Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-05-04
upon mans merits. There is no
political pull.


political pull.
Yoeman service-clerkships, etc,
etc.,--is desirable, and members of
these ranks get big salaries. Appli-
cation is made here in the form of
, civil service examinations, and sol
diery qualifications are not stressed
An aeroplane corps is founded at
| Newport News, where young men are
| trained. Men enter there as privates
and if hey prove efficient and ac-
quire knowledge of aircraft, they jump
to lieutenants in very desirable
| and commendable branch Of the SER
vice.
Men are wanted for the mosquito
fleet-submarine chasers. There are
put through very intensive drills, and
must prove themselves entirely fit
i'll all respects before they are en-
trusted with the responsibility of
manning the little wasps that are to
be the hope of the nation in the war,
it is said. All forms of naval capacity
are stressed, and men are wanted, n
this service, there is opportunity for
satiation of the youthful desire to
the greatest degree. Adventure sleeps
side by side with the marine, thrills
are served him with his daily meals,
and experience walks hand in hand
with him all the while. In addition to
the great service to his country, he
is to have the advantage of great
travel, seeing things he could never
see otherwise, and learning lot that
he could never gather if he remained
in civil life.
This end of the state is stirred up.
Police authorities state that crime
has greatly dimished within the last
week or so, and that men are thinking
more seriously than they have ever
thought before. Everybody is prepar-
ing for what they know is to come
the greatest struggle for existance
and continued supremacy that Amer
lea has ever been called upon the
perform. With Russia out of the war,
her burdens must be shifted to the
shoulders of Uncle Sam, and upon
man, woman, and child in the Land
of the Free falls share of this bur-
den. Shirkors, slackers, pacifists, and
soft tongued harangucrs have no
place in this crisis, and should be
swept aside in the face Of what is
coming. Germany last week destroyed
almost seventy-five allied ships, and
this is not above the weekly average.
Unless America can circumvent this
weeks, or ten at the most, authorities
say that the Allies will be so badly
crippled that they will not be able
TO recover for long time, and that
will mean the continuance of the war
through year or two more. Young
men are wanted now-they are wantel
! on the farms as well as i'm the ranks,
and in the munition factories, indus
trial plants as well as on the dread
naught's decks. We have got to whip
Germany now, and the harder we
can strike her while she is being held
and driven back on land, the sooner
the war will cease. The submarine
warfare is our only care We must
get food through to the Allies, and
for this purpose America is calling
to young men to help her.
Further, men must be sent to the
trenches to cheer and refresh the
valiant French and English troops
that are bravely fighting the war for
the rights of the world. American
troops are going into the trenches
and carry the American banners
there; thev are going to storm the
German parapets, and sing American
songs while they cross No Mans
Land; they are going to preserve
the good spirits of their allies and
at the same time push the conflict
through to victory, and plant the
Stars and Stripes victorious on the
ruins of devasted but unconquered
land. Everybody is going to help
when the time comes. 1t isn't sacri-
flee we are to make-it is privilege
we are to have of doing something
for our country. after resting peace
fully for fifty years and prating
about the glories of being an Amer
lean, while America was being weaked
and doing all for neople that were
giving nothing for her in return.