Republican farmer., 1918-08-09
IS READY
 FOR NEW DRAFT
Registration Date for Is to 45 Men Probably Between
 September 5 and 15.

Washington, Aug. 7.---Plans for the drawing of the names of the almost 100000 new rcgistrants which the enactment of the proposed. amend ment to the existing law would ne- cessitate already are complete. The Provost Marshal Generals office will adhere to the plan of the original draft. At that time the districting of the United States for the draft ere ated vast number of districts of av- craze population, but one district stood out supreme beyond all others with 10,00J prospective registrants.
 It is anticipated that in arranging for this even larger draft the largest district will have approximately 12,500 Tegistsants, but no change in the mo- dus operandi will be necessary. Col. Charles B. Warren, who devised the scheme used last year, is satisfied that the entire drawing can be com pleted in a single day.
 When the new draft bill receives it's final approval not more than nine or ten dSys of necessity must elapse be- fore the actual registration is held. There has been no arbitrary date fixed and the assumption by the press throughout the country that Septem- Der had been definitely decided upon has embarrassed the Provost Marshal Generals office not a little. It is hoped to fix the registration day be- tween September 5 and 15. Also it will be necessary in fixing a date for registration throughout the Union to avoid any day upon which State or primary elections are held in any State of the Union. For example Maine election on September 10 is an impossible date and likewise there are primary elections in various parts of the United States early in September, all of which must be avoided for the reason that the election machinery of the various States and municipalities is the mechanism upon which the War IOepartment depends.
 | The provision in the proposed amendment that "the President may draft such persons liable to military service in such sequence of ages anG at such time or times as he may pre- scribe" it was pointed out at the of flee of the Provost Marshal General gives the President complete power tC exercise his own judgment as to the ages of the men actually to be called to the colors.
 Nevertheless 1t is the anticipation
 of the War Department that following
 upon the registration and the new
 draft the President will call first the men between the ages of 32 and 40, to-
 gether with those between 20 and 21
 Should this draft increment become
 exhausted in the course of the wal
 the extension to the junior and ex
 treme senior classifications, namely
 those between IS and 20 and those be
 tween 40 and 45, would follow.
 Particularly with regard to the 1 and 19 year old registrants will thert be an interesting development in thu ! working out of the new law. Day b!
 day the men in these classes approach and move over into the higher classi fications, so that the continuing in
 take of men reaching their eighteenth
 birthday provides a vast and growing
 group of men in the junior classified tions. Great interest attaches as tt the intentions of the President witt regard to the men of the three junio years, but from neither the Whit House nor the War Department ha . there yet been a single word escaped with regard to what are the admins
 tration's intentions.