The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-17
OPERATIONS UNDER
SELECT|VE DRAFT
Measures for Raising Of Military
Forces, as Agreed Upon
by Congress.
AGE LIMIT, Fl TO 80 YEARS
Male Citizens, and Those Who Have
Declared Their Intention to Be-
come Citizens, of That Age,
Liable to Draft-classes
That Are Excused.

WhS0lnBIO0.---IDe SelectlYe urdIL uIl-
der which the new United States army
will be raised will be applied under
the following provisions of the army
bill:
THAT the enlisted men required to
raise and maintain the organizations of
the regular army and to complete and
maintain the organizations embodying
the members of the National Guard
drafted into the service of the United
States, at the maximum legal strength
as by this act provided, shall be raised
by voluntary enlistment, or If and
whenever the president decides that
they cannot effectually be so raised or
maintained, then by selective draft;
and all other forces hereby authorized
shall be raised and maintained by Sc
lective draft exclusively; but this pro-
vision shall not prevent the transfer
to any force of training cadres from
other forces.
Age Limits Are Fixed.
"Such draft as herein provided shall
be based upon liability to military serv-
ice of all male citizens or male persons
not alien enemies who haze declared
their intention to become citizens, be-
| tween the ages of twenty-one and
thirty years, both inclusive, and shall
take place and be maintained under
such regulations as the president may
| prescribe not inconsistent with the
terms of this act.
Quotas for the several states terri
tories and the District of Columbia, or
subdivisions thereof, shall be deter
mined In proportion to the population
thereof and credit shall be given to
any state, territory district, or sub
division thereof for the number of
men who were in the military service
of the United States as members of
the National Guard on April l, 1917,
or who have since said date entered the
military service of the United States
from any such state, territory, district,
or subdivision, either as members of
the regular army or the National
Guard.
Provides for Military Law.
"All persons drafted into the serv-
ice of the United States and all Off
GERS herein provided for shall, from
the date of said draft or acceptance, |
be subject to the laws and regulations |
governing the regular army, except as |
to promotions, so far as such laws and |
regulations are applicable to persons |
whose permanent retention in the mill
tary service on the active or retired |
list is not contemplated by existing
law, and those drafted shall be re-
quired to serve for the period of the
existing emergency unless sooner dis
charged, provided that the president is
authorized to raise and maintain by
voluntary enlistment or draft, as here
in provided, special and technical
troops, as he may deem necessary, and
to employ them into organizations and
to officer them as provided in the third
of section l and section 9
of this act.
Organizations of the force herein
provided for, except the regular army,
shall, as far as the interests of the
service permit, be composed of men
who come, and of officers who are ap-
pointed from, the same state or local
ity."
No person liable to military service
will be permitted to escape therefrom
by furnishing a substitute or the pay
ment of money, and the payment of
bounties for recruits is prohibited. N
Men Who Are Exempt.
The persons who. will be exempted !
from military service are thus desig- !
mated by this provision of the bill: ,
THAT the vice president of the !
United States, the officers, legislative. {
and judicial, of the United {
States and of the several states. terri ,
ories, and the District of Columbia, 4;
'egular or duly ordained ministers of
'eligiOn, students who at the time of
he approval of this act are preparing 4
or the ministry in recognized theology
al or divinity schools, and all
PERSONS in the naval service of the
United States shall be exempt from the II
elective draft herein prescribed.
Nothing in this act contained shall d
e construed to require or compel an o
ther person to serve in any of the Y
orces herein provided for who Is found u
o be a member of any well-recognized Il
eiigious sect or organization at pres "
MT organized and existing and whose II
Xisting creed or principles forbid its d
lembers to participate in war In any o
orm and whose religious convictions al
re against war or participation there Sc
l in accordance with the creed or pl
rinCipleS of said religions orgoniyo | ID