Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — JACKSON IN SECOND CAMP [ARTICLE]

JACKSON IN SECOND CAMP

SECRETARY OF STATE ACCEPTED AS A MEMBER OF THE SECOND CAMP. Ed Jackson, secretary of state, has been selected as a member of the second officers’ training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, which begins on August 27th. - Mr. Jackson had gone out all over the state making patriotic speeches and urging all who couldtotake up arms in defense of democracy. In so doing he became tremendously interested and felt that he should offer himself. —He was not sure how his good wife would look at the matter, but in taking it up with her found that she was as patriotic as himself and when he told her that he felt that it was his duty to offer himself she said it surely did not look good to urge other people to go when he himself did not enlist. Last spring while Senator Watson and Mrs. Watson were in Washington and they supposed that their son, Gowdy, was pursuing his studies at Depauw, they were surprised to find that young Watson had enlisted. After his enlistment he paid his parents a visit at Washington and his mother was very much worked up about the matter. She asked her son why he had enlisted and the young patriot said: "Dad voted to send other mother’s sons and I sure ought to go.” With the entrance of Cope Judson Hanley into the second officers training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Judge and Mrs. Hanley will have placed upon the altar of patriotism their all. Emil is already in the service, being a member of the hospital corps now at Frankfort. "-■■■ »