The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-28
WILL BE NO EXCUSES
 AFTER WORD IS GIVEN
Vigorous Course of Training Win Be Given the Men Drawn Through the Conseription, and They Will Be Fit. ted Thoroughly for the work That Is Ahead of Them

Washington, April 27-With enact. ment of the selective draft army bill apparently assured the war depart ment is preparing to set machinery in moticn without delay to produce un- der the measure within two years a trained army of 100000 men
 Within ten days after the bill is signed every township in the country will be registering its young men for duty, and work will have begun on the l6 training cantonments or camps where preparation cf the forces for war will start in August or Septem- ber. Sites for the cantonments have been selected tentatively, and already pans made fer the concentration of the troops assigned to each
 Decentralization of administrative work will be sought by the depart ment in every move it makes De, tails will not be disclosed until the bill has passed, but it is known that registration will be carried on through sheriffs and other county officials, aided by postmasters lr other federal agencies where that seems desirable. Instructions and forms already have been prepared and will be forwarded to the state adjutants general for dis tribution among county officials.
 Wide publicity is planned so that no man liable for registration will have a good excuse for failing to re- spond. On a date to be set every citi- zen affected by the act will be re quired on pain of heavy penalty to present himself at the nearest reeis- tration place. where machinery will be provided for classifying the re- cruits and eliminating those exempt. Doubtful cases will be referred to higher authority
 With the rolls of those liable for service complete, the task of selecting the men to go in the first increment of 500,000 will begin. It has been sug. gested that this he done by means of the county jury wheel. The first man whose name is drawn would go under that plan with the first 500,000 men to be called out for training within a few months The second drawn VOL d go with the second increment to he called six months later the third with the third increment with duty q year off; the fourth with the fourth incre- ment, and so on.
 Meanwhile the work of building the cantonments will go forward Regular troops and national guardsmen will be assigned to them with each arm Of the service so represented as To pro- vide the framework of q complete army division at each point The guardsmen will be selected from the territory covered by the training dis trict so far as practicable. Police duty at the cantonments will become part of the responsibility Of each district commandant. and he will make such assignment of his forces as he may deem wise Meantime both the regu- lars and guardsmen will continue re cruting tC war strength.
 With the new regiments assembled, a rigorous course of training will be undertaken The officers training camps to be established within a few days in each district will begin at the end of three months pouring new off cers into this organization and the enlisted men selected from the ranks of the regulars for commissions will be given special instructions to it them for officers. Until the army of young men presents itself at the camp in August or September the regulars and guardsmen also will pursue vigorous course of training The plans call for the transfer to the first 500,