The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
|ARMY is CURIOUS NO LONELY TIME
Why Com Topeka Receives
missions Not Accepted Leap Year Proposal.
Kansans' Silence Wor Dear Slender
Il res the War Department. Wants a Husband.
SPECIAL AMBASSADOR SENT SWEEIlY PERFUMED LETTER
ExSerce Men Not So Anxious She Don't Object
For Shoulder Bars Now. ing Delayed.
Made Their Applications When Love Episode Given
They Were Discharged. Mans Name Kept Dark.
Cannot Understand Why Com.
missions Not Accepted.
Koung Kansans' Silence Wor-
ries the War Department.
SPECIAL AMBASSADOR SENT
Ex-Service Men Not So Anxious
For Shoulder Bars Now.
Made Their Applications When
They Were Discharged.

When a young man after a year OF
so of service in the army makes ap-
plication for a commission, it is to be
supposed that it is his desire to wear
leather leggings and shoulder bars.
That is the belief the war department
has labored under for the past year.
Now just imagine the surprise of the
said war department to find that the
aforem young men, or rather
a large number of them, have failed
to even acknowledge the receipt of
the offer of the commissions granted
in response TO their applications.
No one would ever suspect it, but
the war department is a very curious
adjunct of the United States govern
ment- So curious is the departme nt
that it is now spending good money
to discover just why it is that these
young men have not even answered
the letters sent out from Washington,
begging them to make a decision as to
what they intend to do with the COM
missions being rendered them. One
of the chief duties of Captain E r.
Schauffler. in charge of the Kansas
City recruiting station just now is to
hunt out and personally interview
each of these silent potential officers
and discover their future Intentions
Are Still Undecided.
You would be surprised to know
that in the past few weeks 1 have
made seventeen visits to different
kansas towns hunting up these former
service men, asking whether or not
they still wanted reserve commissions, -
said Captain Schauff7er today. He
was in Topeka en- route to HoIton.
where the eighteenth young man had
been located. Nearly all of these
fellows tell me they have not yet made
up their minds. And some of them
n ay ho h.
fore them from six months to a year
already. Frankly, I'm a whole lot
puzzled
captain Schauffler is Kansas uni
Verslty man. He attended the first
off1cer's training camp at FIT Riley
| In 1917 and won a captains bars. He
served during the war with the Tenth
U. S. Infantry. After he came back
and was citizen once more, he again
applied for a commission and after
passing the examination given at Fit
Riley last summer was recommissioned
in his old rank and is now assigned to
the Thirty-fourth regiment. one of the
| two all-Kansas regiments in the Sew
entn division, now being moved to
Camp Meade, Maryland.
He declares that the 34th and 64th
regiments are still allocated for re-
cruiting purposes to Kansas. That is
to say, all Kansas men who enlist will
fbe assigned to these two units. He
also announces that these two regf-
| ments have already been assured they
VIII be made a part of the inaugural
parade at Washington, March 4, when
Senator Harding takes his seat in the
White House. In addition to this the
Kansas soldiers are to be given passes
to the senate and house galleries this
winter. Camp Meade is half way be-
tween Washington and Baltimore and
when they take leaves of absence for
visits to the capital will have the OPP
portunity of seeing these national
bodies in action without any of the
trouble mere civilians have in getting
tickets of admission.
Captain SchauffIer has a mighty
good job in hand right now for some
ambitious former service man in Kan
sas. He is looking for a well qualified
man to be made a sergeant upon en-
listment and at once assigned to duty
in Topeka as sergeant instructor for
the Kansas National Guard. The job
is always looked upon as a special
plum by service men as 1T pays mucn
more than straight sergeant's pay and
the lucky man gets all sorts of extra
allotments for board and room and
other necessary expenses