The age-herald., 1899-06-25
WILL NOT CALL
 FOR VOLUNTEERS That Is As State 0rganiza-
 tionS, DECLARED GENERAL CORBIN He Wishes to Impress All Young Men With the Absurdity of Leaving
 Good Positions to Go
 to Soldering
DECLARED GENERAL CORBlN

Washington, June 24 (speciaL)-"It
 makes no difference what conditions may | come about there will be no call for state l volunteer organizations. General Corbin made this statement yesterday.
 'I wish," he added with emphasis, direct l ing a heavy blow at the desk that I could | make the public understand or believe this fact.
 The department has well natured plan for raising the provisional army, or as much of it as it needs. But the provisional army has not yet been called for, and it Is not proper to discuss the plan. One thing is certain, however, the volunteer organiza- tions will not be called. The misunder- standing on this point is most remarkable. The country seems to have gone crazy mad on soldering. It is in the air. There is fever. Clerks are leaving good places, boys are leaving good homes, to enter the army as privates. There are ten applicants for every one we accept. Last week we en-
 listed ten hundred and twenty-seven men.
 There is no question about raising the pro-
 visional army or getting many men as
 we would want in the Philippines or any
 where else. The problem is how to stop
 boys and men who have responsibilities at
 home from enlisting. never remember the
 the time when there was such a run on the enlistment officers. We are very strict now
 as we have to be. The army we send out
 to the Philippines, to Cuba, or to Porto
 Rico must be made of men Who not only can be developed into good material later, but who must be good strong men at the
 time of their enlistment
 g. If we were at all lax, we could get an undeffinity number at any time The fact that the men will be sent to the Phillip pines is no obstacle. It seems to be an in- centive for enlistment. There is a fever for soldering going over the land which will wear itself out 1 suppose and then we will enlist fewer men each day. If 1t be- comes necessary to enlist the provisional army it will be done very quietly, just as the. regular army is enlisted and as the Imrnunes were enlisted during the war. Only the best men will be taken, men who want to make soldering business and not an experience. We want men who are willing and able to remain in the service the full term of their enlistment, and who will not have their senators and representa- lives botherng the department to get them discharged. We can't have this office crowded with mothers, fathers, relatives and friends of the boys who want to get out We will take the pick of the men in a mental, moral and physical way. When once they go in they will have to remain. want that understood and have tried to get them to impress the enlisting officers with this and to impress it on the men who apply for enlistment No organiza tionss win be received and there is no use for gentlemen who are looking for commissions to get excited There is very mistaken idea throughout the country of what will happen when it Is decided to raise the pro- yisional army. When it becomes necessary it will be done before the fact is hardly adyertiSed'