Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-08-16
ARMY IN TRAINING
. EARLY IN OCTOBER
30 per Cent. Of Draft Forces Or
dered to Entrain for Can
tonments September s.
RULINGS BY CRowDER.
ConscientSous Directors Not to He Ex.
cuseA Entirely-wnl BE Sent to
Camps ana Disposed Of Later.

Washington, Aug. 13.-The entire $1,000
men composing the first increment of the
army draft forces will be under training
early in October. Under orders issued to-
day the first 30 per cent. of the quota of
each district will begin entrainment for
environments September s; the next 30 per
cent September Is and another 80 per cent.
September 90 The remaining 10 per cent.
will be mobilised as soon after that date
as possible.
The plan to assemble the new forces in
three increments distributes the task of
furnishing supplies and equipment
through September. It will also prevent
serious shortages in any camp and will
give the new officers from the training
camps time to familiarize themselves with
their duties gradually before responsibility
for great body Of men falls on them.
The order issused to-day means that
about $4,000 men will reach each Of the
16 cantonments soon after September
s. They will first be examined
physically by army doctors and finally
accepted or rejected. This will take
some time and the men will have to
be furnished with temporary quarters
and rationed while awaiting examina-
ton. II the full quota were assembled
at one time, great confusion would
result.
Presumably the first increment will
have been organized into skeleton
companies, battalions or regiments be-
fore the second arrives. The new
Corners can be. quickly absorbed by a
going concern in that case. and the
third lot can be taken into the war
machinery with even less disturbance
when II reports fifteen days later.
In farming communities local boards
now will arrange the lists Of those
to fill the first increment with local
crop conditions in mind. Harvesting is
in progress in many sections. Drafted
men engaged in that work and who
otherwise would go with the first
third Of the district quota, will be
passed over to the second or third as
may be necessary.
Reviewing the question Of discharge for
dependent relatives, Provost Marshal Gen.
eral Crowder issued a supplemental rul-
ing to-day holding that persons should
not be discharged because Of dependents
resident abroad.
1.-THE object Of the law permitting per-
sons to be discharged provided he has a
person falling within any Of the classes
of dependents. dependent on him, was to
prevent such dependents becoming a
charge upon the American people. The
ruling says: "A dependent residing
| abroad could not become such a charge.
Persons claiming discharge because OF
| such a dependent cannot properly be dis
charged on ground that such discharge
| is advisable within the meaning Of the act
Of Congress"
That conscientious DIRECTORS to war are
| not to be excused entirely from serving
the country was made clear in another
ruling by the provost marshal holding
that such persons should be sent to the
| mobilization camps along with others
drafted, to be assigned later to non-com-
blatant branches Of the service. 1t is pre-
sumed they will serve in the quartermas-
ters' corps. the medical corps or other
units not employed in actual combat.