St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-06-29
GIANT ARMY WILL
BE RAISED BY
UNCLE SAM SOON
Plans Call for Drafting of $4,000
More Men by the End Of the
Current Year
1,45o,ooo AMERICAN SOLDIERS
IN FRANCE BY AUGUST FIRST
More Than Three and Quarter Mil
lion Under Arms Within Next
Thirty Days-Draft Age In
crease Not Yet Certain

Surely the kaiser and his bench
men never dreamed what an awful
stink they stirred up when they
forced Uncle Sam into the conflict.
Maybe Kaiser Bill was honest when
he said the Americans were buffers
and wouldn't fight. Well, in the
vernacular, he has another think
coming and we can imagine the con-
sternation in the Hun camp when
the news reaches grand headquar-
tiers" that your Uncle Samuel will
have nearly a million and a half
men in France by the first Of August,
in spite of the U-boats. And the
Huns have found out, long before
this, that the Americans are not
buffers and that, furthermore, they
are some fighters. The marines i'm
pressed that horrible fact on the
Fritzies several times recently and
now the marines have been dubbed
the devil hounds" by their oppo-
nents hiding in the trenches across
mo Mans Land"
On August /, according to a recent
dispatch from Washington, the Am
erican forces under arms, here and
aboard, will total $780, 900, and it is
proposed to issue draft calls during
every month of the last half of the
year and in that time 875, 900 more
men will be called to the colors.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon an
nounced in the senate Wednesday
that it is proposed to call 100000 in
August; $50, 900 in September; $780,
900 in October; $50, 900 in November
and 125,00O in December. These
$4,000 will exhaust Glass One of
the draft list.
During July there are several draft
calls for men for military service,
this exclusive of those noted by the
statement of Senator Chamberlain.
The apportionment Of the ~severall
states for the draft quotas for the
last five months of the year have
not been announced, hence it is Inn
possible at this date to publish the
number Louisiana will be called on
to furnish. The July contingent for
various camps will total 100000, and
of this number Louisiana's share will
be called for $3.50, of which number
POO are to go to Camp Hancock,
Georgia; 5000 ~(colored) to Camp
Grant, Illinois; 1000 (colored) to
Camp Beauregard, Louisiana; and
1850 to Jackson Barracks, New Or
leans. La.
Speaking of the young men who
registered IN June. 5, 1918, a dis
patch from Washington says: "Al-
though the order issued last night
for 100000 men probably will de-
plete the present a~vailables in Glass
One in most of the draft districts,
it was pointed out that the bulk of
the men called for July will not go
to camp until after the middle Of
the month, and by that time it is ex-
pected the additions gained by re-
classification and by the new regis
of ~21-year-old youths win be
available"
While nothing positive has been
given out relative to the places ia
occupied by the men in the new
registration, it is thought that after
they are finally classified they will
be placed at the bottom of their re-
speetive classes, thus placing those
registered June S. 1917, ahead in or
der number of the ones recently
Questionnaires. have
been mailed to all the new regis
and the work OF filling in
these documents is going busily on
and as soon as returned to local
boards the work of classification will
In regard to the proposed amend
.ent to the selective service law,
relative to the extension of the age
limit, taking in men from IS to As,
proposed change has not vet
been made by congress and Senator
Of Nebraska stated in the
senate Wednesday that there was no
hurry TO make the ehanm