Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
CARRIES NO faint
CONSUMPTION METHOD FOR
RAISING GREAT ARMY
is EXPLAINED.
PUTS ALL ON SAME FOOTING
Volunteers Can Enlist i'm the Regular
Army or National Guard-Officiais
Believe War Will Be Prosecuted
With the Nations Entire Strength.
Ry EDWARD 3. CLARK.

an army of 100000 young Americans
is to be raised by selective conscrip-
ton, method which is approved by
the administration and Which SEEM
ingly is approved by majority OF
Washington men in public life-ap-
proved because of its democratic ma
ture in making 1t certain that the rich
and the poor, the salaried man and the
laborer alike shall share in the work
and the responsibility of maintaining
the honor of the American flag.
The regular army of the United
States today has in it about $4,000
men. This number presumably viii
be raised until the strength of the reg
ular forces OF Uncle Sam shall number
$4,000 officers and enlisted men.
1t seems likely also that the National
Guard of the country will be raised to
the strength authorized by law in time
of war. This means that there will be
in the federalized Guard 10000 men.
we will have an army about 100000
strong. 1t is not the intention of the
government to stop here. Seemingly
the first 100000 men will be followed
into the service by another half million
raised in the same way by selective
CONSUMPTION. 1t is even possible that
still another half million will be
added, though, of course, the ultimate
strength of the army will depend upon
the eventualities of the war.
There is popularity of the law
as it has existed since congress passed
the act in 1916. 1t is possible today
under the law to raise the number of
men needed for the National Guard by
under the act of 1915 to increase the
regular army TO its war strength by
the same method. A new law is re-
CURED to conscript men for the regular
army, as 1t is to conscript men for the
new army which Is TO be added to the
forces provided by the regulars and the
Guardsmen.
No faint in CONSUMPTION.
Today there is opportunity for men
who have the volunteer spirit to enter
at once the National Guard or the reg
ular army. In this way they will be
true volunteers. OF course, when the
authorities begin to raise the additional
force of 100000 men a great many
young Americans will present them
selves for service and thus avoid any
thought that they were taken into the
service by CONSUMPTION.
Army authorities, however, desire 1t
to be known that when the law pro-
vides for selective CONSUMPTION there is
no faint attached TO any man who is
taken into the service by that method.
In fact, the plan does away with volun-
teering except for the regulars and the
National Guard, and so all the men
who are taken into the greater army
will be on the same footing.
All over the United States machin-
cry probably will be put into motion
to bring young Americans into the
service. 1t will be selective conscrip-
physically fit for hard, exacting service
will be taken into the ranks. Moreover,
young men who can be of more service
to their country in civil life than in
the army by reason of their experiences
In certain lines of trade will not be
taken into the ranks.
No married man under the first army
raising plan will be considered unless
he expresses desire to go and can
show the authorities that his family
is amply provided for. Single men who
have dependent relatives, and can
prove the fact, also will be exempted
from the first call to the colors.
A man can enlist In the regular army
If he is over eighteen and under thirty.
five years of age. For the new army
only men between the ages of twenty
and thirty will be considered, and it is
probable that the limit may be fixed al
twenty-five years, so far as the frs
main force is concerned.
Will Be National Army"
1t seems to be agreed that the new
army which probably is to be raised
by selectiye CONSUMPTION, will be
known as ''the National army"
There is reason for giving it {
name such as this. In order to democ
ratize the service and to make sure
that each man shares part of the bur
den, the administration suggested "uni
versal liability to service rather thar
volunteering as means of raising {
new army. 1t is known there are hun
dredS of thousands of men who would
like to volunteer and who object Il
having it thought that they have beer
conscripted. Americans will under
stand that in the new army everybod!
In a sense is conscripted, but some
times people are forgetfuI, and more
over, because there was such a sharI
line in sentiment drawn In England be
tween the volunteers and the con
scripted ones, 1t is believed here tina
most American men will dislike to bs
known as members of conscriptet
army.
The word National" therefore, al
applied to the army, carries a broad
and patriotic suggestion with it, 81
probably hereafter the army of young
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