New-York tribune., 1918-03-13
Second Draft
ToCall 100000
During Year
$4,000 To Be Modified in
Five-Day Period Begin
ming March %
Plan Safeguards
Industrial Affairs
Chief Aim Is to Complete
First Field Army
in France

WASHINGTON, March 12.-Eight
hundred thousand men are to be called
to the colors gradually during the pres
ent year under the second army draft,
which begins on March 20.
An announcement to-day by Provost
Marshal General Crowder of the num-
Der to be called was followed closely
by an order for the mobilization OF
$4,000 men IN the tive-day period be-
ginning March 20, some $4,000 of them
to be assembled under the second draft.
Eighty thousand will be men not yet
summoned into service of the first
draft of 6s7 900.
Details Of how the second draft is to
be applied will be made public later,
after Congress has acted upon proposed
legislation providing for the registra-
tion of youths attaining the age OF
twenty-one years and for basing state
and district quotas on the number of
registrants in Class /. General Crow
der assures the country that no sweep
ing withdrawal of large numbers of
men at one time is contemplated and
that care will be taken to avoid inter-
ference with harvesting.
The $4,000 men now called, it is un-
derstood, are needed at once to TIL up
divisions and other units scheduled for
early departure or to take the place OF
men transferred from other divisions
to make up such deficiencies. Newly
organized regular divisions are partic-
ularly short of men. and heavy drafts
on National Army divisions to make
these good have been necessary, seri-
ously interfering with the training
work of these National Army divisions.
The call for new men makes it prob
able that no further transfers will be
necessary.
The 100000 men to be summoned
this year represent the number neces-
sary to fill up all existing divisions.
to create all the army corps and field
army troops to fill out the war machine
for which the framework already exists
and to provide 2500O0 replacement
troops When they have been mob
ilized, which will not be completed be-
fore the first of next year. there will
be more than forty full infantry divi-
sions of 27,7O0 men each and all the
additional units necessary.
No additional divisions of the Ma
tional Army or National Guard will be
created this year, although the pro-
gramme for the Regular Army, now
composed of eight infantry and one
cavalry division. may be enlarged.
The first purpose of the War De-
partment is to complete the first field
army in France. Probably this will be
composed of five army corps, of six in
fantry divisions each. 1t has been esti-
mated that, with that force and its
necessary auxiliaries at his disposal,
General Pershing would be able to hold
a 1OO-mile sector of the battle front
relieving the strain upon the French
man power during 1918 to that extent.
What that would mean to France
may be judged from published state
ments of French officials that on
January /, 1918, the Belgian army held
about fifteen miles of the Western
front, the British forces about 105
miles and the French about $50 miles.
The movement of $4,000 drafted
men to begin on March 20 calls troops
from every state in the Union with the
exception of Iowa and Minnesota. The
apportionment by states follows:
Alabama, 1884; Arizona, 148i Ar
kansas. 1,541; California, 1,745; Colo
RADIO, 323; Connecticut, 903; Delaware,
2,506; Georgia, 1925; Idaho, PAP; Hi
ncis, ,96l; Indiana, 2,977; Kansas
587; Kentucky, 1,651; Louisiana, 3,573;
Maine, $40; Maryland, 1892; Massa-
chusetts, 2,069; Michigan, 5,558; Mis-
sissippi. 1920; Missouri, Ito; Mon
tana, 521; Nebraska, 459; Nevada, 72;
New Hampshire, 212; New Jersey a.
275; New Mexico, 1877; New York, 49,
2s8; Northa Carolina, STA; North Da-
kota, 2,647; Ohio, 6,955; Oklahoma
59e; Oregon. 369; Pennsylvania, 1928;
Rhode Island, 3O1; South Carolina, 343
South Dakota, 226; Tennessee, 2,753;
Texas, 3,943; Utah, 247; Vermont 1856;
Virginia, 2,17S; Washington, 638; West
Virginia, ,514; Wisconsin, 2,2l4, anC
Wyoming, 134.
The War Department is prepared to
supply clothing and ether equipment
Immediately for all the men to be
called out. An illustration of the
progress made with clothing stores
lies in the fact that every man sent
abroad is equipped with complete
new outfit before he boards the trans
port.
The orders sent to the states call
for approximately 5000 white troops
and 24,o00 negroes. The negro troops
are to be scattered among the follow
ing camps: Devens, Massachusetts;
Meade, Maryland, Gordon, Georgia;
Zachary Taylor, Kentucky; Grant
Illinois; Pike, Arkansas; Dodge, Iowa;
Funston, Kansas, and Travis, Texas.
100000 in Next Draft
The next national quota Will be an
nounced and apportioned among tht
several states as soon as pending legis
lation authorizing change in the basi:
OF computation is enacted by Con
gress," says the provost marshal gen
erals statement. THE number tha
will be assumed az basis for com
putation will be 800, 900, which is vel
within the authorization Of Clause a
Of Section /, Of the selective servic'
act, OF a second increment Of 500 ,00'
men, increased by the recruit trainin,
units authorized by Clause S, of sal
Section l, and by the special and tech
meal troops authorized by Section 0
gaid act
1t cannot now be announced wha
the total number to be called to tn
cosors each month will be, but it ma
be stated that no more men will b
called than can properly be accommo
dated and promptly assimilatcd
There are difficulties confrontin
the nation in the supply Of labor ap
purtenant 10 agriculture. Class /, fror
which new leyies are 10 be withdrawn
will contain many more men than ar
At present required for the army.
would be most unscentifc and ia,
nous step il the men in Class / wer
called Unfortunately without regar
TO the labor situation in agriculture.
Wherefore, the local boards viii b
directed to fiji their quotas in the orde