ISO JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 8

gation in their homes and elsewhere would not permit them
to leave, except in case of war, when the rate of pay recom-
mended by the Secretary of War for this Continental Army is
based upon the United States Army standards, which amount to
fifty cents a day for the private soldier. All of the States
have found it necessary to make the rate of pay not less than
one dollar per day for the private.

"In the same three companies I found among the private
soldiers, a superintendent of public schools, principal of a
high school, a banker and a dentist. It is an evident fact that
State pride and State officers only can induce the best char-
acter of men to enlist and an army of this type is entirely
in harmony with the traditions of our country. The Na-
tional Guard is all for the nation and the Association well
urges the prompt introduction of an amendment that would
remove what constitutional limitations that now exist, pre-
venting the guardsmen from being used the same as the
Regular Army. Ninety-nine, per cent, of the men in the Na-
tional Guard today are there for national defense and not
for State police protection.

"Peter J. Campbell, President of the Maryland Senate, now
in session, recently introduced a Bill providing for the cre-
ation of a commission that will report to the Legislature thirty
days before adjournment the desirability or undesirability or
co-ordinating a progressive athletic and military system of
instruction in our State schools with the National Guard.
This is an. advance step, but a practical one, as the States
control both the schools and the National Guard. The project
was recommended by General Mills, of the Militia Division
of the War Department, in an address at the convention of
the National Guard Association.

"The recommendations for direct Federal pay are both
reasonable and just. From the economic point of view the
Federal Government is not paying its share towards the sup-
port of the militia, when it is true that all of their training
is for the nation: The States at present pay $12, 000, 000 for
the support of the Guard, while the Government spends but
16, 000, 000. Direct Federal pay for the Guard would permit
Congress to demand a higher plane of efficiency that would
greatly increase the dependability of the Guard as an avail-
able force for field service.

"It is proposed to have a partially-trained Continental
Army, which for the first three years would cost $242, 500, 000,
and $62, 000, 000 every year thereafter, or an expenditure of
nearly $400, 000, 000 in four years. This amount would pay