The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
Local Temperatures.

lEC al llCdliS lOI lllCl casing luC Hal
vest for the agricultural season OF
1918.
There is now pending before
congress a bill authorizing the sec
retary OF war to grant furloughs
with or without pay to men in the
army to engage them in agricul-
tural and industrial pursuits. These
furloughs will be granted after con-
sideration of the circumstances of
the individual cases in which they
arise, and when the military sit
uation is thought to be such that
they can be granted without too
great disruption and disorganization
of the army or of any particular
organization of the ramy.
Further Protection.
"As TO further means 10 protect
agriculture a new regulation has
been promulgated authorizing agri-
cultural students in their senior
Ycars in land grant colleges to en-
list in the enlisted reserve corps of
the quartermaster's department, pro-
vided their class standing is such as
to place them III the upper third of
their class. BY this means it will
be possible to defer the draft call
of such young inen in order to en-
able them to perfect themselves as
dgriculturists and thereafter to pro-
t2ct them in such services as it may
seem that they should perform in
tre best interests OF the nation.
THE whole industrial and agricul-
ural situation Is being subjected to
a very comprehensive study in order
/, discover any means that may be
taken to protect and augment the
labor supply @ppurtenant to indus
t,y and agriculture without proceed
."g the prompt and orderly prog
,rSs of our military plans. 1t is con
hdently believed that great progress
can be made along this line, and
that more effective measures than
any yet devised can be put into op-
eralion to attain the desired end.
Is War Of Mechanics.
1T must be emphasized that this
is war of mechanics. The need
of the several armed forces for men
highly skilled ii technical and me-
chanical pursuits is greater than in
any former wal. Yet, this need for
specially skilled men is under a ne
ccssity for increasing its production
in almost every line OF industry.
Withdrawals ol men from industry
must be made aId these withdraw
al. must take men who might 9TH
erwise be deferred on account of
lheir special q lali6cations and skill.
I ne necessary numbers of such men
will be obta;Jed in one of three
ways.
First, men already in the mill
tary service who have such special
skill will be taken from the line reg
imentS and assigned to the staff
organizations and departments
where their Skill is needed. Sec
old, men classified by the selection
boards, even Enough they may have
been placed in a deferred classihca-
ron, will be withdrawn with great
"aie, and particularly from the in
duStrieS of TIC nation for special
service in staff corps and depart
ments. Thir'l. young men of draft
age with certain educational quail
hcations will be inducted into the
service and s .ut to universities, col
!eces and technical and secondary
schools to be instructed in technical
ans until they have acquired such
proficiency as will justify their as
signment to the special units that
are being organized in considerable
plmbers.
Calls TO. 10000 Artisans.
an accordance with this plan, the
provost marsh4i general has already
called upon tire states for some ter
thousand skilled artisans and will
shortly call upon the states for ten
thousand young men, graduates ol
grammar schools, who will be sent
before the first of April to various
technical and ether schools through
out the United States for a two
months course of training. Regu-
la:ly thereafter, an increasing stream
OF selected men will be sent through
educational aad other training in
st;tutions for this purpose.
To sum up, it may be said that
tttre will be % sudden Withdrawal
al a great NUMBER of men from the
ranks of industry and agriculture
during the coming summer but that
'len will be drawn in relatively small
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