Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-06-06
Working of SeIective Service
Regulations NoticeabIy Bet
ter Than 1t Was Year Ago.
Washington Says,
SEVENTY-FlVE PER CENT
EXPECTED TO BE FIT
Force, Force to the Utmost,
and Force Without Stint,
Has Its Echo in Operation
of Draft.

icy MORNING IeuNnal ssGeiAL LsAsen wIss,
Washington, June To-day, on
the anniversary OF Americas first
man power mobilization, another mik
lion youths, the estimated strength
of the class OF 1918, register on the
first station of the journey to the
colors
When their draft registration cards
come into their hands, they come to
the disposition of swift, smoothly
working and praeticed organization,
whose agencies in every countryside.
hamlet and city of the land have as
sumed successfully the task of dis
eliminating between the nations need
for men who can fight or work, and
its additional need for men at homo
TO support its dependent population.
Growing Army Prussia's Doom.
observers. foreign and domestic.
military and civilian alike, class the
performance to date under the Ameri-
can selective service law as the most
tangtbly successful of its military ef-
forts, and regard the accretion to the
man power reservoir of the youngsters
who had not reached their majority
one year ago as the most certain as
surance of the final downfall OF the
Prussian autocraey. BE it near or far,
the day Of allied victory cannot be-
evaded, the practical military view la,
so long as the rising flood Of the
American arnises. drilled, equipped
and equipplng. can be turned to the
European battle front
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
who supervises the draft, fixes the
tentative number given above for the
days new total, and likewise from
the experience tables of the year
places the number of potential sol
diers to be added to the list today at
1000, concluding that the class will
be IS per cent composed of military
effectiyes.
Million and Half Raised.
AS they assemble at the registering
stations today the total of men raised
by the draft in the United States for
its armies will pass 100000. Be
fore the end of the present month the.
modified total will have passed 1.-s
100000, for the immense military ma
chine that owes It's existence to tha
readiness of plain Americans to fight
is moving forward to aNgoai that will
meet President Wilson's demand for
force. force to the utmost. and force
without stint"
The $500 local boards throughout
the country who take the burden OF
the work have named registering
clerks for every 100 of the young men
within their jurisdiction. Men absent
unavoidably from their homes on reg
istering day may apply to any board
for their cards. Names as recorded
will pass into the existing classified.
tions of registered men and. in ac-
cordance with their physical qualifi-
cations their status as to dependents
and as to industrial or agricultural
occupations, they will be assigned to
class one, two, three, four or five.
The overwhelming majority. however.
as indicated by the estimate given, the
provost marshal general expects to
find placed in class one.
Qualifications Factor.
They will go to the foot OF the list
of 1917 regstrants In each class, and
will not be called, the regulations pro-
vide, until those above them have been
taken, unless by trade or education
they are fitted for specialized army
service, then they may be called SOON
er The system of determining the
order of their call as among them
selves the provost marshal general has
not yet fixed but the general expecta-
tion is that some sort of a lottery or
the type previously used, will be con-
Quoted on a national scale. Yet OF this
officials are not certain, because the
recurring draft calls come more
swiftly, and run to larger totals now.
and the classification has come to
be more important than the numbers.
A late order number will serve only
to postpone for few days the ineyft-
able call TO the training camps.
National purpose to see that no In
dividuals evade service Is expressed
in the regulations, wherein are voiced
the command of the government to
pcace officers of all descriptions. Unit
ed states ma-shals, secret service men
and city police that they shall assist
exemption boards in scanning lists
aud combing out attempted evaders of
the registration. ash
Figures available show that no
other country participating in the
great war has the actual resources In
men that the United States has
Against the provost marshal generals
estimate of 100000 for the Ameri-
can military class of 1918, which Is
added to the almost 100000 total
of 1917, can be placed the German
annual increment OF 6OO,0O0, tne
French of 100000 and the italian OF
$50 900. And all these classes IN
other countries have been called IN