Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — Raw Recruits. [ARTICLE]

Raw Recruits.

Rex Beach believes, that the endurance of our militia on the Mexican border was strained too far. “A prize fighter takes six weeks to get in shape,” he said, recently. “What of the fellows who yesterday were at the desks; who have done less than one hundred hours of drill In the last year. England gave her men a year of hard work before sending them to the Flanders front. Do you think she would send them Into the Sahara or Arabian desert with less?”