Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-08-31
FIRST DRAFTED men
TO GO SEPTEMBER 5
Five Per Cent of Whitman's Quota
TO Leave Colfax on That Date
Forty Per Cent September 10
and Same Number Oc-
tober 3

quota of 294 drafted men will leave
Colfax for the mobilization camps on
September 5, according to new orders
issued by the war department and
carried in Sundays Associated Press
dispatches. The second detachment
of 40 per cent will leave September
10 and the same numb Der of October
3, leaving Is per cent to be called
thereafter as soon as practicable.
The drafted men from this county
will be notified to report at Colfax
by the Provost Marshal General,
through the county exemption board,
and all of the men making up the
Whitman quota will be required to
mobilize at the county seat prepara-
tory to being entrained for the train
ing camps. An exception is made of
those cases in which the drafted man
has been transferred to some other
board for examination. Upon re-
quest to the Whitman board. these
men will be permitted to mobilize at
other points.
Upon mobilization at Colfax the
drafted men will at once become
charges of Uncle Sam, who will pro-
vide sleeping facilities and meals for
the young soldiers at Colfax, trans
porting them to the training camp as
fast as conditions warrant Meal
tickets, good at any hotel or restau-
rant will be issued to the men, each
ticket calling for a 60-cent repast.
The press dispatch relating the
changed mobilization orders was as
follows:
New orders have been issued.
changing entirely the mobilization
arrangem ents previously made. Con-
gestion of rail traffic and the neces-
sity of making better provision for
the reception of the men at the can
tonments dictated the changes.
Under the new orders five per cent
OF the white men, preferably those
with military experience, from each
local area will be started forward to
the camps September 5, instead of
80 per cent. They will go in five
daily detachments of equal size and
form skeleton company organizations
and set up IA going concern into
which the remainder of the total
quota can be absorbed without CON
fusion as they reach the canton
ments.
The next 40 per cent of the quota
will go forward Septem Der 10, when
the second 80 per cent originally was
scheduled to go; second 40 per
cent will go forward October 3, in
stead of the third 80 per cent, and
the remaining 10 per cent will be
called up as soon thereafter as prac-
ticable.
Local boards are directed to dis
regard order of liability numbers to
some extent in selecting the first five
per cent, as men of experience, such
as cooks and former soldiers, are de-
sired at that time.
Warning is given, however,
against getting into this levy by rea-
son of his experience any man who
might not otherwise have been in
cluded in the first increment of the
district at all.
Reasons for the change were given
by General Crowder as follows:
I'm announcing the decision to mo-
Billie only five per cent of the ma
tional army on September 5, instead
OF 30 per cent, the opportunity is
taken to give to local and district
boards the credit that is due them
for the overwhelming amount of
work they have accomplished in
scrutinizing the thousands of cases
that it was necessary for them to ex-
anime in order to have 80 per cent
of their quota ready on September 5.
Reports received from practically
every state show that each would
have ready much more than 30 per
cent of its quota on September 5 and
the vast majority of them would have
been ready with the entire quota on
that date. This service has required
month of the most exacting work
on the part of the boards. This work
was consum mated under adverse
conditions and is in large part UNI
| compensated
First Duty OF Recruit
The first duty of the recruit when
he arrives at the cantonment will be
10 take bath. He will then be given
a physical examination and vaccinat-
ed for typhoid, paratyphoid, and
| smallpox. recommendation will
then be made to the company COM
mander for special forms of exer.
else to remedy any slight physical de-