Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 9 | 'Cliff' Thompson to Serve Nation

' .JIuO LIFF" THOMPSON, l XS' who has applied for a lieiScnancy in the officers' re- : j serve corps. i ' ! f I l i u l ll l i ; . : : ' ! ' V ''' ' - t" : ! . W .'1'.: I':: 'I ji- p. i -;! - - ttH'i'fi ' I -- ,!..; ' X' ' ?r ? V. fv r, ' - viX " r5 , , : , i - - , ' : 'i-$&V2 ! !;? i';i.:f:--fef -fj-iiii. is:f i i'rT'vvsSr i;;:rf i ; , ;i , , - ? . '' '? N $ ' ' y , ',- K - x t s p : wthomm" 10 SERVE ill Answers Call for Enlistment' Enlist-ment' in Volunteer Officers' Offi-cers' Reserve Corps. Jfit Lake playgoers may lose one of tfieir matiuee idols if Uncle Sam should call on the volunteer oflicevs' re-Vrrve re-Vrrve corps ior second lieutenants from iftivt Lake within the nest two weeks. ""Vitr" Thompson, the popular WilkiSactor, has enlisted as a second lieutenant in the army. He has successfully suc-cessfully passed tho first examination and within ten days his final examinations examina-tions will be completed under Captain Elliott at the fort, who lias charge of the enlistments. Thompson was one of the first men to answer the call for volunteers for second lieutenants which tho army department de-partment of the government sent out all over the country last week. Under the national defense act the corps should bo aide to furnish officers for a force of 1,000,0110 volunteers in war time, and also serve as a reserve from which additional officers for the regular army could be drawn at need. Less than 1000 men have been given reserve commissions in the line, de- Edte the fact that the law has been in operation for more than eight months. Applicants aro coming in slowly slow-ly and army officers are using every means in their power to attract young men to this service as a patriotic duty, and the fact that Thompson has put m his application has created a great deal of interest among the local theatergoers.