Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-24
.SERCENT CLARK TO
SEE REAL SERVICE
in Army ENGINEERS
Recruiting Officer in Charge
of Boise Station Receives
Telegraphic Orders to Re-
port at Once.

Sergeant Charles F. Clark. who has
been in charge Of the regular army re-
cruiting station in Boise since June &c,
is under sealed orders to report some
where for duty in the Twenty first
regiment Of engineers. He leaves to-
night in response to Geographic orders
received this morning.
After being In the recruiting game
for months, Sergeant Clark, who is an
active Wideawake newspaperman,
hankered for something more stirring
than the routine duty of enlisting men.
He became inoculated with the patriot
lie germ that he injected into hundreds
of young men while he has been sta
toned here and a few weeks ago he
got to the point where he could stand
it no longer Every time he started a
bunch Of young men for Salt Lake he
felt that he should be one of them He
applied for a transfer to the engineers.
photographic orders received today
are the result.
Sergeant Clark Is adventuresome
Nature made him a newspaperman 1t
is as natural for him to write sas it Is
for a hungry school boy to eat He
was born in New York state. but the
wanderlust of the writer has taken
him into most of the states of the
union and into newspaper offices rang
ing from the dingy country print shop
to the largest metropolitan dailies For
a number of years he has been a regu-
lar contributor to the Railroad Mans
magazine and since coming to Boise as
recruiting officer he has several
times broken into Judge with humor-
Gus recitals of the incidents that make
the life of a recruiter bearable.
AN ENvIABLE RECORD.
The record made by Sergeant Clark
at the Boise station smashed all pre-
vious ones, not alone in the Salt Lake
district, but taking population into con-
sideration. in the United States. He
came here on June &c. He believes in
publicity and knows how to use it.
During July he secured 1876 enlist
ments in 81 days. In August he re-
cruited SO men, In September 70 and in
October 70. During all these months
the Boise station supplied fully one
half of the men recruited by the nine
stations in the Salt Lake district.
Two factors entered into getting
this number OF men through the Boise
station" said Sergeant Clark THE
first and most important is the hearty
CO. operation given me by the news
papers. Scores of young men were
brought to the recruiting office
through the columns of the papers.
They were strangers in Boise. They
read the needs of the country in the
papers and at once enlisted. This ac-
counts for the large number of men
ttaI z,;,l
of Idaho.
The people of Boise have given val
liable assistS-Sce. They have been anx-
ious to help the station and this has
made 1t possible for us to interest
many who would not have applied for
admission to the army otherwise. |
sincerely appreciate the many cour-
tesies that have been extended tic me-"
HAS FOUR PROFESSIONS.
Sergeant Clark is "a years old. He
is married and has a daughter 10 yeaI
of age. He is man with four separ-
ate and distinct professions and with
other accomplishments that make him
valuable asset to a community as
well as to a military unit. First of all
he is a newspaperman. This Is his
chosen line and il they do not let him
write as member of the railroad en-
gineers, he will be like a fish out of
water. Next he is an all round auto
mobile man, having learned the bust
ness from the ground up to become ad-
vertising expert for one of the big
manufacturers. lie Is an expert ste
nographer and thorough advertising
and publicity man.
Captain J. d. Watson. until recently
In charge of the Salt Lake recruiting
district, discovered Sergeant Clark in
Salt Lake, where he was doing spec n,
work for the newspapers. He Induced
him to enlist under special order
from the war department to do publ
city and advertising work. The captain
had not been satisfied with the results
obtained through the Boise office and
sent the new sergeant to this station