The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-05
First Anniversary of Americas Initial Man
Power Mobilization Will Witness Enroll
ment of Great Class of 1918
EXCEEDS HUNS
INCREMENT BY
100000 zen
French Have 100000 and Ital'
ians $50, 900, All Called in
Advance of Maturity

I Advance of Maturity
! But So 6urleieh county select
service men Of the class Of 1918
had registered up to noon Wednes-
day. eurleioh county one year ago
registered approximately 1900 men
and It was being relied upon to
sign up between 1870 and 100 Of
the class Of l. 8. Sheriff French's
original estimate was $50 men,
which he today reduced to conform
with the initial guess Of r. D.
Hoskins, clerk Of the board,
which was 120.
A tight registration is anticipat-
ed throughout the state because
OF 80 many young men having on.
listed as soon as they became OF
age, or before.
Washington, June 5-Today, on the
anniversary Of Americas first man
power mobilization, another million
youths, the estimated strength of the
class of 1918, register on the first sta
ton 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 practiced organization,
whose agencies in every country side,
hamlet, and city of the land have as
Isun1ed successfully the task of dis
terminating between the nations need
for men who can fight or work, and
its additional need for men at home
to support its dependent population
Experience Successful.
Observers, foreign and domestic,
military and civilian alike, class the
performance to date under the Amer
ican selectiye service law; as the most
tangibly successful of its military ef-
forts, and regard the accreti0n to the
lman-pOwer~ reservoir OF 1.-The young
sters who had not reached their ma
tortty one year ago as the most GER
tain assurance Of the final downfall
of the Prussian autOcracy. Be 1t near
or far, the day of Allied victory can
not be evaded, the practical military
[yieW is. So, long as the rising flood
OF the American armies, drilled, equip
ped and equipping, can be turned to
the European battlefront, ~,
IN Provost-Marsha General, CrOwder,
who supervfses the draft, fixes the ten
tative number given above for the
days new total. and likewise from the
experience tables Of the year places
the number of potential soldiers to
be added to the list today at 100000,
concluding that the class will be IS
per cent composed of military effec-
tives.
1,3OO,OOO Mobilixed.
AS they assemble at the registering
station today, the total of men raised
by the draft in the United States for
its armies will pass 100000. Before
the end of the present month, the mob
ilized total will have passed 1900 900,
for the immense military machine that
owes its existence to the readiness of
plain Americans to fight is moving for
ward to goal that will meet Pres;-
dent Wilson's demand for force, force
to the utmost, and force without
stint" ~
The, t4,5OO 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. classical
tions of registered men and. in ac-
cordance with their physical quail
fications, their status as to depen-
dents and as to industrial or agricul-
tural occupations, they will be as
signed to Glass 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 Glass One.
Go to Foot OF List.
They will 60 to the foot Of the list
of 1917 registrants in each class and
will not be called, the regulations pro
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