The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-07
STACKER CAUSED TRECOE
TO GET into The SERVICE
Woundine OF Young Trego i'll France
Shows Very Forcibly The Evils
That Result From The Stacker
t'laSs

The wounding of young William E
| Trego, a member of the 111th 1nfan
| try. Company l., who left for France
about the last of May, proTes conclu
sively what may happen as the result
OF permitting cases of slackers to &C
unnoticed and unpublished. This
young mans number was not drawn
at the time of the call for the quota
of which he became a member, but
in the list could not be found at the
time, and it became necessary to call
an additional number, the holder OF
the number being Trego, who had
been married several months, and
who was actively engaged in farm
ing.
Follow what happened: The man
who sought TO eyade service was at
terward arrested in one of the cities
and was sent into the service. He is
today, so far as is known, in very
good health. Ii he had gone when
he should, young Trego certainly
would not have been in action in the
particular place where he received
his wound; he probably would have
been at his home at Madison, with
his family, working industriously to-
ward the production of the food sup
ply with which TO feed the soldiers,
this nation and it's allies.
Is it, then, any wonder that the
government expects all persons who
know of slackers to report them i'm
mediately? That it protects the in
former by not giving his or her
name, and that it holds those who
shelter or who assist slackers crimi-
nally responsible for doing SO? The
government has clearly stated upon
numerous occasions that all good
citizens will unhesitatingly report to
the local boards any cases known to
them of persons failing to register or
to present themselves for eXamina-
ton or service Persons who fail to
do so may be responsible for other
men, like Trego, having to go out of
their turn, or having to go at all.
In this connection, too, it should
be borne in mind that often the acts
of the Stacker result in innocent per-
sons being punished. For instance,
the Fuel Administrator at this time
is asking that all joy riding be cut
out on sundays, that no one use their
unless it is necessary.
Loyal citizens will endeavor to COM
ply with this request, but there are
some "slackers' who think that the
little gasoline they burn will not
to much, but if there are a
great number of such persons, the
government intends to make it d
criminal offense, possibly to stop the
other words, the refusal sof a few
slackers to abide by the request of
the administrator may result in all
persons having to put up their cars
except for business.
The same thing has been true on
sugar and on -four. There were many
persons who yelled periodically at
the top of their voices, whose lungs
would hardly furnish their vocal
chords with sufficient volume, but
who quietly purchased more sugar
and more flour than the law allowed;
they were slachers just as much as
the man who tried to avoid military
service; they were avoiding civil SER
vice-he, military. Then there are
those who yelled as if their lungs
possessed the power Of locomotive,
but who bought Liberty Bonds in
the smallest sums they possibly
could, who would be ashamed to let
it be known how small their pur-
chases We're; then, some too, did not
buy any War Savings Stamps at all;
they are all, however, being checked
up. 1t can't re done-they may
think they are the only ones who
know it-but they are the worst
fooled persons in the world. The
soldier Stacker thought he could get
away with it, but just like him, the
slackers in civil life are known, and
known well, even if they do not
know it themselves.