New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-05-25
REGISTER FOR SERVICE
PRESIDENT SUMMONS MILLIONS
TO REGISTER JUNE 5TH.
Signs Army SeIective Draft Bill ano
Orders National Guard Recruited
to Full Strength.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. - Having proclaimet
June 9Th the day on which the 10000,
600 men of the country from 81 to 81
years old will register for the select
i've draft army, President Wilson Fri
day night issued orders for the dis
patch of the first eX~peditiOnary force
to France.
This expedition, which will be sen
to the firing line as soc as possible
will consist of one division of regular
army troops-about $4,000 men-an(
will be under the command of Gen
j. J. Pershing, who led the American
army in pursuit of Villa in Mexico las
year.
The War Department announced
that the National Guard would bt
called out for training on July 15tf
and 25th and Aug. 9Th, together witt
the intelligence that a regular army
division would be sent to France.
The announcement of the decision
to place the American flag on the fir
ing line at once was made in the fol
lowing press bulletin issued by the
War Department.:
THE President has directed an ex
peditionary force of approximately one
division Of regular troops under com
mand of Gen. John J. Pershing to pro
coed to France at as early a date as
practicable.
Gen. Pershing will precede the
troops abroad. 1t is requested that
no details or speculations with regard
to the mobilization of this command
dates of departure, composition OF
other items be carried by the press,
other than the official bulletins given
out by the War Department relating
thereto"
Gen. Pershing was a brigadier gen.
eral when he led the forces into Mex.
leo in pursuit of Villa.
The Presidents proclamation calling
for the registration of the 10, 900, 900
men in the country from p to 80
years old, inclusive, sets forth the pro.
cedure to be followed by persons sub
ject to the call whether they be resi-
dent in their home localities, temper
arily absent or i'll. The registration
blanks already haze been distributed
to local officials and will be available
five days hence.
In his proclamation the President
dwells upon the necessity in this war
Of Transforming the entire nation into
a combined military and economic
army. 1.-THE men who remain to till
the soil and man the factories" he
says, ARE no less a part of the army
that is in France than the men be.
meath the battle flags. 1t must be SO
with US. 1t is not an army that We
must shape and train for the war; it
is a nation"
To achieve this purpose each man
must do not what he p~leases, but
what the nation wills he is best fitted
to do. In accordance with this prin.
ciple men best fitted for fighting will
be tolled off to form the selective
army, while others will be assigned to
industrial and agricultural tasks. The
President also seeks to inspire the na-
ton to a new enthusiasm, to make OF
registration day a spiritual and pat.
riotic holiday, when the duty shall
lie upon every man, whether he is
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to it that the name of every male per-
son of designated ages is written on
these lists of honor"
The division tent to France will
consist of picked units of the regular
army. All the men will be veterans
of the service. They will go into a
camp near the front in France, where
they will receive intensive training
in the most approved methods of
warfare.
Washington.-All National Guard
organizations will be called into fed
eral service between July 18th and
Aug. 9Th. Governors have been au-
to recruit all organizations to
war strength. The dates of assembly
In the western states follow:
July 15th-Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.
July 25th - Montana. Wyoming,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Aug. 5th-Oklahoma, Texas, Kan.
sas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah and California.