The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1918-09-12
YOUNGER DRAFT
MEN TO GO FIRST
CLASSES OF 10 TO 20 YEARS AND
80 TO SO WILL BE SUM-
MoNED EARLY.
missionaries viii Go First to the
Registrants Within These Specified
Ages and They viii Be Ready
for the Calls In October.

Washington. Provost Marshal Gem
eral Growder announced September 10,
that the first call to the colors Of men
who registered Thursday will Include
men In the 10 and 20-yeor-old classes
and In the classes from 81 to 80 years,
inclusive. Questlonnalres will 20 first
to reglstrants 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 2O-year
classes, General Crowder said, will be
accepted for induction into the stu
dents army training corps, but be
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,OOO,-
600.
The General pointed ont that the to-
tai number of fit men expected from
the classes over ~ WIS GO1 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 mp
peal to employers to assist In the pres
entation of claims for occuputional ex-
emptlons. and declared that no est-
mates could be made us To the number
of older men who ought 10 be 20 ex-
empted.
General Crowder has said the war
damn ri p,ant .,,,II nx,..,. "a. Ix,,tv f,n,,
the classes above 81 only Col 900 men
physically tit for service and not en-
titled 10 deferred classification. He
also said men OF 10 and 20 chilled were
entitled to admission to the students
training corps ut the 400 secondary
schools with which the war depart.
inent has made contracts, hut added
that this corps would number 10000
men, while over 5000 900 youths below
II registered Thursday.
Methods OF selecting those TO be IL
Quoted into military service and edu.
cational training corps, he said, Were
the concern OF other branches Of the
administration.
Someone must Indicate that the In
dividual cnse Is one which should mr.
rest the special attention OF the boards
In respect 20 the registrants occupa-
tionnl status" said General Crowder In
his statement. The bonrds do not
possess superhumnn omnlscIence.
Nor are they permitted by clrcum-
stances to devote unlimited time to
the search OF questioDnaires for pos
sible grounds of clnim. In 1917, out
Of more than 3,OOO,OO0 registrnnts
called, only 10000 filed occupatlonai
claims, or ~ per cent; thus % per
cent of all reglstrants raised no ques-
lion of such deferment.
Boards to Welcome Aid.
THE boards will do all that they
possibly eau, on their own Initiative
to reach Just decision by u com
pleto examination OF the question
naires even where no claim Is ex-
pressly made.
Nevertheless, the boards Will well
come and VIII need all the aid that
hey can be furnished by the indica-- o.
Ion OF claim made for deferment.
But who Is 10 make that claim
Ordinarily, the registrant himself will
indicate the claim on his question
inlre. But, II through mistaken chiv-
ilry, he should fail 10 do 40, another
nay make II for him. In industry,
agriculture or other occupations the
'ther person will naturally be his EN-
'loyer or some other representative
n his associated group.