The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-13
80 N. j. MEN APPLY
FOR WORK IN FRANCE
Recruiting for Ambulance
Unit Gains Twice
Needed Number.
MINISTERS TO AID
Mass Meeting Speakers Ex-
plain Service and Ask
for Help.

Ambulance Field Service in Franc
became more of a reality yesterda,
when more than thirty students ap
piled for enlistment blanks at the re
cruiting headquarters in the Mis-
souri, Union Building This brings tn.
total number of applicants to abou
fifty.
The twenty-five men who will rep.
resent the University on the front
somewhere in France" will probably
be selected in the next few days. As
soon as selected they will begin a
course in the Ford and its methods, "
under the direction of Walter Thee
a senior in the School of Engineering.
All men will be required to pass an
examination in driving and repairing.
before they will be sent to New York
for the final test
Ministers to Help i'm Campaign.
Many of the applicants are making
an appeal in their home towns for
unit. Columbia ministers will ex-
plain the work to their congregations
today and urge that they aid the plan
The proposed University of Mis-
souri, Unit of the American Ambu-
lance Field Service in France was
explained and urged by four speak
ers in the last mass meeting of the
year held last night in the University
Auditorium. The advocates of the
hospital unit were Dean Eldon James,
H. W. HALEY, ]. Fl. Rogers and Nor
ris Dry. They spoke to an audience
of about four hundred - mostly
women.
Howard W. HALEY, instructor in
the School of Journalism, was the
first speaker and told of the require
ments of the corps, enlistment in the
service and gave a short history of
the movement. Mr.. HALEY said $3.50
would maintain man for six months
at the front, this including his trans
portation, equipment and incidental
expenses. Board and lodging are fur
nished free of charge from the time !
of arrival in Paris. Mr. HALEY said |
the requirements for entering this /
line of service were not hard to meet.
Volunteers Must Be Americans. /
The volunteers must be American /
citizens, between q and 25 years old, 4
able to drive and repair automobiles |
and to give satisfactory references. Il
He believes from $1,000 to $4,000 can
be raised among students, citizens,
alumni and friends of the Uni
versity.
The American units have carried
100000 wounded from the field, of
which number One-third have been
saved by being hastened to base hos
pitals. The cost of saving each life
has been estimated at 20 cents. II
]. H. Rogers, who returned from
France with some of the men who II
have served in the corps, told of the II
life as his acquaintances pictured it
to him. They say it is a hard life, l
with plain food, long hours at times,
poor beds and narrow escapes. The
quarters, however. are pleasant and
the greatest recompense is the
thought that many lives are being
saved.
sour Duty to Help" Says Dean James.
Dean Eldon James, who was in
Europe when the war broke out,
spoke on the subject. "The Relation II
of a University Community to the
World War" He gave three reasons
for this country's participation in the
war. The first is the duty to hu-
manity; the second, that we still owe
a debt of gratitude to France for her
help in the Revolutionary war; and
lastly, that we are serving the United
States as well as the Allies in pre-
serving democracy. 1t is his opinion
that Americans will soon be in the HI
trenches in Europe and that our am
bulance workers will soon be serving
our own men
Morris Dry, student president. in
troduced the speakers and closed the
meeting with a short address, in
which he particularly urged the talk
ing up of the project He appealed
particularly to the women present,
in spreading the enthusiasm for the
unit around school,
Mr.. Dry also asked every student
to do his part towards big freshman
class next year