The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
Americas Great Record in the
Raising and Sending of
Troops Is Revealed.
CROWDER HITS AT LOAFERS
Every Registered Man Must Fight or
Engage In Useful Occupation-AI-
lies Strike at Recognizing
German Armies-5rlt-
ish Arrest Plotting
Sim Feiners.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

Ninety thousand American troops
| landed In France in the first ten days
of May; a million men to be on the
other side in year from the time the
! first were sent across the Atlantic;
grand total of 2,03S, ODD in active serv-
ice or In training, to he increased to
100000 or 100000 before the end
OF the next fiscal year. Such is the
proud record of the war department
and its plans for the near future as
stated to the house Of representatives
| by Mr.. Caldwell of the military affairs
| committee. The committee unanimous
| ly approved the $11 ,000000,000 armN
appropriation bill and 1t was reported
to the house.
Mr.. Caldwell added: "The potential
man power of America, for seven
| year war, may be conservatively esti-
mated at 20,00O,0O0 fighting men of
recognized military age-this out of a
population OF l25,000,000"
Continually harassed by the artil-
ing record with that of Great Britain,
he said: ave began with less, went
| further, and arrived with more In
| shorter time"
The army bill was so amended that
President Wilson is given unlimited
power to call drafted men to the col
OrS.
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AS n step toward realizing the gov
ernment's expectations in the matter
Of man power, Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder on Thursday issued a
| drastic amendment to the selective
service regulations, which will com
| pei every man of draft age to either
fight or work after July l. ldlers and
all engaged in non-useful occupations
will be called In by draft boards and
| given their choice OF joining the col
ors or finding some useful occupation.
! Among those affected by the order are
| gamblers and race track attendants,
| baseball players and other professional
| spOrtsmen, walters and bartenders,
| theater ushers, passenger elevator OPP
orators and other attendants Of clubs
and hotels, domestics and clerks in
stores
In applying the rule deferred CLASH
fication on account OF dependents will
| be utterly dlsregarded, and local boards
may take action whether they have
original jurisdiction of the registrant
or not.
II is believed in Washington that the
flight or work" plan will go a long
way in solving the problem Of getting
| sufficient labor for the farms, the ship
| yards and the munitions plants. I'M
til the results of its operation are
seen there will be no more talk of the
CONSUMPTION Of labor.
Attorney General Gregory followed
up General Crowder's order with the
statement that all who leave the coun-
try to escape the draft will be prose
cuted on their return.
ma
That there will be enough ships to
meet the requirements of the situa-
| tion seems assured for the shipyards
are turning them out In steadily In
creasng numbers. At Rutgers college
Inst week Secretary Daniels said that
before another summer we shall have
enough ships to carry millions Of troops
to France, and enough destroyers to
see them there In safety. "The en-
peror OF Germany" he added, "knows
that when the United States builds
enough ships his end has come, and
we nre going to build enough ships"
President Wilson has consented TO
restore to the original number the
fleet of steamers employed to carry
food to the ten million starving in
hahitants of German-occupied Belgium