Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-01-08 | Page 6 | Louis F. Van Why Enlists in Army

oo lis f, mm ENLISTS 1 !!Y. "Somebody has gotto bo the private" pri-vate" evidently thought Louis F. Van-Why. Van-Why. 2273 Adams avenue, when ho applied ap-plied for enlistment in the United Stales army at the office of Sergeant George D. McLeod today. t Van Why said he did not want to do any clerking clerk-ing or havo any fancy work to do behind be-hind the lines. He said ho wanted to "tote a gun and go over the top." "This is the real American spirit," said Sergeant McLeod. "Somebody's got to get down in tho mud of the trenches and carry the guns and go over the top, and he, after all, is the greatest hero of the war." Van Why was enlisted as an infantryman in-fantryman and sent to Salt Lake headquarters. head-quarters. He is 20 years of age and known well among the younger men of Ogden.