Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
KEEP CITY OUT
g,
OF SECOND CALL
RECRUITING AIM
Working to Enlist Men So
None Will Be Taken by
Subsequent Drafts

The Harrisburg Recruiting Station
has adopted a new motto: Let us
work TO keep Harrisburg out of the
According to information sent from
the War Department all enlistments
since July l, will be credited as
formerly to the district where they they
| larger in July than in any other
| month, 1850 men having volunteered
from this district Many OF them
II the War Department pursues the
policy as announced 1t Will also help
e clear up mispnderstandings in
| the minds OF many people who could
not understand why their quotas
were 50 high All enlistments since
June 30 were not credited for the
hrst draft but will help instead to
reduce the amount of men to be call
| ed for the second draft
On April l. when the local recruit
ing Office adopted the motto: Let
people were inclined to be skepticaI
and to doubt if so many men could
oe enlisted n tireless campaign for
recruits secured the quota for the
risburg district and then the re-
crult1nS officers began to turn their
aeeSntlon TO securing men for the
WHO stlll prefer to wait to enlist
ana whose names stand high on the
araft register can appreciate what
Ihoss months of effort mean.
Gua-d Enlistments Help
men VINO enlisted in the National
GGaarH Gari theiged TO reduce the quota for
aaIrlsburg because the city raised
SO many units for the guard. A large
NUMBER OF men have enlisted since
July l but not as many as in the
preceding months. Inat means
lhaI the regular army men will nave
10 WORK so much the harder to raise
me necessary amount OF men.
we ulu 1t before, we can do it
again is the way the men IN charge
look at the proposition and 1t is pos
sluIe mat Wnen the araII quotas are
again announcer hArrlsDurg wllI
s.anu among the few cities not re-
qulled 70 Lurnlsh NEIL The ma
JorlLy OF the men Will have to pe
secuie eo wltnln the next Jew weeks
as NAIn dfaIt Asts are vosted re-
crulLinS Tor the men whose names
. dppea4 automatically ceases.
EnnsIlienIs
Yesterdays euLISLlIenLs were JOS
eph +. Iarasi. S47 South Fourth
: street. Steelton, infantry; John klg-
dosh, Lykens, aviation section;
George 4. Brown, Millersburg, IN
lantry; Herbert 4. Ready, Yeager-
town. infantry; Howard hooker, 345
: jumper street, Quakertown, ambu-
/ lance section.
: Drills Draw Crowds
Ihe drills on the island still con-
tlnue TO draw the usual crowds and
III the afternoon the crowd has he
. NSAAAS So ldI &c that the officers NAV
lie forced to keep the visitors off the
held. When the boys lare going
3 through the PAGES and receiving their
deserved reprimands friends on the
sldelines persist in passing remarks
about the lot and ability of a re-
cruit. AS yet nothing has been done
to stop the remarks of the watchers
5 who lie in the shade while the
guardsmen roast in the sun but it is
? expected some measure will be taken
in the near future.
The spectators who make a daily
VISIT TO the island all agree on one
: thing and that is the rapid advance
the men are making in the executions
OF the drills. The companies with
out exception, are slowly developing
that never fails to attract the eye OF
civilian. The order inspection
Armsl Ar 81, that formerly produced a rat
now snaps out a uniform sound as
metal strikes metal $50 times.
Many For Signal Service
Lieutenant Amthor has been so
busy with the duties of the local Of
, nee in signal recruiting that he has
been unable to get into the sur
rounding country to examine appli-
surrounding country, even Williams
town and RidgWay. have come to
! TINS city lest the signal branch be
nIled up before they could be ex-
The benefits of the signal service
nave been so well advertised that even
mothers are coming in to be told
= ABOUT the service. Three women drop-
ped in recently to talk over the serv-
/ ice with Lieutenant Amthor. All of
them had sons under 21 whom they
; were willing to give to the service
OF their country but anxious that
they might enlist in the best branch,
ice.
Recent enlistments are Albert c.
Michael, $50 Camp. Harrisburg; Edgar
y, Thurston, 26 South Fifteenth,
Harrisburg; Homer H. Coleman Vic
onisco; Ross H. Hamsher, 2I2S Moore.
: Harrisburg; Earl B. Wetzel. 81 East
Penn, Carlisle; Harry Tuptonoski, 613
North Third, Steelton; Christian j.
Yost, Middletown; Clyde A Neiss. 26
Linden, Harrisburg; Henry w. Fitz-
patrick, Williamstown; Grover c. Nc
Bride, 6l5 Union. Millersburg; Arthur
b; Burkhart Shippensburg; Thomas
w: Graham, Williamstown; Harry ].
Sites, Williamstown; Wofford 4.
Dry, 215 Lincoln, Steelton.