Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-27
new RUL|NCSAYS
men HELD NOT TO
Be SENT To CAMP
some Two Hundred Rock Islanders
Affected by New Ruling From
Washington.
THEY ARE SAME As OTHERS NOW
one, Ready to Enter Service Are Gas
sitied Yong Period OF Uncer-
tainty Ended.

According to word from Camp Dodge
carrying instructions from Washing
ton today, final increment of the first
national army quota assigned to camp
win not be called. but instead men
making up these contihgents will be
placed under the new classification
regulations.
Some TWO hundred men in the Rock
island exemption section are affected
bg this new ruling. for that number of
men. after having been passed and
certified as soldiers by the exemption
officials. have been held for the last
three months pending further orders.
Sow. instead of being In a position of
daily expecting orders TO entrain for
Camp Dodge the 200 Rock Island men
will be placed In the same status as
ihp rest of the reglstrants who have
mo-. been called for examination by the
exemption board These men will now
have to mn out their missionaries
and return them TO the exemption
board. as many of them have already
done. They win then be classified the
same as the other registrants and will
be- subject 10 call according to their
classification the same as the others
Men Quit Jobs.
THE issuance of the new orders no
doubt win have a stablizing effect on
these 200 men who for the last three
months have not been sure of just
what the next day would bring forth,
AS instructions ordering them 10 en-
train were expected from day to day
Many OF the men quit their jobs as
soon as they were certified for military
service. expecting TO 90 into training
Immediately However, as the week
went by and no orders to move were
received. some of the men sought tenn
p0mry places of employment, others
went back TO their old positions, while
others remained idle waiting for the
order that never came By the new
ruling the situation Of uncertainty is
Va Gail Before Feb. IL.
The orders. issued by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder,' apply not only
TO Camp Dodge, but affect all deferred
percentages of the first army, for
which there will be no more formal
call before Feb. 49,:
Deficiencies in quotas already as
signed TO camps, due to physical re-
lection pr other causes, viii be made
UP from men chosen under the old
regulations, however. until local
boards have enough men finally
classified in class one" Of the new
regulations.
The Message.
lT1Wder's message follows.
"lt has been decided there will be
no more formal call for deferred per-
ceutages Of the present quota before
Feb rs While boards should, until
they have enough men finally classi-
fed in is class one, send forward
promptly men selected under the Old
regulations to make up deficiencies
To calls already made, the result OF
This decision will be that we shall be
able 90 give the benefit Of the new
classification system to all men whose
order numbers are SO late as to place
them within deferred classes.
Calls however. will he made short
ly under the provisions of section 14I
Tor the special class Of men there
HNANIhHtt,
For the sake of composing the
public mind Tor the convenience o
registrants, this information ought Il
De given wide dissemination
The section referred to, No 149, re
iates to the induction into militar,
service of technical and other expert
and Of registrauts highly skilled il
some special line Of work"
Aiiects 92,00e.
Camp Dodge. Ia. Dec. 27.-Mor'
Than twenty-five thousand men as
signed to this cantonment in the thirt
and fourth increments are affected b,
The orders announced today placing
these quotas under the new classic
cation regulations.
II had been expected that these mel
would be- ordered to concentrate her
Immediately after the first Of the year
Quite d number Of men in the tina
mgremeuis have reported withou
awaiting the formal call and are nov
ln the national army.