Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — TO BE SOLDIER, EATS BEANS [ARTICLE]

TO BE SOLDIER, EATS BEANS

Youth Who Tried to Enlist Three Times Is Under Weight—Physician Advises Him. Alexandria, Ind. —Paul Hogle, a high school pupil, who has had ambitions to join the United States army, returned from Indianapolis, where he made his third unsuccessful attempt to enlist hnder the Stars and Stripes. At Muncie the young toan was informed six months ago that he was not old enough. When he tried to join the army at the Anderson recruiting station his parents objected. A few days ago he slipped away to Indianapolis.. Everything went along fine until it came to the question of weight He was five pounds under the prescribed weight He has been advised by a local physician to confine his diet to beans to take on extra weight.