The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-27
Lieut.. MoGett Greatly Encouraged
 ODer Birmingham s Response 10
 Call For 300 Volunteer Recruits
Drafted Men Are Eligible New Unit Filled in Bming ham for Fighting Ffty-first Headquarters Company. Exciting Adventure as We'll as Passive Serv-
 ice Is Offered Men
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE


 tain if he'd let me go back to my home town, Birmingham, and get some club to back Us, like the Rotary club, I'd prom ise to raise the required number of 2l5 men in 10 days for our headquarters company Tn Birmingham, of Birmingham infantry.
 Lieut. Charles w Moffett, encouraged. delighted, highly optimistic over the splendid response he and the captain and Leroy H. Watson have had during the initial days of organizing headquarters company in Birmingham, of Birmingham men. thus gave expression to his aDid- ing faith and stanch belief in his home town, when it comes to the question of loyalty and patriotism on the part of it's citizens.
 This stalwart young soldier man-tall, erect, handsome, gallant, looks every inch the soldier that he is, and it's q safe bet that when he gets lover there there won't be Hun left to teli the story when he's cited his men and done his work for there's fight in his brave, noble heart.
 Lieutenant Moffett is a Birmingham boy of wkom every Birmingham citizen is proud enlsting few days after the declaration of war. Lieutenant Moffett served. with the Seventeenth. later gong into training at Fort Oglethorpe, where he received his commission, being as signed to the Fifty-first United States infantry.
 roiy hn hxr ha West Pointer, and prominent figure in the Mexican border trouble. native of St Louis, and one of the finest officers and gentlemen it has ever been my good fortune to meet, a personification, may say, Of officer and gentleman, told me the last thing before he left for Fort Oglethorpe Friday that he wanted me to enlist Mr. Dan Dimmick as a sergeant for our company. That was a great com pliment to MT. Dimmick's valiant work with us, for Captain Watson isn't given to making bold assertions, but he was greatly impressed with MT. Dimmick and his energy and loyalty and fine spirit of patriotism. Representing the
 Rotary club as he does, that being my one idea of successful endeavor, as I said before, to have this club back our efforts in raising the required quota of men for my company, MT. Dimmick has been an inspiration that shall not soon be for gotten
 T wish might be able to impress upon the men Of Birmingham the unprecedent- ed opportunity they have of getting into this company Lieutenant Moffett said. Those who haven't already volunteered have such a good opportunity to make good, and it is a shame if they let the chance pass to show that they are real true blooded, loyal-souled Americans. From the man of the most cultured -du- cation to the man of the greatest physi- cal prowess. the opportunity is open: and to the drafted men. Captain Watson and I corne with especial permission to recruit them.
 "Let me just point out few of the advantages of a headquarters company" Lieutenant Moffett said. "The company is made up of five platoons, a platoon being unit of company. The first headquarters platoon furnishes the cleri cal forces of the regiment, motorcycle orderles, bicycle orderlies, mounted or derlies and the band.
 ''The second platoon is the pioneer platoon, and is composed of the regimen tai engineers. They handle high con struction work and man making: laying out of trenches, etc. The third is the signal nlatOon, Which looks after the reg mental communications, telephones and telegraph, wireless and radio. The fourth is the sappers, or bombers plat toon. great many people do not know the meaning of the word 'sapper.' It IS given in the dictionary as a soldier em- ployed on saps. as member of an army corps of engineers Also formerly sol dier engaged in any digging or on fied works. In the Birmingham district a hopely out very understandable defini- ton of a sapper is an experienced coal or ore miper nothing more or less. To the sappers and bombers platoon is en- trusted the driving of shafts under and across No Mans Land till they reach an important position held by the enemy. which must be destroyed When they reach this point there they plant mines of the highest known explosives and returning to their own trenches fire the mines from this vantage point. The sappers and bombers platoon is equipped with three and half-inch trench nor tars, the most deadly artillery used in modern warfare and thus involving the most dangerous work. They also handle