Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-06

While the nation is calling for red d-blooded
men to come out and fight the men OF Phila-
delphia are hanging back They are join
ing home guards and home defense legions
and special police corps. and the army, the
marine corps and the navy are going a-beg-
ging, so say naval and marine corps officers
Philadelphia must furnish 800 marines
and produce them at once. This Is the call
from the Navy Department. Major General
George Barnett. commandant Cf the marine
corps has sent out another appeal Three
hundred men are needed at once. and yes
terday three enlisted Since last Saturday
twenty-five men have stepped forth and
Joined the boys who are really going to do
the fighting.
CONFERENCE ON RECRUITING
VA, conference of naval recruiting officers
was held today aboard battleshp at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, where plans were
made for cooperation with the squadrons
!, of womens recruiting automobiles that will
scour the city to fill the ranks of the navy
. Enlisted men were assigned to the motor
4. cars to assist in the recruiting According
to plans made by Miss Letitia McKim and
other leaders of the recruiting campaign
no fewer than 800 automobiles containing
womer recruiting volunteers and enlisted
men will start from the Green street en-
.vrance of Fairmoupt Park Monday morning
~ determined roundup of eligible men
for the navy. Every section Of the city
Vim be visited.
II. t. Scott, of the L. S. S. Chicago. the
training ship for the naval militia. opened
a recruiting station today at Tenth and
Vine streets. He was assisted by three
sailors from the Chicago. Every ten min
utes Scott delivered patriotic addresses, in
which he called upon his auditors to rally
to the colors
1T is notI who is asking you to do this"
he said, but America. The United States
is calling upon her loyal citizens to uphold
the dignity and honor of the Stars and
Stripes on land and sea. If we are to sur
vive as a republic we must protect and
preserve democracy. our sic gan from now
on must be Down with monarchies and up
with democracy
The management of the Trocadero The
atre, Tenth and Arch streets. has offered
the use of the lobby of the theatre to the
Mayor a recruiting station.
new marine recruiting station was
opened today in tent at the southwest
corner of Broad and Arch streets. It Is in
charge of Sergeant Hatcher.
A call for recruits for the First Pennsyl-
vania Cavalry was issued today by Cap
tain whiteside adjutant. from the armory
ut Thirty-second street and Lancaster ave-
nue..
The call read:
applicants must be young men without
dependents. of good character and educa-
tion. having natural aptitude for learning
headquarters duties as orderlies. scouts.
motorcyclsts. chauffeurs, typists, field
cooks. horseshoers, bugers. saddlers, etc
Applications should be sent in writing to
the regimental adjutant at the armory."
WANT TENTMAKERS
Major Stogsdali. who has charge of tent
making at the Schuylkill Arsenal has sent
out an urgent call for tent and sail makers
who are palm and needle sewers. II will
be impossible he says to utilize the vast
possibilities in the matter of tentmaking
IL they do not get more men,
"A man can come out here and serve
his country just as well by doing that in
which he is skilled as by enlisting," said
the Major.
Guarding railroad bridges and water.
works is important, navy and army men
point out and troops sent to do that work
are good soldiers II they do it without mur-
muring at the monotony. But the great