Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-08-24
BY MEAD PUBLISHING co
,0aleidI Paper Of the City and the County
Issued on Friday of Each Week

Issued on Friday of Each Week
Entered at the Post Office at Cresco,
Iowa, as second class mail matter.
REGULATIONS Under Which New Draft
Army will be Called to Colors.
Regulations under which men of the
new national army will be called to the
colors beginning Sept. l, issued by
Provost Marshal General Crowder map
out in detail the whole program to be
followed until every soldier OF the Sc
lective draft army has been accepted
by the adjutant general of the training
cantonment to which he is assigned.
Two hundred thousand of the first
6s7, 900 men will be called up to Sept.
l and forwarded to their camps 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
tsry life is entrusted to the civilian
local boards which selected them for
service. Until such men reach the
camps they will not be in contact with
uniformed officers. The civilian con-
troll is carried forward through every
stage of the draft, to the very gates
of the military camps where the max
ing of soldiers will begin, to be COM
pleted within sound of the guns in
France.
The actual call for men will 60 in
each case from the provost marshal
general to the state adjutant general,
stating the number of men to be sup
piled at specified time by the state.
Each local board will be promptly in
formed of its proportion in the call and
the adjutant 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 q roll of accepted men and it will
also fix the place Of entrainment and
the exact time of departure.
q Orders to the men will be posted and
also sent them by mail. They will be
directed to report to the local board at
its headquarters not less than twelve
hours or more than twenty-four hours
before the time of departure for
camp.
From the time specified for report
ing to the local board for military
duty the regulations state, each
man in respect Of whom notice to 70.
port has been posted Or mailed shall be
in the military service Of the. United
States"
Prior to the arrival of the men at
the board headquarters, board mem
bers are instructed to make arrange
ments for their accommodation, to find
clean and sanitary sleeping places st
hotels and lodging houses, to arrange
for their meals and to provide lodging
and meal tickets to be taken in pay
ment and redeemed for cash later by
the government disbursing officer. In
its discretion, the board may grant
permission for the men to remain n
their homes.
Arriving at the board headquarters
1t the hour fixed for reporting, the
men will be drawn up, the roll called
and agents of the board will take them
personally to Their quarters, remaining
with them until every arrangement fol
their comfort has been made. En-.
phatic instructions are given that the
quality of food furnished shall Be good
and the board is held liable for seeing
that meals are adequate.
Retreat roll call ut the board head
quarters, set for $50 p. m. on the DAY
Of reporting to the board, will be the
first military ceremony the drafted
men pass through. The board mem
bers are directed to be present in per
son and to inform the men OF thell
military status, impress'ng on 'nsln 'n<
fact that disobedience Of orders is the
Rravest military crime. The light
hand baggage, containing toilet srti'
cles and . change of under clothing,
which the men are permitted to take
with them to camp, will be inspected
BY the board and the lists Of men sent
forward made out and copies of origl'
nal registration cards prepared. =..
For each district, five alternates viii
be summoned to the board headquar'
ters in addition to the men actually Sc
lected to fill the board quota. They
will be held at the assembling point
until train time, to fill in vacancies
should any men of the levy fail to re-
port.
Except for retreat roll call, the men
will he piven town liberty until forty.