New Britain herald., 1919-09-23
ANOTHER OVERSEAS MAN JOINS FORCES
Stanley Kania EDliStS in Ordnance Corps
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Stanley Kania Of 39 Silver street, who served 12 months overseas as | member of a veterinary hospital outfit. has re-enlisted atthe local recruiting station. He has joined the ordnance corps for work at the Taritan arsenal at Raritan, N. J.
 Recruiting Sergeant Baudoin is par ticularly anxious to get men for the quartermaster corps and to bring out his point. tells the following story of one Jim Mcconnell:
 Jim Mcconnell was born and rais- ed in Stones Crossing His fat her was the village Storekeepcr and Jim fol- lowed in his footsteps not because he wanted to keep the store but because
 it was the only thing to do. He didn't want to go to the big city as so many small town boys do; he had been there
 once or twice and was always glad to get back to Stones Crossing; but he
 wasn't just satisfied after he got back.
 He didn't want to spend the rest of his
 life measuring ward of calico for
 Mrs. Brown or weighing a half pound
 of sugar for Mrs. Smith
 'The world war came and Jim made
 up his mind to enlist. But he didn't
 know what branch of the service to go into. He decided on the Quartermas- ter corps because it is the big busi-
 ness branch of the army, and he felt that he could make a success in this field.
 Jim was sent to camp and there he learned drill and the other beginnings of the game. He took the business course in a quartermaster school and three months later he was sent over seas. Jim didn't deal in little amounts any more for he was stationed at one of the big government food ware houses. Here he helped to send out the supplies to troops at the front; bread, sugar, bacon, canned goods millions of pounds, millions of cans This sure is big business,' said Jim The size of the organization, the TO- nance of big figures set his imagina- tion working. At last he was satis- fled for he wasn't selling yards of cali co or half pounds of sugar. Now he was part of big business.
 "When the war was over Jim want ed to get home. He eagerly awaited authorization for the states. And when he was given his discharge and his bonus he let no grass grow under his feet as he made for Stones Cross ing. My, but he was glad to be there!
 Jim tried to get back into his old life After a few days spent on the front porch, the center of an admiring group of his family and friends, he
 went behind the counter at the store
 once more he was measuring yards of
 calico and weighing half pounds of sugar. But he was diScontentcd with this lot. He wanted a field with a
 large scope. He wanted big business" with unlimited chance for Advance
 n,f
 grow in this little village store.
 "One day when he couldn't stand if any longer, he beat it for the nearest town to look for a recruiting officer, A poster caught his eve, he read
 Keep the Stars Shining for Uncle Sam-Join the Quartermastcr Corps ? Jim did.
 After he had been sworn in, he told the recruiting officer that he wanted to get into the big business branch of the army. I want to work up to be quartermaster sergeant. senior grade : Jim said, they have more money left on pay day than I saved in a year In stones Crossing. I worked under one of 'em at Bordeaux; he wasn't more than 45 and he told he that he only mad three years more to serve in the army and then he gets his retired pav of $90 a month which the governm ent gives him for the rest of his life The
 sergeant said he had figured it out and
 1t is the same as having 27,0O0 in the bank, drawing per cent interest.
 And in those 80 years he is in the army, Uncle Sam foots all his bills. pays for his clothes, food and shelter and his pay is just clear cash. Is inc army life the life for me? I'll say it is!'