Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1917 — J. J. Montgomery Asked to Recruit Men By the Navy League. [ARTICLE]

J. J. Montgomery Asked to Recruit Men By the Navy League.

J. J. Montgomery, a member of the navy league, received the following letter today asking liim to arid the country by helping to enlist men for this service froan this county: Dear Sir: I am addressing you as a fellow member of the Navy League of the United States, your name having been given me by Col. Robt. M. Thompson, our president. War is upon us our navy lacks 38,000 men. The navy department demands 800 men from Indiana by the 20th inst. Indianapolis is the only recruiting station in the state. There are five sub-sta-tious, viz: Cohimbus, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute. The officers in change at the Indianapolis station are buried under a mass of routine clerical work and are at their desks far into the night every night. The machinery of the department has not yet made porvisiar. for the expense attendant upon securing enlistments, and the necessity is too pressing to wait for it to do so. Will you not, as a member of the Navy League, get behind this call to duty in your community? Proceed in any way that to you seems good and will produce recruits. When found, see that these recruits are conducted to your nearest sub-station or their names sent in. Our slogan shall bo “One thousand men in ten days.” Yours very sincerely

JAMES T. DISSETTE.