The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1918-01-07
ALL MEN FOR WAR
ARMIES FROM CLASS
Under New Selective Service Plan
Nation S Fighting is to be Done
by Young Men Without Fami-
lies-Report on Operation of
Selective Draft.

| All men for the war armies still to
be raised by the United States will
come from Class l under the new Sc
lective service plan. That means the /
nations fighting is to be done by
young men without families depend
ent upon their labor for support and
| unskilled in necessary industrial or
| agricultural work.
/ Provost Marshal General Crowder |
| announces the new policy in an ex
haustive report upon the operation OF
the selective draft law submitted
| Thursday to Secretary Baker and sent
to Congress. He says Class l should
provide men for all military needs of
the country and to accomplish that OBJ
iect urges amendment Of the draft
law so as to provide that all men who
have reached their twenty first birth
day since June 5, 1917, shall be re-
quired to register for classification.
Also in the interest of fair distribu-
ton 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 Class
and not upon population.
Available figures indicate, the re-
port says, that there are 100000
physically and otherwise qualified men
under the present registration who
will be found in Class l when all
cuestionnaires have been returned and
the classification period ends Febru-
airy Is. To this the extension Of reg
j istration to men turning FL since June
5 of last year and thereafter will add
100000 effective men year.
Those Who Are Included.
Class l comprises:
Single men without dependent rel
atives, married men who have nabit-
ually failed to support their families
who are dependent upon wives fol
support or not usefully engaged, anc
whose families are supported by in
comes independent of their labor; I'm
skilled farm laborers, unskilled indus
> trial laborers, registrants by or in re
ton is claimed or made, registrant
who fail to submit questionnaires an
in respect of whom no deferred class
ification is claimed or made and al
registrants not included in any othe
division of the schedule.
II Narrowed down under the analyst
of the first draft made in the repor
the plan places upon unattached sir
gle men and married men with inde
pendent incomes most of the weigh
of military duty, for the aggragat
number of men in the other division
Of Class l is very small.
Expectations Surpassed.
II General Crowder finds that the frs
draft rressed the highest expects
ions Of the f:ieLGs of the selectiv
not only to the Thousands Of civilian
who have given ungrudgi servit
in making the plan a success, but ais
to the high patriotism Of the Amer
can people as whole.
CAT the Presidents CALL" he say
call ranks of the nation, reluctant
entering the war, nevertheless instan
ily responded to the first call of tt
nation with vigorous and unselfi:
cooperation that submerged all inc
vidual interest in single endeav
toward the consummation Of the n
tional task. I take it that no gre
national project was ever attempt
with SO complete a reliance upon t
voluntary cooperation of citizens
it's execution. Certainly no such bu
densome and sacrifical statute h
ever before been executed without
great hierarchy of officials.
"This law has been administer
by civilians whose official relation Ii
only in necessary powers with viii
they are vested by the Presidents de
ignation of them to perform the d
I ties that are laid upon them, Tn
have accomplished the task. TIL
have made some mistakes. The S!
tenn offers room for improvement.
Germany Offers No Comparison
"But the great thing they were ca
ed upon to do they have done. I
vaunted efficiency of ahsolutisn
which the German empire stands
the avatar can offer nothing co co
pare with it, It remains that ultim;
test and proof of the intrinsic polite
idea upon which American insti
lions of democracy and self-gove7
ment have been based"
Analysing the first draft, Gene
Crowder shows that 9,586,508 men
tween the ages of FL and 81 years r
istered themselves. Up to late in
cember only $3.50 arrests had b.
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