Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-12-13
First Idaho County Draft.


the first in Idaho county, the county
having escaped the previous draft be
cause its quota had been filled by vol
unteers.
Although, in the previous draft, most
married men were exempted from ser
vice on the ground of having persons
dependent on them for support, and in
some districts it was the policy TO
exempt married men as class, in the
future no nan will be granted exemp-
ton from the draft on the dependency
ground This Provost Marshal Gen
elai Crowdel has made plain in the fol
lowing statement defining the govern
ment Us positions:
"War must bring Inconvenience
and sacrifice to all. The selective
service law exempts no person from
military service on the ground OF de-
tendency. The Reconsideration scheme
is designed to defer the induction into
the army of registrants upon whom
other persons are mainly dependent for
support until after persons without act
ual dependents have been called.
oppose Extension of Draft.
Despite the agitation i'll congressional
under the draft men Of the age Of -
sinre june ;, last, and make accessible
H. ~. sae - aud l9,thefchy gnafan-
teeing the practical exemption of mar
ried men with dependent families, it
has been indicated officially that the
war department would oppose any eX-
tension. of the draft until the present
registered men have been used up.
To bring in one or more new classes
would completely upset the present
machinery and the new classification,
both of which were carefully prepared
and worked out, it was stated.
For example. each registered man
now has a number and a position on the
Its subject to call. To bring in a new
class would entail a new registration for
that class and then under the present
machinery il would be practically i'm.
possible to arrange just method of
distributing the new corners in refer.
enee to liability to call.
Will Exhaust Present List.
The practical decision of the war de.
partment to oppose any attempt to ex.
tend the draft age makes it necessary
that the army be built up out of the
guarantees that the present list of APP
proximately 100000 will be exhausted
before any new classes are called in.
! The length of the war is thereby made
the determining factor of when the mar
ried men shall be ordered out.
! In his review of the situation, which
is in reality a forcword to the reclassif
cation under the questionable system
which becomes effective december Is
General Crowder says:
1.-THE great problem of the classified.
ton of the man power of the nation is
upon US.
1.-The military needs of the nation re-
quire that there be provided in every
community list of names of men who
shall be ready to be called into ser
vice at any time. The economic needs
of the nation, while deferring to the
paramount military necessity, require
that men whose removal would inter
fere with civic, family, industrial ant
agricultural institutions of the nation
shall be taken in the order in which
they can be spared. For this reason
the names of all men liable to selection
are to be arranged in five classes il
: the inverse order of their importance
> to the economic interests of the nation
which include the maintenance of nee