Evening star., 1918-08-27
OLD RULES PREVAIL
FOR COMING DRAFT
18-to-45 Registrants Will Be
Treated as 21-31 Men
Were in Past.
WARNING TO REGISTER
WARNING TO REGISTER

All persons registered in the draft
next month under the new man-power
act will be subject to the terms. pro-
visions and liabilities Of the selective
service regulations promulgated No
vember 8, 1917. according to advance
regulations for the new registration
Just issued by Provost Marshal Gen.
eral crowder.
Registrants between the ages Of
eighteen and forty-hve years will be
treated in the same manner and in all
respects as though they had previous
ly registered under the terms OF the
act approved May Is. 1917. Such pre-
vious regulations as are or may be
obviously inapplicable will not apply.
naturally. and subsequent regulations
may make different provisions.
Same Rules as First Draft.
But in all other respects. according
to the advance regulations. the men
to be registered on a day in Septem-
Der yet to be set will find themselves
handled according to rules and regu-
lations by which hundreds of thou
sands of selective service men have
been assigned their plapes in the ma
tional defense.
This means. for Instance. that men
Of the new draft, who have married
original selective service law. will
be given the same status in the draft
as men of the three past registrations
have been accorded.
Originally men of the frst registra-
tion who were able to prove that they
=; 70 y,A the drq II
accorded classification in deferred
class 4. In May of this year this
classification was revoked. and men
who had married after the seiective
service law passage found themselves
reclassifed, Men with a child of the
union were placed in class 2. whereas
those who had no child of the union
were placed in class I, subject to
immediate call to military duty.
1s-to-45 Registration.
Men Of the eighteen-to-forty-h
registration, according to the advance
registration regulations-No. 3-will
be treated exactly as the men regis
tered June 5, 1917. were treated. and
istered June 5, 1913, were treated. and
as the men twenty-one years old who
registered last Saturday will be
treated. -
All this. of course, provided Con-
gress shall not insert some amend
specific case. At present there seems
little likelihood that any such pro-
visions will be injected into the draft
law. The tendency has been to leave
the enforcement Of the law to Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder: the
That the more the details Of enforce
ment are left to the provost marshal
generals ONCE, the better they will
be carried out.
Hardships in Many Cases.
1t is true that the regulations ap-
plying to men married after May 8.
1917. will work hardships In many
cases. Just as they have and will work
original registration. All unmarried
men Of the United States. however.
no matter what their ages, knew
when the United States went into the
war that they might be called upon
This 10 the position held by the pro-
voet marshal generals office.
Men of the forthcoming registration
who had sons, brothers or friends in
the original registration Of last year or
In either of the two registrations Of
men who had attained their major
ity. will know pretty well from those
cases what to expect In their own.
New regulations will be issued, of
course, to handle new propositions as
they arise. In general. however. the
registrants between eighteen and
forty-five years will be treated In the
same manner and in all respects as
If they had been previously regis
tered under the terms Of the act ap-
proved May IL. 1917.
Regulations as to Registration.