The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-12
DRIVE TO START FOR
$4,000 PEACE ARMY
War Department Offers Big
Advantages for Troops to
Replace the A. f. f.
EARN WHILE YOU LEARN
Get Into the Crowd of Regular
Guys, Is Advice Elsie Janis
Gives Young Men.
EARN WHILE YOU LEARN

nationwide recruiting drive for a
peace army of $4,000 men for Immediate
service in France and on the Rhine will
oren next week in flfty-six cities
throughout the country.
The object is to provide replacement
troops to take UP the duties OF tho over
sras forces and the present Army OF Oc-
cupation. The War Department feels
that the men who are returning from
France are entitled to Immediate dis
charge II they want 1t. and to permit of
this and at the same time to maintain
the strength of the United States forces
in Europe. Panama, Hawaii, the Philip
pines, China, Alaska and Siberia at the
required standard the volunteer system
has been resorted to. with particular in
ducements offered to young men DESTROYS
Of learning technical trades
Recruiting offices have been estab-
Ashed in New York at 4G1 Eighth ave-
nuo and 25 Third avenue, In BROOKLYN al
l42 Ashland place, and in Jersey City at
ll2 Newark avenue.
Earn While You Learn" is to be the
slogan employed in filling up what army
University in Khaki" The value of the
opportunities for vocational and educa-
tonal training afforded by service in the
new peace army Is to be presented with
az much emphasis as possible during the
drive. Opportunities for substantial,
technical teaching have become greater
IN the army since the present war than
al any other time, and the particular at
tontion of young men to whom such op-
pcrtunity should appeal will be directed
10 the courses of instruction given In the
slr service, the tank, signal and motor
transport corps and in the ordnance.
medical and quartermaster departments
and the engineer corps.
In the air service, for instance. the
War Department points out, forty-one
trades are taught and in the coast artil-
lery thirty-two. Almost equal oppor-
tunities are offered in the other branches
of the service and all without a cent of
expense to the enlisted man.
The pay begins at $50 a month, and
TO the uninttiated this will appear small
until 1t is taken into consideration the
fact that everything OF actual necessity
IS supplied to the student member of
the University in Khaki"
In fact. in the campaign that is to
begin. all the attractions OF army life
are to be outlined to possible recruits
and the War Department expects enough
reenlstments from men in the A. Z. F.
to dissipate whatever objections and
criticisms of the service may come from
the small, but always present group of
discharged indictments known in the
service as "grouchers."
Gen Elsie Janis. whom every Ameri-
can doughboy loves for her work in his
behalf in France, will do her bit again
20 help in the recruiting campaign.
Speaking of the coming drive yesterday
Mss Janis said
IF ] were boy struggling in the
whirlpool OF wage earners l would vol
unteer for the Army Of Occupation.
would see France and Germany and
maybe Russia. I'm for the army all the
time. and I advise every man / know
TO get into it-and at the same time be
proud to be one OF crowd OF regular
guys"