Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — TRANSFERRED TO BLOOMINGTON [ARTICLE]

TRANSFERRED TO BLOOMINGTON

PAUL BEAM SENT FROM CAMP DEWEY TO INDIANA UNIVERSITY. Paul Beam, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam, of this city, who enlisted in the United States navy a short time ago and who had been stationed at Camp Dewey, which is a part of the Great Lakes Naval Training station, has been transferred and will take training at the Indiana State university at Bloomington. Paul was very,much surprised when he was called into the officers’ room and informed that if he. so desired he might go to the Indiana university and receive training as provided in the law just passed by congress in reference to the registration of men from 18 to 45. This will be a splendid opportunity for Paul and he is sure to make the very best use of it. Paul is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam. Their oldest son, Hurley, won a lieutenant’s commission in the officers’ training camp in Illinois and saw active service in France, but had to be discharged from the service on account of the fact that he had broken down in health. There is a little incident somewhat amusing with Hurley’s physical con-

dition. When he was commissioned the Republican by a slip said that he had a splendid physical physique. This remark was taken up by the Chicago Tribune in the column, “A Line of Type or Two.” Hurley was one of the finest'specimens of physical manhood we have ever seen. He was an ideal soldier in appearance as well as in fact, and his soldierly bearing elicited universal comment. In his army life in France he contracted physical Ailments from which he has not yet fully recovered. The other son of Mr. and Mrs. Beam, Donald, is in the navy, and if he were permitted he could give some very exciting accounts of his strenuous life in his many trips across the Atlantic, which he has made in taking Americans over to fight the kaiser. This opportunity has come to Paul very much on account of his splendid character and ability, but the fact that he had remained faithful to his school work until be had graduated from the high school should be noted by young people who are anxious to succeed.

Mr. and Mrs. Beam, in common with a great many other parents of soldiers in this county, feel very proud of their sons, and people of the community should also appreciate that it takes patriotic homes from which to send boys into this aiwful war. The disposition' of a number of parents to shield their sons and give them the opportunity 'to fatten upon the extraordinary conditions for making money afforded by the war, and to be sure that they are not put in any danger, is very severely criticized by those who are giving their sons with but the single thought, and that is to win the war. Some day many of these soldier boys will return and all honor will be their’s, but what about the fellows whose unjust deferred classification kept them at home?