Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-08-20 | Page 23 | Roaring Rum Hound Refused Enlistment

ROARING RUM HOUND REFUSED ENLISTMENT WHEELING G. W. W Ya Va Aug 1 19 J.- J. With the announcement that he was a dipsomaniac a roaring rum hound and that an enlistment probably would cure him ilm of the drink habit a a. well young man applied for entry into the United nit d' d States States' t t s' s marine e j corps corps at its hs local local- recruiting station f that they I 1 read in the newspapers broke up or auctioned ned off all the the wineglasses wine wineglasses glasses and I believed an enlistment in your sober respectable service would do more for me than a course at an inebriates inebriates' s' s school I was thinking thinking think think- in ing of or matriculating at Keeley institute this fall but Belay the chatter said Marine Sergeant Austin Fredericks In charge of the recruiting station ana stow your ideas about the marine corps offering offering of of- of fering a course courso in sobriety We Vc want wantI men but but we want them sober sobel Theres There's no room in our service for the thc man I who drinks to excess Sorry old chap but DUt p n cant can't take you vou