Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-26
SOLDERING At SEWER
Process Of Selection Being Steadily
Pushed.
MARRIED Men Being ELIMINATED.

Mental lncompetents Not Needed
Married Men Get Diseharees-Food
Conservation Gets Close Attention
No More Easy Picking for Camp
Followers at Paris.
Uassed 10y the CensorJ
camp Sewer, March 20-Weeding
out Of physical and mental misfits,
married men and others with depend
ents among the soldiers here contin-
ues. None other than soldiers who are
in the best physical condition and
possessed Of average mentality AZ
least. will ever See service abroad with
the American armies. At Camp Sevier
there are scores of men who should
never have been enlisted because they
were not physically tit. There are
dozens who should never have been
admitted to the service because they
are lacking in mental aptitude. Take
Sarge Hughes" for example. He was
discharged the other day because Of
mental inaptitudc. Sarge" is about
twenty eight years old. He said he
went to school ten years and in that
time never learned to read or write
his own name. Place nickel, q dime,
and penny and quarter in his
hand. tell him you will give him the
lot If he tells YOU the sum total and
you would stand in no danger of
losing your money. He couldn't add
the sum to save his life. / saw Sarge
lend Il fellow soldier 50 one day after
he had just received his pay for the
month. Within five minutes he had
absolutely forgotten the name Of the
man to whom he loaned the money
and he never did recall it with the
result that he is out s.. The soldier
who wheedlcd him out Of the five did
so deliberately. knowing that poor
Sarge" would never remember.
All those like Sarge" are going fast
now and as each one goes there is one
more sigh of relief waited skyward
by that company commander or other
officer who is responsible for the many
delinquencics of that man.
Many drafted men who have famil-
les are also being discharged from the
service. Drafted married men who
can establish the fact that they arc
unable to support their families In the
same degree of comfort on their sal
aries as soldiers together with the
monthly family allowances made for
support by the government as they
were In civil life are being turned out
in large numbers. Experience Of the
past five months has SHOWN that rs
rule married drafted men DO not
develop into good soldiers as readily
as do single drafted men. Probably
It is because the married drafted men
|rass n,nch to think about beside
Earning to soldier. A major, friend
of mine. in conversation the other day
voiced the opinion that no soldier
should be a married man, especially
in war time. think that myself
sometimes, though | know that If
Uncle Sam should prohibit any Of his
soldiers from marrying during the
period of the war there would be the
mischief tu play. The view of Private
Prince, a married man and hardly 81
voices the sentiment Of soldiers in re-
gard TO marriage. Sure, l have 4
wife" said he the other day. Il draw
thirty bones month. fifteen of which
70 to her together with an additional
fifteen that Old Man Sam hands her
She gets thirty and lives and we are
as happy us any two kids you ever
saw, Her dad boards her and clothes
her."
What do you do?" ! inquired.
"Oh, he said. the thirty I send her
is pocket change"
The wives of those soldiers who
have not fathers-in- law to look TO-.
though, have pretty tough time OF II
in this day OF the high cost Of living
Judging from the strenuous efforts
their husbands are making to get out
Of the service and back to them.
And even Private Prince. scion of "A
house of comfortable circumstances,
while fine fellow, is rather poor
soldier.
His mind is mostly up in Tennessee
in that town where the wife lives.
We i'm the army don't know any
thing about meatless and wheatless
days. We get ours seven days in every
week and plenty OF 1t. a clean plate
at every meal" however, is not only
an army slogan: but fast becoming
an army law. Every soldier is entitled
to all he can eat, and the authorities
see to 1t that he gets all he can eat:
but woe to that soldier who takes a
great raft of food on his plate and
then fails to eat 1t unless he has
good reason why.
We had brains and eggs at break
fast few mornings ago. That Is
favorite dish of mine. From my place
in the "chow line" I could see the big
pot Of the food afar off. The cook
who happened to be dishing out the
brains and eggs that morning Is a
particular "buddie' of mine and
knew right then that ! would get a
liberal helping. l held out my alum
mum eating apparatus. gave him Il
certain signal that is well understood
between US and he filled my chow pan