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Show ENLISTING IN D. S. ARMY Many and devious are tho moans resorted to by men to enlist in the United States army service and then get "cold feet" bofore they reach the chief examining surgeon, according to Sergeant J. T. Moody, who is in charge of the local recruiting station. "Some fellow 3 come in and enlist on the spur of the moment and then change their minds before thoy roach tho chief surgeon at Fort Logan, Colo., and some of them Invent some great schemes In ordor to get turned down on a physical examination. Occasionally Oc-casionally ono of them goes there and looks the place over and then changes his mind about going Into the armj Then he frames up some fake and the service has to give him 4 cents a mile for transportation back to his home town," says Sergeant Moody. "It hasn't 1 eon such a great whllo since I enllste'l a fine looking fellow and sent hin down to Fort Logan And It wasn t long until I heard that he had boon refused When 1 looked him over he was In splendid physical condition, hut of course ho had to take a final physical examination down there, lie passed Jt all right, but when It came to a showdown he told the examining officer that ho could neither read nor write. Of course he was promptly turned down, and soon aftorward ho returned to this city. His excuse was a rank fake, because I had in mv possession samples of hla hand writing, and I also had him do a lesson in reading before I sent him to Fort Logan. As a mattor of fact tho fellow is now in the employ of a big mining company not a great distance from Ogden. He Is doing office work and Is as fine a stenographer as I ever saw. "Wo never have any trouble In getting get-ting enough colored men for the service serv-ice There aro only a few regimonts of colored men In the army, ond not many recruits are neoded, but whou wo send out a call for them you should see them flock in. Thoy come by the dozens. The colored recruits are seldom sel-dom needed for the reason that when a colored man goes into tho army he usually stays a lifetime. Wo do not talcb any loafers or vagrants of any nationality for the simple reason that tho rules require a man to furnish recommendations and give an account of his time and conduct for a. period of six months prior to his application for enlistment, "Heretofore the' regimonts in tho Philippine service have been brought back to this country after three 3 oars and a half of sorvico on the Islands, because the law says that they must be enlisted in this country and mustered mus-tered out in this country, but there Is talk of changing that plan Somo of tho mon in those roglmontB roln-11st roln-11st at the expiration of their term, and the army will probably adopt tho plan of leaving them in the' Philippines and filling the holes in tho regimento I by sending over recruits from this country. That plan will keop tho boys there who aro acclimated and who do not care to leave the service." |