Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — LACK SIX MEN FOR QUOTA [ARTICLE]

LACK SIX MEN FOR QUOTA

Forty Per Cent. Due to Leave Here Next Thursday. Twenty-two men, 40 per cent ofi Jasper county’s quota of fifty-six j men, are due to leave here next Thursday, September 20, for the training camp at Louisville, Kentucky. At the present time there are but sixteen available men to go, the district board at Laporte not having yet certified but-Wly nineteen as eligible for service, and three of these departed in the first call of 5 iper cent. However, reports say that the district board is working night and day and Sundays in order to provide each county with its quota before the time of leaving, and additional names are expected for this county at almost any hour. The original timd set for the men to leave here was next Wednesday, but later advices from Jesse Eschbach, state conscription agent, say the men should be held here until Thursday. Some fitting celebration should be arranged for these men before they leave our midst. Colonel Roosevelt says he is just as proud of a selective draft soldier as of a volunteer. That is the right way to view it. All soldiers who go into battle for the life and honor of their country look alike to us. There are two ways of raising an army, and there are differences of opinion as to which is the better way, but our idea is that the better way is the one that gets the army. Good words can be said for either way. We like the man who volunteers, and we like the man who is drafted and steps up blithely and gaily and says, “Here I am.” The country can rely on either of them, and it does seem that in the future the republic will rely upon the conscriptive method to raise its armies. Therefore it behooves us to show in some way our regard and esteem for the men who are about to leave to do service for our country. The sixteen men who have been certified and each one of Whom will probably go with the contingent next Thursday are: John Kaufman Elbert E. Shumaker William Ott Roy M, Burch John S. DeArmond Vernon R. Stearns Louis W. Misch Joseph J. Thomas Carl Weickum .. ■ Herman Goepp , ■Dejevan J. Babcock Charles P. Potter Oscar J. Stembel ' Tunis Snip, Jr. F. D. Minniear Harold L. Fidler