The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-17
SECOND MONTANA ASKS !
FOR VOLUNTEERS HERE
Recruiting Station to Be
Opened in Chamber of
Commerce Rooms.
WANT MEN Is TO As
Draft Limits Not to Apply to
Guard; Need Not Read
or Write.
WANT MEN Is TO As

The Second Montana infantry !.
stu short 500 men. Owing 70 Ger.
tam conditions over which N.
state authorities have had no con.
troll ( has been impossible to 70.
cruit to war strength up 70 mi.
date, but am in a position to .t.te
that from now on we are oo;no "a
wage vigorous campaign and fin
the rants Of the reuiment com.
manded by Colonel McCuinris. 10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES from .neech
Of Governor Stewart at the Helen.
E'ks' club on Flag day.
The Second Montana infantry is TO
open recruiting office in Missoula at
once. At present there are no funds
available for this purpose. but the cit
l@ens of Missoula, as represented nv the
chainber of commerce. are going 10
provide the recruiting offices. and the
newspapers are going to do their part
so far as publicity is concerned. To
open the campaign the recruiting Of
Ulcers are giving the men who have
bewaiIed the fact that they were out
Slde the years of selective conservation
q Dit of news to cheer them up: The
age limits for enlistment in the second
Montana infantry are from is to As
years, and the time of this volunteer
service is for the duration of the war
only.
Yesterday morning Captain William
+. Morse. commanding the Missoula
sector with headquarters at Fort Mis-
soula. detailed one of his lieutenants
10 recruiting duty for this district The
Mlssoula Chamber of Commerce was
at once informed of the lack of proper
facilities and as a result Monday morn
ing recruiting office will be in full
swing in the chamber Of commerce
building. Those who have been await
ing the second call owing to the fact
that their age Cor lack of it, was q
barrier to their patriotic aspirations
will have a chance to take the neces-
sary examinations and. if they pass,
begin doing their bit in the defense of
the nation before their brothers whose
ages brought them under the conscrip-
ton act
Registered Men May Go.
Men who already have registered can
join the Second Montana if they choose
and go with regiment representative
of the best blood in Montana. The
barriers are down. from IS to As years
is the limit. provided the physical test
does not uncover defects which are a
bar to army service.
AS soon as enlisted the men will be
sent to be drilled and equipped. From
the moment they are accepted here in
the preliminary examination their eX-
penses are all paid by the government
and if rejected in the finals at Helena
they will be fun ished with transporta-
ton back to Missoula
For the men who said "if We're only
three years older I would CO." here is
chance For those who said IF
was only 80 again you could not keep
me out with a club" the path is open.
and last, but not least. for those few
citizens who can neither read nor
write the bars are down as well. for
the order relating to this recruiting
expressly states Applicants are not re-
quired to be able to read and write the
English language"
Company r needs so men to fill its
anks to war strength. The Missoulian
will publish the names of all applicants
whether accepted or rejected. Who is
going to be the first man to make a
liberty loan of his life to the state of
Montana