Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 54, 14 January 1918 — Page 9

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Nation -Wide Response to the Call for Men, and the Many Picturesque Ways in Which Enlistments and Drilling Have Happened in the Cities of the Country.

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Employes of a Big New York Department Store Following the Directions of a Drill Sergeant.

A1TERICAN Ingenuity turns In the direction of Washington and asks: "U there anything that has been overlooked in helping you with your fecmltlng? Ha3 the ingenuity, which ia Uncle Sam's pride and pet for generations, failed to meet the test?" : And Washington has but one answer: "Well done." The truth Is that Ingenuity has done more than could have been expected. Every device that any other country has tried, and a great many that are peculiarly American abso

lutely original have been mustered into the recruiting service. Before the war one would hardly have expected Grand Opera to contribute its share that institution which is po peculiarly foreign in authorship, action and direction. And yet, one of the most inspiring events of the recruiting days was the Blnging of "The Star Spangled Banner'' by Geraldine Farrar between the acts of the opera in which the great American prima donna appeared. " It happened that the war came at a time when the Metropolitan was ready to begin its engagements elsewhere than in New York,

and so she has sung the national anthem in three cities, and really aided no little in arousing the patriotic fervor of the country. The Note in Baseball. It Is appropriate that the Great National Game should have contributed a substantial share in aiding the , recruiting officers. Every .baseball team in the American League has gone in for military training. Several of these teams drill before each game. They drilled first in the South during their spring training, and now go through their manoeuvres in the eastern , and western cities where they play regularly during -the season.

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ball players have , stimulated

cruiting to a considerable extent. Several oE the best known prize lighters have volunteered their services, and at many of the colleges athletics have beert ?;iven up and the athletes devoting their time and attention to leading the other students in a course of military training. Hardly a cabaret show in any of the big cities has failed to respond to the call of patriotism. The waving of flags, the singing of battle songs, in which, the audiences are invited to join, no doubt have helped in their own way to stimulate the rush for the colors. The artists have done their part as nobly a3 the orators. And, speaking of orators, one of the striking

accustomed to look upon the heroes features of the recruiting campaign

of the athletic field as "their heroes.'' and the companies of marching base-

A Rally of the American Junior Naval and Marino Scouts. Miss Lucille Rein Distributes Appealing Circulars.

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was the spell-binding methods employed by members of the marine corps, the navy and the army. If all this had been done by officersgraduates of West Point or Annapolisit could be put down as having

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Little Jane Lee Helping Recruiting Work and (belcw) Women Recruit Workers in a New York Street.

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Employes of a Corporation Drilling on a Chicago Roof.

been expected and more or less commonplace. But the privates, the midshipmen, have proved wonderful magnets or. improvised street platforms. . For what, after all. could be more inspiring to the slacker or the doubter, than the fine, upstanding figure of a soldier and sailor, standing on a soap box on the Ftreet corner, calling out to the crowd ? "' " "Come on, boys, the lratert ' fine.. Come on. Do your duty, and feel, better about it." A Feminin Paul Revere. Those who saw the trim figure of Mis3 Jean Earl Moehre, astride her charger, galloping through the rain along one of the principal thoroughfares of a great American city, heartily trumpeting the call to arms, trill -not soon shake off the feeling that came the tingling battle-cry of the red blood in their veins, spurring them on to meet the call of the Red, White and Blue. It was the first official reraindeof Paul Revere's ride of 142 j-ear ; age- and appropriately to the time, it was a woman who rode the galloping gray horse, and trumpeted the call to arms. The great merchant prince mho has organized bis 2000 men into a strong military organization, and who has offered his own services, as well as the services of his great Institution, to the Washington authorities, did in a large scale what many another merchant is doing on a scale commensurate with his business. Drilling Everywhere. While the' men who sell and guard the gems in an internationally famous jewelry store are drilling in the parks, a little group of bell boys, in their uniforms, are "preparing" by going through the manoeuvres on the roof of the big hotel where they work. The little toys and little girls w ho snse the thrill in the atmosphere, and who refuse to be happy until their fathers buy them a khaki suit, leggings and shoulder straps, are every one cf them an effective, though a miniature and innocent plea, on behalf of the recruiting stations. Nor is it surprising that several fathers loaned their uniformed children to the recruiting forces, for th? purpose of giving out hand-bills, or proclaiming "Your country needs you." When one sees or hears the word "corporation," the fancy visualizes and feels some stony cold monster, but the fires of patriotism have d'spelled that, for big ones and little ones alike are whipping their men into shape for the nation's defence. Woman' Aid. Women are using their newly-ac quired platform experience as an ttfective aid in recruiting, and what they learned about oratory in political and sociological campaigns, they are turning in the direction of stimylating enlistments. At great rallies, at street corner meetings, from hired automobiles. American womanhood is appealing to American manhood to assert itself to live up to its traditions and its ideals. If any class of people, who call themselves Americans, have failed to do their bit, Washington doesn't know about it. If any stunt has been overlooked to "wake up America," just suggest itj and before night falls it will be done. American ingenuity, at least, is always equipped, mobilized and ready.

"Spy Rockets"

NGLAND'S anxious lookout for

the activities of spies extends

the heavens, where rocket-like

meteors have several times been reported by special constables as "spy rockets." One of these bodies formed the subject of a telegram in which Mrs. Fiametta Wilson, the wellknown meteor observer, asked another meteor observer. MUs Cook, whether she had seen it. The telegram was held up by the censor, but subsequently was allowed to pass.

Newspaper Feature Service, 1917.