The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-14
 RESERVE CORPS
 IN NEED OF MEN
Tranis Every Five Min Drivers Are Wanted for
 us. Service

Concerted effort is being made by
 prominent men throughout the coun- try to strengthen one of. the most im- portant branches of recruiting for the army-the, Quarterhaster Enlisted
 Reserve Corps, for which thousands of motor vehicle drivers are needed. The number of recent enlistments for this vitally essential branch has not been anything like as large as it should be, and this condition is large ly due to the fact that thousands of young men who are fitted for it have
 not had their attention called to the
 Quartermaster Reserve. It is to the young men of this country who have driven their own cars and who have had experience with motor vehicles that the army is now looking fors it will require many thousands who are capable of driving and making re- pairs to handle something like 40,- 900 motor trucks and cars necessary for the overseas force which the gov ernment plans to send to France. En- listment may be made with the rank of Sergeant, and to many, enlistment as a Sergeant in the Quartemaster Corps will be far more preferable than merely as a private in the ranks.
 ''There are hundreds of young men who possess particular specialized
 training. They can drive motor ve- hicles and understand the workings
 of motors and transmissions These
 are the men the Quartermaster is
 anxious to interest," said pr. ,Schuy- Ter Skaats Wheeler of the Crocker-
 Wheeler Company, former Governor
 of the Automobile Club of America
 and chairman of the Building and
 Technical Committee, in an interview
 at Ampere, N. J., last week. "The
 electrical engineer, the chemist, the
 machinist, etc., and those with ad- vanced training in physics can be of
 more value to their country working
 in their factories, which are building,
 experimenting with and improving electrical apparatus and machinery for the navy. But the man who has
 no technical training, and yet is in- teIligent and can drive and take care of a truck can be made very valu-
 able unit for the army. He may not
 have all the executive ability requir-
 ed of a high officer and yet as
 driver he is sufficiently skillful with a little practice to guide truck over
 the worst of roads, and at this sort of work an experienced pleasure car driver might be far more capable than an inexperienced motor truck driver.
 'The engine in a motor truck is not very different from that in a pleas ure car, the chief difference in the two vehicles being in the axle con- struction, and with some careful study points of difference can be readily mastered.
 T know there are many youths who do not feel that they are big and bury enough for actual trench fight ing, and yet they are not weddings. It would be far better for this twpe
 to use their skill driving cars rather
 than driving bullets. The work has it's decided hazards, for the motor truck trains are invariably the tar gets for artillery and airplane attacks when the enemy is able to locate them. The boy who is looking for thrills doubtless will be able to find them awaiting him when he goes to France
 as the pilot of a motor truck
 | The Quartermaster Department | through the courtesy of President l Gum of the U. S, Tire Company, has Ia recruiting office in the U. s. Rub Der building, 1790 Broadway, and
 technical examinations take place at i the Motor Truck clubs headquarters
 in the same building. Civilian com
 nnittees are also located in the same
 building. Civilian committees are all ! so located in Boston in the North l east Department, and arrangements for rec1~i iting in the corps are being made rapidly in other cities. Ser geants are enlisted with the pay of l S36.9O a month, and clothing, food i and transportation expenses. From this rank they may be promoted to First Class Sergeant, Truck Master, and Captain, at considerably higher pay.