The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-10
Glory. Gids Bachelor
At Last
His Mission Noblest
BY JACK LAiT


The bachelor is "in" at last. For
decades it has been the fashion to
twit him, to tax him, to jibe him with
his domestic slackerism, to ask him
to hold the moist babies Of the more
dutiful benedicts and to hold him be-
fore the scorn of Theodore Roosevelt
and the other half Of the nation.
But, now!
In solemn proclamation at crit
cal moment. President Wilson singles
out the single men and addresses
them as honored, select. chosen c1tf
Gems, bearers Of sacred banner,
soldiers Of mighty cause.
Unmarried men between the ages
Of 10 and 40" are the ones to whom
Mr.. Wilson intrusts the most vital
mission in the history of the Stars
and Stripes, the work Of conquering
the kaiser and OF planting freedom
over the universe.
He asks for 10000 to be raised at
once, able-bodied and able-hearted
men who can plug the gaps in our
regular army, the first to be sent
across seas where the greatest ad-
venture of all times beckons.
He chooses we'll. Through all the
ages it has been the function OF the
unhampered, the carefree blade with
out wife or babies clinging to him,
| looking to him, crying to him, to
shoulder the weapons Of warfare and
to venture his life-the life that be-
| longs to him and to his country alone
| in honorable battle.
What good does it serve that a man
should go on the line and leave be-
hind him a woman and little ones to
| burden the land that Is already
straining with it's maintenance Of the
men in the field? 1t is small favor
to America to serve in its ranks at
the front and leave half dozen DESC
late and destitute in the rear.
But the man without such respon-
sibilities goes clear and comes clean.
It is the spirit of adventure, wise
men have said, that makes many a
man remain a bachelor. Marrying is.
after all, a conventional thing. It
| has its sweet fruits, but there can be
no denying that it chains a man.
forces him to be cautious, binds his
wings and dilutes with cares the
! liquor of his free abandon.
Many a man does not marry until
he is resigned to set his ways and
move along slow, orderly, calculated,
steady steps.
But he who is wifeless and child
| less, he is untrammeled. He may
follow the whims of pleasure or the
stern, glad call of more noble exhil.
araions.
And Of them all what could be more
magnificent, more bodybuilding.
more enticingly fascinating than this
| bugle blast to arms in the greatest
fight of all times, the greatest game
mankind has ever played, the contest
for the championship of the world!
This is the bachelors inning. To-
day his nation looks into his eyes,
seeking there the twinkling answer
of the brave man who. without injus-
tice to any undefended ones can and
will go to defend the wives and chill
dren of his countrymen.
The women and children frst. 1t
has been the cry and the slogan OF
gallant men since manhood bloomed
within the hairy breast of the first
brave human.
| And the unmarried man between
| Is and 40 has now the duty and the
privilege, the honor and the obliga-
ton to answer Here" for the women
and the children, the wards of the
Stars and the Stripes.
1t is his chance to fight for the
| flag in the field Of France. The army
needs him. And he can go in the
knowledge that he deprives no one
while he battles for them all. It is
a glorious opportunity. Embrace it
| today! Go to the nearest recruiting
| station and enlist.