The Arizona copper camp., 1917-08-18

cepted for the national army will go,
and the rules governing their depart
| ure from the more than 4,500 dis
tricts in the United States is told in
the following regulations received this
week from the war department An
expert railway traffic man will be as
signed to each state, and will report
to the governor of each state on Aug.
10. He will have charge of all rout-
ings of men, and the arrangement of
the exact time at which they will
leave their homes. AS one-third of
the first call, or 100000 men, will go
into encampment between Sept. 1 and
5, this will be the largest single mill
tary movement ever taking place in
the United States, especially since the
men will have to be moved from
4557 separate districts and great
many more stations to their new en-
campments.
The First Step
Rules governing the final step of
the draft work in Arizona-the mObil-
ization and entraining of the drafted
men-have been received by Col. Fred
S. Breen and have been distributed to
the local boards throughout the state.
The time for mobilization and en-
training has been fixed by the war
department at Washington and will
take place on or about September 1-5.
Under the rules of the work, men
selected for the army will be notified
personally or by posting of notice at
the court house and the publication
of names in the newspapers.
Those who pass the physical exam
ination and do not claim or are not
| accorded exemption will be notified
by the local boards to hold themselves
in readiness for military duty.
Colonel Fred Breen will call upon
local boards to send selected men to
mobilization camps which will be
chosen at some alter date by that Off
cial. There will probably be five or
six camps in this state.
Work of Getting Ready
Local boards are empowered to fix
the time of assembly and to order
men to military duty; that is, these
boards will determine the hour and
place of entrainment for the mobili-
zatiOn headquarters. Such notice shall
not be more than "a hours nor less
than IL hours in advance of the >hour
of entrainment on the date specified
by the adjutant general, however.
| From the time specified for report
ing to the local board for military
duty each man in respect of whom
notice to report has been. posted or
mailed shall be in the military service
of the United States.
Either the posting at the office of
the local board notice of orders to re-
port for military duty to the local
board or the mailing of such notice as
herein porvided shall constitute the
giving of notice and shall charge
every person named with notice that
he is in the military service of the
United States from the time specified
for reporting to the local board for
military duty.
Local boards will arrange for sub
sistence and lodging of the drafted
men until entrainment time. Meals
and lodging tickets will be furnished
local boards for this purpose and the
arrangements should include an agree.
ment on the parts of such hotels,
restaurants or lodging houses to ac-
cept, in payment for subsistence and
lodging, meal tickets redeemable in
cash at the office of disbursing Off
Ger of the war department.
Local boards will hold alternates
ready to take the place of delinquents
At least five men in addition to the
quota for each county must be mott
fled to report on the day specified
| These additional men are intended to
serve as alternates in case of the men
notified as prescribed above fail to re
port as directed, and in order that the
local board may not be placed in the
position of failing to entrain the exact
number of men called for with the
promptness and precision that should
characterize all matters relating tC
the formation of the armies of the
United States. The names of these
alternates will not be entered on the
lists at time service of the United
States by reason of personal notifica
ton, but they will be in the military
service it, on failure of any of the
regularly notified men to report, their
names are entered on the lists as
above stated.
At the time and place specified on
the lists for the selected men to re.