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Show Pink Slip H ero Hissed From Post by U. S. Troops Passes Physical Tests Reluctantly Re-luctantly and Refuses to Take Oath. EROES of the pink slip have made H their appearance in Salt Lake and as a result the army and navy recruiting officers are giving what Is known hi the parlance of the streets the double O to those who feign physical incapacities. It Is explained by tho army and navy recruiting officers , that men offer to enlist and then In the : physital examination pretend to have ail-j merits which will disqualify them so that they may receive a pink slip stating they j are incapacitated and then pose as heroes I on tho street corners by exhibiting the pink card and telling how hard they tried to enlist in the service. I Yesterday a University of Utah stu- 1 dent attempted to join the (plnk slip j brigade. He appeared at the army re- cm i ting station and was all right until the medical examination. Then he de- , velope.i everything from a cold in the head to locomotor ataxia. He w as passed during the first examination and went to Port Douglas for the second examine exami-ne tion. There he developed everything from a sprained trigger finger to a fractured frac-tured floating rib. It takes more than a bluff to fool the army doctors and they passed him as physically fit, but troubled with, a bad case of "cold feet" and a slight yellow discoloration which had lodged in his spinal column. "When he was called upon to be sworn into tiie army with twenty other men at Fort Douglas he absolutely refused to take the oath. Army officers tried to bolster up his courage, but the courage cour-age re f vised to answer to the rail. He was ushei ed from the military reservation reserva-tion by soldiers and the cat calls and hisses could be heard in the prison camp of the Germans. |