The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-01-10
MEN WITH NO DEPENDENTS
NEXT ARMIES WILL BE OF MEN
WITHOUT FAMILIES.
Glass Will Also Include Those Hav-
ing Reached Fl Since June
5, 1917.
5, 1917.

the war armies still to be raised by
the United States will come from class
/ under the new selective service
plan. That means the nations fight
ing is to be done by young men with
out families dependent upon their
labor for support and unskilled in
necessary industrial or agricultural
work.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announces the new policy in an ex-
haustive report upon the operation OF
the selective draft law submitted to-
day to Secretary Baker and sent to
congress.
Urges Amendment of Law.
The general says class 1 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 reached their twenty
first birthdays since June 5, 1917,
shall be required to register for clas-
sification. Also1 in the interest OF
fair distribution of the military bur-
den. he proposes that the quotas OF
States or districts be determined
hereafter on the basis of the number
of men in class and not upon popu-
lation.
100000 in Class 1.
Available figures indicate, the re-
port says, that 100000 physically
and otherwise qualified men under
the present registration should be
found in class 1 when all question
naires have been returned and the
classification period ends February
Is. To this the extension of registra-
tion to men turning twenty-one since
June 5 of last year and thereafter
will add 100000 effective men a
year.
Glass Comprises:
Single men without dependent rela-
tives, married men who have habitu-
ally failed to support their families,
married men who are dependent upon
wives for support, men not usefully
engaged and whose families are sup
ported by income independent of their
labor, unskilled farm laborers, un-
skilled industrial laborers, regis
istrants by or in respect of whom no
deferred classification is claimed or
made. registrants who fail to submit
questionnaires and in respect of
whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made, and all registrants
not included in any other division
of the schedule.
Where the Weight Rests.
Narrowed down on the analysis of
the first draft made in the report, the
plan places upon unattached single
men and married men with independ-
ent incomes most of the weight of
military duty, for the aggregate
numbers of men in other divisions of
class / is very small.
Gen. Crowder finds that the first
draft surpassed the highest ex-
pectation of friends of the Sc
lective service idea. He pays high
tribute, not only to the thousands
of civilians who gave ungruding SER
vice to making the plan a success,
but also to the high patriotism of
the American people as a whole.
Splendid Response.
"At the Presidents CALL" he says,
sall ranks of the nation, reluctantly
entering the war, nevertheless Ill
stantly responded to the first call of
the nation with a vigorous and un-
selfish cooperation that submerged
all individual interest in single
effort toward the comsummation OF
the national task. / take it that nc
. great national project was ever at
tempted with so complete reliance
| upon the volunteer of citizens for its
execution. Certainly no such bur
densome and sacriflcial statute had
ever before been executed without q
great hierarchy Of officials.
BY Civilians.
This law has been administered
by civilians whose 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 upor
them. They have accomplished the
task. They have made some mis-
takes. The system offers room fol
Improvement.
But the great things they were
called upon to do they have done
The vaunted efficiency of absolutisn
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