Connecticut western news., 1917-05-03
CONSCRIPTION
 CALL BY MAY 1
First 800, ,OO0 Men In Train
 ing Camps by June.
REGISTRATION STARTS SOON

Secretary Baker In Favor of Jury
 Wheel System of Selection, With Lo-
 cal Men In Charge of Exemptions
 From Duty - First Army to Go to
 Europe by April i, 191s-Second 5oo,-
 900 Called Out by October.
 Actual training of the first 500,000 men of the army of 2,00O,000 authoriz- cd by congress in passing the selectivc draft bill will begin June 1 next, ac- cording to the scheme worked out by the Army War college and the war de- partment. This force will be fully equipped and trained, ready to be sent by April 1, 1918.
 Training of another huIf million men will begin on Oct. this year, and they will be ready for service Aug. 1, 1918. Then in the spring of 1918, if more men from this country are needed to defeat the central powers, the work of training and equipping a second 1,000,- 900 men will be begun.
 It is estimated that the gross casual ties of troops actually engaged will be about 10 per cent a month, but that as about half the men will be able to re- turn to the front the actual net vast age will be about per cent. Troops to replace the wastage must be in training for at least six months before being sent to the front.
 Training by Sept. 1.
 1t may not be possible to begin the actual training of the first 5000 men by June 1, as all the preliminary work of registration is still to be done. owing to the delay in passing the se- lective draft bill by congress, but the war department hopes to start the training by Sept. at the latest.
 In the meantime President Wilson may issue call for approximately 500,000 volunteers to recruit the regu. lar army and the national guard up to full war strength. If not enough vol unteers respond the men needed may be conscripted in addition to the half million to begin training.
 Registration of men from whom the first increment of 100000 will be SC. lected will take place within the next thirty days and will closely follow the lines of a registration for an election proclamation will be issued notify ing all men affected to appear at the registration places. The election ma. chinery of each community will be used to facilitate matters. -
 Jury Wheel System.
 Newton D. Baker, secretary of war. favors the jury wheel system of select ing the men. The names of all those previously registered for military duty after the names of those exempted have been removed will be put in the wheel and the proper number drawn.
 Exemption boards will be localized to the greatest possible extent. as 1t is be- lieved that neighborhood knowledge will aid the military authorities in passing on men who should be exempt ed because of the importance of their civilian occupations. The first elimina- ton, of course, will be of those phys ically unfit; next persons engaged in occupations vital to the welfare of the nation, farmers and munition workers coming first in this class.
 The 5O0000 men first called will be  sent to sixteen different camps for training. Every lesson learned from the battlefields of Europe will be put into practice in training these men for the front. and much of the work will be done by men who have had actual experience on the firing line. Officers from the allied nations in Europe, it is expected, will be sent over by their governments to aid in this work.
 New training manuals, based on the latest information from the trenches. have been prepared by the Army War college.
 The training system will follow to certain extent the system put in prac. tice by the Canadian authorities in an effort to reproduce as closely as pos sible actual conditions at the front. Systems of trenches will be dug, and the men may be trained under actual shell fire, as is done in Canada. to harden the nerves of the troops as well as their muscles.