Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-12-12
LAST CHANCE To
VOLUNTEER IN WAR
MEN WHO ARE SUBJECT TO THE
DRAFT LAW HAVE ONLY UNTIL
SATURDAY IN WHICH TO VOL
UNTEER AND PICK SERVICE.

This is the last week in which men
subject to draft under provisions of
the selectiye service act may enlist
il the army, navy or marine corps.
Final opportunity will be noon, Sat-
urday, for the order of Provost Mar
shal General Crowder reads that at
ter December 18th, no enlistments
Will be made of persons between TWEEN
ty-one and thirty.
The order is effective throughout the
United States. Therefore, every per-
son who believes it will be better to
be classed as volunteer than termed
a drafted man has only four days in
which to enlist All may select the
branch of the service and the division
in which they wish to serve, or in
some cases, the regiment of the reg
ulars. The chances for enlistment
OF men of draft ages in the navy will
end after Saturday, it must also be re
membered Therefore all persons who
believe they can serve their country
to better advantage in the navy, AMI
who wish to choose for themselves
the line of work they will do, should
go as soon as possible to recruiting
stations.
The navy wants firemen. electric
ians, mechanics and other skilled
workers, as well as men whose war
work will be different from peace pur-
suits, and who will be put into gan
crews or assigned to other duties or
board ships The naval militia of the
several states and the naval reserve
forces are in need of men. Recruit
ing Offices are in every city. Persons
who wait until after Dec. 10 at noon
to enlist may experience difficulties
in getting into the navy. Even if they
are not called for the army it will he
very likely that permission from 10
cal boards will be necessary, if they
are given, by some future ruling, the
privilege of joining the navy.
The draft rules read that quotsa
for sections of the United States will
be based only upon the men from SUCH
sections who have gone into the army.
Therefore local boards may refuse to
grant permission to men wishing to
ioin the navy because it will mean
others will have to join the army be-
fore their time The draft is war
department measure only.
The same order applies to the ma
rine corps. Recruiting Offices are open
in every city for this branch. Several.
battalions of marines are now in
France and more have modified in
preparation for departure at some fu-
ture date.
The regular army has 65 infantry
regiments that need men for reserve
battalions. Cavalrymen, principally
for duty along the Mexican border, are
also needed. Field artillery regiments
have increased in number from nine
to twenty-five since the outbreak OF
tie war, and all of these need COR
slant flow Of men to keep their ranks
filled.
Coast artillery companies, scores Of
which have been assigned to big guns
Of the 42-centimetre type, are also in
reed of men
line regiments of the national guard
NAV he entered There are regiments
of all hTsnches of the service, aud
roo,,,ar armv RECRUITING Offices enroll
the applicants.
In addition to the line and coast
defense forces there are special
branches that need recruits, Men OF
draft age must remember that every
man who registered June s, 1917, is to
be classified for service after Dec.
IL. Married men in thousands Of
cases will have to go to camps when
Glass A is exhausted which will not
he far distant, if the war continues,
officers say. Soldiers Insurance and
allowances for dependents will re
lieve the enlisted men of worry while
fighting to save their country
Berths IN the ordnance corps, in the
enlisted personnel of the aviation sec.
ton and in the quartermaster corps
are open for thousands-scores C.
th0usands-of these men.
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