sembling at a more auspicious time j officers must retire from active serv­ the twenty-seven Organized Reserve lic man who can hold an audience,
divisions. That is where you come in
with the fighting wherewithal have and place. Fancy an untrained, un­ ice.
Pershing will relinquish his and where your town comes in. If will make the principal address. There
equipped
and
unready
division
shut
will be music, and after that a ball
founded many a fortune. This took
command at midnight on September
place in the last war and in all others. up in a half-finished cantonment do­ 12th, at the completion of this great you and your town do your parts the game, picnic, barbecue, dance or what
larger aspects of the situation will ever the crowd likes best . Some
It is improper. The Legion is at ing that.
demonstration of a nation ready to
We respectfully solicit your patronage
After 149 years of experimentation defend itself—a demonstration which I take care of themselves. Everything towns already are planning diversions
work to change this procedure—which
Bell Phone 3-W and Mutual Phone
We deliver
will
move
like
the
works
of
a
clock,
and
error
we
are
getting
our
de
­
which
will
be
worth
going
miles
to
however, is another story.
Successors to Hadley’s Meat Market
Pershing more than any other man in
though
you
will
be
testing
out
a
pro
­
enjoy.
This story concerns the fact that, fensive plans back in conformity with this country has made possible.
gram of national defense which hasn’t
Reports will be rendered to the Sec-,
as the song says, you’re in the Army the sound and simple system used by
Arrangements
are
in
full
swing
to
I
been tried out in this country since retary of war on every meeting which
now—meaning by you you and by the dauntless little armies which won , make Defense Day worthy of the
our national independence. Washing-
I the Revolutionary War. The Civil will be held—and there will be thou- j
now the present moment. The chances
ton tried to perpetuate his system but events it commemorates and worthy War witnessed a semblance of it, sands of them. The military aspect of j
are that you are not in the Regular
I of its significance as concerns the fu­ however. In the North and in the
the matter will be covered in one re­
establishment.
You may not be a lost out Pershing, capitalizing the ture security of our country. The
I South the young men of a community port, and the War Department ex­
experiences
of
the
World
War,
led
member of the National Guard or the
1 President has approved of the pro- would get together and form a com­
pects to get much useful information
Reserve Corps or of a Citizens Mili­ the movement which has recaptured gram of the War Department. Gov- I
pany, sometimes electing the officers in this manner. Hundreds of minor
it
from
the
past.
The
defense
test
tary Training Camp. You may be so
j ernors of States and mayors of cities by ballot. The company would march
changes of the general plan may sug­
peccable and unprovocative of action of September 12th is merely a dem-| I and towns are being asked to set the
some place and join with other com­
onstration
to
the
country
of
the
oper-1
and intent that you wouldn’t even
I day aside by proclamation, and give panies and form a regiment. By these gest themselves. One never knows
exactly what a peace of machinery
play a saxophone on the back porch at ion of this reborn program of pro­ fit over to patriotic observances. Na-
tection.
means the armies of the Union and will do until he sees it tried out. Es­
on a Sunday morning. Nevertheless—
| tional Commander Quinn of the
“In past emergencies,” said Persh-' American Legion has urged every I of the Confederacy grew like a snow­ pecially is this true of human ma­
providing that you are between the
post to particjpate locally in ball does going down a slope. Right­ chinery. The civilian aspect will be
ages of eighteen and forty-five and ing lately, “i weJiave had no plans, and
ly co-ordinated and supervised, this covered in another report; the en­
relying
upon
hastily
created
forces,
th
"
observances,
are physically O. K.—you are a part
-— ----------- The American Le­
of the military forces of the United we have suffered from the extreme gion, The American Legion Auxiliary method of mobilizing has the com­ thusiasm shown, the clarity with
States. You are in the Army now. confusion which goes with such a sud­ and thirty-six other veteran, military plicated system we used in 1917 and which Captain X puts over his stuff,
and the extent to which the commun­
of f men '18 beaten all hollow.
Not merely the Army, by and large, den expansion. I In the late war, after an(| patriotic organizations
_
The arrangements for your rendez­ ity seems to grasp it—all this will
but such-and-such division, such-and- enormous expenditures and serious and women have pledged their sup-
vous with Captain X is in charge of be shown forth and sent to Washing­
such regiment and such-and-such com­ loss of time in construction and in port.
two local committees. A mobilization ton to be studied and kept on file.
pany, which is commanded by Captain transportation, we eventually concen­
Milton J. Foreman, Past National
trated
masses
of
untrained
X.
ln" Commander of the Legion and chair­
On the twelfth day of next Septem­ dividuals in a few centers, distant man of thé legion’s National Com-
ber you will see just how it is. Your from ties and associations, where they mittee on Military Policy, has been
town and community will see, and the were segregated into military units named chairman of the special coni-
country will see as a whole. On that and trained with the utmost difficulty. mittee to supervise the Legion’s part
“Profiting by these experiences, the iin the defense test. Chairman Fore-
day and date there will be a general
demonstartion of the Afmy's—or, new policy contemplates skeleton units man also happens to be the major ‘
rather, the nation's—new mobilization partially trained in advance, which general commanding the 33d National
Gifts and Prizes for All Occasions
plans which have been devised since can be concentrated locally. In an Guard Division, which will give him
the World War for use in an emerg­ emergency things must move swiftly something else to think about in this
Tiny Things for Little Tots
ency. The affair will be known offi­ and without confusion. This will de­ 1 connection. Most of the people con­
Useful Articles for Baby
cially as a “defense test.” It is the pend upon the perfection of the plans cerned with this test, from Pershing
and their comprehension by the pub­ down to Captain Smith of Laclede,
Anything in Fancy Work—Hemstitching
first of its kind we have ever had.
( Missouri, and Captain X of your
On September 12th you have an ap­ lic.
“The fundamental idea of our defen­ I town, are Legionnaires. That is why
pointment to meet Captain X. Your
neighbors and your town will meet sive plans is formed on the principle the participation of the Legion in this
him, too. They will meet his com-. of local organization. The system fol- event will be a vital part in it. A
Ilows the chain of military responsi­ staff colonel in Washington (a Legion­
mand—which also is your command
and your neighbor’s across the way. I bility until the commander of each naire, too) assured this writer some
I company is given his share of the time back that “the success of this
The captain will be present in the
task. His plan of action must take undertaking seems about up to the
flesh. Probably you will know him
into consideration the neighborhood Legion. If it weren't for the Legion
now, in his civilian and not in his mil­
itary capacity. lie may be a lawyer facilities for recruitment, assembly, I really believe we would hesitate to
Special attention given to children’s haircutting
or a merchant on Main Street. He shelter, equipment and training his try it on such a grand scale. But the
Balcony of Haltom’s Store
unit.
He
is
in
direct
contact
with
Legion is mainly responsible for the
may be a member of your Legion
Marcelling ................ ..................................
his home people, whose interest and Act of 1920, which makes this defense
post.
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spirit are invoked to his aid.
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test possible, and it doesn't seem to,
Your fellow townsman. Captain X,
"We hope by this defense test to us that the Legion is going to aban­
Phone 147-W for Appointments
holds his commission in the Officers’
Reserve Corps.
He commands the impress upon the individual officer don its child..”
The colonel’s humane expectations
military company which would go and citizen soldier his particular func­
from your town or part of town or tion if war comes. We have never be­ do him credit. The Legion isn’t going
your county in case the country were fore undertaken such a step, and in to abandon its child. It is going to
called to defend itself. It is a shadow the last emergency we found our­ look out for him and try to give him
company now.
Maybe within the selves in a serious dilemma. The idea a proper bringing up.
The plans whch will be tried out
company area there are three or four is to suggest to the officers their re­
lieutenants, commanding spectral pla­ spective duties, and to indicate just next month are for a mobilization of
I
toons, but nothing more than that. enough to let them visualize the prob­ almost 4.000,000 men, grouped in
three field armies, nine corps and fifty
But if an emergency came this shad­ lem for themselves.
“To illustrate, take for example four combat divisions. Of these di­
ow company would acquire substance.
Tillamook, Nehalem and Seaside
The squads would fill up and join to­ Captain Smith of Laclede, Missouri, visions nine are composed of Regular
gether into platoons and the platoons where I hail from. Captain Smith is troops. They are kept at less than
would unite into the company and called out on Defense Day. He wond­ half-strength in peacetime, but they
your community’s representation in ers what it is all about and what he are always in readiness for active
the national defense effort would has to do. We are going to tell him service. They constitute the first of ■
Leave stage depot at Tillamook. 9 a. m
inarch off presently to the regimental that it is up to him to make a study defense. National Guard divisions
stage depot. Seaside, 3 p. m.
gathering place. There it would fuse of the problem. He will probably number eighteen, which average
with other companies from the coun­ conclude first that he should locate about one-third wartime strength, but
tryside roundabout, and the regiment some place for his headquarters. Then they could be recruited up, equipped
COAST STAGES
would be bom. The regiment fully he should plan for the enrollment of and placed in the field in fairly quick ,
Geo. Smith, Mgr.
order.
the
men
of
the
community,
decide
organized and equipped, and with ele­
The backbone of our defensive
mentary training, would show up in­ where they should be quartered, de-
tact at the big divisional cantonment, termine on local arrangements for scheme, however, is the twenty-seven
Your State— to use a convenient geo- feeding them -and select a drill divisions of the Organised Reserves.
An Appointment to Meet
CAPTAIN X
MATHER’S
TRUCK SERVICE
NEW MARKET
Meats Fish and Poultry
DENA-HANSEN
GIFT-SHOP
Across from Tillamook Hotel
Nelson’s Hairbobbing and Beautv
Shoppe
COAST STAGES
a
Daily