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manpOwer reservoir Of the youngsters
who had not reached their majority
one year ago as the most certain as
surance Of the final downfall Of the
Prussian autocracy. Be II near or far,
the day Of Allied victory cannot be
evaded. the practical military view Is,
80 long as the rising flood Of the
American armies, drilled, equipped
and equipping, can be turned to the
European battlefront.
CRoWDER's ESTIMATE
Provost. Marshal General Crowder,
who suprevises the draft fixes the ten
tative 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
cluding that the class will he rs per
cent composed Of military effectives.
AS they assemble at the registering
stations today. the total of men raised
by the draft in the United States for
its armies will pass 100000. Before
the end of the present month, the mo-
bilized total will have passed !, 500 900,
for the immense military machine that
owes its existence to the readiness of
plain Americans to fight Is moving for
ward to goal that will meet Presi.
dent Wilson's demand for force, force
to the utmost, and force without
stint"
CLASS ONE MEN
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 reg.
istering 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 tc
Industrial or agricultural occupations
they will be assigned to Class One
Two. Three. Four. or Five. The over
whelming majority. however. as indi
Gated by the estimate given, the pro
vost marshal general expects to find
placed In Class One.
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 educa
tiOn they are fitted for specialized
army service. then they may be call
ed sooner. The system of determin
ing the order of their call as amonl
themselves the provost marshal gen
eral has not yet fixed, but the genera
expectation is that some sort of
lottery of the type previously uset
will be conducted on a national scale
Yet Of this officials are not certain
because the recurring draft calls com
more swiftly, and run to larger tc
tails now. and the classification ha
come to be more important than tn,
numbers. A late order number viii
serve only to postpone for few day
the inevitable call to the traininI
camps.
AFTER sLAcKERs
National purpose to see that no ir
dividuals evade service is expresses
in the regulations, wherein are voice.
the command Of the government t
peace officers of all descriptions, Unit
I ed States marshals, Secret Servic
men, and city police, that they shal
assist exemption boards in scannin
lists and combing out attempted evad
ers Of the registration.
Figures available show that no othe
country participating in the great wa
has the actual resources in men tha
the United States has. Against tn
provost marshal generals estimate {
100000 for the American militar
class of 1918, which is added to the a
most 100000 total of 1917, can b
placed the German annual incremen
of 100000, the French of 100000, an
the Italian of 100000. And all thes
classes in other countries have bee
called In advance.