The Springdale news., 1918-08-09
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 ,..,.4oD Aug. 8-The new
 "@shins a. hill prepared by secresaly ea ts man R.[ pG%[i and the Army General sI draft saa at will fix .1 the SesFs. sss ''T This would produce IS IS doo to mo m draft registrants. +oa.v 16,oo9'oVV Vonnopncement made today after eon1vir sad csairmen ot the Senate siaa and Baker anu ;,;tary committees, IS noelce House 'se mhnle m,l, world that America IS to the ".'v available an army Of her .' en- to have @' mer It means, too, that tire tire nan 1aa Dpssage ps~ of the bill the United States virtually o{ ngversa vls' military train sys'. for the period of the war at ieas', .so ing TOT .prp 'no will authorize the
 The is.nt l,S4 to draft persons between preS,u, n asss of IS and 45 who may De y..t1o to military sei
 "snee naU,e ee of ages and at such time or saue t;mes as he may prescribe ,,u.,
 'i'' May Call Younger Men fI.s,. ln. .,o
 The effect of this will be that the ,,ssident may call out all the young p,ss'po pr msn first, leaving the older classes CT i'sn x otber lines of industry Without VI bout going to the fighting llne. @ The bill would give the presiaen, .s., 1Ae of the labo:. situation and
 ,,n be in a general way whole .s1e broadening of the work or flgh1 o-der a-s recently promulgated by Gener- al Crowder. C..
 There are those who look upon Sec ,.farv Bakers decision to change the draft ages as backing down by the administration on this very import on, matter. It has been stated with what appeared to be authority that tho nresident was opposed to lower ;np the draft age below 2l. The nresident's only statement m the matter of raising large army, how eyer was that made in his New York sneech when he raised the pointed ouerv: "Why limit to 5,000,000 en?' It is taken for granted today that Sec retarv Baker has the full approval of the president for the new bill, which goes to the full limit suggested by the most radical proponents of a big ar my plan.
 Chamberlain Favors Bill.
 Senator Chamberlain who, by vir- tue of his position as chairman of the committee, will lead the fight for the bill in the Senate, is heartily in sym pathy with its provisions. He IS par tieularly pleased because the enforce ment of the measure will be equiva- lent to universal military training He has sponsored a universal military training bill in several sessions of Congress, but has always encounter ed the opposition of !he administra- tion
 "The bill, of course, will give the president authority to summon all men between Is to 45 m case of a
 
 great emergency Senator Chamber lain said. But l understand it will not be the purpose of the administra- tlon to call men abo;e 3l unless they are absolutely necessary. The young CT men make the best soldiers.
 "The bill will remove all danger that It will be necessary to invade classes two, three or four of the pres ent draft, l believe. We can get enough from the IS to 45 class with out going into those classes.
 In setting IS to 45 as the ages Tor the draft, the government will be only following a policy that Iegan almost with the Revolution.
 My understanding of the number of men who will be affected by the new draft is that it will be sufficient