New-York tribune., 1918-01-04

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-All men for
the war armies still to be raised by the
United States will come from Glass l
under the new sclective service plan.
That means the nations fighting is to
be done by young men without families
dependent upon their labor for support
and unskilled in necessary industrial
or agricultural work.
Provost Marshal General Crowder an
nounced the new policy in an cxhaus-
tive report upon the operation of the
sclective draft law, submitted to-day to
Secretary Baker and sent to Congress-
lie says Glass l should provide men for
all military needs Of the country, and
to accomplish that object he urges
amendment Of the draft law so as to
provide that all men who have reached
their twenty-irst birthdays since June
5, 1917, shall be required to register for
classification.
Also, in the interest of fair distribu-
tion of the military burden, he pro-
poses that the quotas of states or dis
tricts be determined hereafter on the
basis Of the number of men in Glass /
and not upon population.
100000 Men Available
Available figures indicate, the report
says, that there are 100000 physically
and otherwise qualified men under the
present registration who will be found
in Class when all questionnaires have
been returned, and the classification
period ends February Is. To this the
extension of registrations to men turn
ing twenty-one since June of last
year and thereafter will add 100000 cf
fcctive men year
Class L comprises:
Single men without dependent re]a-
tives, married men who have habitu-
ally failed to support their families.
who are dependent upon wives for
support or not usefully engaged and
whose families are supported nv in
comes independent of their labor;
unskilled farm laborers, unskillcd
industrial laborers, regstrants by or
in respect of whom no deferred clas-
sification is claimed or made. regis.
Vidulo WHO IdlI 10 SUBMIT question:
nares and in respect of whom no
deferred classification is claimed or
made, and all rcgistrants not in
cluded in any other division of the
schedule.
Narrowed down under the ANALYSIS
of the first draft made in the report,
the plan places upon unattached single
men and married men with indepen-
dent incomes most Of the weight of
military duty. for the aggregate num-
Der Of men in the other divisions of
Glass is very small.
Draft Surpassed Expectations
General Crowder finds that the first
draft surpassed the highest expecta-
tions of the friends of the selective
service idea He pays high tribute
not only to the thousands of civilians
who gave ungrudging service to max
ing the plan a success, but also to the
high patriotism of the American people
as whole.
"At the Presidents CALL" he says,
"all ranks of the nation, reluctantly
entering the war, nevertheless instant
ly responded to the first call of the
nation with vigorous and unseltish
cooperation that submerged all in
dividual interest in simple endeavor
toward the consummation Of the ma
tional task l take it that no great
national project was ever attempted
with so complete reliance upon the
voluntary cooperation of citizens for
its execution. Certainly no such bur-
densome and sacritlcial statute had
ever before been executed without
great hierarchy of officials.
This law has been administered by
civilians whose official relations lie
only in necessary powers with which
they are vested by the Presidents
designation of them to perform the
duties that are laid upon them. They
have accomplished the task. They have
made some mistakes The system Of
fers room for Improvement
Democracy's Efficiency Shown
"But the great thing they were
called upon to do the- have done The
vaunted efficiency of absolutism of
which the German Empire stands as
the avatar can offer nothing to COM
pare with it, 1t remains the ultimate
test and proof Of the intrinsic polti-
cal idea upon which American institu-
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