Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-29
YUM YUM! KISSING
BEE FOR RECRUITS
War Is War, But Oscillation
Adds to Terrors and
Romance
ROSY BUSES THAT TOOK

II was Recruit No. coming up for air
after the fourth decoration. The First Regi-
ment Armory kissing bee was on In full
swing and II didn't help to calm the FEELINGS
OF Recruit No. TO know that some SOOV
men had stopped IN front If the city Han
Plaza to stop, look and listen to the oscula-
tions. Steady now boys about the listening
part, but honest to goodness. you could
Recruit No. 3 had been kissed four times.
! lie showed It. from the tip ~ his straw
! hat which WAS Knocked twenty-three de-
! grees of TO admit the first pair Of lips. to
| the left hand corner Of his face that car
ried a rudy replica Of an osculation that
| took
II things had gone as planned there would
| have been twenty marks on No and the
| other recruits who went tC the front for a
| kiss instead Of just the four. The idea was TO
| have twenty girls from the Bride shop at
| Keith's come down to city liall plaza and
give. by means Of inducements. boom to
recruiting only four girls braved the
storm.
! And they didn't have a very easy time
J Just think Of Il they we're all dressed up
! In their floral "bestest," and still those mean
men wouldn't go to war. The inducements
| were announced by Sergeant Sproul a. the
! beginning Of the party There was absolutely
! no excuse
GIRLS As RECRUITERS
! The girls went down into the thc. Of
! things and personally asked the boys 10 go
! TO war.
The excuses were various.
Toto Ottineo. who has never failed to get
! what she wants over the footlights. came
| back from her tour with the FOL owing re-
| port:
They're all married or they're not eight
cen.
They've got sore eyes or they'll have to
home and ask mother first
And after all the trouble and The black
velvet tams aud the sports SHOES. just nine
men OF the $50 needed to bring the First
| Regiment ArmOry up to FUN war strength
answered the call.
"Oh. well, we don't care was the chorus
as the girls got in machines to 60 back to
the makeup rooms In Eeiths. We had
a perfectly grand time az the rehearsal"
Sh-h That's a secret what happened at
the armory at Broad and Callowhill streets
before the machine gun fivvers started on
their parade down Broad street with their
cargo Of prospective kissers
Sergeant Sproul really felt il his duty
to get those girls used 10 the party The
sergeant il quite locker. and he taught
the girls just as carefully and even as
teuderly as he could Not girl did he
leave out He tried them on the straight
ahead, on the fatheriy brow kind and he
showed them how to pick a pucSer.
And so-Myrtle and Gladys, Beatrice and
Toto are strong for the men who are in the
army. but they just thInK those fellows
who stood out in the city Hall plaza are
Just too---too mean for anything, and they're
never. never going to kiss again until
they're asked.
Fourteen military and naval unit head
quarters in PHILADELPHIA today launched
final drive to enlist all available men in
the city before June r, Registration Day.
II he
men will be all the more urgent owing to
the fact that siXty-One members OF the
Second and Sixth Regiments have been
ordered to report al the officers training
camp at Fort Niagara not later than next
Thursday.
Every known expedient to speed recruit.
ing will be resorted to IT was said, to NIL
the ranks Of the Hospital Corps. the Quar-
termasters' Corp engineering diNislonS'
besides the getting Of men for the regular
army, navy and Marine Corps
The war Department has sanctioned
plans for the final drive. At the sugges-
tion for the department a conference OF all
army recruiting officers in the city was
held to discuss plans for the campaign
II is the belief Of the department that
volunteer enstments will drop considera-
bly, after registrations have been made,
Two hundred recruits from shops Of the
New York Central Railroad yards, in New
York state. viii arrive here today to enlist
in the \iuth Regiment Reserve Engineers,
at its Hale Building headquarters. The
roster to date carries 7O2. with the com
ing Of the New York Central railrOaders
the regiment viii be near its quota Of 1868.
one Of the new recruits is Edward Rus
sell AnsChut2, Of Fort washington, Pa,
son of Thomas Pollock Anschutz, portrait
painter and former head of the Pennsyl.
vania Academy of the Fine Arts. who died
in 1912. Young Auschut2 who is twenty
three years old. was graduated last year
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Enlistments today were follows:
UNITED STATES NAVY
Iohn I0sn T n sT!.n ~ S93I a5p% GmSr@d bd,nn st.
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
George Phillip Kotalik, 20, Ashley, Pa.
Martin ynaan, lGS GTo%GSs TGGa Hsm Aie.$ Chester Pa
so1re 1SSR Psrcs Jr a n EEEg Va
6& 6@wn hsssns hsR Ta2ST III S Ssd rr e
Albert Lee Trent 80. Pittsburgh, Pa
UNITED STATES ARMY
W,lIiaWW villa y curtis Eosis2 22 1923 Diamond St
HAMS HAMS rSisRd 80 '25s 'i255ss = "%5 WogdsSock st,
iE8SS3%n @ : i;f$ 5fisS %ST ;o'n st,
iSssEp DsyId q iiouden e. ii$i s "a st. Cam
Io65p w. K$$Ily; "a PiSsmFani, y ). ~,
/ Arthur L. West, III, Wilmington, Del.
sft 6sfH1aR aerman 20 2sS5 g'y Drama
Wesley Z. Harden. 10, Chester Pa.
Charles Charles. Noil2 e. Sahesssse5TG ss5G dGrto, dbSt 8,
| George McI can. Jr.. 20, $3.50 Chestnut st.
| James ". Weston, 20. Admission. Pa,
| Patrick {. DOnnelly. 81, 2O46 Rowan 81.
isg RosssmSa Msssaa 4s! asSl "
| Harry Snyder 90, 1886 Jackson st.
! samuel Leyenton, 20. ,4sl5 Gibson 81,
William William McNeii 20. 2946 n. 2sth ST.
| William Russell Croote, n s2l1 n. Bsmbrey at.
MeRas MIsR A N1Rs Psscas ss 7s caTPenter iaiS S st.
| Jen c. Claussen, 81, 2Oil n. 18th 81.
QUARTERMAsTER ENLISTED RESERVE
| CORPS
| Ralph Doran, 26 ArdmOTe. Pa.
| Archibald r. Keller 81 2lOl Hunting Park
Walter E. winslow %, Atlantic City. ~ ].
| stephen j., shea 23 1882 y; oh st.
Ambrose T. Partin, "a, ,wsshington, D. c.
| William P Muiyihill. "a, 2s7 ". Seymour st.
| William Thomas. II, 28O! Turner 81,
Howard Nice, q, Abngton, Pa.
GSe"I George 1. S'2 PoTt, p, 556s fHs Thompson e.
Warren W weber Weber, SO 80 $50 n 18th S.
William HHsT + MSGrSth e. iHI7'SfoS isI7 n Mar1Iae Inc st.
Edward W. Gilbert, 20. 2002 Mercy 81.
| Rudolf II. Corson "a SOIL Penn ST.
Edgar Norris, 2S, 55s s. 4sth St
ENGINEER RESERVE CORPS
| Edward r. Anschutz. 28. Fort Washington. Pa.
| David W. Baker 49, Harrisburg. Pa.
Mn Miller n csH'pg6el a g. "a Pittse%gIgh. % Pa. 4,
/ William j. Connery TO- on City Pa.