Evening star., 1915-12-19
1akine Final Effort to Avoid Conservation
Campaign OnLMd Dey CaVars Asking Every Man
~ United Kingdom Join AmNo One Esca-em Comes Close
Compulsory Sevnehe Moral PmePeacher Engnds Champion
ReurPt Bo Clerical Crowds Who Want Hear What This Man
of Peace About Fghting-Sage Folk Draw Crowds

forward. At the royal exchange the
other day three pounds were offered
to the first recruit. On another occa-
siorf in Trafalgar Square a recruiter
offered ten shillings to the first med
ically unfit man who would present
himself. thus seeking to eliminate any
claim of unfitness on the part of those
in the audience. The theatrical pro-
fession has done splendid work, al
ways for nothing and with a notab
absence Of notoriety seeking. Prom
inent men and women from the music
halls sing to attract the crowds. and
then they make heart-to-heart appeals.
Many. recruits have been obtained
was prepared showing the soldiers life.
Scenes in camp were taken. showing
the men at work, play and food. The
effect of setting forth the fine side
tented. is great. The film is followed
by a speaker who tells about condi-
tions of service, the need of men. etc.
Americans in London are in rather
precarious positions. Many have been
asked to join by recruiting sergeants
and privates. 1t is very embarrassing
and the situation is fraught with pos
sible consequences. for the chances are
that when you explain that. you are an
American there is decided risk that
you will get something like this:
American. eh. Then, you're too
proud to fight. what?"
Naturally you are not too proud to
fight and it's pretty we'll I'D to YOU to
prove it, which would mean few un-
comfortable hours with the police, to
say nothing of what the soldier might
be able to do before the police effected
a rescue.
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United Kingdom is clergyman. He
mas made more than 500 recruiting
speeches In England, Scotland and Ire
iand, ana he estimates that he has
is no telling how many others have en-
isted elsewhere after listening to his
eloquent appeals. He is an Irishman
from Belfast and he is Protestant
ms nome is in Motherwell, Scotland
ana MS name is s. Boal. His name and
Iame have spread through England and
ne is In great demand Just now he
is in London.
me pastor" as he is known from
one end of London to the other wears
his clerical garb. 1t brings the crowds
anu MS eloquence and fervor keen them
I4ere once they have stopped to listen
he speaks three and four times a day
r. .Liaialgar Square, outside ST. Paurs
Salneorai or on the steps of the roya1
eAchange, during the DAYTIME ana IN
enema theaters and halls in the even
lns he Is a rangy Irishman, with a
VI. VI Drogue, keen eye and snapny
make excuses. A blind man n,ipht ~
ler ms aniiction an excuse which
would satisfy this Unsuitable seeker ~
soldlers and "the pastor" would reluc-
ffamt;iy accept 1t, but anything less ef-
ieeli'e would not satisfy him.
Inc writer watched hin,
trafalgar Square the other day. He
stood on the "plinth," with a great
crowd beneath him, surrounded by SOL
diers and officers, with a background of
naes and huge recruiting posters. The
clerical cut of his clothes and his high
nat could be seen from afar, and peo-
PIE came to hear what this clergyman
mad TO say about Christians going to
war. If they thought that he would
preach a gospel of peace they were
sadly mistaken.
hghter. His own son is at the Darda-
nelles. He has brother in France two
nephews with the fleet and two others
IN the army at home, ready to go out
de says this entitled him to ask others
10 night, and ask them he certainly
does. He is for war, war to the finish
war to the streets of Berlin He takes
Or the gloves, fguratively he throws
nat iiito tlt ring ana strips to
the waist This war must be won, and
thoroughly won. England must sur
vive, emerging in greater glory than
ever. and to do this Germany must be
crushed. He wants the kaiser's head
and openly demands it. His appeal is
effective, and recruits come forward In
one day he got more than fifty.
After one of his meetings the writer
talked with Pastor Boal, and he told
many interesting things
There are still millions of recruits 5
to be had and they can be obtained.
We don't want conscription and I do
not think we will have it, If the ap-
peal to men is rightly made they will
come forward. I do not believe in
bullying a man. calling him a coward.
a shirker. and a Stacker, and threaten
ing that if he doesn't come of his own
accord he will be fetched later on.
The thing to do is to give him the
truth, explain the necessities, illus
trate what will happen if we do not
win. Tell him about the brighter side
of army life. the glorious things of
the battlefield. If he doesn't come then
he isn't worth striving for, and
wouldn't be any good in the field. I