Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-09-13
YOUNGER DRAFT
men TO GO FIRST
CLASSES OF 10 TO 20 YEARS AND
80 TO SO WILL Be sum-
MoNEo EARLY.
ouestlonnaires VIII Go First to the
RenIstrants Within These Specified
Ages and They viii BE Ready
for the Calls In October.

Observation-Disclosures Marshal Gem
that the first call to the colors Of men
who registered Thursday will include
men la the 10 and 2O-year-old classes
and In the classes from 80 to 80 years,
inclusive. missionaries viii 60 first
to registrants within these specified
age limits, and local boards will be
ordered to classify them first In readi-
ness for calls beginning In October.
Young men in the 10 and 20-year
classes, General Crowder said, win be
accepted for induction into the stu
dents army training corps, but he.
pointed out that the authorized
strength of this corps IL only 10000
men, whereas the total number of reg
istrants below 20 win be- over 3,00O-
600.
The General pointed out that the to-
tai number OF fit men expected from
the classes over 80 was Col, 900, and
repeated the statement that class one
OF men now registered would be al
most exhausted by October ].
Appeal to Employers.
General CrOwder also issued an APP
peal to employers to assist In the pres
entation OF claims for occupational ex-
emptions, and declared that no esti-
mates could be made as to the number
of older men who ought to be so ex-
empted.
General Crowder has said the war
department could expect to draw from
the classes above 81 only 601,0 900 men
physically lit for service and not en-
titled to deferred classification. He
also said men of 10 and 20 called were
entitled to admission to the students
training corps ut the 400 secondary
schools with which the war depart
ment has made contracts, but added
that this corps would number 10000
men, while over 100000 youths below
n registered Thursday.
Methods of selecting those to be In
Quoted into military service and edu-
eational training corps, he said were
the concern of other branches of the
administration.
Someone must indicate that the In
dividual case is one which should ar
rest the special attention of the boards
In respect to the reglstrants occupa-
tional status" said General Orowder In
his statement The boards do not
possess superhumnn omniscience.
Nor are they permitted by circum-
stances to devote unlimited time to
the search of questionnaires for pos
sibIe grounds of claim. In 1917, out
of more than 100000 registrants
called. only 100000 filed OccupationaI
claims, or AZ per cent; thus % per
cent of all registrants raised no ques-
ton Of such deferment.
Boards to Welcome Aid.
'wThe boards will do all that they
possibly can, on their own initiative,
to reach d JUST decision by COM
plete examination Of the question
naires even where no claim is ex-
pressly made
Nevertheless, the boards VIII well
come and win need all the aid TINT
they can be furnished by the indica-
ton of claim made for deferment,
''But who is to make that claim.
Ordinarily, the registrant himself will
indicate the claim on his question
naire. But, If through mistaken chiv-
airy, he should fail to do so, another
may make It for him. In industry.
agriculture or other occupations the
other person will naturally be his em-
ployer or some other representative
OF his associated group.
'4rhe employer In this situation rep
Fesents the nation because In the stat
utory phrase the maintenance of the
military establishment or of the na-
tional interest during the emergency
requires that some well-adyised third
person should look after that national
may not have sufficiently consid-
cred"