The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Those Who Have Become II
Within Year to Be Made
Eligible for the Draft ]
BIG MAJORITY TO
BE IN CLASS ONE
Will Go to the Foot of the List and
Will Not Be Called Until Those
Above Them Have Been Taken, Elk
cept in Special Cases.


WASHINGTON, June 5.-Today, or the
anniversary of Americas first manpower
mobilization, another million youths, the
estimated strength of the class OF 1918,
register ON the first station of the jonr-
ney to the colors.
When their draft registration cards
come into their hands, they come to the
disposition of. swift, smoothly working
and practiced organization, whose agen
cies in every countryside, hamlet, and
city of the land have assumed success
| fully the task of discriminating between
the nation need for men who can fight or
| work, and its additional need for men at
home to support its dependent population.
Observers, foreign and domestic, mill
tary and civilian alike, class the perform
ance TO date under the American selec-
| tive service law as the most tangibly sue
cessful of its military efforts, and regard
the aecFetion to the man power reservoir
of the youngsters who had not reached
their majority one year ago as the most
certain assurance of the final downfall
of the Prussian autocraey. Be it near or
far the day of allied victory cannot be
evaded, the practical military view is, so
long as the rising food of the American
armies, drilled. equipped and equipping,
can be turned to the European battle.
front
Provost Marshal General Crowder, who
superyises the draft fixes the tentative
, number given above for the days new
L tbea
tables of the year places the number OF
potential soldiers to be added to the list
! today at 100 900, concluding that the class
will he 80 per cent composed OF military
, electives. &c
As they assemble at the registering sta
, ton today. the total of men raised b,
the draft in the United States for 1T
armies will pass 100000 Before the enc
/. of the present month, the modified
total will have passed 100000, for thu
/ immense military machine that owes III
1 existence to the readiness of plain Amer
: itans to fight is moving forward to goa
r that will meet President Wilson's demand
t for force, force to the utmost, and fore
| without stint
The $500 local boards throughout tn
country who take the burden of the worl
have named registering clerks for ever
100 of the young men within their juris
e diction. Men absent unavoidably iron
their homes on registering day may appl
to any board for thein cards Names a
If lrecorded will pass into thu existing elias
IL sifications of registered men and in accord
rs anee with their physical qualifications
n their status as to dependents and as t
industrial or agricultural occupations, the
d will be assigned to class one, two, thre'
ID four, or FIVE The overwhelming majorit,
ID however, as indicated by the estimat
he given, the provost marshal general e,
De poets to find placed in class one.
lel They will go to the foot of the list
ar 1917 registrants i'll zach class, and will nc
be called. the regulations provide, unit
Il those above them have been taken, unles
by trade or education they are fitted fo
Is specialized army service. then they mayf
n called sooner. The system of determine
D. the, order of their call as among themselv,
l., the provost marshal general has not Y,
IN fixed, but the general expectation is tn;
n some sort of a lottery of the type pr
r. viously used. will be conducted on n
tional scale Yet Of this officials are n,
: certain. because the recurring draft cal
come more swiftly, and run to larger t
~ tails now, and the classification has con
Ut to be more important than the number
w A late order number viii serve only
~ postpone for a few days the nevital
ne call TO training camps.
n. National purpose to see that no int
viduals evade service is expressed in 4
regulations. wherein are voiced the COZ
mand of the government to peace Office
of all descriptions, United States marsha
M Secret Service men, and city police, tn
they shall assist exemntion boards in sea
Gu, ming lists and combing ont attempt
IA evaders of the registration
Figures available show that no otf