The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-05-11
u. S. GETS BUSY UNDER
SELECTIVE DRAFT PLAN
Those Eligible For Service Must Register
Or They Will Be Liable to Imprison-
ment-Are You Exempt?

The registration of eligible men
preparatory to the operation OF the
conscription law will probably begin
before the close OF another week.
OF the 100000 troops wanted it is
estimated that the Pacific Northwest
must furnish Is, ,6o2 men. Seattle and
Portland will be called upon for /, 141
men each. It is planned to complete
registration by June 1st and to call the
recruits to the colors a month or six
weeks later.
Here are the citizens of the United
States who will be exempted from the
selective draft:
All persons with dependent relatives
(this includes all married men) and all
physically or morally unfit persons.
The vice-president of the United
States and the legislative, executive and
judicial officers, both federal and state.
All persons in the military or naval
service.
Members OF well-recognized re-
ligious sects in which the creed pro-
hibits participation in war.
Provision is made for the discretionary
exemption or drafting for partial military
service only, of custom house and
postal employees, workmen at armories,
arsenals and navy yards, pilots and
marines actually engaged in sea service.
and farm workers.
Persons engaged in industries
necessary to the military establishment
or maintenance of the national interests.
Although the age limits within which
a man may be subject to consumption,
as adopted by the house OF represent
atives, are from d to 40 years, it is
probable the ages prescribed IN the
senate bill-21 to 27-will be the ones
to be finally adopted by both houses.
Possibly a compromise would raise the
limit to 80. The president is author
lied to designate which ages shall be
called first.
The measure prohibits substitutes.
Boys under 81 may enlist only with
consent Of parents.
All men liable to military service
under the conscription plan will be
compelled to report themselves for
registration at designated places as
soon as it shall be ordered.
II they fail to do so, they will be
held liable for trial on misdemeanor
charge, and imprisonment from three
months to one year.
The first 100000 Of the new army,
composed exclusively ct the young
men summoned to the colorS under
the conscription bill, probably will be
assembled for training in August or
early in September. The first quota
will be drawn by lot.
The house bill contains provision
TO increase the pay of enlisted men
and noncommissioned officers in the
army and National Guard by SIS a
month, making the pay OF enlisted
men $30,30.
While the house killed the
Roosevelt plan Of raising a volunteer
division the senate passed the Harding
amendment. Sc to 81, permitting four
divisions to be raised for immediate
service in France by the volunteer plan.
The senate adopted a provision for
bidding the sale of liquor to soldiers in
uniform.
Approximately $4,000 young men,
it is estimated, will be subject TO the
draft between the ages OF 81 and 81 in
this state. Only a small percentage Of
these, however, will be called in the
first quota OF 100000, according to
Adjt. Gen. Thompson.