Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — TRIES TO BOOST HIS HEIGHT [ARTICLE]

TRIES TO BOOST HIS HEIGHT

Patriotic Youth Has Clever Scheme, but It Is Detected by Recruiting Officers. Albany, N. Y.—Trying to boost his 5 feet 3 inches ’tip to the standard required for military service, Willis Hartman, a patriotic youth from Glenwood, near here, tried a form of elevation that almost got by the United Sta t e marin e corps, recruiting z officers here: Willis went through without a flaw until he stripped to be examined for scars when the doctor discovered several layers of adhestive plaster and a small cotton pad under each heel that gave a “French-heel effect” to the would-be warrior. When It was removed, he lacked one inch of meeting the required height. “I don’t want to be a slacker, so I tried my best to.enlist,” said Hartman, when he was rejected. “The scheme would be all right, too,” he added, “if I could only make it stick.”