Show Men Join JoinS S Army Weekly I At Present Rate of Enlistment the Personnel Will Soon Be Filled SOLDIERS NOW HOW LEARN LEARH TRADES Military Organization Becoming Vast Trade School Earn School Earn While You Learn Is Popular Popular New New Recruiting Recruiting Re Re- Policy Washington Surmounting Surmounting the Inroads Inroads inroads In In- roads of or demobilization the recruiting campaign begun early this year ear has brought the total strength of the regular regular regular reg reg- ular army to within of the personnel aul lul authorized under the national national na na- Uon l defense act of 1916 1910 according to latest war department figures If the present rate of enlistment Is maintaIned maintained maintained main main- throughout the year ear and nearly men are arc being accepted weekly week week- ly It will wm more than balance losses through expired enlistments furlough to the reserve and other causes Most of these enlistments recruiting officers report are by men anxious to take advantage of the army's vocational vocational voca voca- education an earn while you learn s system stem to fit a n soldier for a tr trade de by the time b he leaves the army Last year men were accepted who litho never before had been In the service Nearly half of the thc enlisted mon man are going to school and the army Is becoming not a n university in khaki khaki kha kIm ki kl but a vast military trade school Much of the Instruction In technical subjects Is given not b by officers but by civilian teachers lent to the army armyn n to many c cases cases ses by corporations Desirous desirous Desir desir- ous of of- employing trained men at the expiration of their their- enlistment The war WEll department has received communications communications from concerns who have sent untrained applicants for employment ment t to the army for a years year's enlistment and nud trade Instruction with promises of Jobs at the end of their ser service Farmers musicians stenographers masons bookkeepers keepers pharmacists mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- of all kinds 1 wireless am and telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph operators printers gas engine experts even embalmers are amon among the vocations taught In large cantonments cantonments canton canton- ments meats barracks are being transformed transform d' d dInto Into machine shops labor laboratories and school rooms At Camp Dodge In la where th the Fourth division is stationed there Is a n acre farm where army students do practical work in agriculture ture ture- and stock raising under the direction di direction direction di- di of Dean C. C B. B Waldron on of the North Dakota agricultural college e. e A committee from the Chicago Church federation visited Camp Grant Illinois the home of the Sixth division divi divi- sion the sion-the the Sightseeing Sixth as its members In France called their division divi sl sion slon n which hiked from one sector to another without getting Into action The committee Inspected the divisions division's scho schools ls and returned to Cl Chicago reporting reporting re re- porting the lithe aim of those who have haye this work worle In charge Is to train men menso menso menso so effectively that at nt the end cud of their three years ears In the army the they cannot afford to re Teaching Pharmacy to Men At Camp Pike Ark the home station of the me Third division which won Its spurs spurs at atTe Mar Marne e a bUll building has been erected to house the school of f chemistry Training in the dispensIng dispensIng dispensing ing and manufacture of drugs will be given also Instruction in the use of the microscope for the detection of or impurities im Im- Juri tied in drugs Students who sh show w the necessary ne necessary essary proficiency will h he given Jy- Jy Iven Iv- Iv en special tutoring for the examinations examina n- n Lions lIong of the At All Kansas nn ns stute state board bOfill Formerly to learn n 11 trade In the army 1 a man roan had hud to be ru assigned sl ned to l the ordnance or signal corps orp theair f vice Service or nr motor t ho transport n port corps corp Sol Rot Solin HI in s such rh combat br branches of f th the tl the I u. u i e Infantry hud find fut few Or up- up I asIde from fatigue duty drill I guard duty and bunk fatigue e T s c r tt a lb I h e a aU all sane eld have op to learn of 01 or their melr u own u selection Following demobilization on when thousands of men chose to remain inthe Inthe In Inthe the service few recruits were obtained by recruiting depots The recruiting service ove overlapped lapped to some extent parties par par- ties ties sent sent out by regiments and divIsIons divisions divisions divi divI- allocated to c certain states competing competing com com- with established recruiting sta sta- Thep Then the new system of vocational vocational vocational voca voca- training was Instituted followed by a drive for recruits beginning the he middle of last January and the recruiting recruiting recruiting re re- re- re service was properly co Enlistments rose from 1800 for the week ending Janu January ry 24 to 2800 2500 acceptances ac ac- weekly the latter part of March At pre present ent third one-third of the army may be enlisted for one year about men Add to this year three enlistments expiring annually annually annually annu annu- ally and the total number of men leavIng leaving leaving leav leav- ing the time service annually Is figuring figuring figuring fig fig- on the authorized strength of under the national defense act The present rate of enlistment should yield annually a surplus of over expiring enlistments The liThe campaign begun Jan 19 of this year oar has hns been successful In every respect said Maj Samuel A. A Greenwell Greenwell Green- Green well of the recruiting publicity bureau which sends out recruiting leaflets toan to all an arm army recruiting stations The liThe personal contact work of the general recruiting service and th the parties sent out by allocated organizations followed the same Instructions The They did not beg for recruits they did not offer to send men around the world on a Cooks Cook's tour and the they did not tell prospective cUve recruits they would be fought for by eager employers ers offering fabulous sal sal- aries They received Imperative orders orders orders or or- ders that under no circumstances must they oversell the army's attractions to obtain a recruit they they were told that the army wanted a Yer very high class of young men men who would appreciate ate and take advantage of the training and at the same time make the kind of soldiers that should represent our country At the beginning of the campaign mun many civilian organizations offered d their assistance Chambers of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce Rotary notary clubs American Legion posts Veterans of Foreign W Wars rs ministers ministers' min- min associations and others did valuable valuable val val- work In arranging meetings w where their own own members and officers of the the- recruiting service explained the plans for the new army Governors and mayors Issued proclamations canIng call can calling ing lag attention to army activities In their states and cities clUes and antl In many cases set aside special dates as Army I weeks Inn l Many bran branches hes of the service are over their authorized strength pendIng pendIng pending pend pend- ing possible Increase by congressional action The Time motor transport corps the need of which was demonstrated in the war Is per pel cent above authorized authorized authorized au au- strength Chemical wart warfare lre per cent medical department per cent quartermaster corps per percent cent and signal corps per cent Offsetting this surplus the Infantry Is but hut 75 73 per pel cent of aut authorized strength cavalry 81 per per- percent cent field artillery 71 per cent and and coast 52 artillery 52 Percent per pel cent Strength of Combat Units Restoration of the army to a peacetime peace peace- time basis shows many apparent differences differences dif dif- In the strength of com combat hat units such as ns Infantry n regiments The Tho national defense act provides for in infantry In- In fantry ye regiments Including the Po Porto Rican lUean regiment eat totaling meu men an av average r ge of 1350 to the regiment During the time war nn an Infantry r regiment clIment numbered over 1 1000 men meli and amid sane some som Infantry been because use of ot the em emergency must be maintained at over oer time peace-time strength The Eighth infantry stationed at Coblenz and on the right bank of the Rhine has hris 11 officers and 2950 men The Fiftieth Infantry also In Germany has 75 officers officers oh cers and 2330 men Just back fr from m Sib Siberia the Thirty-first Thirty infantry hasSO has 89 SO officers and men The ty-fourth ty Infantry along the border In New Mexico has 52 officers and men With the Infantry only at 75 per percent percent percent cent of authorized strength and the necessity of maintaining a number of regiments above a peace pence time basis man many regiments are far below the average strength particularly the regiments regIments reg reg- intents back from France France- and made up when they they- returned of casuals of replacements and men enlisted only for fOl the emergency The famous First division no now at Camp Taylor Ky has only officers and men The Themen Themen Themen men of all the infantry regiments of this division wear the French four- four looped over the left shoulder The present strengths of these regiments regiments regiments regi regi- ments are 3 follows Sixteenth infantry infantry try 35 officers men meu Eighteenth infantry 37 officers men t sixth ty-sixth Infantry 33 officers men Twenty-eighth Twenty infantry 34 34 officers G 6 men Some War Divisions Down at Camp Travis Texas Is the thu Second division which had the heaviest lest iest casualties of any division In France and took tool one qu quarter one lter of the prisoners and artillery captured by bytho tho A A. A E. E F F. F The rhe marine brigade Is no longer with this organization amIno and amI no Infantry brigade has yet t been assigned assigned as as- signed l to Its The total strength of the Second division is officers and 2050 enlisted men Like the First division Ision the thc infantry regiments of the Second arc are proud wearers of the The Ninth infantry which fought in China and took tool the village of Vaux In a brilliant attack In the Chateau Thierry sector has 8 S officers om- om cers eelS and men The Twenty third infantry which fought alongside of If the tho Ninth in 1812 In the Civil war andin and amI andin in France has 39 30 officers and men Th The Third division which fought atthe at nt atthe the Mar Marne St. St Mihiel l and the Argonne Argonne- Meuse l has officers and 2795 enlisted enlisted en en- listed men at Camp Pike Ark The Time Tl Thirty eighth eighth infantry which repulsed six German regiments and took tool GOO prisoners at the Marne Mame In July 1918 1018 has hns 30 36 officers and men The Thirtieth ThIr- ThIr I infantry which stormed Hill I west of Chateau Thierry has 47 om oh officers reelS reel'S cers and men Of the other infantry in in- fantry regiments of the Third division the Fourth has 39 80 officers and 35 men and the Seventh 34 officers an and men The Fourth division thrust into net action acion ac ne- t ion tion on for th the first time near Chateau Thierry is stationed at Camp Dodge Iowa lo with officers cers and 1577 enlisted enlisted en en- listed d men Strengths of Its infantry regiments are Thirty ninth 31 officers om- om cers men Fort seventh Forty seventh 33 om- om eels cers men Fifty eighth eighth 31 officers men ninth Fifty 81 31 officers men In battle for the first time at St. St Mihiel the Fifth division is at Camp Gordon Georgia with officers and enlisted men The Sixth division divi sion which boasts of having done don more inure hiking than any other A. A E E. E F. F division is now at Camp Grant with officers and enlisted men The Seventh division which arrived In France In time to hold the left bank of the Moselle river until the armistice is at Camp Kan Kansas as numbering 2 13 o officers rs and find 2240 2246 men The total strength of or the seven tactical tactical tactical tac tac- divisions now stationed In this country countr each of which would have a wartime strength of Is officers and men |