The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-07
This Is Estimate of Army Off
cials in Topeka.
New Call Probably Will Come
Late in March.
CREDIT NOT AS BIG THIS TIME
Nearly 1000 Were Granted I'm
der the First Selection.
Possibly 5000 May Be Cut
From Number Here.

Kansas will probably furnish $4,000
to 10000 men under the second selec-
tive draft call That is the estimate
of several army officials in Topeka
who anticipate practically clean
sweep of all men in Glass 1. The
second call, it is believed, will take at
least 10000 additional young men
from the state even after credits are
given for enlistments since last sum-
mer. An early call is anticipated in
army circles.
Army men believe the state will feel
the effects of the second call far
greater than the first. Already the de-
mand for labor in the state is abnor-
NAL. Men who entered the service un-
der the first call meant a heavy blow
to many activities. The final fifteen
per cent of these men are yet to go.
Before the end of the coming sum-
mer. army men have asserted, the
state will show a service record of
nearly $4,000 young men.
1t is believed the second call will
take between 100000 and 100000
men into the service of the national
army. Several well informed army Of
ficia1s have recently estimated the
next call at one million. Such call
would take nearly 10000 men from
Kansas. Credits would be allowed for
enlistments since last summer. Even
these credits, tho, would doubtless
mean the loss to state business and in
dustrial activities of not less than 20,-
900 men.
Credits Not as Large.
Credits under the second selective
draft call will not be as great as those
allowed last summer when Kansas was
credited with nearly 1000 guardsmen
who were mustered into federal ser
vice and provided a portion of the
states quota. 1t is believed, tho, that
several thousand Kansans have enter
ed the governments war service since
last summer.
"Practically all men under the sec-
ond call will be in the service before
the end of the coming summer, one
army official said today. kansas will
probably be called upon for not less
than $4,000 men. The call may re-
quire $4,000 men from this state. OF
course these men will not respond in
a single body. But it means that the
drain on industrial and agricultural
activities in the state will be heavy.
Even with full credits, there is little
chance that the state will furnish less
than 20. 900 new men for army service
in the next few months
Recognize Industrial Responsibility.
While army men believe state busi-
ness and industrial life will feel the
erect OF Ine second Call keen1y, tnere
is also a belief that in many instances
provision may be made to absorb the
shock as much as possible. In the
rural districts many of the young men
most valuable in farm activities may
be permitted time in which to aid in
planting and gathering crops In
short the men called first into service
will be selected in regard to their in
dustrial responsibility. The man with
out an established trade, or whose
place can readily be filled by another
worker or by a woman, will go first
to the army camps.
While no definite date has been sci
for the call, many men in touch with
army affairs believe the second cal
will follow the induction of the final
Is per cent of the first draft men into
service. A call may be issued late this
| month or in March-effective prob
| ably in April or May for camp service