The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-08-17
GOV. RYE OUTLINES
PLAN FOR CALLING
FIRST ARMY lRAF I
District and Local Boards are Told
Most Important Step in Execution
of Selective Draft Army Approach
es.

regard TO assembling o4 lhSH sS4NNe -
for military service were forwarded
by Chairman Smith to all district and
local boards in the state Tuesday. N
these instructions the work which
falls on each board is made clear, and
as Tennessee must report ready with
5000 men by September the boards
are asked to expedite matters.
In the message to the boards the
order Of assembly is given and other
information supplied which will ala
in this, the final step in the seleetiYe
draft.
The following is the message sent
to all boards Tuesday.
August IA, 1917
"District and Local Boards
THE final and most significant OF
the stages in the execution Of the Sc
lective service law is upon US. | refer
TO the assembling into mobilization
camps of the first contingent OF select
ed men. Order will issue very short
" looking to the assembly Of one
third of the quota Of the several states
into the sixteen national army camps
which are now nearing completion.
"The total quota is S67 900 men, and
the first movement will therefore, af-
feet over 100000 men. Tennessee's
quota is 14,52S, and her first movement
will affect approximately 5000 men.
This is the greatest single military
movement of men that has ever been
attempted in this country. 1t is more
complex than the ordinary mobiliza-
ton of troops for the reason that in
stead of Transporting a few masses of
men from two or three points of ent-
rainment, the present problem is to
entrain 4,557 separate small groups of
men at as many different sources and
move them to sixteen diverse destina-
tons
Detailed Instructions governing the
actual mechanics Of the movement viii
reach you within the next few days,
but, in anticipation of this, and to put
you in touch with the general problem,
the present letter is being written
"Under the time limits prescribed
by regulations and the instructions
that have so far been promulgated to
local boards, there should be no doubt
that there will have been certified to
the acknowledgement by district boards
enough selected men to render it Ger.
tain that each board will have accumu
lated one-third Of its quota by Sep.
TENDER /.
ITO reeapitulate this process, at thC
elosesof each days business, each 10
cal board should forward to the dis
trict board, on form 146, the name Of
every man who has not been exempt
ed or discharged, either because he has
filed no claim for exemption or dis.
charge and seven days have elapsed
since he was called, or because he has
filed such claim which has been de.
cided adversely. Within two DAYS
thereafter the lists and notices pre-.
scribed by section % must be posted
and mailed. 1t is most important that
form lac be forwarded and the lists
and notices prescribed by section q
be posted and mailed promptly, since
this procedure starts the time of ap-
peal or claim running in the district
board.
"As soon as time has run in the dis
trict board, or claims in the district
board have been decided, the names of
selected men are certified to the adj
Jutant general by the district boards
This procedure governing the certif-
cation from district boards is govern
ed by the new mobilization regulations
form 81, which should reach you con-
currently with this letter.
. ALREADY there should have been
certified by local boards on form lag
enough men to make one-third of the
quota. If this has been done, the GER
tltcation from district boards should
make no delay, since there will already
have accumulated in district boards on
form l46 enough names to make IN
one-third of the quota of each board
land the ordering of men to report for
military duty is a comparatively sim
iple process.
Chronology Of the necessary stems
Twill be as follows:
AS September l approaches. the
acknowledgement, by consultation ~
the lists received from the district
boards on form 164, will determine the
number of men who are to be called
from each local board.
1.-The adjutant-general will de-
termine the date and hour of entrain-
lment between September 1 and Sen
Itember 5, for each local board
S-The Acknowledgement will then
Inform each local board of the number
of men to be called for and the date
land hour of entrainment for each con.
tingent.
1.-THE local boards will BY this
Time each have accumulated a list Of
men selected for military service and
who have been warned to hold them
selves in readiness to report for militia
Try duty. Upon receipt Of orders from
the acknowledgement, the local boards
VIII promptly call upon the men So
warned to assemble at the office Of the
local board for transportation to the
mobilization camp. All the details Of
the assembly are described in the mo-
bilization regulations and careful
study Of them viii elucidate all points