The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-05-30
Americas Great Record in the
Raising and Sending of
Troops Is Revealed.
CROWDER HITS AT LOAFERS
Every Registered Man Must Fight or
Engage in Useful oecupation-AI-
lies Strike at ReoroanfzInq
German Armies-BrIt-
ish Arrest Plotting
Sim Feiners,
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

Ninety thousand American troops
landed in France in the first ten davs
OF May; million men to be on the
other side in year from the time the
first were sent across the Atlantic: q
grand total Of 2,O38, 222 in active serv.
Ice or In training, to be increased to
100000 or 100000 before the end
OF the next fiscal. year. Such Is the
proud record of the war department
and Its plans for the near future as
stated to the house Of representatives
by Mr.. Caldwell of the military affairs
committee. The committee unanimous
~ approved the $11,OOO,OOO,OO army
appropriation bill and it was reported
to the house.
Mr.. Caldwell added: "The potential
man power Of America, for a seven
year war, may be conservatively esti-
mated at 2o,OOO,OoO fighting men of
recognized military age-this out of q
population Of 125,OOO,OOO."
Continually harassed by the artil-
ing record with that of Great Britain,
he said: ave began with less, went
further, and arrived with more in
c1O1 lcI
The army bill was so amended that
President Wilson is given unlimited
power to call drafted men to the col
ors.
AS step toward realizing the gov
ernment's expectations in the matter
OF man power, Provost Marshal Gen.
eral Crowder on Thursday issued a
drastic amendment to the selective
service regulations which will COM
pei every man Of draft age to either
Tight or work after July 1. Idlers and
all engaged in non-useful occupations
will be called in by draft boards and
given their choice Of joining the col
OrS or finding some useful OCCUPATION.
Among those affected by the order are
gamblers and race track attendants.
baseball players and other professional
sportsmen, walters and bartenders,
theater ushers, passenger elevator op-
orators and other attendants of clubs
and hotels, domestics and clerks in
stores.
In applying the rule deferred classi-
hcat1on on account of dependents will |
be utterly disregarded, and local boards |
may take action whether they have |
original Jurisdiction of the Resistant |
or not.
1t is believed in Washington that the
flight or work" plan will go long
way in solving the problem of getting
sufficient labor for the farms, the ship
yards and the munitions plants. On
til the results of IT'S oneration aro |
seen there will be no more talk of the
of labor.
Attorney General Gregory followed
up General Crowder's order with the
statement that all who leave the coun-
-ry to escape the draft will be prose
'nted on their return.
a.
That there will be enough ships to
meet the requirements of the situa-
ion seems assured, for the shipyards
ire turning them out in steadily in
'reasing numbers. At Rutgers college
asst week Secretary Daniels said that
'efore another summer we shall have
nough ships to carry millions of troops
o France, and enough destroyers to
zee them there in safety. 'The en- |
'eror of Germany" he added, knows
hat when the United States builds ]
nough ships bis end has come, and {
We are going 20 build enough Ships" s
President Wilson has consented to :
estore to the original number the T
eet of steamers employed to carry I
ood to the ten million starving in /
ab1tants of Gernan-occupied Belgium 9