Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-08-21
All Youths Who Have Become of
Age Since June 5, Must Regis
ter on Aug. "a.
WINNESHIEK BOYS REGISTER
AT THE COURT HOUSE
The Hours Will Be From Eight i'm
the Morning Until Six O'clock
in the Evening.

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VINO have become 21 years old since
June 5, 1918, must register for
military duty. The registration for
Winneshiek county will take place
at the Court house in Decorah, and
Chairman Bradish of the local ex-
emption board states the hours will
be from a. m. to p. m. 60,
The purpose of this registration,
according to General Crowder's
message, is to provide quickly for
a sufficient number of class 1 men
to fill the September calls. Draft
officials are admonished not to con-
fuse this registration on Aug. "a
with the registration which will
come some time in September, after
the passage of the act extending the
draft age from 21 to As.
The registrants on Aug. "a are to
be treated as late registrants in the
registration of June 5. The work
of physical examination and classi-
fication of these men will be car
ried on with all possible speed.
There has been good deal of delay
in getting the registrants of last June
ready for induction into the service,
as result of which calls for men
have been held up to an appreciable
extent. In order to avoid a repeti-
tion OF delay of this kind local
boards are urged to lose no time In
connection with the preparation of
this new body of registrants for SER
vice.
1t is estimated that in this new
registration Iowa will probably fur
nish about 1000 men. The June,
1918, registration yielded some IT,
600, which was the number that had
reached registration age during the
year intervening between June 5, :
1917, and June 5, 191S.s The period
between the June and August regis
trations being approximately three
months, it is reasonable to suppose
that about a fourth of the number
that registered in June will register
in August. -:
AS to the number of class 1 men
that will result from the new regis
tration, assuming that there are
about 1000 registrants, it is safe TO
say that it will not much exceed
2,500. The government in connec-
tion with the registrants of June,
1918, required that at least SO per
cent of them should be placed In
class 1. The percentage in Iowa has
run higher than that, having mo-
where been below so per cent, and
some boards having placed as high
as rs per cent of these registrants
in class /. An average of about 60
per cent, therefore, would probably
be fair estimate.
So far as Iowa is concerned she
has not as yet exhausted her number
of class 1 men by some 10000 or
more. OF the 1917 registration there
are still between $500 and 1900
men, while of the registration on
June 5, 1918, there will be .ap-
Iproximately 1900 class men,
when classification is fully compile
ted. AS as has been the case in
other states, however, so in Iowa
the work of classifying the June,
I191S. registrants has been unac-
countably delayed although it is
now nearing completion. Very few
of the 1918 registrants have as yet
been called into the service. Ina
few instances the local boards were
compelled to call on them to make
up the shortage of 10 men in the
call for 3,265 men that went to
Camp Forrest, Ca, on July 20.
There were also a few 1918 regis
trants among the 500 that went to
Jefferson Barracks on Aug. 5.