The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-31
Seen MUCH SERVICE
CORPORAL BAUER, RECRUITING
OFFICER, HAS BEEN IN SEW
ERAL INTERESTING
SITUATIONS.

Corporal Joseph Bauer, who is in
the city on recruiting duty from the
main station at Sioux Falls has had
some interesting experiences In the
United States army since his first en-
listment. He was in China in 1912
when the great powers feared inter
national complications as a result of
the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty
and the elevation of the Chinese re-
public.
Soldiers from France, Germany,
England, Russia, Italy and Japan
were there and the English soldiers
in particular fraternized with the
Americans. several times being the
guests of the latter at meals and
mingling with them for social chats
when off duty.
THE Tommies were sore at the
Americans because they were com
PEELED to retire for the night at 10
O'Clock while we did not have to re-
port until reveille the next morning
unless we cared to-" said the cor
pOl dts II maui AlE bEi ltdD1 dhSlg
also as they had to be IN al 9 o'clock.
They thought that life in our
army was pretty easy and the Eng
lish called us the bloody Yanks,'
bloody being their ~favorite adjective
when they are disguised or peeyed.
To see the American lads enjoy life
was almost too much for their tenn
pers. They were fine soldiers, how
ever, and we learned to like them
very much"
Corporal Bauer also came in CON
tact with the Indian troops of the
English army while i'm China. He
pronounced them as a fractions out
fit" and once they nearly made trou-
BILE, a whole regiment of them. on ac-
count Of some fancied slight at the
hands of the English troops.
The French and the German
troops did no mingle with US much,
due to the fact that their duty hours
were different from ours and because
few of them could speak English
The ties of a commo language, how
ever, enabled US TO mix with the Eng
lish a great deal and compare notes
quite frequently"
Since he has been in the army
Corporal Bauer has seen nearly eight
years of foreign service and says that
such travel is the best education in
the world and beats reading, because
you can study and at the same time
see the actual conditions hat n
reads about.
According to the corporal. If he
had been forced TO pay for all the
travelling he has done, his father
would have to sell his two farms TO
his travels have extended from coast
to coast and he expects TO see duty
In Panama before his thirty years
service is up.
When he returns to duty with the
coolers. he expects TO move up 10
the rank of sergeant and will retire
with the grade of first sergeant, in
accordance with the government Gus
tom. "Once you get into the army,
he said, there is a fascination about
the service that holds you.
Il served with one man who had
been in the army for thirty-two years
and then his commanding officer
practically forced him to retire, much
to his disgust.
"One of the fine things about
serving your country is this: Faith
full service for thirty years entities
you, If you are a non-commissioned
officer, to pay and allowances
amounting to nearly $50 a month for
the rest of your life and al oppor-
tunity to work at the government
shops If you are physically able.
Few corporations in civil life take
care of faithful servants in such a
| liberal manner.
1.-The army is a fine place for a
man, but II is no place for the sol
der who goes In just to serve one en-
listment after the other. The army
does not want hat kind of a man.
If he cannot work up to the grade OF
corporal at the end of one or two en-
listments, the army does not want
him.
There is an excellent opportunity
now for the young man with mechan-
zeal talent to go into the aviation
service. This branch is being en-
larged right along and the man who
shows aptitude for it, is certain to
advance in it rapidly.
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That dull. listless. oppressed feeling
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luggish liver, clogged intestines. DR..