Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1917 — Orders Lifts Ban on Army Age. [ARTICLE]

Orders Lifts Ban on Army Age.

To stimulate the enlistment of recruits for the regular amry, which has not been as active as it should be in time of war, the maximum age limit at which recruits are admitted to the army has been raised 5 years. An order has been made restricting recruiting officers to take men up to forty years of age if they are physically fit. The previous age limit was 35 years. The order also authorizes recruiting men to take colored men. Many colored' men have offered themselves as rcruits since the war began but have not been previously accepted, for the reason that all of the colored regiments were full. Now, however, they are to be,taken and new regiments of negroes will probably be created. At the present rate of enlistment, this state will have furnished only between 70 Oand 800 men to the colors by the end of April. Only 234 have enlisted since the first of the previous month. Matters pertaining to the work of officers’ reserve corps and the question of procuring the location of a training camp at Fort Harrison have been taken up at a meeting of the executive committee of the Indiana division of the Military Training damp Association. No definite action was taken by the committee inasmuch as there has been no definite action on the part of congress toward receiving members of the officers’ reserve or toward establishing training camps, „ ——