Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-09-13
YOUNGER DRAFT
MEN TO 60 FIRST
CLASSES OF 10 TO 20 YEARS AND
81 TO SO WILL BE SUM-
MONED EARLY.
ouestionnaires Will Go First to the
Registrants Within These Specified
Ages and They Will Be Ready
for the Calls in October.

ashington.-Provost Marshal Gen
that the first call to the colors of men
who registered Thursday will include
men in the 10 and 20-year-Old classes
and In the classes from 80 to SO years,
inclusive. Questionnaires will go first
to registrants within these specified
age limits, and local boards will be
ordered to classify them first in readi-
ness for calls beginning in October.
Young men In the 10 and 20-year
classes, General Crowder said, will be
accepted for induction into the stu
dents army training corps, but he
strength of this corps is only 10000
men, whereas the total number of reg
istrants below 20 will be over 3,000,-
600.
The General pointed out that the to-
tai number of fit men expected from
repeated the statement that class one
of men now registered would be al
most exhausted by October i.
Appeal to Employers.
General Crowder also issued an APP
peal to employers to assist in the pres
entation of claims for occupational ex-
emptions, and declared that no esti-
mates could be made as to the number
Of older men who ought to be so ex-
empted.
General Crowder has said the war
department could expect to draw from
the classes above 81 only 601,O00 men
physically fit for service and not en-
titled to deferred classification. He
also said men of 10 and 20 called were
entitled to admission TO the students
training corps at the 400 secondary
schools with which the war depart
ment has made contracts, but added
that this corps would number 10000
men, while over 100000 youths below
81 registered Thursday.
Methods of selecting those to be in
Quoted into military service and edu-
cational training corps, he said, were
the concern of other branches of the
administration.
Someone must indicate that the in
dividual case is one which should ar
rest the special attention of the boards
In respect to the registrants occupa-
tional status" said General Crowder in
his statement The boards do not
possess a superhuman omniscience.
Nor are they permitted by circum-
stances to devote unlimited time to
the search of questionnaires for pos
sible grounds of claim. In 1917, out |
of more than 100000 registrants |
called, only 10000 fled occupational
or Al per cent; thus 80 per |
cent of all registrants raised no ques-
ton of such deferment.
Boards to Welcome Aid.
1.-THE boards will do all that they |
possibly can, on their own initiative,
to reach just decision by COM
plete examination of the question
naires even where no claim is ex-
)ressly made.
Nevertheless, the boards will vel
come and will need all the aid that
hey can he furnished by the indica-
ion of claim made for deferment
'But who is to make that claim.
Ordinarily. the registrant himself will
Indicate the claim on his question
lare. But, if through mistaken chiv-
Try, he should fail to do so, another
nay make ii for him. In industry,
agriculture or other occupations the
'ther person will naturally be his en-
'loyer or some other representative
f his associated group.
The employer in this situation rep
esents the nation because in the stat
tory phrase the maintenance of the
Military establishment or of the ma
ional interest during the emergency
equires that some well-advised third
erson should look after that national
interest which the registrant himself
lay not have sufficiently consid-
red.'