The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-15
SECOND ARMY
DRAFT NOW ON
$4,000 CALLED
Men Move to Training Camps Be-
ginning March 20.
FURLOUGHS FOR AGRICULTURE
Those in First Call Not Desired at
This Time Will Be Left and 10000
Taken From Second-New
Plan Announced.
BURROUGHS FOR AGRICULTURE

De no GATE set Tor the second 0ra1I 1OF
the very sufficient reason that the Sec
Ond draft is on now.
The call issued on Tuesday for 3d.
600 men to be assembled during the
five days beginning March % would
go 10000 into the second installment
if all the men liable to service under
the original call were used. Actually
the $4,000 will take in 10000 or $4,000
Of the young men of the second incre-
ment, while lot of the original draft
ees will not be hidden to the colors at
all. Their time will come, but it will
be when it is convenient for the camps
to handle them.
Illinois, for instance, is required to
send 1861 as it's quota of the $4,000.
There remain 5000 men of the original
draft, even after these have gone to
the camps. Wisconsin is asked for g.
214, Michigan for 1858 and Indiana for
2,977, while Iowa and Minnesota are
not required to send any.
Selection, Not Lottery.
There are calls from states that
have filled their quota of the first
draft, and some states that still owe
men on that account are passed over.
This simply means that the Selective
system has taken the place of the lot
terry plats, and that from this time on
the United States will take men as it
needs them, choosing the particular
kind of men and being guided by the
capacity of particular camps to alb
SOrb them, and other considerations.
Some Troops viii Go to France.
The general scheme of the new ar
rangement was announced on Tuesday
by an official bulletin from Provost
Marshal General Crowder's Office.
According to this bulletin, 100000
has been decided on as the number to
be used for the purpose of allOcating
the quotas of the various states. This
does not mean that 100000 will be
called Out-there may be only 100000,
or there may be ,0O0,O00-the elastic
language of the law makes either fig
ure possible.
A group will be summoned every
month or twO-it is not likely that the
call will be completed for a year.
The camps for which the men who
get the word to travel on March %
are assigned are not to be mentioned,
for it is military policy to withhold
news of troop movements. Some of
them are destined for France forth
with, doubtless, to fill General Perish
ings orders for men of specified trades
who are needed behind the lines.
For month past skilled men have
been gathered for service here and
abroad.
"This is a war of mechanics" says
CrOwder, and then he tells how he is
going to get the mechanics into the
army with the minimum disturbance:
81. Men who already are in the mill
tary service, who have such special
skill, will be taken from the line regi-
ments and assigned to the staff Organi
cations and departments where their
skill is needed.
"2. Men classified by the selection
boards, even though they may have
been placed in a deferred classification,
will be withdrawn with great care and
particularly from the industries Of the
nation for special service in staff corps
and departments.
"3. Young men of draft age, with
certain educational qualifications, will
be indicted into the service and sent
to universities, colleges and technical
and secondary schools, to be instructed
in technical arts until they have ac-
quired such proficiency as will justify
their assignment to the special units
that are being organized in consider
able numbers.
TN accordance with this plan the
provost marshal general has already
called upon the states for some 10000
skilled artisans, and will shortly call
upon the states for 10000 young men,
graduates Of grammar schools, who
will be sent before April 1 to various
technical and other schools throughout
the United States for q two months
course of training.
To Take Farmer Boys Last.
''It would be a most unscientific and
fatuous step if the men in class 1
were called indiscriminately, without
regard to the labor situation in agri-
culture" says the provost marshal
general Therefore, the local boards
will be directed to fill their quotas in
the order of liability of men in class
as determined by the national
drawing, except that where it is
shown that a registrant' is completely
and assiduously employed in the
planting or reaping of a~crop his call
to the cOlors shall be deferred to the
foot of the quota of his board as long
as he continues to be so engaged"
AS final contribution to the cause
of food growing, agricultural students
in their senior year, who stand among
the first third of their classes are to
have their draft calls deferred to en-
able them to finish their courses.