The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-03-22
100000 TO Be
CALLED THIS YEAR.
95, 900 Will Be Modified
March 20.
AMPLE SUPPLIES FOR ALL
SOC, 600 OF Early Call VIII Complete
First Draft And viii Be Used To
Fill Up Units Scheduled For
Early Departure.
AMPLE SUPPLIES FOR ALL

| sand men are to be called TO the colors
gradually during the present year, I'M
der the second army draft, which be-
gins on March 20.
An announcement by Provost Mar
shal-General Crowder Of the number
to be called was followed closely by
an order for the mobilization of S5,-
900 men during the five-day period be-
ginning March 20, some 15,O00'of them
to be assembled under the second
draft. Eighty thousand will be men
of the first draft of $4,000 not yet
summoned into service.
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
registration of youths attaining the
age of q years and for basing state
and district quotas on the number OF
registrants in Glass l. In his first
official statement on the subject, how
ever, General Crowder assures the
country that TO sweeping Withdrawals
of large number of men at one time is
contemplated and that care will be
taken to avoid interference with har-
vesting.
The $4,000 men now called, it is I'M
derstood, are needed at once to fill UP
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 the National Army divisions
drawn upon. The call for new men
makes it probable that no further
transfers will be necessary.
The 100000 men to be summoned
this yeSr 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 ma
chine for which the framework al
ready exists, and to provide a quarter
of million replacement troops When
| they have been modified, which will
not be completed before the first of
next year, there will be more than
40 full infantry divisions of 27.700 men
each, and all the additional units nee
essary No additional divisions of the
National Army or National Guard will
be created this year, although the pro-
gram for the regular army, now COM
| posed of eight infantry and one cav
airy 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
estimated that with that force and its
| necessary auxiliaries at his disposal.
General Pershing would be able to
hold 100-mile sector of the battle
| front, relieving the strain upon French
man power during 1918 to that extent.
What that would mean to France may
| be judged from published statements
of French officials that on January l.
1918, the Belgian Army held about if
teen miles of the western front, the
British forces about los miles and the
French about $50 miles.
The men to be called out beginning
March 20 are apportioned by states as
! follows:
Alabama, 1884; Arizona, 14s; Ark
ansas, 1.541; California, 1,745; Colo
RADIO, $685. Connecticut, 900; Delaware,
3O8; District of Columbia, 1902;
Florida. 2,5O6; Georgia. 5,925; idaho,
242; Illinois, 1861; Indiana, 2,977;
Kansas, 5S7; Kentucky, 1851; Louisi-
ana, 3,573; Maine, $40; Maryland. 1872;
Massachusetts, 2,069; Michigan, 1858;
Mississippi, 1920; Missouri. LILO;
Montana, 521; Nebraska, 459; Nevada,
IL; New Hampshire, PIP; New Jersey,
1925; New Mexico, 1877; New York,
1928; North Carolina, STA; North
Dakota, 2,647; Ohio, $685.; Oklahoma,
sos; Pennsylvania, 1928; Rhode IS
land, Sol; South Carolina, 343; South
Dakota, 226; Tennessee, 2,753; Texas,
3.943; Utah, 247; Vermont, 1856; Vir-
ginia, 2,17S; Washington, 638; West
Virginia, 1874: Wisconsin, 2,214;
Wyoming, 1874; Oregon, 1863.
No call was made upon Iowa and
Minnesota.
While General Crowder sets no time
in his statement for the second draft,
it has been stated previously that sup
plies and equipment for the men of
the second. draft would become avail
able in April and action on the de-
signed legislation is expected before
that time, the first calls are expected