The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-05-26
PRESIDENT SIGNS
&C. :. DRAFT MEASURE;
TROOPS TO FRONT

III V~uV UlVU
listed reserve corps while in active
service. In the territories OF Alaska.
Hawaii and Porto Rico day for
Registration will be named in later
proclamation.
All Must Cooperate.
THE power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose its will
upon the world by force. To this
end II has increased armament until
ithas changed the face OF war. In
the sense in which we have been
wont to think Of armies there are no
armies in this struggle. There are
entire nations armed. Thus. the men
who remain to till the soil and man
the factories are no less part Of
the army that is in France than the
men beneath the battle flags. 1t must
be SO with us. 1t is not an army that
we must shape and train for war;
Il is a nation. To this end our peo-
pie must draw close in one compact
front against common foe. But
this cannot be II each man pursues
A private purpose. All must pursue
one purpose.
"The nation needs all men, but II
needs each man, not in the field that
will most pleasure him. but in the
endeavor that will best serve the
common good.
1T Is in no sense conscription OF
the unwilling-it is rather selection
from a nation which has volunteered
in mass.
THE day here named is the time
upon which all shall present them
selves for assignment to their tasks.
1T is essential that the day be
approached in thoughtful apprehen-
sion of its significance and that we
accord to 1t the honor and the mean
ing that 1t deserves. Our industrial
need prescribes that 1t be not made
technical holiday, but the stern sac
rifice that is before us urges that II
be carried In all our hearts as a great
day of patriotic devotion and obllga-
ton when the duty shall lie upon ev-
cry man. whether he is himself to be
oil tAr nj IN IN hat IA a
name OF every male person of the
designated ages is written on these
lists of honor.
by the president:
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State"
President Wilson directed that an
expeditionary force of approximately
division of regular troops, under
command of Maj. Gen. John j. PERISH
ing. proceed to France at as early
date as practicable. General PERISH
ing and staff will precede the troops.
A division contains approximately
$4,000 men. 1t Is understood that
at least 10000 will be infantry.
The war bill was carefully gone
over during the day by Brigadier
General Crowder, judge advocate
general and provost marshal general.
1t was announced that all existing
regiments of the guard will be called
into service by August s, and offici-
ais estimate that with from a month
to six weeks intensive training these
troops will be ready to go forward
for final preparation behind the
fighting lines in Europe for the fight
ing that is before them.
After the army bill had been per-
fected in both houses Of congress and
sent to President Wilson for sigma
ture the senate adopted an amend
ment to the war budget to put con-
scription out OF force four months
after the end OF the war.
Presidents Statement.
The president issued the following
statement at the White House:
Il shall not avail myself. at any
rate, at the present stage Of the war,
of the authorization conferred by the
act to organize volunteer divisions.
ITO do so would seriously inter
fere with the carving ont of the chies
and most Immediately important pur-
pose contemplated by this legislation:
The prompt creation and early
use of an effective army would con-
tribute practically nothing to the eff
fective strength Of the armies now en-.
gagged against Germany.