The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-11-30
ENLISTMENT BAN
GOES ON DEC. Is;
MANY. TO CHOOSE
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!. SERVICE BEFORE
Many Who Plan to Join the Colors
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Must Forego Spending Their s.
:. ~ #, Christmas at Home. =.
AFTER DATE SET, DRAFT
Il WILL PLACE THE RECRUITS
Several From Bemidji Will Take Ad-
vantage Of New Ruling and
Make Own Selection.

Voluntary enlistments in the
army and navy will close Dec: 15.
This means that many of the
Young men of Bemidji who were
planning on enlisting before they
were called in the draft will have
to 20 before Christmas. Many of
Bemidji's young men who had hoped
to spend the holidays at home and
then enlist will be disappointed by
the ruling of the war department but
nevertheless, according to street con-
versations, the boys are planning on
enlisting before they are "locked
out" of the regular army and navy.
Before the first draft list was pub
lished many young men OF Bem1d11
enlisted and thereby cut down the
number of men liable to the draft
here. go,
BY Dec. Is many more men Will
have enlisted and it is safe to say
h that the draft quota for the second
i National army will be cut down con-
siderably.
ALI Closed Dec. Is.
Under the regulations issued by
the war department all voluntary
enlistment for registered men will
close Dec. Is. That means that Be-
midi men will have to enlist on Dec.
10 at the latest, according to an
opinion given out by Mayor Yost,
recruiting officer at Duluth. The
men enlisted here will go to Jeffer-
son Barracks and they will have to
enlist in time to get there before
Dec. Is. AS it takes several days
to get there, in accordance. with the
army regulations, the only safe way
isSto enlist on or before Dec. 10 Ii.
These ss;ass;s j.
The only >registersd men who have
chance to escape the draft after
Dec. Is are men eligible: for the
medical corps. That doesn't mean
men who might be stretcher bearers
or others who might be needed to
carry on the: work of the depart
ment, but includes only physicians,
dentists and students in medical col
leges working for degrees Of phys
ician, surgeon or dentist. These men
will be put in the medical reserve
CORPS and will be liable to call upon
graduation, for Students or upon
emergency, for physicians and dent
lists. Even for these men permission
must be obtained from the surgeon
general of the army before they are
put in a deferred class.
The New Regulations,
The new government regulations,
simmered down, are in effect that
every able-bodied man within the
draft age must either enlist before
Dec. Is or else be barred from the
army and navy, as far as his choice
goes, until he is drafted. Then he
will take his regular place in the
National army and will not be able
to pick his branch of the service.
One Clause Relieves Some.
There Is one clause In the new
regulations, however, that can be
taken advantage of. If the regis
tered man is so far down on the Hs+
that he is not liable to be called
in the next draft army, he may get
permission from his draft selection
board to enlist. This permission,
written on regular government
form, will admit him to the ranks
of army or navy, and his case will
he nut on record, giving credit to his
district for one enlisted man.
For the most part. judging from
remarks of young men about town:
Bemidji's draft eligibles will enlist
before the date voluntary enlist
ments close.