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 Crowder's Announcement: That New
 Armies to Be Raiseh Will sTake
 Only From Glass of SeIective Ser
 vice Act Means Nation's Fighting
 is to be- Done by. Youths Without
 Dependents and UnsKi1Ied in indus-
 trial or Agricultural Work
 WASHINGTON. D.: G., Jan, 4-All men for the war. armies stf1l to be raised by the United States will come from class one, under the new selec- tive service plan. This means the nations fighting is to be done by 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 a report on, the operation of the selective draft law submitted today to Secretary 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 to provide that. all men who have reach ed twerty-one since June 5, 1917, shall be, required to register for classifica- tior. Also in the interest of fair distribution of the military burden, he proposes that the quotas of states or districts be determined hereafter on the basis of the number of men in class one and not upon the popula- tfon.
 Available figures indicate, the re- port says, that there are 100000 qualified men under the present regis tration who will be found in class one when all questionnaires have been returned and the classification per iod ends February 15 To this the extension of registration to men turn ing 21 since June of last year and thereafter will add 100000 men a year
 In Class One
 Class one comprises:
 Single men without dependent rela- tives, married men who have habit ually failed to support their families, who are dependent upon wives for support or not usefully engaged, and whose families are supported by in- comes independent of their labor; unskilled farm laborers, unskilled industrial laborers. registrants by or in respect of whom no deferred clas- sif1cation is claimed or made; regis trants who fail to submit question naires and in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed or made. and all registrants not in- cluded in any other division of the schedule
 The plan placed upon unattached single men are married men with independent 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 draft surpassed the highest exs pectations and pays high tribute to the thousands of civilians whose ser vice made the plan success.
 Tribute to citizenry
 At the presidents call" he says, entering the war, nevertheless in- the nation with vigorous and un- all individual interest in a single en- deavor toward the consummation of the national task. I take it that no great national project was ever at- tempted with so complete reliance upon the voluntary cooperation of citizens for it's execution. Certainly no such burdensome and sacriflcia1 statute had ever before been exc cuted without a great hierarchy of officials.
 "This law has been administered by civilians wohse official relations lie only in necessary powers with which they are vested by the presi- dents designation of them to per form the duties that are laid upon them. They have accomplished the task. They have made some mis- takes The system offers room for improvement.
 "But the great thing they were called upon to do they have done. The vaunted efficiency of absolutism of which the German empire stands as the avatar can offer nothing to compare with it. It remains the ul- timate test and proof of the intrinsic political idea upon which American institutions of democracy and self government have been based"
 Nine Millions Registered
 Analyzing the first draft, General Crowder shows that 9,5S6,50S men between the ages of 21 and 31 years registered. Up to late in December only 5S7O arrests had been made of those who sought to evade registra- tion and of that number 2263 were released after having registered, and there remain only 2095 cases to be prosecuted. The report declares that in the final analysis of the records it will be shown that only 0.00026 per cent of the men within draft age evaded registration.
 A rough figure of S.2 per cent is given as the number of registrants who failed to appear when called by their local boards for examination, but General Crowder hastens to ex- plain that most of these men already are in Europe in the American, Brit ish and French armies. They did not wait the draft processes in their eagerness to get into action.