Show I Handling Shirkers In n All Other Days mm-I mm The man who seeks to avoid avoid mill mili- I tary service by by every possible means I has been heard from in all lands and ages He was a familiar figure in previous previous pre pre- I chapters of American history When the expedition against Quebec was being organized i in ill tho the middle of the eighteenth century the slacker was in evidence A newspaper printed In New Haven during 1768 1758 contains this I note About a hundred men who left their habitations In this colony in m order to avoid the necessary defense and military mill mili I tary service of their country and fled into the New York government were taken up and pressed Into service of I that province according to a law there subsisting And it is hoped that wherever wherever ever these disloyal cowardly deserters fly they will in like manner be taken up so that they must either fight for their country or desert to the llio Fren French li liand and fight tight against it I Later rater when the colonies rebelled against British rule the provincial congress took notice of the shirker In a set of rules regarding recruits the I first two of which read as follows You are not to enlist any man who is not able bodied healthy iy and a good marcher but hut as men of a good ap appearance appearance appearance ap- ap may have complaints which render them incapable of a r's rs duty you must give attention that you may not bo be imposed upon and take talce the opinion of a surgeon surgeon- where there is room for suspicion Rule 2 gives this advice You will have great regard to moral character sobriety in particular let our manners manners manners man man- ners distinguish us from fron our out enemies as much as the cause wo we are engaged in |