The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-05
MAN POWER FOR
GREAT STRUGGLE

power mobilization, another million
youths, the estimated strength of the
class of 1918, register on the first sta
ton on the journey to the colors.
When their draft registration cards
come into their hands, they come to
ehe disposition o ia swift, smooth-work
ling and practiced organization, whose
agencies in every country side, hamlet.
and city of the land have assumed sue
cessfully the task of discriminating
lbetween the nations need for men
who can fight or work, and it's addi-
tional need for men at home to support
its dependent population.
Observers, foreign and domestic, mil
tary and civilian alike, class the per.
Hormance to date under the selective
draft law as the most tangible man
power reservoir of the youngster who
had not reached their majority one
Iyear ago as the most certain assurance
of the final downfall of the Prussian
autocracy. Be it near or far. the day
of allied victory cannot be evaded, the
practical military view is, so long as
the rising flood of the American ar
mics, drilled equipped and equipping,
can be turned to the European battle
front
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
who supervises the draft fixes the ten
tative number given above for the day
new total, and likewise from the ex-
perience tables of the year places the
number of potential soldiers to be adj
ded to the list today at 100000, con
Guiding that the class will be rs per
cent composed of military 'effectives.
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 100000. Be
fore the end of the present month,
the modified total will have passed
100000, for the immense military ma
chine that owes is existence to the
readiness of plain Americans to fight
is moving forward to a goal that will
meet President Wilson's demands for
"Force, force to the utmost, and force
with out stint"
The $500 local boards throughout
the country who take the burden of
the work have named registering cler
ks for every 100 of the young men
within their jurisdiction. Men alb
sent unavoidably from their homes
on registering day may apply to any
board for their cards Names as re-
corded will pass into the existing class
ifications of registered men and, in
accordance with their physical quail
ticatiOas, their status as to dependents.
and as to Industrial or agricultural
occupations, they will be assigned to
Class One, Two, Three, Four or Five.
The overwhelming majority, how
ever, as indicated by the estimate
given, the provost marshal general eX-
poets to find placed in class 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 education
they are fitted for specialized army
service, then they may be called soon
er. The system of determining the or
selves the provost marshal general
has not fixed, but the general eXpec-
tation is that some sort of lottery
of the type previously used, will be
conducted on a national scale. Yet
of tbs officials aI'5 not certain, be-
cause the recurring draft call come
more frequently and run to larger to-
tails now. and the classification has
come to be more important than the
Sumbers. A late order number will
r9rve only to postpone for few days
the inevitable call to the training
camps.
National purpose to see that no in
dividuals evade service is expressed
in the regulations, whelain are voiced
the command of the government to
peace officers of all descriptions. Uni
ted States marshals, Secret Service
men. and city police, that they shall
assist exemption boards in scanning
istsand combing out attempted eva
ders of the registration.
| Figures available show that no other
country participating in the great war
has the actual resources in men that
tl2 United States has Against the
provost marshal generals estimate
of 1,000,000 for the American military
class Of 1918, which is added to the
almost 10000 900 total of 1917. can be
placed the German annual increment
IF Coz, 900 the French of 100000. and
the Italian of 100000. And all these