Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-04
Crc.gder Asks Changes in Draft + gnI2tiong fer
 Next Gail.
WOULD REC4Y:@'ffE,,J2
 MEN REACETlF1 2l
Tcue oi Success of Fir>j nrait Over Nine WiiI!0n Registered Few p.0S, cutiHn, lloUhl" Num-
 har Needed Certified.

Washington, Jau #-AiI peH for the war armies still to be raised b# the United Statcs will come from CIas.s 1 undor the new selcctiVe sorY- ira pisn. That means tie nations G2ht.0e k to be done by young mca without families dependent upon thcit labor for support, aud unslftfled n necessary industrial or agricultural work. Provost Marshal CroWder ap= uounced tho new policy in an "@hAu&- tive report upon the operation of the selcctivc draft law submitted to Snr- He says Class l should provide men for ali military needs of the coantry, 9nd to accomplish that object he ur%es the amcpdment of the draft law s2 as to provide tbat all nen Who have Icacrcd their tWentE-first birthdays since June ,, 1917. shall be required to register for classification. Also in the interest of fair distribution of the military burden hc proposes that the quotas of states or districts be deter- mined hereafter on the basis of the number in Class l. and not upon pop uation.
 Would Obtain 10000 Men. Available figures indicate, the re-
 port says, that there are 100000 physically and otherwise qualified mon
 under the present registration WhG will be found in Class when all aues- tionnaires have been returned and the classification period ends February l5 To this the extension of registration to men turning Fl since June of last year and thereafter, will add 700, DOC effective men a year. Narrowed down under the analysis of the first draft made in the report, the plan places
 upan unattached single men and mar lied men with independent incomes most of the weight of military duty for the aggregate namber of men ir the other divisions of Class l is very small.
 First Draft Great Success. General Crowder finds that the first draft surpassed the highest eXpecta lions of friends of the selective serv- ice idea He pays high tribute, not only to the thousands of civilians who gave ungrudging service to make the plan 2 success, but also to the high pa tr;otism of the American people as a
 whole. Analyzing the first draft, Cen
 eral Crowder shows that 9,586, ,50S
 men between the ages of 2l and 31 years registered themselves. Up tC late in December only 5,S70 arrests had been made of those who hac
 sought to evade registration, and o1 that number 2,263 were released aftel having registered, and there remain
 only 2,095 cases to be prosecuted. Many Already Fighting.
 A rough figure of 8.2 per cent iS given as the number of reglstrants who failed to appear when called by
 their local boards for examination
 but General Crowder hastens to ex-
 plain that most of the men already
 were in Europe in the American, Brit
 ish and French armies. They did not
 await the draft processes in their ca
 gcrness to get into action.
 Of the total registration of 9,586, 5O8 the number called and eXaminet
 was 3,O82 ,949, and of these 1,057,36;
 were certified by the boards for mi'i tary service Since the first call WE 1 for only 687000 men, there now re
 main 370.363 men awaiting summon
 to the mobilization camps. Of all mei
 examined 730, ,756, or 23.7 per cent
 were rejected for physical reasons.