Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-05

come in the hope about that would never
return
Where such a spirit prevails, the usual methods of
recruiting are question: Montreal is still
gathering Sxty-one enlisted here yesterday and
this military led the whole dominion in
the number recruited for the past three fort
nights These results accomplished almost entirely
by individual Employers are asked for lists
of their employees requested to indicate which
are indispensable business and which may best be
spared Then nOncommissoned officers are sent TO so
lict of the who ought to enlist Major Will
Iams has found that soliciting recruit is much ike
selling life policy order of soap. and
men who have agents or statesmen make
the best recruiting officers
The attitude of men toward enlistment affords
interesting human motives. Some men en-
list on the spur of moment stirred by music
address. others to the decision to enlist only
after long thought and selfcommunion Some men are
gos at all hazards of personal sacrifice
For example there is an artisan here making $40 a
week-much more he made before in his
life-who rejected because his teeth are bad
He is having his teeth extensively mended' and
writes determined to to war; in spite of the
that he has failed for two years to qualify.
Frequently the spirit of desperation that follows
reversal in personal will the front
Shortly after values dropped sharply
in Montreal, and within few days platoon made up
entirely of leading real estate agents went to the 'front.'
Most men upon whose service the nation has any
claim be persuaded by some argument to enlist
The type of man simply will not because he
to is exists and exaSperateS.
Two recruiting yesterday argued for two hours
with a young man w in every fit, and who
cheerfully his eligibility for service but
fused fatty to enlist.
The influence of is the whole stimulus
to recruiting despite the point voiced in War
Brides" and 81 did not raise my boy a soldier"
This point represented here for example by
woman whose enlisted, and being dental student,
was assigned dental where he just
safe as though he had stayed home. His mother,
when solicited patriotic fund,
she could make mo further sacrifices
One wealthy woman here has sent three to the
front, one killed. To letter of
ISOLATION she replied would rather for
son a dead man somewhere in France than a Stacker
somewhere in Canada. This earnest fighting spirit,
that is able o sacrifice is among Cana
dian best English-speakng circles there
is practically this because girls
will receive men who have not enlisted
Above all these motives aTs1 forces urging to
enlist devotion fatherland towers by far the
greatest. Canadians enlist in inverse ratio to the
length time they have been in Canada. Those who
who have generation this SIDE and know of
the English home through their parents
ally ready battle But those who of families
that many generations America lack the
deepest and primitive impulse fight
impression that gets of Canada's part in the
of genuine idealism Those whoylive in Europe
fight for immediate safety and welfare of them
families the danger Of invasion
Canada is say the least. Canadians really
fight them the idea1s of Christianity
and civilization.