The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-16
ALL IN TRAINING
DURING OCTOBER
FIRST 80 PER CENT OF $4,000
MEN TO ENTRAIN SEPT. 5.
OTHERS TO FOLLOW QUICKLY
Division of Dates Expected to Prevent
Shortage Of Camp ppIles.-Har-
vests to be Aided by Selection
ton for the Third Quota.

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entire $4,000 men composing the
first increment of the army draft
forces will be under training early
in October. Under orders issued the
first 80 per cent of the quota of each
district will begin enrichment for
environments Sept. ; the next 80 per
cent Sept. Is, and another 80 per cent
Sept. 80.
The remaining 10 per cent will be
modified as soon after that date as
lpcssitle.
The plan to assemble the new
forces in three increments distributes
the task of furnishing supplies and
equipment through September. 1t
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 issued means that about
10000 men will reach each of the
| SlALGeH CduIUulHcHto cOOn uiIoi oSt
TENDER s. They will be examined
physically by army doctors and finally
accepted or rejected. ~
Organization simplified.
Presumably the first increment will
lhave been organized into skeleton
companies, battalions or regiments be-
fore the second arrives. The new
corners can be quickly absorbed in
that case. and the third lot can be
taken into the war machinery with
even less disturbance when 1t reports
fifteen days later.
In farming communities local
| boards now will arrange the lists o.
those to fill the first increment with
local crop conditions in mind Draft
ed men engaged in that work and
who otherwise would go with the first
third of the district quota will be pass
ed over to the second or third, as
may be necessary.
Reviewing the question OF discharge
for dependent relatives, Provost Mar.
shall General Crowder issued a supple
mental ruling holding that persons
should not be discharged because oil
dependents resident abroad.
THE object of the law permitting
persons to be discharged provided
they have persons falling within any
of the classes of dependents, depend
ent upon them, was to prevent such
dependents becoming charge upon
the American people," the ruling says.
Service for Directors.
"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 their country was made clear
in another ruling by the provost mar
shall, holding that such persons should
be sent to mobilization camps along
with others drafted, to be assigned
later to noncombatant branches of
the service. 1t is presumed they will
serve in the quartermaster's corps,
1.-THE medical corps or other units not
employed in actual combat.
Only in rare cases are railway mail
clerks to be exempted.
The post Office department an
nouncess that published reports of
blanket exemptions for this class OF
postal employees we're based on mis-
=. 81 f1n don. gtt11n
order covering postal exemptions.
Denies Navy EnIistins.
It developed that the navy depart
ment, misunderstanding the war de.
partment ruling as to voluntary en-
listment of registered men, had in
structed it's recruiting officers to ac-
cept registrants into the navy even
il they had been called before their
local selection boards for examination
The mistake was quickly corrected,
recruiting stations being told by tele-
graph that no man called for eXamin'
alton under the draft law could be ac-
copied into any branch of the military
or naval service as voluntary re-
cruit. Until called, however, regist-
rants are free to enter the army,
navy or marine corps.
Plans to provide publicity facilities
at camps of the national army and the
national guard are to be left entirely
to the discretion of he camp COM
manders, who will be authorized to
permit newspaper correspondents to
establish Offices within the camp linn
its and to maintain telegraph or tele-
phone pole lines there If deemed ad
visable. No such privileges will be
hgranted, however, until the camps
actually are established and the com
manders on the ground