Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-05
MORE TOLD ABOUT
NATIONAL DRAFT
Besides Fact That Only "C!ass One
Men are. to See Service CrOwdeF 4
Gives Other Points.
BEATS GERMAsY's EFFICIENCY
Provost Marshal Declares Kaiser Can
Offer Nothing to Compare With
e. 5. System.

Washington, Jan. 5.-All men for
the war armies still to be raised by
the United States will come from class
one under the new selective service
plan. That means the nations fight
ing is to be done by young men with
out families dependent upon their
labor for support and unskilled In
necessary industrial or agricultural
work.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announces the new policy in an ex-
haustive report upon the operation OF
the selective call law submitted yes
terday to Secretary Baker and sent
to congress. He says class one should
provide men for all military needs OF
/ the country, and to accomplish that
object he urges amendment OF the law
so as to provide that all men who have
reached their 21st birthday since June
5, 1917, shall be required to register
for classification.
Also, in the interest of fair distribu-
ton of the military burden, he pro-
poses that the quotas of states or dis
tricts be determined hereafter on the
basis Of the number of men in class
one and not upon population.
One million physically and other
wise qualified registered men will be
j found in class one when all question
naires have been returned and the
| classification period ends Feb. Is. To
| this the extension of registration to
men turning q since June of last
year and thereafter will add 100000
effective men year.
! "First to Fight"
| Glass one comprises:
! Single men without dependent rela.
tives, married men who have habit.
! ually failed to support their families
who are dependent upon wives fol
support or not usefully engaged, anG
whose families are supported by in
comes Independent of their labor; un.
skilled farm laborers, unskilled indus
trial laborers, registrants by or in re.
spect Of whom no deferred classified
ton is claimed or made, registrant:
who fail to submit missionaries ant
in respect of whom no deferred CLASH
:. fication is claimed or made, and al
registrants not included in any othe1
division of the schedule
! The plan places upon unattached
single men and married men with in
/ dependent incomes most Of thu
weight Of military duty, for the ag
gregate number of men in the othel
divisions of class one is very small.
| Beats ~German Efficiency
! General Crowder finds that the frs
call surpassed the highest expecta
tons of the friends of the selectiv,
service idea.
I "No great national project was eve
attempted with SO, complete a reli
ance upon the voluntary cooperation
of citizens for its execution" he said
The vaunted efficiency Of absolutisn
of which the German empire stand.
as the avatar can offer nothing t
compare with it."
Analysing the first call, Genera
Crowder shows that 9,5S6,50S men be
: tween the ages Of q and 81 years reg
istered themselves. 1t has been nee
essary to arrest only $50 evaders
and of these 1858 were released afte
having registered. Final analysis vii
show that only .00026 per cent Of tn
men within the prescribed age evade,
registration.
i A rough figure Of 80 per cent faile'
to appear for examination, But mos
of these already were in Europe il
the American, British and Frencl
armies.
i OF the total registration of 9,5S6,50
the number called and examined wa
3,092,949, and Of these 1867 1863 wer
certified by the boards for militar