The Pulaskian., 1917-05-18
Measures for Raising of Military Forces, as Agreed Upon
 by Congress.
AGE LIMIT, 21 TO 30 YEARS
Male Citizens, and Those Who Have Declared Their Intention to Be- come Citizens, of That Age, Liable to Draft-cIasses
 That Are Excused.

| 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 se- 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 have declared their intention to become citizens, be- tween the ages of tWenty-one and 1 thirty years, both inclusive, and shall l 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 1, 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 1 Guard.
 Provides for Military Law.
 "A11 persons drafted into the serv- ice of the United States and all off, cers 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 mili- 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 paragraph of section l and section g 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.
 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 executive, and judicial, of the United States and of the several states, terri. tories, and the District of Columbia regular or duly ordained ministers oi 1 religion, students who at the time ot the approval of this act are preparing for the ministry in recognized theologi cal or divinity schools, and all persons in the naval service of the United States shall be exempt from the selective draft herein prescribed.
 "Nothing in this act contained shal be construed to require or compel an other person to serve in any of tht forces herein provided for who is found to be member of any well-recognizeC religious sect or organization at pres ent organized and existing and whose 1 existing creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious conviction. are against war or participation there in in accordance with the creed ol principles of said religious organiza ton; but no person so exempted shal be exempted from service in any ca pacity that the president shall declar, to be noncombatant.
 Certain Glasses to Be Excused.
 s'The president Is hereby authorize, to exclude or discharge from said SC lectsve draft and from the draft unde the second paragraph of section l here of, or to draft for partial military serv ice only from those liable to draft a. in this act provided, persons of the fol | lowing classes: County and municina