The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-03-14
SECOND ARMY DRAFT CALLS
FOR 100000 MEN; 246
DAHO'S QUOTA
Will Be Taken Gradually; Will Disrupt Labor Situation
Defer Call on ALI Men Actually Engaged
in Agriculture

Therefore, the local boards will be
directed to fill their quotas In the
order of liability of men in class one
as determined by the national draw
ing, except that, when 1t Is shown that
registrant is completely and assidu-
ously engaged il the planting cultiva-
ton or reaping Of crop, his call to
the colors shall be deferred to the
! foot of the quta Of his board as long
as ne continues so engaged.
Whenever any registrant, whose
call to the colors has been deferred
by reason of his engagement in agri-
culture, is shown to have been idle on
the farm on which he is engaged or
to have trified with the deferment
that has been accorded him, the board
will forthwith induct him into mill
tary service if Lis order number has
been reached in the meantime. The
effect of this expedient is to grant fur
loughs from service prior to actual
call to the colors to the men so greatly
needed in the production of this years
crop.
This is not, however, the only ex-
pedient that is to be adopted to con
| serve the supply of labor appurtenant
to agriculture and to mobilize all
means for increasing the harvest for
the agricultural season of 1918.
There is now pending before con-
gress bill authorizing the secretary
of war to grant furloughs with or
without pay, to men in the army to en-
able them to engage in industrial and
agricultural pursuits. These furloughs
will be granted after consideration of
| the circumstances of the individual
case in which they arise and when the
military situation is such that they can
be granted without too great disrup-
ton and disorganization of the army
or any particular organization of the
army.
Will Favor Students.
AS further means to protect az
riculture a new regulation has been
promulgated authorizing agricultural
students in their senior year in land
grant colleges to enlist in the enlisted
reserve corps of the quartermaster'
department, provided tl-eir class stand
ing is such as to place them in the up
per third of their class BY this means
1t will be possible to defer the draft
call of such young men in order to en-
able them to perfect themselves as ag-
riculturists and hereafter to protect
them in such services as 1t may seem
that they should perform In the best
interests of the nation.
The whole industrial and agricul.
tural situation is being subjected tC
a very comprehensive study in order
to discover any means that may be
taken to protect and augment the labor
supply appurtenant TO industry and
agriculture without precluding the
prompt and orderly progress Of our mil
itary plans. 1t is confidently believed
that the great progress can be made
along his line and that more effective
means than any yet devised can be put
into operation to attain the desired
end"
1t might be emphasized that this
is a war of mechanics. The need OF
the several armed forces of men highly
skilled in technical and mechanical
pursuits Is greater than in any former
war. Yet this need for specially skill
ed men finds the nation under a neces
sity for increasing its production in al
most every line of industry With
drawals of mel from industry mus
be made and these Withdrawals mus
take men who might otherwise be de
ferred on account of special qualifica
tions and skill. The necessary number,
of such skilled men will be obtained
III one of three ways:
. First, men already in the militar,
service who have such special skill
will be taken from the line of regi
ments and assigned to the staff organ
izatiOns and departments where thei
skill is needed.
Second, men classified by the Sc
lection boards, even though they ma.
: have been placed in deferred classi
: fication, will be withdrawn with grea
: care and particularly from the indus
tries of the nation for special servic
in staff corps and departments.
Third, young men of draft age witt
certain educational qualifications viii
be inducted into the service and sen
to universities, colleges and technica
and second schools to be instructed il
technical arts until they have acquir
ed such proficiency as will justif,
their assignment to the special unit
that are being organized in consider
able numbers
In accordance with this plan th
provost marshal general has alread
called upon the states for 10000 skill
ed artisans and will shortly call upol
the states for 10000 young men, grad
yates of grammar schools, who will b
sent before the first of April to var
ious technical and other school
: throughout the United States for
two months course of training. Reg
ularly thereafter an increasing strean
of selected men will be sent througl
educational and other traing institu
tions for this purpose"