The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-08-01
INSTRUCTION At
GOVERNMENT EXPENSE
OPPORTUNITY THAT AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN SHOULD
NOT PASS UP
Headquarters for Draft,
State of Florida.
Tallahassee, July 80, 1918.
Call No. 1888

Jdll NO. IUo0
Call No. 1888 upon your state is
hereby announced as follows:
Complete the entrainment for
Gainesville, Fla, of one hundred and
grammar school education or it's
equivalent, or who have the ability to
read and write and have had at least
four years of school education, and
who have some aptitude for mechani-
cal work-and some experience along
the lines of training hereinafter spe-
cified-to report to commanding Off
Ger, University of Florida, on, Aug.
18th for instruction as auto mechan-
les, carpenters, chauffeurs, electric
ians, radio operators and telegraph
ers."
Only white men and men physically
qualified for general military service
are to be inducted under this CALL
Men selected for this service will
receive course of training at gov
ernment expense fitting them to serve
in army positions both at the front
and behind the lines. Men taking this
course will receive thorough instruc-
tions which will be of great personal
value in working their way ahead,
both in the army and in civil life. The
men will be assigned during the
course to that kind of mechanical
training for which greatest need
exists at the time of the call. At the
end of the course, they will be as
signed to various branches of the
service in accordance with the needs
of the army. They are to receive no
assurance of an assignment to any
particular branch of the service. This
is an excellent opportunity for ener-
getic, ambitious men. You are urged
to make this call one of statewide
interest. Qualified registrants should
be urged to present themselves to
their local boards for voluntary in
duction.
The voluntary period will continue
until August 9Th. After August 9Th
no more volunteers will be accepted.
If, on August 7th, sufficient num-
ber of volunteers have not come forth
to fill the allotment of the local
board, the local board will proceed to
select in sequence of order numbers,
a sufficient number of qualified men
from within class 1 to fill its allot-
ment.
Registrants of the class of June,
1918, may be accepted as volunteers
under this call, but no registrant of
the class of June, 1918, can be inyol-
unfairly inducted until all available
registrants of the class of June, 1917,
in any local board have been. ex-
hausted. Only men who possess the
qualifications specified in first para
graph should be inducted under this
call.
Each man must carry with him at
least two suits of underclothing, one
suit of outer clothing in good condi-
ton, a sweater, stout pair of shoes,
three extra pairs of socks and two
bath towels-as he will be kept in
civilian clothes during the first three
weeks until he can be supplied with
a uniform and other clothing.
The number of men called for un-
der this call must be actually entrain-
ed Men must not be allowed to ar
rive before August 10Th and the en-
tire party must be entrained so as to
arrive on that date. Crowder.
Edward Anderson,
Captain, Inf R. C.
Officer in Charge of Draft for Florida.