The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-16
MEN OF FIRST INCRE-
MENT WILL BE IN TRAIN
ING EARLY IN OCTOBER

NV Forces Will be Assembled in 3
lncrements-First 80 Per Cent of
Each District Will Begin Entrain-
ment for Cantonment September 5
crop Conditions to be Considered
In Arranging Lists to Fill First In
crement
Washington Dispatch, Aug. Is.
The entire $4,000 men composing
the first increment of the army draft
forces will be under training early in
October. Under orders issued today
the first 80 per cent Of the quota Of
each district will begin entrainnent
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5;the next
80 per cent September Is, and anoth-
er 30 per cent September 80. The
remaining 10 per cent will be mobil-
lied as soon after that date as posi-
ble
The plan to assemble the new
forces in three increments distri-
butes the task of furnishing supplies
and equipment through September.
1t will also prevent serious shortage
in any camp and will give the new
officers from the training camps time
to familiarize themselves with their
duties gradually before responsibility
for a great body Of men falls or
them.
The order issued today means that
ab,ut 10000 men will reach each of
September 5. They will first be ex-
amined physically by army doctors
and finally accepted or rejected. This
will take some time and the men
will have to be furnished with tenn
porary quarters and rationed while
awaiting examination. If the full
quota were assembled at one time
| great confusion would result.
Presumably the first increment will
have been organized into skeleton
companies, battalions Or regiments
before the second arrives.
In farming communities, local
boards now will arrange the lists of
those to fill the first increment with
local crop conditions IN mind. Men
engaged in harvesting work and who
otherwise would go with the first
third of the district quota will be
passed over to the second or third as
may be necessary.
Reviewing the question Of depend,
ent relatives, General Crowder issued
n a supplemental ruling today holding
i that persons should not be discharged
| because of dependents resident
H abroad. .,,.
"The object of the law permitting
| persons to be discharged, provided ne
| was a person falling within any OF
the classes Of dependents, dependent
/ upon him, was to prevent such &C.
/ pendents becoming :. charge upon the
II American people," the ruling, says;
Il "A dependent residing abroad could
i not become such charge"
Il That conscientious DIRECTORS to war
II are not to be excused entirely from
II serving the country was made clear
Il in another ruling by the provost mar
Il shall, holding that such persons
II should be sent to the moblllzatlon
+ camps along with others drafted, to
J be assigned later to non-comoatan'
Il branches Of the services. 1t Is pre-
II suned they will serve in the quarter
Il masters corps, the medical corps oi
II other units not employed IN ac1ua
Il combat.
Il clerks to be exempted. Today the
Il nnhl;shed reports Of blanket exemp
II tion for this class Of postal employees
Il were based on a misinterpretation o.
Il tho department order covering posta
Il exemptions. Only scheme clerks
ii chief clerks and assistant chief clerk
q IF the railway service will be glve'
II exemptions and most Of them ar
II above the military age.
Il The Postoffice Department announ
Il ced also that it would certify exemp
II lions for postoffice inspectors ou
> not for postmasters. Postmastefs o
81 The first. second and third classes
however. are exempted specifically IN
\ It developed today that the NAY az
\ Danartment. misunderstanding tn
/ war Department ruling as to, voluI
+arv enlistment of registered me1
bad instructed it's recruiting officer
- accent registrants into the nav
euon If thew had been called be1or
the;r local boards for examination.
The mistake quickly was correcte e
oar,';+;ng stations being told b
l ~, u that no man called for e.
ront;on under the draft law coulo =. .
sccented to any branch Of the mn
4ar>r ~ naval service as voluntal
racy,,;t Until called, however, fegi'
4so,,+s are free to enter the army, ns
w or marine corps ,r.:4 foo;1;+if
at camps Of the national :, army ny al u,
H. national guard are to be leie e,
t ne ~ the discretion Of the cam
onnonanders, who will be authoflze
~ narnit newspaper correspondent
] ~ apstahlish offices within the can
= 1 W and to maintain private Ie1 ,
no .iral nl lines there if deemed adVlsapl
: NJ n such privileges viii, be grant "
- MI, M ' he camps actually are e
tablished and the commanders on u
ground.
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