Arizona republican., 1918-01-04
NEW PLAN WILL CALL MEN
 IN CLASS ONE FIRST AND REGISTER 100000 YEARLY
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 WASHINGTON Jan. 3.-All men for the war armies still to be raised by tho United States will come from class one under the new selective service plan. That means the nations fighting is to be done by young men without families dependent upon their labor for support and unskilled in necessary industrial or agricultural work.
 Provost Marshal General Crowder announced the new policy in report on the operation of the selective draft law submitted today to Secretary Bak- CT and sent to congress. He says class one should provide men for all military needs of the country and to accomplish that object he urges amendment of the draft law so as 10 provide that all men who have reached their twenty-first birthday since June ,, 1917. shall be re- quired to register for classification. Al so, in the interest of fair distribution of the military burden, he proposes that the quotas of states or districts be de- determined hereafter on the basis of the number of men in class one and not upon the population.
 Available figures indicate. the report says, that there are 100000 qualified men under the present registration who will be found in class one when all questionnaires have been returned and the classificatio period ends February l5. To this the extension of registra- ton to men turning 21 since June 3 of last year and thereafter will add 700.- 900 men a year
 Class One Comprises Single men without dependent rela = ! tives, married men who have habitual- ly failed to support their families. who are dependent upon wives for support or not usefully engaged, and whose ! families are supported by incomes in- dependent of their labor; unskilied farm laborers. unskilled industrial la i borers, registrants by or in respect of whom no deferred classification i. l claimed or made, registrants who fail 1 10 submit Questionnaire and in respect of whom no deferred classification is determined or made, or all registrants not included in any other division Of | the schedule.
 The plan places upon unattached single men and married men with in- dependent incomes most of the weight Of military demand, for the number Of men in the other divisions of class one
 is very small
 General Crowder finds that the first i draft surpassed the highest expecta
 tions and pays high tribute to the
 thousands of civilians whose service
 made the plan a success
 At the presidents call" he says al
 ranks Of the nation, reluctantly enter ing the war. nevertheless instantly re-
 sponded to the first call of the nation
 with vigorous and unselfish co-oper-
 ation that submerged all individual
 interest in single endeavor toward
 the consummation of the national task
 take 1t that no great national project
 was ever attemped with so complete a
 reliance upon the voluntary co-oper- ation of citizens for its execution. Ger
 tainly no such burdensome and sacri-
 ficial statute had ever before been ex-
 ecuted without great hierarchy of of , ficials
 This law has been administered by l civilians whose official relations lies only in necessary powers with which
 they are vested by the presidents des- . ignation of them to perform the duties that are laid upon them They have } accomplished the task. They have ) made some mistakes The system of ] fers room for improvement. But the great thing they were called l upon to do they have done. Tn, : vaunted efficiency of dissolution O ! which the German empire stands a. g the avatar can offer nothing to com = pare with it. It remains the ultimat. 9 test and proof of the intrinsic politica idea uron which American institution of democracy and self -governmen . have been based"
 First Draft Analysed , Analyzing the first draft, Genera I (Continued on Page Two)