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Show COMPULSORY SERVICE NOW A POSSIBILITY WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. The first rewards of 3 Tor regular army recruits secured by postmasters under the new national elefense act, the war depari-ment depari-ment announced today, have been paid to Postmasters William .1. O'L'onley. Utica, Okla., and Joseph M. Sit man, Greens-burg, Greens-burg, La. War department officials frankly described de-scribed the new, recruiting system as "the lasL gasp of volunteer enlistments." They pointed out that in giving a 55 premium pre-mium to postmasters for each recruit, tiie government has made a supreme effort ef-fort to obtain its soldiers without resorting resort-ing to compulsory training. They predicted that should the plan fail and a sufficient number of recruits to fill the enlarged regular army not be obtained, it will become necessary to adopt universal training or some system of compulsory service. |