Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-03
WORK OF RECRUITING ARMY
FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE TO
BE sPEEDED TO UTMOST.
EACH COUNTY MAY BE
ASKED FOR DOUBLE QUOTA
Men Under Training at Present to Be
Sent Overseas as Fast as Ships Can
Be Procured-Draft May Be En-.
Iarsed to Include Some Of Those in
Glass 2.

Washington, April 3.-The great
need for American fighting men to
help stem the tide of the German adj
vance in Picardy soon will be felt in
every part of the United States. NJ ore
men are to be drafted for service
abroad than had been contemplated in
the program for 1918. 1t is possible
that every community will be called
upon to contribute double the number
of young men called for under the
original plan.
The brigadng of American battal-
ions with French and British units will
empty the American training camps
in France of nearly all but the latest
arrivals. The ones thus called will
be units not deemed ready for serv-
ice as independent American divisions
but sufficiently trained to do their
part when included in brigades of
trained British and French troops
This action has been followed by or
ders to accelerate the transportation
abroad of American units now in
American training camps. Every ship
available for such purpose will be
pressed into service.
Must Increase Draft.
The speeding up of troop dispatching
will rapidly drain American training
camps and to refill them the war de-
partment will be compelled to increase
by a large ratio the number Of draft
ed men called to the colors.
To discuss the important changes in
the plans for the next draft made nee
essary by the speeding up Of troop
shipments to Europe, Provost Marshal
General Crowder has been summoned
TO confer with the general staff at the
war department. New troop requisi-
tons have been prepared, and Cen
eral Crowder understands that they
call for much larger quota Of reg
istered men for April and the succeed
ing months of 1918 than had been con-
templated in the plans for the draft
recently completed.
General Crowder frankly admitted
that the rushing Of men In training
to Europe undoubtedly would call for
larger inroads on the registration.
May Call Other Classes.
The new situation makes possible
the following:
The number OF men to be called
this year may be doubled. dependent
upon the facilities of troop transpor-
tation to Europe.
The call for troops thru the next
draft may be so large as to make II
necessary to go beyond Class in order
to fill the training camps. a course
ol, ;o1c
to pursue if possible to avoid IT.
April, May and June quotas now be-
ing prepared may be swelled to twice
their proposed size.
Instead OF 100000 men being called
this year. as many as 100000 men
may be called: this, it is believed.
would exhaust available material in
class one.
Training in the camps and canton
ments probably will be shortened. men
to be sent abroad as soon as they mas
ter the fundamentals.
Use Old Draft Basis.
Another thing made necessary by
the policy, of Fastening troops abroad
will be the calling of the April quota
on the old basis of determining quotas,
the population ratio. instead of the
scientific basis urged by the provost
general AS the new bill
stands, it proposes to allot the quotas
on the basis Of the number Of ragis-
tered men in class l in the respective
as compared to the total
The bill was passed by
the senate month ago. but Chairman
Dent and six other members of the
house committee are opposed to it and
the draft machinery meanwhile has
been slowed down.
Unless opposition to the quota bill
abates at once so that it may be signed
by the president within week, the