The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-06-04
new REGISTRATION
FOR ARMY TOMORROW
YOUNG MEN BECOMING OF AGE
SINCE JUNE 5TH LAST ARE
REQUIRED TO APPEAR.

Final preparations have been made
by the local registration 5oard for
the registration on tomorrow, June
9Th, of all young men in Terrell
county who have become 81 years of
age since June 5, 1917, including the
date of this registration.
The registrations will be conduct
ed similar in every respect to orig
inal registration for military SER
vice, the eligibles being required to
report on June5 to their registration
report on June to their registration
registrations are tabulated they will
then be checked in and slackers will
be apprehended by agents Of the de-
partment of justice.
The registration for the entire
county will be at the court house il.
Dawson, and will begin at 7 o'clock
in the morning and close at in the
evening,
100000 to Be Called in June.
Official announcement has been
made that 100000 men will be call
ed to the colors during June They
will be ordered to report June "a,
but it has not yet been determined to
what camps they can be assigned, so
the list of appointments is for the
present being withheld.
The quota is based on estimates of
the space available for the men in
camps and environments. If the rate
of shipment of troops across again
is raised still more men may be cali
ed. In any event the probabilities
are that enough men will be called
for special service to round the num-
Der out to 100000.
State Units to Be Scattered.
Future increments of drafted men
will not be trained in state units at
environments near their homes, but
will be sent to camp without regard
to geographical location.
Under system worked out by the
general staff the practice of group
ing men from one locality at one
cantonment which was adopted in
the first call under the selective ser
vice is to be disregarded entirely.
1t was explained that reimbursement
has been found necessary in the dis
tIibution of men now being called
due to the conversion of several can
tonments for other purposes. One of
the national army camps has been
converted into an embarkation camp,
which means that quotas of men the
state represented there in the first
draft will have to be sent to other
camps.
Camps to Be Kept Filled.
Replacement camps have been es-
tablished. and the method to be fol-
lowed will be that of sending men
wherever units are short of reduced
strength. Greater specialization is to
be followed in the training of future
increments the method being to train
infantry organizations at one camp.
artillery at another, engineers at an
other.
Groups of men will find themselves
with selects" from their own com
munities, but it is not held likely that
regiments or brigades will be com
posed entirely of men from one state.
VIII Be Trained Abroad.
Drafted men of future calls will be
sent to France after much shorter
periods of training than in the first
call, as arrangements now have been
completed for the training of larger
bodies of Americans in France and
England. They will receive their pre-
liminary schooling, in the canton
ments and then be sent overseas,
where, army officers contend, a sol
der can be developed in half the
time here.
This will mean that few men will
remain in the cantonments here for
eight or ten months, as was the case
of many in the first draft, and four
months is expected to prove about
the average.