Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1915 — MUST “PADDLE OWN KANUE” [ARTICLE]

MUST “PADDLE OWN KANUE”

Recruiting Sergeant Takes Heed of Warning, but Balks on ths Instructions. Pittsburgh, Pa. —Fearing that his runaway son would carry out an qften expressed desire to enlist in the United States marine corps, Morris Kanue of Leopold, W. Va., has written to the local recruiting office of the “sea soldiers” as follows: , "U. S. Marine Corps, Pittsburgh, Pa.: I hereby warn you not to employ or hire his son, Anthony Kanue, as a submarine of the navy. He has run away from home and I think he has gone to Pittsburgh to 'enlist. He is only seventeen years old, in proof of which I am only thirty-nine myself. If he comes there whale him within an inch of his life and send him back to me. “His father, MORRIS KANUE," Sergt. Michael Deßoo, in charge of the Pittsburgh recruiting office of the United States marine corps, has assured the anxious parent that the boy will not be enlisted should he apply, but that “whaling” him is out of the question, and the father should “paddle his own Kanue.”