Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1919-07-17
ODD HUM0RS OF
n.y. MOBILIZATION
Some of the Humorous Sidel:ghts
of Picking Secretaries for
Overseas Service.
"Wht can you say of his home

whit can you say of his home
Ife?"
Ideal. He is a bachelor"
What, if any, special weakness OF
character has he?"
"He owns Ford"
What are his qualifications for re
igious leadership"
plays organ. Not much other
wise
When approximately 100000 per
sons volunteered to go overseas for
the Y. M. C. A, 10000 were chosen.
Some of the Recommendation" that
applicants got had as much humor as
truth-and vice. versa.
Among the responses and confes-
sions were the unconscious bits of
humor that relieved the tension Of the
drama of "Y" mobilization. And now
that the crisis is past the curtain is
lifted on these comic interludes.
There stands revealed the minister
who, according to one of his refer.
ences, plays in a band and uses his
horn to social advantage otherwise. +"
Here Is another who won this com.
pliment: ga small-town preacher is
too often gloom-dispeller, but
Is the opposite" One would-be 'Y"
secretary was recommended because
ibis right leg is about an inch shorter
than his left leg. Would use this man
because OF his ability to meet men on
their own level"
IF any further information is de-
IL Akn
secretary of one of the leading mission
boards of the country, IT shall be glad
to give 1t. hope he will be able to
get his passport at an early date as Ii
viii be for the good of the country to
have him go as soon as possible"
One candidate, facing the prospect
OF being sent to Vladivostok or Meso.
potamia, wrote:
eff go to either of the countries
mentioned, would 1t be permissible to
carry a rifle or two? I understand
that both are big game countries and
are only semi-civilized. have sew,
eral high-powered rifles and would like
to be allowed to carry at least one- II
not two" Il
Another, determined not to LET
@Jerry" "get away" with anything just
combatant inquired:
Fighting on the Side
What is the chance Of doing lit.
tie fighting on the side, Ii am In the
front line, trenches or open? In other
words, IL / am carrying In a casualty
or passing out cigarettes and Boche
takes a shot at me, can l shoot back,
or will have to let him get away?"
One secretary from a Western State
said that woman called on him be
fore he left to go overseas. She had
heard that some rare ferns grew In
No Mans Land and she wished he
would dig up few and send them to
her.
Like most\preachers," said one rec
ommendation, "he is used to giving
orders rather than taking them" An
other comment was: He is perfectly
honest, but highly educated" This
was cited as an eccentricity of char.
acter: HE sometimes tells the truth
when he should have said nothing. "
Other "eccentricities" included being a
, bachelor and being "a lawyer and red.
headed"
Y One applicant gave his build" as
"Scotch-Irish." Another, under "po-
sitions held" wrote: Have always
worked in the employment of myself. -
Under use of intoxicants?" were
found these notations by applicants
"Not as intoxicants," do not use
them-except rarely" "Totak abstain
er, dry as punk" The motives of one
applicant for entering the work were
given as For the sake OF humanity
and making his expenses"