Evening star., 1915-04-11
Expresses Dissenting View.

Morris Klaif, who served in the in
fantry three years, said that he did not
agree with his comrades that one year
enlistment would be sufficient to train
a soldier.
II have forgotten a lot about han
ding a gun already" he said. And
II is not the fault entirely OF the en-
ployers that ex-soldiers don't get jobs
easier than they do. There are hoboes
in the army just as there are outside,
and they give the army a bad name.
The government ought to De more
careful in recruiting, not to take no
hoes. Then civilians would think bet
ter of the men who come out OF the
army"
MI. Klaif said he had spoken to
sergeant before one of the recruiting
sta tions in New York about the reserve
and the sergeant had advised against
joining the reserves.
THAT was because they want men
| to re-enlist in the active army and not
go into the reserve" he said.
Reasons for Joining Reserves.
Questioned as to their reasons for
going into the reserve the members
present declared that if a war broke
| out they felt they would want to go
into the army again, and that they
much preferred to go into a trained
| OUTFIT" such as the reserve would be.
than to go into volunteer organiza-
| tion. The law providing for the army
| reserve allows a reservist IS month
pay for the first year he has been in
the reserve. So a month pay for the
second year and 81 month for the
| third year. etc, to be paid only in case
he is called into active service in time
| of war or threatened. war. In no case
| is the pay to one man to exceed 5000.
/ iato al ga
not considered the money feature of
| the proposition in joining the reserve.
| The reservists reached Washington
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. An
| army of photographers and newspaper
! men far exceeding in numbers the re-
! serve army met them at the Union sta
| ton. Representative Gardner was on
! hand to welcome his guests
| Roll call showed nine of the sixteen
| members OF the reserve army present
| Just enough for a base ball team.
| Those answering "Here'' were Charles
Neukert. william Boriskin. Thomas
Hugo L. Anderson. Morris Rorkin. Is
| sea Sohn and John Caramal. The alb
| sentees were William ]. Williams and
Joseph Strum, both OF San Francisco;
| Leonard Neal of Indianapolis, Victor
Vegas. Porto Rico: claud c. Card, Pau
| pac. Pa; John .. Kylen. New York,
and William Schweigert. Brooklyn.
Four Companies Formed.
| Divided into four companies of two
men each. with the odd man acting as
the rear guard. the army marched
briskly down the platform into an am
bush OF cameras. three moving picture
| machines raking them heavily from
| the tanks and battery of instantane-
Gus clickers fusillading them from the
trenches in front. Then the reservists
| went for a tour of the city in auto
| mobiles.
| First the Capitol was inspected and
| the soldiers and Mr.. Gardner recalled
| that 1t was burned by the British in
| the war Of 1912. through the fact that
| the country then, as now, had no ade-
quate forces to defend it, Then they
| went to the White House, of which
an exterior glimpse was obtained, the
visitors refraining from paying their
| respects to the President. their COM
| mander-in-chief stop, however.
Secretary Garrison was reported to be
| in New York and so unable to greet
! the army.
: An inspection of Arlington, the ma
| tional cemetery. impressed on the vis-
itors the fact that the nation has moro
| dead soldiers than living ones, and this
| impression they carried with them on
q run through Rock Creek Park and
other interesting sections of the Ma
| tional Capital.
"voting by Mail" Bill Passes.
| DES MONIES, Iowa, April 10.-The
town senate this afternoon passed the