The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-05
MILLION YOUTHS
ARE EXPECTED TO
REGISTER TODAY
General Crowder Estimates
100000 Will Be Eligible
for Military Service.
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Today, on
the anniversary of Americas first
manpower mobilization, another mill
ion 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 70
the disposition of a swift, smoothly
working and practiced organization
whose agencies in every countryside,
hamlet. and city of the land have as
sumed successfully the task OF dis
eliminating between the nations need
for men who can fight or work. and its
additional need for men at home tc
support its dependent population.
Observers, foreign and domestic
military and civilian alike. class the
performance to date under the Amer
lean selective service law as the most
tangibly successful of it's military ef
forts, and regard the accretion to the
man-power reservoir of the youngsters
who had not reached their majority
one year ago as the most certain assur
ance 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 armies, drilled, equipped and
euuipping, can be turned to the Europ-
can battle front.
rs Per Cent Believed Eligible.
Provost-Marshal General Crowder
who supervises the 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 100000, con.
Guiding that the class will be Is per
cent composed of military effectives.
AS they assemble at the registering
stations today, the total of men raised
b. the draft in the United States for
its armies will pass 100000. Before
the end of the present month. the
mobilized total will have passed 1000
600, for the immense military machine
that owes it's existence to the readi
ness of plain Americans to fight l.
moving forward to a goal that will
meet President Wilson's demand for
force. force to the utmost, and force
without stint
The 4,500 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
unavoidably from their homes on
registering day may apply to any board
for their cards. Names as recorded
will pass into the existing classified
tions of registered men and. in accord
ance with their physical qualifications
their status as to dependents and As
to industrial or agricultural occupa
tions, they will be assigned to Glass
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.
Foot of 1917 List.
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 ARM
service, then they may be called soon
er. The system of determining the
order of their call as among them
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