Show VETERAN M marine A I 1 I 1 N E ALTHOUGH 11 0 U G 1141 TB BUT U 18 youth who fought at chateau thierry 1 will enter naval academy ENLISTED mm ONLY 16 carried his full burden of campaign and actual combat while he was 17 more veterans will probably be narried named led annapolis bid id A youth aho who vho was in the very thick ot of the fighting around chateau thierry 1 clerry erry and belleau ISel leau wood and passed a full year abroad its as a united states marine has obtained nn an appointment for the naval academy and Is in annapolis preparing for or ills his entrance examinations next spring lie ile Is arthur C heller son of C arthur heller an attorney of newark N J and Is now a student ot at a naval preparatory school here bore you young ng heller la Is a most modest youth and declined to say anything about ills his exploits he wishes only to pass his examinations for tile the academy and to enter as any other youth world working righard lian for advancement through the different classes and finally to win a commission IW in the navy he was loath to accept the appointment which was obtained without boli cita tion lion on his part as lie he wished to stay abroad until the end war lie ile was with the very first troops that went to F france rance with pershing ile he was cited in the debates in congress upon the question of 0 lowering the draft age as an example lot lof what lint a 1 very young plan man could accomplish for heller enlisted irl an fn the marine corps when lie was only sixteen and has just reached eighteen consequently he ca cabled rz led its ills full burden of campaign and actual combat while lie he was seventeen it was argued from ills his case that hat the best kind of righting fighting could be done by american youths between the ages of eighteen and twenty one heller will try for the academy by virtue of a regular congressional appointment there are quite a number of other service men in annapolis also preparing top for the entrance examinations next spring young men who have been in ili army training camps a and nd others from from various branches of the naval ser service v tee they have been given fur lis hs in order to prepare for the naval academy more veterans to be named so far as Is I known none but heiler has had actual battle experience but doubtless there will be a number of others ahers before the next class is formed these will come coine from two sources members of cori congress gress will take tai this ils opportunity port unity of rewarding worthy youths of their own district who have done creditable work in the service and ore are still of the right age undoubtedly Secre secretary iary daniels will be able to designate the full quota of a hundred youths from the enlisted personnel of the navy and marine corps which the law permit sto enter each new class at the academy this year though the law has been in effect only a little over a year more than fifty were designated by the secretary it was said that one reason why the quota was not noi fu full I 1 was waa that many of the loung men in the service refused to leave active e duty while there ther ewas was a chance of 0 meeting Cerni germany any either on land or sea many of these spirited fellows will bo be desi designated for the next class many ineil well educated educated youths entered the navy and marine corps for the purpose of getting into the thick of it und and tire are still of the proper age that la is lie ie low twenty any of tho tewo xi carl can aspire to tin an appointment to the naval academy through designation by the secretary of the navy |