Show ARMY ENLISTMENTS 1 ACCELERATED TED BY BT I WAR TAlK Patriot of f 50 Years W Would ou d Be First t to y Volunteer oI r for Coti Country v try Ed Edwin win of the local navy recruiting station was suddenly roused from his meditative meditative medi medi- perusal of the Navy Register Reg Reg- ister t this is g when an an elderly man rushed into his hi office and without ut waste bf of timpe time address addressed d him thus ihus Gentlemen n nI I un understand th that t theres there's going to b be be something doing wi within in twenty four hours with those cowardly grea greasers ers Well Wel I want ant it understood od that Im I'm going to be the first man manto to volunteer Lake Lake City In a. a army navy marines or anything I dont don't care what Im I'm Im 63 years old and have havea a family but when it comes to f those Mexicans i Ill be Johnny on the spot that's all Ill I'll be hanged before re Ill I'll aver ever let one of ot those Mexicans call calI me me gringo gring And having delivered himself of his Invective against our neighbors to the south he stalked out of ot the office with lordly mien satisfied that he had done his his- duty Lieutenant Guthrie says that the forty when they passed over the Isthmus of Panama on their way to California in the gold rush sang a marching song the refrain retrain Green grows grow's the grass grass And the Mexicans l ever since have called caned AmerN Amerl cans cans gringos a term tenn of as much re reproach reproach reproach re- re to an American as greaser is isto isto isto to the Mexican Enlistments I Increase Applications for enlistment at th the local re recruiting station for the United States army have increased more than per cent in the last five days over the preceding ten days Lieutenant nt Belt Bell in charge of ot th the I local 1 station says that great impetus has lias been added to the recruiting because of the indications indi cation's of fighting in l I Mexico I While Lieutenant Tell has received no official word of or the decision to in increase Increase increase In i crease the regular army by men he be is expecting such notification within I Ia a a. few days Although the general or orders orders orders or- or ders for the reopening of ot all auxiliary 1 recruiting stations have haye been Issued officers to open the Ogden and Provo stations have not arrived d here It is expected by Lieutenant Bell that Bell that a v ra rr t bo It ft I for tor enlistment wilt Jj be made datI dali dally There has been no no ch change In Inthe the ex examination ex- ex requirements for for- recruits recruits' and that the requirements will b be reduced reduced reduced re- re is a report not credited by byLi Li Lieutenant tenant Bel W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON- M Mr March r h The 16 The campaign to to enroll ll approximately tely recruits for tor the regular regular- army In Inthe inthe inthe the shortest time possible was in full swing today By order issued yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day auxiliary recruiting stations were reopened ar after er having be been n closed more than a year year Adjutant General McCain has assigned additional enlisted men to the work recruits From the toe auxiliary stations groups of uniformed ned soldiers supplied with re recruiting re- re literature are being sent out to nearby towns townsand and villages Unofficial tidal reports tell of lines of ot men waitIng waitIng waiting wait- wait Ing at many mailY stations yes yes- |