The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-14
In First Contingent of Ma
tional Guardsmen to Go
to France
ACCORDING TO PLAN
NOW PERFECTED
Twenty-Six States and the
District of Columbia to
Contribute at First

Washington, d. C., Aug l4--Plans fol
sending the first National Guard troop,
to France have been perfected by the
war department, with the organization
of a division which will include troop:
from twenty-six states and the District
of Columbia. No New England troops
were included in the division.
The commanding officer of the Nation
al Guard division will be Brigadier Gen
eral w. A. Mann of the regular army,
now chief of the division of militia af.
fairs on the war department.
Draft Army in Training in Early October
The entire 6s7,0o0 men composing the
first increment of the army draft forces
win be under training early in October.
Under orders issued yesterday the first
80 per cent of the quota of each dis
trict will begin entrainment for can
tonments September 5; the next 80 per
cent September Is and another 80 per
cent September 80. The remaining 10
per cent will be modified as soon after
that date as possible.
The plan to assemble the new forces in
three increments distributes the task of
furnishing supplies and equipment
through September. It will also prevent
serious shortages in any camp and will
give the new officers from the training
camps time TO familiarize themselves
with their duties gradually before re-
sponsibility for a great body of men
falls on them.
The order yesterday means that about
$4,000 men will reach each of the is
soon after September s.
They will first be examined physically
by army doctors and finally accepted or
rejected. This will take some time and
the men will have to be furnished with
temporary quarters and rationed while
quota were assembled at one time, great |
confusion would result.
Presumably the first increment will |
have been organized into skeleton com
panies, battalions or regiments before
The second arrives. The newcomers can |
be quickly absorbed by going concern
IN that case, and the third lot can be |
aiken into the war machinery with even
ess disturbance when it reports fifteen
lays later.
In farming communities local boards
low will arrange the lists of those to
i'll the first increment with local crop
in mind. Harvesting is in
progress in many sections. Drafted men
Engaged in that work and who other.
wise would 60 with the first third of
he district quota, will be passed over
o the second or third as may be
necessary.
Reviewing the question of discharge
or dependent relatives. Provost Mar
hal General Crowder issued supple
mental ruling yesterday holding that
ersons should not be discharged be-
ause of dependents resident abroad.
The object of the law permitting per
ons to be discharged provided he has ,
person falling within any of the t,
lasses of dependents, dependent on him, !
Tas to prevent such dependents becoming ,
charge upon the merican people The =
uling says: "A dependent residing ,
broad could ne become such a charge. !
Persons claiming discharge because of
uch dependent cannot properly be dis !
harged on ground that such discharge is
dvisable within the meaning of the :
ct of Congress. :
That conscientious obiectors to war are
OF to be excused entirely from serving
ne country was made clear in another 4,
Iling by the provost marshal holding ;,
nat such persons should be sent to =
le mobilization camps along with 9TH :
s drafted, TO be assigned later to non =
'mbatant branches of the service. 1t 7
presumed they will serve in the quar-
ermasters' corps, the medical corps or :.
her units not employed in actual COM
1t.