The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-21
)RECRUlTS NEEDED
IN REGULAR ARMY
Urging the Enlisting Of Young Sin
|. gle Men Who Have no One Deepen
dent Upon Them.

pared and issued by direction of The
Adjutant General Of the Army, is
furnished to all Patriotic Societies
and Associations, as we'll as to in
dividual citizens, in connection with
tenders of service filed at the War
| Department.:
''Those who are interested in pre-
paredness can render no more effec-
tive service, at present, than by u.s.
ing their utmost influence to recruit
the Regular Army to the strength
authorized by law Do not overlook
the tact that the Regular Army, as
we'll as volunteer army, is compos-
ed of volunteers, and that both form
a part of the Army Of the United
States. The Regular Army is already
organized but needs additional men
now. A volunteer army, in addition
to the Regular Army, can be organ
lied only under special authority of
Congress and is not in existence at
present. Under the laws in force
the conditions of service as to term
of enlistment and opportunity for
return to civil life after service with
the colors are practically equal in
the Regular Army and in volunteer
army.
| ''The regular soldier serves three
| years with the colors and is then en-
| titled to a furlough to the Reserve,
| which relieves him FROM further ac-
tive service in time of peace. He is
| also eligible in time of peace to be
1urloughed to the Reserve after one
years service with the colors if he
IS reported by his immediate COM
lnander as proficient and sufficiently
trained, and is serving within the
continental limits of the United
States. Thus, under normal condi-
tlons, the maximum service with the
colors in the Regular Army, at the
option of the soldier, is three years
and the minimum service with the
| 0oAoAo Ao oAAN ySO1. OlluC1 L1lC Id w,
the term of enlistment of the "Vol-
unteer'' is three years, but these
volunteers will be mustered out in
a less time if peace is restored or
the menace of war ceases. It is un-
likely that the minimum time of
service with the colors will be less
| than a A
the Regular Army is immediately
placed in training under competent
instructors and under officers who
know how to care for him and how
to teach him his military duties in
the shortest possible time.
1.-THE first Regiment of Infantry
was organized 128 years ago. The
Second Infantry was organized Mar.
3, 1871; the Third and Fourth Regi-
ments of Infty September 4, 1892;
the Fifth and Sixth Regiments of
Infantry July 16, 1898; the Seventh
Infantry May II, 1915; the Eighth
Infantry July 5, 1888; the Ninth and
Tenth Regiments Of Infantry 1855;
| the Infantry Regiments numbered
from Eleven to Twenty-three, inclu-
slve, were organized in May, 1861.
All these Infantry Regiments, as we'll
as those organized since the Civil
War, are organizations in which any,
one may be proud to serve. Nearly
all Of them now need from 200 to
400 additional men.
"All able-bodied male citizens un-
der IS years of age who desire to
prepare themselves for the military
service in the National Defense, and
who have no one dependent upon
them for support, may be safely ad-
Vlsed to enlist at once in the Regu-
lar Army-the great military train
ing school of the Nation and the
backbone" of the first line of land
defense.
"Should organizations which have
been professionally enrolled with a.
view to rendering their services for
the National Defense desire to enlist
as a body in the Infantry of the Re-
gular Army, Recruiting Officers will
be promptly sent, upon request, to
the home rendezvous of the organi-
zation to accept those who may be
qualified, and all those who desire to
serve together, will upon enlistment.
be assigned as far as practicable,
and within the limits of existing va
cancies, to the same regiment. All
enlistments made in this manner
must necessarily be individual and
in the grade of private
Young men under 18 years of age
may enlist if the y fully meet the re-
quirements, but only with the writ
ten consent Of their parents and
guardians.
"Application for enlistment NAV
be made to any postmaster of the
second, third, or fouth class, or at
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