The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-03-05
and friend to the boys who enlist in
his army.

and friend to the boys who enlist in
his army.
Grade S, Oroville Grammar School
pupil Blanche Wheeler.
Benefits of joining the army:-When
one joins the army one does not need
to think they are going straight to
France to be killed by the Hun.
Think of what results one can ge,
out of Joining the army when one joins
In the educational camps one may
learn penmanship, English. arithmetic,
geography. United States history. SCI
ences and different languages.
Or one may enter into the vocation
al training camps where one may en-
ter into the automobile department.
electrical department, building. mech
anical. business or the agricultural de-
partment.
One gets free three meals day of
good. wholesome food, clothing, living
quarters (or home.) medical attention.
dental attention, and the cheapest and
best life insurance In the world.
There are also amusements. such as
base ball. foot ball. basket ball and
movies. There are hundreds of ball
teams in the service.
A soldier gets to go to China. Pana-
ma. different places in the United
States, Alaska, Siberia, France and
the Rhine, Hawaii Islands and to the
Philippines at the governments own
expense.
One can join the infantry, cavalry,
field artillery coast artillery, signal
corps, air service, or tank corps,
whichever one you may like best.
Besides the things listed above a
soldier must keep himself clean, which
means washing ones own clothes.
All educational and vocational camps
or posts, must be under the entire
control of the commanding officer.
Each man taking vocational training
should be encouraged to take a related
course, and should be
helped to make the proper choice.
When the soldier has served in the
army for thirty years he can retire on
Of the pay he was re-
ceiving at the time of his retirement
In addition he will receive $15.25
which Is the retired soldiers allow
ance for fuel, clothing, quarters and
light.
When a man enters the army at the
age Of eighteen as private he would
retire at the age Of forty-eight provid-
ed he has reached the grades of quar-
sergeant. senior grade, or
grade and certain other
grades. A band sergeant gets $44 per
cook $38; mechanic all
branches $36: and private $50 per
So l say you poor boys who do not
get a chance to make yourself what
you would like to be and has not a
chance to see the world. had better
join the army. 1t will take that crook
out of your back.
Grade 6, pupil Jack Griffith. age 10
years:
The benefits of enlistment in the
United States army:-I fully believe
that enlistment in the United States
army would help each individual in
these ways: 1t would make him have a
better love Of country and flag. 1t
would make better citizens of them. 1t
would make them better in physical
and mental ways. And most Of all it
would teach them obedience. When
they first enlist in the army they try
to run things, but Uncle Sam takes
that out of them. All soldiers after be-
ing in the army for q term know how
to march and stand erect and tend to
their own business. 1t teaches them to
the weaker sex.
The army gives privates thirty a
month. That is good wages as they
don't have no board bill or room, or
clothes to buy, only their incidental
expenses. II you want to enlist you
can enlist in the cavalry, heavy ar
tillery, coast artillery or machine gun
corps. field artillery, or as an infantry
man.
You can get excitement and enjoy
ment In the army as these now offer.
basket ball, foot ball, base ball, and
swimming. After your term expires
and you leave the army you are re-
spected. You can get good life insur-
ance policies for almost nothing. The
army teaches a man neatness in habits
and ways. 1t learns. him all different
trades. He gets to see places and he
would not have seen otherwise.
Grade Z, pupil Geraldine Ashby, age
13 years.
Benefits derived from enlisting in
the United States army:-Some Of the
benefits of enlistment in the United
States army are that it not only makes
men fit for the army but trains them
for lifetime. And while in the service
they can take up any course they wish
to take and some Of these courses are
engineering, mechanics, electricians
etc. Not only in service can they take
these courses but also after they ge,
back in civilian life.
After the draft Of men from 1S tc
As some Of the men who didn't have
to go to camps could 60 to school
When they go into the army they
should enlist for three years and al
the expiration of the three years they
may reenlist il they desire.
They have Libraries for the soldiers
which is not only for the reading o
the books but also get themsin con
nection with what the other countrie,
are doing at this time. At each CAM
there are buildings furnished by tn,