The Butler weekly times., 1917-07-12
ALL, OFT NATIONAL GUARD
DRAFTED INTO y. s. 4s
ARMY
Bureau i Preparing Railway Rout-
ing Of Troops to Coneen-
tration Points .sssS

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Washingtnn July Q-The last step
necessary to make the entire nation
al guard available for duty IN France
was taken today by President Viii
son with the issuance of proclama-
ton drafting the state troops into
the army of the United States on
August S. Y III
To make certain that the purpose
of the national defense act is carried
out the proclamation also specifical-
ly declares the men drafted to be dis
charged from the old militia status
on that date. In that way the con-
stitutional restraint. upon the use Of
militia outside the country is avoid
ed and the way paved for sending the
regiments to the European front.
Prior to the application of the
draft, regiments in the northern and
eastern sections of the country are
called into the federal service as ma
tional guardsmen, in two increments
to be modified on July IS and IS.
Many units already are federalized
and presumably they will be mobil-
ized with the other troops from their
state. The guard of the states will
be mobilized on the day of the draft
The arrangement was necessary. to
provide for movement Of the regi-
ments south to- their concentration
camps without congestion and to the
same end the division of states in
to these increments was revised from
the original schedule.
The operative date Of the draft was
edlayed until August 5 so that all
regiments can be- taken into the army
simultaneously.
Fourteen camp sites for the sixteen
tactical divisions into which the
guard will be organized for war pur-
poses have already been selected and
the militia bureau is preparing the
railway routing of the troops to the
camps. Seven of the sites selected
are in the southeastern department
five in the southern and two in the
western. The two spthers will be IN
the southeastern department and un-
til they are approved assignment OF
regiments to camps and divisions can
not be fully worked out. The only
two divisions positively assigned. the
Nineteenth, including the California
guard, which will go to Linda Vista
Cal, and the Twentieth including
Oregon, Washington and other states
in the northwest which will go to
Palo Alto, Cal.
The presidents proclamation fol-
lows:
"I.-Whereas, the United States OF
America and the imperial German
government are now at war, and hav-
ing in view the consequent danger OF
aggres ssion by foreign enemy upon
the territory of the United States and
the necessity for proper protection
against possible interference with the
execution of the laws of the Union
by agents of the enemy, I, Wood
row Wilson, president of the United
States by virtue of the authority vest
ed in me by the constitution and the
laws of the United States and through
the governors of the respective states
call into the service of the United
States as of and from the dates here
matter respectively indicated all
members of the national guard and
all enlisted members of the national
guard reserve of the following states,
who are not now in the service Of the
United States, except members OF
staff corps and departments not in
cluded in the personnel of tactical or
ganizations, and except such officers
of the national guard as have been or
may be specifically notified by my
authority that they will not be affect
ed by this call, towit:
ION July IS, 1917, New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Mich
igan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
North Dakota, South Dakota, and
Nebraska.
"On July IS. 1917, Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jer-
sey, Delaware. Maryland, District OF
Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois,
Montana, Wyoming. Idaho, WASH
ington and Oregon. :,
"The members of the national
guard of the various states affected
by this call will be concentrated at
such places as may be designated by
the war department.
"II.-And under the authority con-
ferred upon me by clause second OF
section one of the act Of congress to
authorize the president to increase
Temporarily the military establish.
ment Of the United States approved
May I0, 1917, / do hereby draft into
the military service Of the United
States % Of and from the fifth day
of August, nineteen hundred. and sew.
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