Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-25
General Crowder Indicates
There Is No Need of
Second Call.
DRAFTED MEN ARE
CALLED FOR TESTS
Race Of States Por Honor Of Being
First to FIJI Quotas Begun Today
Men For SeIsctive Army Now Under
Army LaM-Those Accepted by Local
Boards Subject to Court Martial II
Missing s-Question Of Exemptions.


tween states for the honor OF oetns
first to fill their quotas under the So
lectiye draft bill was on today IN earn
est. Calling up men for phySical ex-
animation began this morning IN sew
eral regions, Meanwhile details OF the
machinery for actually calling the ac-
cepted men into service and sendins
them to their mobilization camps are
being worked out
Provost Marshal General Crowder
la. already ruled that the claim OF the
army attaches to any registered man
as soon as the local selection board has
posted him as accepted. From that time
on. unless exempted, he will be SUBJ
iect to military law and the articles OF
war. =.
Failure 70 appear when called Will
bring the military forces OF the provost
marshal general in Eearch OF the miss
ing man and he viii be tried for any
violation Of regulations before court
martial. This ruling was necessary IN
order to enforce the prompt compliance
Of all accepted men with army orders.
Assignment TO contonmsnts.
II appears probable that the accepted
men when the bilizatjon order for
the new army Is given, will be first
! assembled In their selection board
headquarters. Their distribution among
the sixteen cantonments, General Crow
der said today, would be governed by
two rules-first, the section OF the law
requiring that they be assig1ed, so far
AS practicable. to duty with troops
from their own state, and secondly the
location Of the nearest cantonment to
reduce the transportation problem as
much al possible.
Second Draft Unlikely.
No information has reached General
Crowder indicating there will be any
need Of summoning second draft in
addition to the $4,000 men now called
TOR during the present year. General
Crowder said today he had understood
; the draft machinery would not need to
( be employed again during the present
year, altho II VIM be kept intact.
Estimates to cover expenses Of the
second increment have been submit
ted, 1t was pointed outs because all
these expenditures must be made in
advance Of call, TO have equipment
and quarters ready as the funds must
be actually on hand when the call IL
made
QUESTION Of Exemptions.
with physical examinations actually
IN progress the record Of the draft dur
Ing the civil war becomes interesting.
At that time 36.77 per cent Of the men
called up were rejected for physical
defects. There IS on reason to expect
1t is said, any material increase fac
Icr nv
Exemptions for Industrial or similar
reasons, - well as because Of depend
ent relatives enter an unexplored field.
Until ratio for this il worked out in
practice, in several typical commun!t-
les, and worked up into an average, no
definite forecast Of the probable num-
Der OF men who will pass thru the draft
machinery to obtain the 1000 soldiers
can be given.
War department employees who enter
5 the militia establishment with the ap-
proval Of their immediate chiefs will be
reinstated In their civil positions when
their military service ends. A war de-
mand regulation requiring the employees
to resign their civil posts IL rescinded.
Approval Of department chiefs will
be required hereafter before employees
OF any executive department Of the
government viii be accepted In any
army organization. f94l