The Robesonian., 1918-08-19

PLANS MADE FOR REGISTER
ING 13 MILLION MEN
From This Number Some 2 Million
Qualified for Full Military Service
Are Expected to Be Secured-Needl
For Additional Man-Power is Ur-
gent.
Provost. Marshal General Crowder
announced Thursday that plans al
ready have been made for registering
the $4,000 900 additional men he esti-
mates will be brought under the Sc
lctive service when Congress enacts
the pending bill extending the age
limits to include men between 18 and
as years. From this number approx
imately 100000 qualified for full
military service are expected to be Sc
cured.
Nv AA SCAI 10 IIlc LccU LUZ dUUlCIOudl
man-power, General Crowder said,
that the draft machinery is being put
into shape for the great task ahead
without waiting for final action by
Congress. Men of the new draft will
be needed by October l and in order
to get them registration day will haYe
to be held not later than September
IS and if possible September will
be fixed as the day.
When the 13,OO0,oo0 men are enroll
ed, nearly 25,0OO,OOO will have been
registered since the United States en-
tered the war. There were some ten
millions enrolled on the first regis
tration day, June 5, 1917; another
100000 last June and several hun
dred thousand more are expected to
be enrolled August a.. =, -
Preliminary steps have been taken
by the Provost Marshal General" said
General Crowder's statement, "to pro:
vide for the registration Of those mer
who will be affected by the act which
Congress is expected shortly to pass
extending the age limits of the selec
tive draft.
estate headquarters, local boards
and other officials in the various States
toNC OCCll ouVIScu " CIlcI1SClVCs
IN readiness to proceed promptly will
their work as soon as Congress has
acted and the President, by proclama
tion, has fixed the date of registration
"Until the legislature is actually Ell
acted it cannot be stated with exact
ness: of course, what the new age lin
it's will be. But, because of the ur
gency of the situation, it is essenti !
that as much of the preparatory wor1
as possible be done at this time IN OF
der that the administration ma
promptly avail itself Of the new lcv
To that end now as in the past, the nj
most reliance is. placed on the Ameri
can people to supply the necessary &C
oneratior and team work.
The situation is urgent because b
October /, Class l, under the age lin
it's of the original act, will have bee
entirely exhausted. Unless there
to :" vcry Sc Gus interruption
+ a flow of trocrs to the camrs ar
thence overseas, Class l must be r
plenished at the earliest possible n.
ment bv available men born below al
above the present age limits of Il
81. There is literally no time to
lost. The bill which has been intr
duced in Congress at the request
new age limits at between 1S and
years. That is to say, it would
ciude in addition to the men with
the pras,at limits. these between
s-1 * '1c'usive IA annual classe
and those between 18 and co. inc
slva tnree annual classes)
"Thcse limits were suggeste.
Congress Ky tie Wa- Department
cause the military ma,lt over progr;
Of tie United States requires that
row nearly depleted reservoir
Class l men shall be replenished
more thar two mill;oa men availa
for full military service. On The
SIS OF fc:ual fi~uc2s from insura
cN~npan.nS, census )~lputatiO.s +:
the experience of this Office in the I
v.o-.s leyIs ration it has been esti.l'
ed trat TIE required number OF =
for Class / may be had only By
GLIDING within the draft age IL
men between g and As and betw
13 and 90. That is to say, appr>
mately t3 100000 men must be ad
to the list Of registrants IN order
with ali exemptions allowed at Is
two mullen men will remain in G.
i.
"In other words. here is the prob
,spresented: If the bill as introduced
passed, it will be necessary betw
the date of it's passage and Octob'
to register and begin to classify
questionnaire 100000 men not h
tofore included in the draft age lin
or approximately one and one-t
as many men as were registered
June 5, 1917. And, when this
been done, draft calls upon the
class 1 must start to fill the pl