Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-14
DRAFTED ARMY IN
CAMP BY 0CT0BEn
Called in 30 Per Cent Sections,
September 5, Is and 80;
Remainder Later.
FARM HANDS WILL BE LAST
Left Behind to Harvest Crops
Crowder Again Tightens
Exemption Rules.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-The en-
tire $4,000 men composing the first
increment of the army draft forces
will be under training early In Oc-
tober
Under orders issued today the first
80 per cent OF the quota OF each dis
trlct VIII begin entrainment for cam
tonment September 8, the next 80 per
cent September 10 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 equip
ment thru September. Ii also will pre-
vent serious shortages in any camp
and will give the new officers from
the training camps time to famiiarize
themselves with their duties before
responsibility for a great body of men
falls on them.
Must Stand Another Examination.
The order issued today means that
about twelve thousand men will reach
each of the sixteen cantonments soon
after September 5. They first will be
examined physically by army Goctors
and finally accepted or rejected. This
VIII take some time and the men will
have to be furnished with temporary
quarters and rations while awaiting
examination
Presumably the first increment will
have been organized into skeleton
companies. battalions or regiments be-
fore the second arrives. The new
comers can be quickly absorbed by a
going concern in that case and the
third lot can be taken into the war
machinery with even less disturbance
when 1t reports fifteen days later.
Farm Hands in Last Call.
In farming communities local
boards now will arrange the lists OF
those to fill the first increment with
local crop conditions in mind. Har-
Nesting Is in progress in many sec
tons. Drafted men engaged in that
work and who otherwise would go
with the first third of the district
quota will he passed over to the sec
ond or third as may be necessary.
Reviewing the question of discharge
for dependent relatives Provost Mar
shall General Crowder issued a sup
Elemental ruling today holding that
persons should not be discharged be-
cause of dependents residing abroad.
'The object of the law permitting
persons to be discharged provided he
has person falling within any If
the classes of dependents dependent
upon him was to prevent such de-
pendents becoming n charge on the
American people" the ruling says "a
dependent residing abroad could not
become such charge" That con-
scientious objectors to war are not to
be excused entirely from serving the
country was made clear in another
ruling by the provost marshal hold
ing that such persons should be sent
to the mobilization camps along with
others drafted to be assigned later to
noncombatant branches of the service
Mail Clerks Not Exempt.
Only in rare cases are railway mail
clerks to be exempted. Today the
post office department announced that
published reports of blanket exemp-
tion for this class of postal employees
were based on misinterpretation of
the department order covering postal
exemptions.
The post office department an
nounced also 1t would certify eXemp-
tions for post office inspectors but not
for postmasters. Postmasters of the
first, second and third classes, how
ever, are exempted specifically under
the law.
1t developed today that the navy de-
partmcnt, Misunderstanding the war
department rullnS as 10 voluntary en-
listment of registered men, had in
structed its recruiting officers to ac-
cept registrants into the navy even if
they had been called before their To-
cal selection boards for examination.
The mistake quickly was corrected,
recruiting stations being told by tele-
graph that no man called for exami-
nation under the draft law could be
accepted into any branch Of the mill
tary or naval service as a voluntary
recruit