The Mena weekly star., 1917-07-26
SECOND DRAFT IS
 TO BE MADE SOON
Half Million More Men Probably Will Be Called t0 C0larS in NO- rembcr--ls an Answer to the
 kaiSer-N0 New Numbers.

l2 million more to be summoned for training before the md of the pres ent year. The call for the second increment of l2 million in all prob ability will go out next November, it 1 become known last night
 Exemptions granted in connection with the first call will not neces- sarily apply to the second draft. The men excused from the first draft must be prepared to demon strate that the reasons still hold good why they should not be called to take up arms
 No Future Drawing.
 No new drawing of numbers at 1 Washington to designate the order in which the second army will be called is necessary. The govern ment, in summoning the second na- tional army, will start exactly where | il left of in completing the call
 for the first 1000 The men will be called for examination and eith- CT ordered to the training camp or
 be excused exactly ill the priority in which the black capsuled numbers
 were drawn last Friday, except, of
 course, for the elimination of those numbers held by the men taken into
 the service in connection with the
 first call
 Of the 6S7 GOO called last Friday,
 the first 87,000 selected after the physical examination and the ex-
 emption processes have been com
 piled with will be assigned to places
 iii the national guard and the regu- lar army to fill those units of the military establishment to required ! nationa larmyndbi lista adueb ardr : strength. The remainder, or F mil lion. will follow along as members , of the new national army Notwith-
 standing reports to the contrary , War Department officials insist that | the A million would be in various ; cantonments and hard at trainine 1. by September i5. The men utilized { to fill up the regular army and na- | tional guard will be sent to the des- ignated units as rapidly as the pro-
 cesses of the draft are completed An Answer to Junkers.
 The decision to at once pave the way for the calling out of second iarmy of one-half million is a direct reelection of the official attitude to- wards the recent development in Germany Out of all the talk Of peace in the German Reichstag Ithere has developed, officials here , now know, a complete victory for the military autoeracy and deter : imitation on the part of the German
 war lords to carry on the war even : more desperately and, if possible, with a magnified display of ruth : ! lessness and savagery. The only possible answer, officials here are a : unit in deciding, is for the United , States to rush war preparations lo the very limit of the resources Of the country. in man power as well as in money and equipment Of all kinds.
 Tine almost unprecedented action of the Senate in passing late Satur- day. in an hours time, the 600 mil- lion dollar aviation bill, is a further reflection of the attitude that has come over all of the officials within
 the past week.
 \ Record in Legislation.
 The action of the Senate on the aviation bill scarcely has a parallel
 ill the legislative history of the , country. Here was the largest ufli- tary appropriation for a sii,ein spe- 2 citied purpose ever proposed by any nation Yet this huge sum was yot- cd for the purposes outlined without , the change of letter from the i form in which the bill was passed by the House and sent to the Sen ate. If came to the Senate with , the unanimous support of the House : and without even record roll, | , was passed in tho Senate in the : same manner on a yive v0ee vote and without a roll eall
 r Tn exact justice to all the 10 mii- ; lion enrolled for military service the government officials in charge of the draft will see to it that there IS no 1UBSe toISAfuttiti VI Aii' t-A
 emption regulations. The draft , lists. checked and rechecked. will bf forwarded to the local boards m the various states starting tomorrow
 Boards Must He Strict.
 With these lists will go instruc- , lions calling attention Co the vital
 necessity of strict conformance with the letter as well as the spirit of the idraft law The government wants . justice done in every case, but this justice, officials say, must be ad- ; minisiered in an even handed ane absolutely impartial manner.
 The government stands ready Il . necessary. to appeal exemption pleas
 generally. Provost General Crow der says drafted men will not Dc permitted to slip through any teeh- nical Ioopholes. Particular atten- ticn is called to the fact that overy
 man who escapes through exemp- | tion will only enforce service upor t1o .s,o, vrbrca ntuhpP brings hin