Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-12
ONLY TWO STATES FALL
BELOW v|RG|N|A'S RECORD
Vermont and North Carolina Con.
tend for Place at Bot
tom of List.
THIS STATE is FAR BEHIND
or 500 Men Asked by Secretary Dan.
icls of Virginia by April 20, Only
Seventy Have rs Vet Been Sent
Forward.

! Forward.
With but eight more days renal J.
ing before April 20, Virginia has yct
to furnish $50 men of the 500 assigned
to be enlisted in the State during the
first three weeks of this month. Six
men signed their papers as recruits
yesterday, or about the average num-
Der since the Navy Department issued
Its call for a total OF 5000 men from
the entire country before April 30.
To sec what was the matter with
virginia and to try ami bring about
an Improvement. Lieutenant Comma nd
er John Grady, OF New York city in
Spector of recruiting for tho Eastern
DIVISION. composed of sixteen states
is spending several days ut the Rich
mond station. Only North Carolina and
Vermont have sent fewer men to the
navy since the demand for men be-
came insistent than Virginia accord
ing to the inspector
virginia boys arc just as patriotic
and just capable OF serving their
country in the navy us the boys of
the other states that arc far ahead of
Virginia. said Lieutenant Commander
Grady. The great difficulty in the
way OF recruiting in this State. as
see ii. is the fact that the people arr.
not stirred up over the war and do not
realize how essential il * to have full
crews for the navy. upon which the
defense OF the country must depend
for the first few months
VIRGINIA DOES NOT REALIZE:
SERIOUSNESS Or Srru ALTON
The United States is at war with
Il power that has shown the ability to
have men on the job wherever they
have been needed and TO strike hard
jrs,i,
realize how serious the position is in
winch the country is placed. and con
seQucnt!y does not furnish the men
which are needed. The Northern states
and the rest Of the Southern States
do realize what is needed and they
are sending up recruits by the hun
dreds. u, would be the best thing that
could happen to the country FOR Il Ger
man submarine" TO appear in Hampton
Roads or Long Island Sound and drop
"A few shells into our peaceful city
streets Then there would be an awak-
expand TO way strength"
Licutenant-C Commander Grady told
Yesterday OF what other cities We're
doing. The daily average for Ealti-
more city alone has been more than
forty Boston. New York and Phila-
dclphia arc each sending forward more
than 100 men every day.
The substantial people OF those
cities arc helping the navy while most
of that class in Richmond have been
Indifferent" he said. Men and women
of culture and prominence have given
the use OF their automobiles TO the
cause and are rushing recruits from the
information stations to the places Of
enrolment. Some OF tho big corpora
tons are assuming the responsibility
OF certain numbers OF recruits TO be
secured from their employees.
WELI-kNOWN PEOPLE;
AID IN ItECUI FLING
Chorus girls are singing aud dis
tributnE literature on the streets.
Fritz Schcff was downtown i'm her hig
rcd automobile wearing sailor suit
and singing The star Spanglcd Ban
ncr' the day left New York The
lnicrhorouEh Rapid Transit Company
has put up navy advertising cards in
all it's cars in New York City The
people III other cities mean business.
and the young mon realize that the
country has need for them. There is
no trouble getting recruits where pub
lie sentiment is ablazc with cnthusi-
assn"
The recruits received at the navy
station iii Richmond yesterday are VIII
bur Mason Manlcy, OF Richmond; I'm
hrey Luther Lewis. OF Moshcim, Tenn:
George Abner Burton. OF Blackstone:
Archie Van Moore. Of Danvillc. and
ard Cowcll Bacon, of lynchburg.
No recruits were sent forward yea
tcrday from the Marine Corps station
although several applicants passed the
examination and are waiting TO be
sent.
SEVEN MICROBES JOIN
UNITED STATES ARM,
OF tho nine recruits sent TO Fort
Slocum from the Richmond army re-
fat
negroes. enlisted for the infantry and
cavalry under the provisions Of the
NOR" liberal policy adopted since the
United states entered war. Tho two
white recruits arc Thomas ]. Shepherd.
OF Chester, and Horace Is. J.ohr, Of
Oho. The negroes are James H. Bin
tord, Jr. Ernest Drlt, Arthur Robin
son. IOc Jones. Robert 4. Harrison. Ir..
James \. kccnc, Jr.. and Ernest
Brown, all of Richmond. There arc
nearly dozen other recruits who have
passed tho physicnl examination and
VIII be sent forward in n few days
Major Lctchcr IIardeman, tho officer
in charge Of recruiting for the army
III the Eastern District Of Virginia OK
dressed disapprova! vigorously ycstcr-
day of tho action Of Justice Crutch-
hcid of the Police Court. in releasing
man charged with vagrancy on con-
dition that hc enlist in tho army
wv" turned The man down on sight
even before wc heard that he had been
sent np 10 til" station from The Police
Court said Major IIardeman II can
not understand why any person would
ne willing I" risk the honor of the
United States in the hands OF men who
come TO recruiting offices 10 cscapn
from magistrates courts We need
recruits. but we don't want them by
tho Police Court route. Tho law pro-
hlhits the acceptance OF men for tho
in,
rcformHtorY. jail or pcniicntiarv II
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