Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18

shod Those who were accepted had
to drill in their worthless street shoes,
that never could survive the test of
rough roads and mud and water.
Politics. Politics! 1t stared the ap-
palled citizens in the face wherever
they turned. as it had stared them in
the face for generation-but now
they had to look and see! 1t was poll
tics that had left their state miIitias to
hlunder along. each by itself, without
agreement or settled plan. 1t was
politics that now had sent their plucky.
intelligent. capable young men INTO the
field insutticiently equipped. trained or
organized. 1t was politics that now
left their cities bare, to be<made a
sport of.
AZ the recruiting depots of the reg
overbore the recruiting officers with
eager courageous applicants whom
they could not use. What they needed
now was men who were ready now
not men who needed six months train
ing. These applicants, offering them
selves by thousands, were clty-born
and city-bred. They were men who
never in all their lives had slept except
under a roof; who never had lain IN
rain and storm: who had been saved
nv their city from doing dozen simple
things that mer of the open do for
themselves without second thought.
Not one in a thousand of these yolun-
teers ever had built fire of sticks or
pltcned 'en Zoo - h.d heid a pun in
40; No' que vi , Toou we've thousands there,
and thousands again. who did not even
know VIZ. s,snt all their lives in the
electrically lighted city.
1t was not men that the regular army
,..dad II was reserves, And never a
H-a - ~, +ha con,resses that had
Nonsi ess " az ~ -;.t.a h.d
talked ana voted ana appi op. i" 'eu Ao
voted practical system OF army re
seryes,s
of OH tho mo, ubo had beeu trained
v. az .ie NJ. ~. We
by previous army experience .ne wal
Department could not call on one un-
less he chose to volunteer If those men
-;ny,lu.b1e to the country at this mo-
.a, ..,.,,,.. +ho, o+r.-.a
GU ',eii'seies' my
and everywhere, scattered through a
land of three and a quarter million
,;,o. Eni.+.a thu. +..,, ,.r.
,es nus NJ
1utlle individuals lost IN horoes OF raw
recruits. Soulo tney nave peen caheo
lose.her ny .neiL sovei nlaen. .ney
"ould nave IoImeo peI1ee. reslmehts.
ready LOT INSTANT ehlcieht' priceiess
service.
Wnile tne Chited states, civiiiah anu
ihinedry, was working hopeisssiy 10
inane up III uesps a.e LUIS noi ,oS
$4,000 ~. $3.50 M ,., =; hi.
49,. 80 ~, ,,;tho,,t 1o.;n NAV
80 ,,,.re,,t .ra+t;a 49,. Saa+ 80
So nerfect were the dispositions of this
expedition that the commander had
been ahIe ~ order. "Onr troons must
land narfect1v dry" and the order was
carried ont
Eyerv 1r,nenor+ had three broad
rangways 70 side Never for a mo-
ment were these paneways bare of
aou;nned NOV MOVING Ale after file
into the enormous fat.hottomed land
inp haroes Never for a moment was
The sea without long lows of them
each hearing 200 men to shore with
their rifles between their knees.
readys
In the camn of the United States
Army at that moment men were break
inp preen horses for cavalry and artil-
lery purnoses On the coast the enc
my:s four-decked horse transports were
doats with derricks and slin1s lower
ing away with head and tail lines 10
nrevent strupp1inp with nose lines to
brides IN nraveni Them from turning
in the air With men standing nv below
to NM little haps of salt into each
borse,s mouth 70 ouiet II as soon as it
touched the Noatss
.so.iihs iou DSSn ~ -, s. -, ~ e..
ieIt 10 De iihpIosiseo. Ahs noi pc hoals
had hinged Sterns. Backed INTO the
beach these hinged boards dropped
doun and formed gang nlanks Sailors
49,, oa,I;.;or 49,. ~ tha,o ~ nre
vent slipping. 1t required less than
minute to lower a horse from the SHIPS