Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-15
FIRST DRAFT MEN
WILL GO To CAM S
ON SEPTEMBER |
$4,000 Members of New Ma
tional Army Off Soon.
WILL BE NOTIFIED TODAY
Rail Movement to Cantonments Will
Be Greatest known-Plans All
Complete-Married Men Hit
by New Ruling.

Washington, Aug. 9.-The first one
third of the quota of 6S7, 900 men
drafted for army service under the Sc
lection bill will be called to colors
September l and sent to training
camp between September 1 and 5, ac-
cording to announcement made on
Wednesday by Provost General Crow
der to governors of all states.
229, in First Call.
One-third of the men drafted into
the United States army will entrain
for environments September 1.
A formal notice to this effect will
be mailed today to all local and dis
trict boards by Provost Marshal Cen
eral Crowder
The first call to service of the draft
ed men will thus total $4,000 men.
Just how they will proceed to their
cantonment, 20 pages of rules and
regulations drawn up by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder and approved
by Secretary of War Baker will di-
rect them, giving them six hours for
leave takings, then telling them what
train to take, how they shall live en-
route and what they shall do on their
arrival at camps.
The men who are drafted in the call
for the first ,One-third of the quota
will be notified via the adjutant gen
eral and the district and local boards.
To Prevent Delays.
1t is believed at the provost mar
shall generals office that the rules and
regulations have been worked out in
such complete detail that the unpre-
cedented mobilization of the man pow
er of the country will proceed without
bitches anywhere.
In general the system of calling the
men will be uniform all over the cOun-
try Transportation details, while ar
ranged for according, more or less, to
local railroad conditions, have had the
benefit of as expert railroad advice as
the provost marshal's office could COM
mandeer.
1t was said at General Crowder's
office that mobilization of men be-
tween September l and 5 would be the
greatest passenger movement in the
history of railroadfng in this country.
Ruling Hits Married Men.
The war department has been doing
a lot of calculating in the last few
days, and it's deductions have given
birth to a wholesome doubt that lot
of married men are better off where
they now are employed than they
Il 10 r,
Marshal General Crowder cOmmuni-
Gated the findings of the war depart
ment to Maj. B. M. Chipertield, his
representative in Chicago, on the sub
ject He pointed out that a soldiers
pay under the new regulations will
not be less than $50 month, with all
clothing, subsistence, medical treat
ment and housing provided at the gov
ernment's expense, and that probably
that stipend, with all the attention and
things thrown in, offsets the earnings
of many a man now employed.
Army Pay to Families.
The provost marshal general pointed
out also that a soldier may allot any
part of his pay to the person or per-
sons dependent upon him for sub
sistence. Many soldiers, he declared,
are easily able to allOt $25 of the $50
they receive from Uncle Sam every
month to the support of dependents.
In case of death in line of duty, it was
made clear, the government will send
to beneficiary or benefciaries desig
mated by the soldier, six months pay.
The provost marshal general doesn't
want the local exemption boards and
the boards of appeal to hold every man
claiming exemption on the ground of
family dependency, but leaves the in
dividual cases to the discretion of the
local boards. He desires, however,
that the boards be influenced by facts
showing that man on soldiers pay is
as well off, or better off, than he is on
his present income, and to refuse ex-
emption in case the army job is a bet
ter one.