The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-25
LuhdBERToN, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY JUNE Is 1917
RECRUITING DRIVE THIS WEEK

hEChOI1lNG DRIVE THIS WEEK
Immediate Need is to Bring Regular
Army Up to Full Strength-Effor
Being Made to Enroll 10000 Men
This Week
Washington Dispatch, June "a.
More than half million men have
volunteered in the American army
and navy our,ng the period of less
tnan three months that has elapsed
SINCE the war was declared to exist. i
The army navy and national quad
represented an aggregate strength
OF little more than 100000 men when
TIE war resolution was adopted. To-
day between 100000 and 100000 are
/ enrolled in the various branches of
the fighting services and the great
majority of them are armed, equip
! ped and under training: They will
be joined at the end Of the summer
by nearly a million men selected for
the new national army from the mil
| lions registered for war duty, June
The regular army totalled a little
more than 100000 men three months
ago; it is nearing the 25O,OOO mark
today and War Department officials,
backed by the press Of the country,
are bending every effort to bring it
up to 100000 during the present week.
i The national guard, 100000 strong
!. when war came, numbers nearly 260,-
900 today, according to the best es-
:, Inmates available. Of that number
: nearly $4,000 actually are under arms,
) guarding against German plotters and
: doing the job in a thorough and
5 soldierly way as shown by the trivial
!, damage the plotters have been able
E to inflict.
: The marine corps whose slogan OF
r "first to fight" has been respected
t by the government and in attaching
l. a seasoned reiment of sea soldier;
S to Major General Pershing's expedi
: ton force to France, has been raised
from 1900 to nearly 10000 men.
e The regular bluejacket force Of tn.
e navy, the men behind the big gum
e and who already are erying thei
l., metal against the enemy off the Irisl
l. coast under Vice Admiral Sims, o
upon armed freighters, has been rails
e, ed from less than $4,000 to 10000
n The boys Of the country have throng
h ed to the navy in such numbers tina
recruiting stations could not be bull
l. fast enough to accommodate them.
Il, An entirely new force of railwa
W engineers for duty in France to han
n die railway problems behind tn
fighting lines, also has been created
Iy Recruiting figures are not availabl
f. but it is known that some of the res
Is inents are at full strength and read
in to go. Probably 10000 men, have joir
n ed these regiments.
c-l Forty thousand picked men are III
lg der strenuous training at the officer
IF training camps, insuring good junit
n officers for the national army. Otl
81 er thousands are doing their share /:
i'd the medical corps and engineer corr
1t. training camps and still others Il!
he with the naval coast defense ,raser1
RS keeping the Atlantic coast free fro
he the submarine menace and lnsur;r
i clear road for the endless stream
cargo carriers which are taking tho
S sands of tons Of American war SUI
en- British and Italians.
officials believe, is to bring the re-
MS without delay. These are the fir
iv- line troops, the men who will be Il
la first Americans oface the Germ;
We hosts. They will be the bone and 81
en- ew of General Pershing's army.
is. President Wilson has designated t
ull present week as recruiting week f
he the regulars. Secretary Baker h
au- sought the aid of all newspapers
to the end that 10000 men shall be e
lit, rolled before June 80. No explain
u.s. tion of the need fo rgetting. the m
he by that time has been given, but
If has been assumed that it has to
nit with getting forces to Europe.
as Recruiting officers throug ghout t
e's country have been instructed to a
wise with newspapers in their secti
to work out ways of stimulating
= terest. The government has fou
eet the press eager to aid in making
the nation ready for war. With the
B. pers of each locality taking up
lip campaign for recruits as local M
ex 3 r, the filling up of the ranks
ard schedule time is regarded as ass1
nd, ed.
Mr. -------
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