Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1917 — Ten Per Cent of the Men To Be Sent to the Front Will Be Soldiers of Mercy [ARTICLE]

Ten Per Cent of the Men To Be Sent to the Front Will Be Soldiers of Mercy

Readers perhaps are not aware that of the first million soldiers we send to France 100,000. or one-tenth, will be soldiers of mercy, attached to the hospital and sanitary wing of the army. Conscription does notclose—the doors of- war service to boys of eighteen, nineteen and twenty years of age. Bttvs-of that higher courage which is. able to go under fire without the moral support of g gun can find opportunity to endure danger for the sake of the country in this service, bekt ' approached through the Red Cross, writes Robeft F. Wilson, in St. Nicholas. ' Eligible volunteers within and outside of the conscription age are accepted by the army for the sanitary service. In many cities and towns the lied Cross is conducting special training for such volunteers—-in the ambulance training companies and in the sanitary training detachments. Volunteers from the latter detachments face the most dangerous service, for they are the Jitter men, who pick up the wounded on the field of battle and bear them to the first-gid stations and evacuation hospitals, where they are taken by the ambulance for transportation to base hospitals. ’