The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-05

Washington, June 5.-To-day, on
the anniversary of Americas first
manpower mobilization, another mil
lion youths, the estimated strength
of the class of 1918, register on the
first station of the journey to the col
ors.
When their draft registration cards
come into their hands, they come
to the disposition of a swift, smooth
ly-working and practiced organi-
cation, whose agencies in every coun-
try-side, hamlet, and city of the land
have assumed successfully the task of
discriminating between the nations
need for men who can fight or work,
and it's additional need for men at
home t osupport it's dependent popu-
lation.
Observers, foreign and domestic,
military and civilian alike, class the
performance to date under the Ameri-
can selective service law as the most
tangibly successful of its military eff
forts, and regard the accretidn to the
manpower reservoir of the youngsters
who had not reached their majority
one year ago as the most certain as
surance of the final downfall of the
Prussian autocracy. Be it near or
far, the day of Allied Victory can
not be evaded, the practical military
view is, so long as the rising flood of
the American armies drilled, equip
ped and equipping, can be turned to
the European battle front.
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
tentative number given above for the
days new total, and likewise from the
experience tables of the year places
the number of potential soldiers to be
added to the list to-day at 10000
concluding that the class will be IS
per cent. composed Of military effec-
tives.
AS they assemble at the registering
stations to-day the total of men rails
ed by the draft in the United States
for its armies will pass 1900, 900. Be-
fore the end of the present month, the
modified total will have passed L.
100000, for the immense military ma
chine that owes it's existence to the
readiness of plain Americans to fight
is moving forward to a goal that will
meet President Wilson's demand for
force, force to the utmost, and force
without stint
The $500 local boards throughout
the country who take the burden of
the work have named registering
clerks for every 100 of the young
men within their jurisdiction. Men
absent unavoidably from their homes
on registering day may apply to any
board for their cards. Names as re-
corded will pass into the existing clas-
sifications of registered men and in
accordance with their physical quail
fications, their status as to, depen-
dents and as to industrial or agricul-
tural occupations, they will be as
signed to Glass One, Two\ Three, Four
or Five. The overwhelming major
ity, however, as indicated by the esti-
mate given, the provost marshal gen.
eral expects to find placed in Glass
One.
They will go to the foot of the list
of 1917 registrants in each class, and
will not be called, the regulations pro-
vide, until those above them have
been taken, unless by trade or educa-
ton they are fitted for specialized ar
my service, then they may be called
sooner The system of determining
the order of their call as among them
selves the provost marshal general has
not yet fixed, but the general expecta-
ton is that some sort of a lottery of
the type previously used, will be con-
Quoted on a national scale. Yet OF
this officials are not certain, because
the recurring draft calls come more
swiftly, and run to larger totals now
and the classification has come to be
more important than the numbers A
late order number will serve only tc
postpone for few days the inevitable
sail to the training camps.