Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-09-13
YOUNG MEN
FIRST CALLED
Those of 10 and 20 and Be-
tween 80 and 36 Will BE Used
Before Older Men Are TAX
en- to the Camps.

Washington, Sept. 1O.-Youtns o1
nineteen and twenty years and mel
thirty-siX, inclusive, who register
Thursday, will first be called 10 the
Colors, Provost Marshal General
Crowder announced today, and unit
the supply of available fighting ma.
hausted older men will not be in.
Quoted into service. Questionnnircs
will go out first to rcgistrants OF
these ages, the local boards have
been ordered to proceed with theiI
speedy Classification so thrt some OF
them may be called in October.
Pointing out that in classifying men
above the ages of thirty-onc the army
draft would be "attucking the coun-
try's economic life and entering an
uncxplored field" General Crowder
in a public statement to all employers
and industrial representatives, be-
sought their aid in applying The
plans of industrial defcrmcnts, SO
that maintenance of the military
establishment of the nation nj in
tcrests during the emergency may
not be intcrfered with.
Before issuing his appeal General
Crowder has again pointed out that
on estimates of experts the war de-
partment could expect to draw from
the classes above thirty-one only
61O,000 men physically fit for mill
tary service and rot entitled to de-
fered classification on the grounds
Of dependency or occupation. He al
SO said chat men of nineteen and
twenty called were entitled to ad-
mission to the student training corps
for which the WEI department has
made contracts, but added thai this
corps will number 10000 men, while
over three million youths below
twenty-one will register Thursday.
Methods of selecting those to be
inducted into military service and
educational training corps, he said,
were the concern of other branches
of the administration
In his statement to employers and
otl:er representatives of industry,
General Crowdcr said the time had
come when he must address to them
some regulations as to their share
of the responsibility in the classify
ing the new rigistrants, and added:
81 have noticed in the general ex-
presions Of the public attitude which
reach this office two frequent fea-
lures which lead me to present com
ments. One of these is tie belief
that the process Of awarding deferred
classification to rcgistrant requires
merely the filling out of the questi-
onnaire, and that the sclcctive SER
vice boads will perceive the propricty
of maxim the defcrmcnt, without the
assistance furnished by the regis
trant's formal claim Indicating the
defermcnt dcsired. The other feature
is the employers fault to realize his
responsibility to intervcat in aiding
the boards determination, and there
fore to inform himself fully on all
the considerations which should af-
feet the decision as to the defci'mcnt
Both of these features are due to Il
single larger fact, viz, failure on
the part Of many to reflect in tho
industrial considerations governing
deferred classificat;ons.
Cessation of enlistments," General
CrOwder said, will protect industry
against irregular and uncomfortable
sources of arrangement, but throw
more responsibility upon the draft
machinery, and he asked employers
end industrial representatives TO
share thai responsibility with the
boards"