The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-14
AFTED MEN
ALL IN CAMP
BY OCTOBER
Fist Entrainlng Ordered for
September 5
IN FOUR DIVISIONS
About $4,000 Men Will Be Sent to
Each cantonment on Three
Different Dates.

Washington, Aug 1.-THE entire
6S7 900 men composing the first incre-
ment of the army draft forces will be
under training early in October. I'm
der orders issued yesterday the first
30 per cent Of the quota of each dis
trict will begin entrainment for can
tonments September 5 the next 30
per cent September 10, and another 30
per cent September 30. The remain
ing 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 through September 1t viii also
prevent serious shortages in any
camp and will give the new officers
from the training camps time TO ia
miliarize themselves with their duties
gradually before responsibility for a
great body OF men falls on them.
The order issued yesterday means
that about $4,000 men will reach each
OF the 16 cantonments soon after Sep
tember g. They will first be examin-
ed physically by army doctors and f.
nally accepted or rejected This will
take some time and the men will have
to be furnished with temporary quar-
ters and rationed while awaiting ex-
animation. II the full quota we're as
sembled at one time. great confusion
would result.
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 in
that case, and the third lot can be
taken into the war machinery with
even less disturbance when il reports
10 days later
| Reviewing the question Of discharge
| for dependent relatives, Provost Mar.
shalGeneral Crowder issued a supple
mental ruling yesterday holding that
persons should not be discharged be
cause OF dependents resident abroad.
THE object Of the law permitting per-
sons to be discharged provided he has
person falling within any of the
classes Of dependents, dependent upon
him, was TO prevent such dependents
becoming a charge upon the American
people, the ruling says. "A dependent
living abroad could not become such
a charge. Persons claiming discharge
because OF such dependent cannot
properly be discharged on ground that
such discharge is advisable within the
meaning Of the act of Congress"
That conscientious objectors to wal
are not TO be excused entirely from
serving the country was made clear in
another ruling by the provost mar
shal, holding that such persons should
be sent to the mobilization camps
along with others drafted, to be as
| signed later to noncombatant bran
ches Of the service. 1t is presumed
they will serve in the quartermaster':
corps, the medical corps or other unit.
not employed In actual combat.
Only in rare cases are railway mai
clerks to be exempted Yesterday III,
postCfiice department announced tha
published reports of blanket exemp
tlon for this class of postal employees
were based on a misinterpretation o
the department order covering posta
exemptions. Only scheme clerks
chief clerks and assistant chief clerk
Of the railway service will be givel
exemptions and most of them ar
: above military age. The postoihc
department announced also that
would certify exemptions for post oi
fee inspectors, but not for postmas
/ ters. Postmasters of the first, sec
, ond and third classes, however, ar
. exempted specifically under the law.