The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-08-30
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
MEN UNDER DRAFT

The men called out in the first draft
from Oregon will be mobilized within
the state directly under the supervision
of the local exemption boards in each
county.
Each local board will attend person
ally to the assembling, subsistence, and
finally, the entrainment for the mobil-
ization camp, of all the men called to
the colors from its county or district.
Plans of the War department provide
for the mobilization of men drawn in
the first draft, in four installments
during Septemer and early October.
Thirty per cent of the next quota of
each county will be called out on Sep
| tember 5. Another 80 per cent is to be
called September Is, third 80 per
cent September 80, and the final 10 per
cent as soon thereafter as practicable.
! The first preliminary to actual mobil-
| ization will be the notification by local
exemption boards of the men in their
| jurisdiction who have been certified as
called for service and not exempted or
discharged.
In this notification they will also be
directed to hold themselves in readi-
ness to respond to a call soon to be
made by the board to report for mill
tary duty at a specified time and place.
The next step will follow notice to
the boards from the Adjutant General
of the state to assemble at a conven-
| lent point of entrainment for the mo-
biliZation camp, speeified number of
men from their draft quota.
Immediately each local board will
post list of the men who must re-
spond to this first call for mobilization.
At the same time each board will send
directing him when and where to re-
port. Failure to receive this mail no.
tice, however, will not be an excuse
for failure to report. From the time
specified by the local boards for the
men to report, they will be in the mill
tary service of the United States and
subject to the orders of the militay
authorities.
After the men have reported at the
point designated by their respective
exemption boards, they will be fed and
provided with sleeping accommodations
by the boards, at the expense of the
federal government. They will he sub
ject to the orders of their board until
they are actually entrained for the mo-
bilization camp. Disobedience will be
punishable as severely as disobedience
to the orders of military officer.
So far as possible they will not be
called to assemble more than "a hours
prior to the time set by the local board
for their enntrainment. Transportation
will be provided by the board.
If any men notified do not appear for
duty, or it appears that they have abb
seconded or wilfully failed to report,
the local board is directed by the regu-
lations "to call upon the police to ar
rest them as deserters from the army
and to deliver them to the nearest mill
itary station as prisoners.
Before the men take train for the
mobilization camp. the local board is
directed to designate one of them,
preferably the one best fitted for it by
reason of his age, experience and char.
cter, to take charge of the party until
they arrive at the mobilization camp.
He in turn will appoint another of the
drafted men to act as his second in
command. The men must obey the Or
ders of these temporary officers.
The foregoing procedure will be fol-
lowed by the local boards in the mobil-
ization of each of the four installments
of the first draft quota. 1t will mean
much work for the local boards and
much responsibility for them and for
the men called. But if every drafted
man, and every citizen, will cooperate
patriotically with the boards in aiding
them to do their duty, the task can be
accomplished with the speed and eff
cheney that Is so essential.