Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-04

Washington. Jan. 3.-Au men for tha war armies still to be raised py lha Tinted States will come from class ma under the new selective service nlan. That means the nations hgnt- sn1 is to be done by young men Wltn- out families dependent upon tnelr Ia hor for support and unskilled In nec- essarv industrial or agricultural WorK. Provost Marshal General Crowder announces the new policy in an ex- haustive report upon the operation or Inc selective draft law submitted to- day to Secretary Baker and sent 10 congress. He gays class one snoulo provide men for all military neeos oi the country. and to accomplish tnae pbiect he urges amendment or the draft law so as to provide that all men who have reached their twenty-first birthdays since June 5, 1917. shall De required to register for classification. Also in the interest of fair distribu- lion of the military burden. he pro- noses that the quotas of states or dls- ,ricts he determined hereafter on the tasis of the number of men in class :ae and not upor population.
 Available figures indicate, the report savs. that there are 1000. QUO physical lv and otherwise qualified men under inc present registration who will h' found in class one when all question naires have been returned and the ciassifcation period ends February b. To this the extension of registration, to men turning 21 since June 5 of last year and thereafter will add 70O,oCG effective men a year.
 What Class One Comprises.
 Class one comprises:
 a. lives. married men who have habitual- ly failed to support their families. whc are dependent upon wives for support or not usefully engaged. and whose families are supported by incomes in dependent of their labor; unskillet farm laborers, unskilled industrial la borers. registrants by or in respect O whom no deferred classification Il claimed or made, registrants who fai 10 submit questionnaire and in respec of whom no deferred classification | claimed or made, and all registrant not included in any other division the schedule
 Narrowed down under the analyst of the first draft made in the report the plan places upon unattached sin gle men and married men with inde dependent incomes most of the weigh of military duty, for the aggregat number of men in the other division ot class one Is very small.
 General Crowder finds that the frs draft surpassed the highest expecta tions of the friends of the selectiv service idea He pays high tribute not only to the thousands If civilians who gave ungrudging service to mak ing the plan a success, but also to tn high patriotism of the American peo pie as a whole.
 ey5s6,5o8 Men Registered.
 Analyzing the first draft, Genera Crowder shows that 9,5S6,50S men be tween the ages of 21 and 31 years reg istered themselves. Up to late in De cember only 5,S7o arrests had bee made of those who had sought evade registration, and of that mum Der 2,263 were released after havin registered. and there remain only 2,09 cases to be prosecuted. The report de clares that in the final analysis of tn records it will be shown that onl o.0002s per cent of the men withi draft age evaded registration.
 A rough figure of S-2 per cent. given as the number of registrant who failed to appear when called b their local boards for examination, bu General Crowder hastens to explai that most of these men already aI in Europe in the American, British an French armies. They did not ava the draft processes in their eagernes to get into action.
 "The final data will undoubtedl show" General Crowder added, ."th; the number of those who wilfully fai sd to appear for examination whe called is insignificant"
 1,057y3 y363 Have Been Certified.
 Of the total registration of 9,586, ,0l the number called and examined WI s.0S2,el9 and of these 1,057.363 we certified by the boards for milital service. Since the first call was f, only es7.000 men. there now rema 3T0,363 men awaiting summons to u mobilization camps.
 Of all men examined, 730,756 or 2s per cent were rejected for physic reasons. That, it is pointed out, shov an encouraging improvement in u physical condition of the young mC of the nation since Civil war days, f at that time the draft authorities r 1ected g per cent. of all men called ( physical grounds.
 t,56o,570 Claimed Exemption.
 About one-half of all men called, l.560,570, claimed exemption. IT claims of 7S per cent. of these we granted. showing in the opinion of of cials that very few fraudulent clain were filed. Of those exempted, "A D cent were released because of depen ent relatives. 20 per cent. because tn claimed alien birth and nationalit, and only 6 per cent. on vocation grounds. Less than one per cent. the exemptions were granted to reli ious objectors or to those morally Ill it. The figures show 3,SS7 exempt because of religious belief, their e