Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-06-27
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
PRESIDENT URGES 10000 MEN TO
ENLIST IN THE REGULAR
ARMY.
WILL START DRAFT SOON
Operation of CONSUMPTION Law VIII
Begin After July Labor Men
on Exemption Boards-Guards
Join Army July is.

Washington, June 21.-President
Wilson issued proclamation here des-
ignating the week of June 1880 as re-
cruiting week for the regular army ana
called upon unmarried men without de-
pendents to enroll for war service in
order that the ranks of the regulars
might be filled promptly.
The proclamation follows:
II hereby designate the period or
June % to June &c. next, as Recruiting
week for the regular army and call
upon unmarried men between the ages
of eighteen and forty years, who nave
no dependents and who are not en-
gagged in pursuits vitality necessary to
the prosecution of the war, to present
themselves for enlistment during the
week herein designated, to the number
of 10000.
"WOODROW WILSON"
1t had been hoped that the regular
service could be brought to its whole
war strength of approximately 100000
men by June 80, which would have per-
mitted the war department to carry out
it's plan in regard to the training of all
the forces to be raised and also as to
the dispatch of armies to France.
Guards Join Army July IS.
Plans of the administration to make
Immediately available a great army,
which will be thrown into the balance
against Germany as rapidly as 1T can
be transported to Europe, were re-
vealed here.
The entire National Guard of the
country will have become constituent
part of the regular army within the
next 40 days.
Drafting of the guardsmen will be
accomplished by three executive or
ders.
The first draft order will be issued
July IS, the second July 25, and the
third August 5.
The regular army is to be sent to
Europe first. The last of the units
of this class which can be utilized will
bid farewell to American shores at a
date near at hand.
Draft to Begin July 1.
Immediately after July 1 the opera
ton of the draft will begin. The
drawings will take place, and they will
be safeguarded in such fashion that
there cannot arise the slightest Ques-
ton of crookedness or favOritism.
The exemption boards will be made
up of representatives of industry, agri-
culture and labor, as well as the medi-
cal profession. There will be labor
representative on every board.
During July and August the draw
ings will take place, the exemptions
will be authorized and by September l
the men selected will have been nOti-
fed to report for service.
Thus within the next two months
the man power will be provided. There
remains the questions of quarters and
equipment.
The contracts for the camps for the
draft army are to be let next week.
The material is ready, the army of en-
ployees is being organized and the
great building drive will open the hour
the contracts are signed. One of these
environments is to be at Rockford and
another at Springfield. Ill.
The war department admitted that
the national army probably will not
be sent to the training camps until
some time in October instead of Sep
TENDER 1. 1t was explained that the
farmers were protesting against losing
their help as early as September 1,
and that, as it happens, it will not be
inconvenient to accommodate the
farmers, because the war department
cannot possibly provide the equipment
for the training of the 625,000 young
men for several weeks after the date
originally fixed for their mobilization.