The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-02-08
OPPORTUNITY
FOR NEGROES.
CAMP FUNSTON, KANS.-WANTS
MEN-WAR MATERIAL MUST
MADE-MOBILE REPAIR SHOP.
THE ENLISTMENT OF COLORED
MEN INTO TECHNICAL POSI-
TIONS OF THE COLORED DIvIS-
ION OF OUR ARMY.


ION OF OUR ARMY.
1. Believing that your paper has
at heart the best interest of the !
cot airy and of the colored race, |
am appealing to you to publish an
article in the next edition of your |
paper, on the great need of the col
ored division here, for intelligent,
educated and technically trained
men.
2. 1t is believed that many men
who have not already been called
by the draft, but who are liable be
called in future 0eFafts, would much
rather enlist now and get positions
similar to ones with which they are
familiar in civil life than to wait
until they are actually drafted and
placed Unfortunately as privates
in the huge concentration camps
scattered all over the country. This
action on the part of a man should
also appeal to his pride, because, if
he elects to choose this method of en-
tering the service, he can class him
self as volunteer instead Of having
waited to be called.
8. Such an opportunity exists in
this division right now. The Or
dinance Department, the department
of our Army which handles the big
guns, rifles, machine guns, and fight
ing equipment of the soldiers, Is 60
ing to organize what is known as
Mobile Repair Shop. This is in re-
ality machine shop on wheels, con-
sisting of a large number of powerful
motor trucks especially equipped for
running up behind the lines in
France, and making all manner Of
repairs to the injured guns and
material.
A. Every day that is added to the
terrible conflict bears out more and
more the fact that this is war of
guns and material, individuals be-
come more and more dependent upon
the steel which makes up their guns,
and the bullets which go into them.
For these reasons, it can readily be
seen that the work of repairs is OF
paramount Importance, and the
Mobile Shop is calling for the best
talent of our race.
5. The men desired will receive
rank varying from Privates to
Ordinance Seargents, and pay from
$4,000 to $500 a month, food ant
clothing furnished free. Men pos
sessing the following qualifications
must be obtained and must be OBJ
tanned at once
(a) Men competent to act as gen
. eral superintendent in the Mobile
Shop. They should have sufficient
mechanical and executive ability tt
be foreman of good sized machine
shop in civil life. They should b,
familiar with the use of the lathe
drill press, bench grinder, electro
drill, oXacatelene molding outfit
air-riveting hammer, milling attach
ment, blacksmith and wheelwrigh
outfits. They should have had ex
tended experience in the upkeep o
gas engines and the use and repai
of automobile trucks.
(b) Men competent to act as fore
men of the machinery sections of tn
shop, capable of supervising tn
various kinds of repairs which com
within the scope of such apparatus a
is named in section (a) above.
(c) Men competent to act as fore
men of the equipment sections of tn
shop, capable of supervising all kind
of repairs on rifles, pistols, machin
and automatic guns.
cd Men who are first clas
machinists and all around auto me
chanics.
(e) Men who have a thoroug
working knowledge of small machir
cry and tools and special experienc
in saddlery or the repair Of leathe
goods or canvas articles.
lf) Men who are expert mechar
les and who have had special expel
ience in auto repair work.
(g) Men who have had the trail
ing of apprentices in machine she
and are qualified to act as helpe
and assistants to expert mechanics
(h) Cooks.
(D Stenographers and typists.
I'D Clerks, men capable of han
ling a typewriter, keeping recor'
and with the ability to learn readi
the system of military correspon
ence.
6. Men who contemplate enlistir
for these positions should not
lIlsuIcu6u IuC ubC Va IhC h1il
of strictly military material. Men wi
show the proper aptitude and trai
ing will shortly be sent to lar
manufacturing concerns througho
the country, and will receive speci
courses of instruction, varying fro
80 to 70 days,) along the lines
work which are particularly desire
This Is another big inducement
men who desire to improve thel
selves at government expense, VIII
they are at the same time doing the
bit. The fact should not be Il
sight of that while these men q
serving their country, they are al
carrying along their own professiC
being able at the end of the war
resume their civil occupation G
tirely unimpaired.
7. Men who desire to come in
the service for the special purpose
Joining the Mobile Repair Shop
the 92nd Division (colored,) shot
write at once to Major P. S. Gal
Division Ordinance officer, 92nd
vision, Camp Funston, Kans
Major Gage will then send them {
plication blanks which they will ia
to their Local Boards, and they "
be enlisted into the service and sc
directly to Camp Funston at govel
ment expense The above appl
= only to those men who are within
draft age, 21 to 81. Men who {
over 81 years of age should co
here at their own expense and be
listed here on the spot. They n
enlist with their local recruiting
ficerss bnt must be very careful
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