Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-11
Men Selected For Entraining
Will Be Notified by Mail
and Names Posted.
LEADERS WILL BE CHOSEN
These Will Be Commanders
Until Group Reaches Gate
Of the Cantonment.

Washington, Aug. 10.-Regulations
under which men of the new national
army will be called to the colors be-
ginning Sept. were issued by Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder.
Two hundred thousand of the first
687, 900 men will be called up Sept. ]
and forwarded to their camp before
Sept. 5. The whole business of as
sembling the levies at entraining
points, providing them with shelter,
food and transportation and giving
them their actual induction into mill
tary life is entrusted to the civilian
local boards which selected them for
service. Until the men reach the
camps they will not be in contact with
uniformed officers. The civilian con-
troll is carried forward through every
stage ofthe draft to the very gates of
the military camps where the making
of soldiers will begin, to be complete
ed within sound of the guns in
France.
The actual call for men will go in
each case from the provost marshal
general to the state adiutant general,
stating the number of men to be sup
piled at the specified time by the
state. Each local board will prompt
ly informed OF its proportion in the
call and the adiutant general will fix
the date when men from his state
shall entrain for the camps.
Immediately the local board will
make out the list of men to fill the
call from The accepted men and it will
also fix the place of entrainment and
the exact time of departure.
Orders to the men will be posted
and also be sent them by mail. They
will be directed to report to the local
board at its headquarters not less
than >tweive hours nor more than
twenty-four hours before the time of
departure for camp.
From the time specified for re-
porting to the local board for military
duty" the regulations state, leach
man in respect of whom notice to re-
port has been posted or mailed shall
be in the military service of the Unit
ed States"
For each district five alternates will
be summoned to the board headquar-
tiers in addition to the men actually
selected to fill the board quota. They
will be held at the assembling point
until time to fill in vacancies, should
any Of tile levy fail to report.
Except for retreat roll call, the men
will be given town liberty until As
minutes before train time. The board
will Iduring this interval select one
man from the levy whom il deems
best qualified to command and place
him in charge of the party for its
rip. He will name a second in COM
nand to aid him and the other men
will be told that the orders of these
wo must be obeyed under pain of !
military discipline.
The man in charge Of the party will !
all the roll at the board headquarters
ust before tvain time. He will then
Inc up the draft and, accompanied by
he board members, march them to
he station to entrain.
There final verifcation of the list
will be made and if any man of the
elected number is missing, an alter
ate will be sent forward in his place.
he tickets, with meal tickets and all
apers relating to the party, including
opies Of registration cards, will be
lrned over to the man in command,
nd the party will start for its train
lg camp.
II will be the duty of the command
r of each party to watch over his
len over the trip and see that none
re left behind at any station, that all
re fed regularly and that no liquor is
to the men en- route.