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Show ; i Recruiting New Army By Frederic J. Haskin. f WASHINGTON. April 11. RccriAtintc for the new United States army has already al-ready started In every larpo city throu.frh-out throu.frh-out the eountrv. and In tho training camps whero demobilisation la steadily going forward. The urgent posters which inspired thousands of American boys to enlist for the war are oueo more appar-imr appar-imr on our metropolitan billboards. It locks as though wo were jcolni; to war again. Of course, some people will toll you that we aro. but that la not tae reason rea-son Die urmv is recruiting, i At tho recruiting head-jtiarters i the 'war deparlmenf hero they ndmit that 'there is a remote possibility oi mci' war i In the near inline, hat they do not think 'it likely. The reason for this re.niitlnu ca mpati;n is that coip-.rrss has pio bled fur a peacetime army of ,"h0,iihi men. which makes necessary tho reeruttln at once of lV'i.UOO men. The In ran try, tho field artillery, the coast artillery, tho cavalry, the quartermaster quarter-master corps, the engineers, (he idnal corps and tho ordnance and medical divisions divi-sions all are in need of new material. Men a re needed In tho tank corps, (he air service and tho motor transport corps, also, hut since congress failed to make any provision fur these divisions t h' are not open for enlist men I. The urmv has had to meet this, congressional oversight over-sight by taking men Into the infantry a nd la (er t ran.sf erring them ' to t Peso other brandies, which are legally nonexistent. non-existent. So lar. tho recruit Imr has proceeded rather briskly. The army's uruim-nts are very eiTeet Ive. and the most persuasive per-suasive men in uniform have been detailed de-tailed to deliver t hem. t lei ore a man leaves oamp, an urmv recruiting ol'llcer tnkes him aside and asks him to consider w ha t ho hi doinv;. "Think," admonishes the recrulDtur oflleer, "of the advantages to po obtained In the hhhv as compared wUh Die pii neat u iitI a i n ties of el!Pan life. A steady Job. inlv pa v. with true!." Tbe htoldirr ret urned f r om o wr,vi t fiervlce nsualh' repl lea that he w on Id rather have a Job In hia homo town than anylhlnK the armv can ofrer. lie la wild to ;et out of t he army. Tho army under. ttan-ia Dila petfectly. .It'nowi that this desire of the returning soldier, reduced re-duced to a final analysis. 13 really his desire to pet home; when he Is home for awhile he may be anxious to get back to tho barracks. So the war department has provided that men who re-enlist are to be permitted a month's furlough, with a sixty-dollar bonus as a sift from tho oernment and Die privilege of traveling at The rate of a cent a mi,e. Th's. together with tho opportunity of overseas service, has been a tremendous aid to recruiting. The men are offered the choice of enlisting for one year or three years, bin, inasmuch ns only the Diroe-year-cnllstment men will be de-t de-t ailed to foreign service. Just as many soldiers have re-enlisted for ths period for the one-year period. This has been a matter of great surprise io army ofilcials. who wore a i' raid that tho introduction intro-duction of one-year periods would practically prac-tically out out enlist men t a for a loncer time. Kecrniting officers have found that foreign service is their trump araument-Most araument-Most of the men are anxious to go to Krance and see where the American troops fouKht, but service In Alaska, the Philippines. Honolulu or Siberia Is also preferred to staying at home. Love of travel and adventure aro the things that draw- Americans to the army. . I'nlistments in the new United States army are subject to certain restrictions. No men will ho accepted who. on account of dependents, will be entitled to family allowances under the provisions of the war risk Insurance act. This does not apply, however, to men now in Die arniv who were enlisted before the I'nited States declared war. For the time being no colored men w ilt be accepted for original orig-inal enlistment. The age limit is from lx to 40 years. Inclusive, except for staff ofPeers, who will be accepted up to the. ! ace of years. Men enlisting for one year must have had previous inilitarv experience. ex-perience. The number olieihlo for roreUn service Is limited to fuMVO. The other DT0ei who will h reoulrod to make up tho army's quota of i-.00.00i. will bo distributed dis-tributed among the armv 'posts In this country. These, of course, need not enlist en-list for any longer than a vear. Beerulting onlcers point'out that this, one-year enlistment In the armv Is goint 1 to be a splendid thing for hundreds of i men who have been dlnoharged from ! camp, but who hnvo been unable to obtain ob-tain Jobs, it is no secret that returning soldiers aro not belnc welcomed back to their old .lobs- as extensively ns it was thought that thev would he. 'Tho experience experi-ence of our leturnlni; heroes during the past lew months. In fact, has shown th-it tbe best .loby were taken while thev were gone, and that It Is difficult to get thorn hack. Many people have endeavored to show that this Is the fault of the soldiers themseh e't -that thev w ant to rent for awhile before they go back to work, or that they aro not satlsiled to ho back to their old Jobs. According to armv officials, offi-cials, there is undoubtedly some truth in this chaige. but, In manv oasep, (hey a 'tier t. Die soldier is Juki Hied In asklnc for so-uethl. belter than his old lob A lame rii'iib.-v of men ate leavl:-ii the armv nradi bettor 01T. both physicaPv and menially, men-ially, than they weto when thev mterod II. and D-ev naturally fee thr.t ' thev aro worth mo-e. The-:e are the men who ro drifting haci to (lie i' I'my m nd h oph im for re-enllstmenl. re-enllstmenl. The niiskilled laborer, who le tmed carpentry r slmole mechanics In Die ai:n. does not wunt to go back to unskilled laboring, and. in the fctrw -the ration, he should r.ot be prr: : In tiie face of the present cnv.:i. p'.oyrr.ent situation, however. is his only refuge. If he can e:a: the new United States army a:: there for a year or two until err.:!::' opportunities increase witi ihe ex.: of our industries, he will be a!e s mand a better job; for en:i?;:"S :"- ' army these days does r.ot rriean t-f"--a sort of unden alet or b-t: higher officer. It mear.s an er''-" to attend an expert vooaPr.." teaching dosens of useful asJ rt''-tive rt''-tive vocations. The war. in which our Ameri:." lars'- did such wonderf.il wc:i. -changed pubii - opinion con.-errl"? listed man. The cays when it wi??-' posed that only the riffraff c' tion derelicts who eouid do no:;:-i(v enlisted in the army are irone. ";vf: return. Th e ma na pert of j. restaurants and theaters w;.: ccnsider it necessary or even w : elude the enlisted man from the:: P trons. Too many of tVse r"rt " fought In the same kird of ,:" "'"7-to "'"7-to have a deep and lasting rvs? "With four mtliJon foki-.ers in cur..-politic." cur..-politic." declares a high cK'1-war cK'1-war department, "the army w... r: ' back to its old status." |