The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-08-24
ASSEMBLE ARMY IN
THREE |NCREMENTS
FIRST THIRTY PER CENT OF
DRAFT WILL ENTRAIN
SEPTEMBER FIFTH
ALL TRAINING INSIDE 60 DAYS
New Ruling Denies Exemption for
Those Who Have Dependents
Abroad-Crop Conditions
Are Being Watched
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| Washington, August 14.-The entire
6S7,Q00 men composing the first in
crement Of the army draft forces will
be under training early in October.
Under orders just issued the first 30
per cent of the quota of each district
will begin entraining for environments
| September 5, the next 80 per cent Sep
| TENDER 10 and another 80 per cent
September 80. The remainder will
be modified as soon thereafter as pos
sible.
The plan to assemble the new forces
in three increments distributes the
task of furnishing supplies and equip
ment through September. 1t also will
prevent shortages in any camp and
will give the new officers from the
training camps time to familiarize
themselves with their duties.
The order means that about $4,000
men will reach each of the 16 canton
ments soon after September 3. They
first will be examined physically by
army doctors and finally accepted or
rejected. This will take some time
and the men will have to be furnished
with temporary quarters and rations
while awaiting examination.
Presumably the first increment will
have been organized in skeleton COM
panies, battaliOnS or regiments before
the second arrives. The newcomers
can be quickly absorbed by going
concern in that case, and the third lot
can be taken into the war machinery
with even less disturbance when it re-
ports.
In farming communities local boards
now will arrange the lists of those to
fill the first increment with local crop
conditions In mind. Drafted men en-
gagged 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 discharge
for dependent relatives, Provost Mar
shall General Crowder issued a supple
ruling holding that persons
should not be discharged because of
dependents, residents abroad.
1.-THE object of the law permitting
persons to be discharged provided he
mas a person falling within any of the
classes of dependents, dependent upon
him, was to prevent such dependents
becoming a charge upon the American
people," the ruling says. "a dependent
'esiding abroad could not become such
| charge. Persons claiming discharge
because of such a dependent cannot
properly be discharged on grounds thatN
uch a discharge is advisable within \
he meaning of the act of congress"
That conscientious objectors to war
re not to be excused entirely from
CRYING the country was made clear in
mother ruling by the provost marshal,
gliding that such persons should be
ent to the mobilization camps along
nth others drafted, to be assigned
lter to non-combatant branches of
he service. 1t is presumed they will
erve in the quarterm asters corps,
ne medical corps, or other units not
in actual COMBAT.
Only in rare cases are railway mail
Jerks to be exempted. The postoffice
apartment has announced that pub
shed reports of blanket exemptions
'r this class of postal employees were
lsed on a misinterpretation of the de-
lrtment order covering postal exemp.
ons.-