Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1920 — GIGANTIC RECRUITING [ARTICLE]

GIGANTIC RECRUITING

Washington, Jan. Baker has addressed a letter to the governor of each state requesting his official co-operation in the na-tion-wide recruiting drive to ba inaugurated by the war department and to be intensified during the week. The governors were asked to issue proclamations calling the attention of their dtiaens to the importance of the advantages offered in the new “citizen army” and to otherwise assist in the effort to bring the army up to the full authorized strength. Army officiate said today a minimum of 75,000 new enEstments would be required before March 31 in order that the best results can be obtained from the training of the reorganized army. Of this total 38,000 would become eligible for transfer to the regular army reserve and practically all of the remainder are one year enlistments which will be terminated in the near future. The national campaign, it was said, has been organized on a scale even more ambitious than the wartime liberty loan drives. Not only the loan organizations of the treasury, the postmasters and patriotic civilian societies will be used, but also the clergy.