Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-19
EVERY NAN At HIS TOOLS
Never Before Was War Like This
One.
PROFESSIONAL. nEN and MECHANICS
All Are Needed to Perfect the Great
War Machine. the Professional Men,
the Mechanics and the Artisans, no
Les. than the Man With the Gun.

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corr.,tonjence The Yorkville Enquirer.
Camp Sewer, July l3.-Ncv"r was
a war like this. To carry 1t to sue
ccssful conclusion as the SaIhihieS a''
going to do. IL IL necessary u''h
their millions include men skilled III
every known profession under the sun
Th. American army today includes
doctors. lawyers. preachers pho'o'
pr,ph.rs. printers, plumbers. hr'is'S
,,r,n.rs-men of every known proics'
.inn and trade. The American army
il :. world within itself because every
trade. and industry In progress OH '"'
o,,,sid. IL being carried on IN II
Hundreds and thousands OF soidiers i'
,b, National army will never nave
chance To take "A shot At Fritz WIN Il"
Enfield. All their time VIII nave pe''
taken up at their respective trades H.
LAWYERS and photographers ana
Numbers and other professions above
enumerated. This most modern o'
wars Is being conducted In the mos'
modern way with all the most moder'
conycniences and comforts.
rha ,..,c,an of the War Between tho
Sections even yet sits 10y the lo'h'S
co-umhrrol cOlOrcd stove IN the COT
n,.r grocery store and talks a'o"'
,.h,rc,lIorsyillc and Petersburg ana
yickshurg and other battles. lie re-
lu,cs how he slept on the gro"h"
,i,,b,s and rammcd hors"sho" SiuSs
In his muskct when lead balls w'r'
ant II Is the rarcst thing IN th'
world that one Of these old vets tens
,ou that he wasn't engaged at 'hhh'
c,.,lorsyillr or Petersburg or Nicks-
,,,r,, with n rifle and horseshoe SiuG
hulIcts: hut spent his tim" III mchd-
ing WAGONS or doing advertising loi
IN. cousc or mcnding clothes or soiiS-
thing like that. In fact. during th'
civil war. there wasn't much OF 'h''
kind OF thing done.
Vet. in today's war Il large hummer
of men who wear the KHAKI. "H'
thousands of them. are doing these
things. Twenty years hcnc" or thir's
wears hence when the veterans oi th'
fight of today will sit around th'
steam pipes In the corner grocery
s,or, uhcrc will bc no common stoves
anywhere 10y that timc) thousands VIII
tell that they didn't hurl bombs Oh
slash with bayonets or shove cart
ridges into big guns. They served %!
disbing out bacon and eggs. by handi-
ing IN. mail. by repairing motorcycles
and automobiles, by raising fresh veg
ctables for their fellog fellow, soldiers ana
all of that. And they will be giVef
lust as much credit for their service
as they who went ''ovcr the top
hundred times, putting the fear
God and respect for human right in''
IN, minions of "Kultur" every time
they went. In n modern war conduct
cd in a modern manner. II was ne
ccssary that they serve outside 'h'
muddy. hr1cLish bitches. Incidentally
4
non -comhatant places will bc disap'
rointad at missing the thrill and eX-
cit,mcnt. the dash and picturesque
ness of II all. Nevertheless. they
serve.
All of this Is by way of introduc'
tion To a story about the training OF
automobile mechanics and electricians
and workers and blackSmiths which Is
going on at the United states Me-
chanical school over at Clemson col
l,gc. Having brother in that schoo
and n letter from him q few days ag'
that h, might not bc there as long rs
ne has been. obtained permission this
week to visit him and give him tn,
"oncc over" as soldiers say. perhaps
the last for quite while. There
always much OF interest for a risitoi
to Clemson college to sG. The pres
cnce of these National soldiers there
and the work that they are doing ol
rather the work which they arc learn
ing, IS OF very peculiar interest.
Some 200 young drafted men from
every county in South Carolina were
sent to Clemson in April. to enter
this government mechanical schoo
under the tutelage OF the able me-
chanical professors OF Clemson col
legc. Men who had sonle experience
~ carpenters. electricians, auto re-
pair and blacksmiths were selected
for the school. Included among those
sent we've some who owned garages
OF their own, others who owned car
penter and woodworking shops, 9TH
ers who had shod many a horse anC
fitted many a wagon tire, and Others
who had worked with electricity FOL
wears. Thus these drafted men were
not rockies, and this fact has helpeI
the college professors much In train
ing them for the work which they ma!
soon he doing.
Soon after the arrival Of these mer
of various trades they were sepa-
rated into four sections-woodwork
ers. auto repair. blacksmiths and cleo
tricians. They were placed In charge
of the respective professors of the col
lege who teach these trades 10 Glenn
son students each year. The wood
workers invited people Of Clemson and
the countryside who had woodworR
to do, to let them do II for experience
There was no charge. Workers in the
other departments did likewise. Glenn
son college bought eight automobiles
to be used by the automobile me-
chanics to assemble and dissemble
Pretty nearly everybody in the lower
section OF Greenville and in Oconee
counties who had an automobile oi
Ford that once had run. brought It &c
the soldier automobile mechanics al
Clemson. to put In shape again. Al
one time during the period Of training
26 automobiles were standing at the
mechanical auto repair shop for the
soldiers to work on. They haven't yet
struck mechanical proposition thai
they couldn't solve or that the pro-
fessor in charge couldn't show them
how to solve.
They learned most OF what the.