The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-07-01
CLASS OF 1918
 MEETSS SMOOTH
 ORGANIZATION

lion youths, the estimated strength of the class of 1918, register on the first station of the journey to the colors.
 When their draft registration cards come into their hands, they come to the disposition of a swift, smoothly working and practiced organization, whose agencies in every countryside. hamlet, and city of the land have assumed successfully the task of dis eliminating between the nations need for men who can fight or work, and it's additional need for men at home to support 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 mili- tary efforts, and regard the accre- tion to the manpower reservoir of the youngsters who had not reached their majority one year 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 prac tical military view is, so long as the rising flood of the American armies, drilled. equipped and equip ping. can be turned to the European battlefront.
 Provost Marshal General Crowder. who supervscs ;he draft, fixes the 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 today at 750000. concluding that the class will be 75 per cent composed of military effectives.
 As they assemble at the register ing stations today, the total of men raised by the draft in the United States for it's armies will pass 1,300,- 
 month, the mobiized total will have passed 1,5o0,000, for the immense military machine that owes its eXis- tence to the readiness of plain Ameri- cans to fight is moving forward to d goal that will meet President Will sons demand for force, force to the utmost, and force without stint
 The 4,5OO 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 unavodably from their homes on registering day may apply to any board for their cards. Names as recorded will pass into the existing classifications of registered men and, in accordance with their physical qualifications, their status as to de- pendents and as to industrial or agricultural occupations, they will be assigned to Class One Two. Three, Four, or Five The overwhelming majority, however as indicated by the estimate given, the provost marshal general expects 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 regula- tions provide, until those above them have been taken, unless by trade or education they are fitted for special
 zed army service, then they may be called sooner The system of deter mining the order of their call as among themselves the provost mar shal general has not yet fixed, but the general expectation is that some sort of a lottery of the type previous ly used, will be conducted on a na- tional 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 to postpone for a few days the inevit- able call to the training camps. National purpose to see that no individuals evade service is express ed in the regulations, wherein are voiced the command of the govern ment to peace officers of all de- scriptions, United States marshals. : secret service men, and city police. : that they shall assist exemption boards in scanning lists and combinG out attempted evaders of the regis tration.
 Figures available show that no : other country participating in the great war has the actual resources in men that the United States has. Against the provost marshal gener aps estimate of 1,000000 for the American military class of 1918. which is added to the almost 1O, OO0,0O0 total of 1917, can be placed the German annual increment of 600 ,000, the French of 100000. and