The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-02

effective method of. so to speak, sepa-
 rating the sheep from the goats, finding
 out which men are over military age and
 which are not.
 'All men over military age hold up your
 right hand" and up they go. He looks
 them over and tells them to take their
 hands down.
 Now. all men between 19 and 70 hold
 up your right hands"
 Again a number of hands go up, and
 Pastor Boal spots the owners in the
 crowd. Down these hands come and then:
 "All men over age who would join the
 forces if they could hold up your hands,
 and the hands of the elderly are put up. Now, then,' continues Pastor Boal. "all
 men between 19 and 10 who would join if
 they could hold up your hands,
 The response is smaller. If d hand ap-
 pears a recruiting soldier flies to the
 spot and has a conversation which often
 reults in a young man being conducted
 amdsit cheers, to Pastor Boars side. The
 effective thing about this little plan is that
 Pastor Boal has spotted" a considera-
 ble number of men of military age in the crowd. More particularly to them he ad-
 dresses his appeal, and later he descends into the crowd. seeking out eligible men
 and making to them a personal appeal listening to their excuses, explaining ava y their reasons for not having donned the khaki.
 If a man is fit 1t doesn't take him long to become a soldier. He presents himself at a meeting. He is hustled off to the recruiting station nearby, passed by the doctor, fitted with a uniform and is back at the meeting again, to be heartily lcheered by the crowd. within half an hour. Amusing things happen, Pastor Boal said. "The other day in Trafalgar square there was a young man just beneath me. | I bod I sxsw, l.. -r,FYN d 1Nsft he said, to my amazement, he would give me drink, and thereupon he pulled a quart bottle of whisky from his pock- ct. I said I thought I ought to have a taste and he passed the bottle up to me. I held it in my hand before the audience and then I asked him that as long as he wouldn't join the army would it not be only fair for me to give the | whisky to the soldiers who had joined to carry on a fight that would make it possible for him to buy whisky 'at all. He said he did not think so, and start ed to climb up to recover his bottle. Come up here and I'll enlist you,' said I, and he climbed back Then I left it to the crowd-should the Tommies stand ing there with me have the bottle? The crowd roared that they should and I gave it to them, much to the disgust of the man who gave it to me. Another man in Trafalgar square told me he was married. I asked him how
 many children had the wife. 'None,' he said.
 "'Seeing,' I said, that you're fail ure in recruiting for future armies, and
 seeing that your wifes father kept her before you got her and would likely do
 so again, don't you think you ought to
 be a recruit yourself?' The argument struck him forcibly and afterward he enlisted.
 'In one of tho parks here man said he could not join because he was en- gagged in government work. I asked him what, and he said he was a barber. l told him that the only place I knew of where his majesty employed barbers was | in the prisons. His excuse was broken down and he, too, joined.
 | Sometimes we are interrupted. In l Glasgow religious fanatic and also a socialist interrupted what I was saying about the situation.
 | "Let us know something we don't know he cried, we all know that " I'll tell you something you don, know I said in few words. You are so ignorant of your own ignorance that you don't know you are ignorant al 1 all.'
 'The audience whooped with laughter
 and my man slipped quietly away"