The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
HOW UNCLE SAM
Mobiles ARMY
regulations Governing Movement Of
Rockies Drafted for National
Defense Have Been
Outlined.
MILITARY WATCH STEP
AdIutants General Of States and War
Department Together see That
Men Are Started to
Campo.
Men in Keokuk and Lee

GNs county VIII SoOu receive
E little pink postal card This
will be their first actual
step from civil into military life.
From that moment every move will
be directed by the military authori-
lies of the state and nation working
with the local exemption boards.
Many questions have been asked re-
garding mobilization. Here are the
mobilization regulations as compiled
by the war department, and which
the rookie in the new national army
must follow:
Section 1. Section 48 of the regu-
Iations for local and district boards
Is rescinded.
Section 2. District boards to notify
local boards Of persons selected for
military service.
Each district board shall prepare
daily a certified list in quadruple Of
persons called by each local board,
who have made appearance in person
or otherwise in the local or district
board, and who have not been
exempted or discharged. Such lists
shall contain a notification to the
persons named thereon that they
have been selected for military ser
vice and a direction to them to hold
themselves in readiness to report for
military duty at a time and place to
be thereafter specified in a notice to
be posted at the office of the local
board by the local board having
Jurisdiction. Separate lists shall be
made in respect of the persons call
ed by each of the several local boards
within the jurisdiction of the district
board. One copy shall be sent to the
adiutant general of the state and
three copies shall be sent to the
local board having jurisdiction of the
persons whose names are entered on
the list.
Section 3. Local borads to notify
selected men, to hold themselves in
readiness to report for military duty.
Upon receipt of the certified lists
mentioned in the preceding paragraph,
each local board shall, by mail, di-
rected to the address shown on his
registration card or filed herewith,
notify each man whose name has
been so certified that he has been
selected for military service. and
shall direct him to hold himself in
readiness to report for military duty
at time and place to be thereafter
specified in a notice to be posted at
the office of the local board, The
local board shall, at the same time,
post one of the lists, SO certified,
from the district board, in a place
accessible to the public view and
shall make one copy available to the
press with a request for publication,
indorsing on each of such lists the
date of it's posting.
Either the mailing of notice or the
posting of the list containing his
name, as prescribed herein, shall
constitute the giving of notice to
each of the persons named on the
lists so posted and shall charge each
of such persons with notice that he
has been selected for military SER
vice and that he has been ordered to
hold himself in readiness TO report
for military duty at time and place
specified in notice to be posted In
the office of the local board.
Section 4. Adjutants general to
call upon local boards to send select
ed men to mobilization camps.
Upon notice from the provost mar
shall general to furnish, at specified
time or times, the net quota of the
state or any proportion thereof, the
adjutant general of the state shall
give timely notice to each local board
in the state from which any part of
the state quota is to be called, to
assemble, for transportation to the
mobilization camp to which the par
ticular local board is to furnish men,
a specified number of selected men
ut convenient point of entralnment
not later than date for entertainment
to be specified by the adjutant gen
eral In the notice, which date Will be
so fixed as to insure the delivery or
the total number of men called for
from the state at the time specified
by the provost marshal general and
at the mobilization camp to which
such local board furnishes men.
Specifications of the mobilization
camp to which each local board is to
furnish men, and detailed instructions
concerning routings and entrainment,
will be communicated to the cover
nors of the several states and terri
tories and the District of Columbia
from time to time.
Section S. Local boards TO fix the
time of assembly and to order men
to military duty.
Upon receipt of notice from the
adjutant general of the state TO as
Bemble q specified number of selected
men at convenient point of entraln-
ment not later than time specified
In such notice, each local board shall
determine the hour and place OF en-
trainment under instructions from the
adjutant general of the state. The
board shall forthwith make, from
the names on all the lists referred
to In sections and 3 hereof which
have been posted by the local board
as prescribed in section 8 hereof, a
list Of names of the exact number
of men required by the adjutant gen
eral to be furnished as prescribed IN