The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-10
MORE SELECTED
MEN WANTED

No More Formal Calls for Deferred
Percentages Of Present Quota, Be
fore February 18th.
VIGOROUS SENTENCES GIVEN.
! Many Wealthy Young Men Among
the Personnel Of the Camp Dodge
Camp Dodge, Iowa, January 10,
1918.-The Adjutant Generals of
Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and North
Dakota have received orders from
Provost Marshal Crowder, Of Wash
ington, to notify all local exemption
boards to at nee send forward the
men selected under the original order
in sufficient numbers to make up the
deficiencies in the calls already made.
Some boards have not promptly sent
men to Camp Dodge to take the place
Of men discharged for physical de-
feet or other personal easons. Other
than a sufficient number to make up
the deficiency there will be no call un-
der the original draft for the IS per
cent that was necessary to fill out
the first installment. But instead a
call will be issued about Feb. 18th
| for $4,000 men to be chosen under
the new classification based upon the
missionaries recently submitted.
The official order from Provost Cen
eral Crowder says:
ut has been decided there will no
more formal calls for deferred per-
centages of the present quota before
Feb. 18th. While boards should, un-
til they have enough men classified in
| class one, send forward promptly
men selected under the old regula-
ton to make up deficiencies in calls
| already made, the result of this de-
cision will be that we shall be able
to give the benefit of the new CLASH
fcation system to all men whose or
der numbers are 81 late as to place
them within deferred percentages of
the present call. Calls will, however,
be made very shortly under the pro-
| visions of section 149 for the special
class of men there mentioned. For
the sake of composing the public mind
and for the convenience of registrants
this information ought to be given
wide dissemination" Section 149 of
the selective service regulations re-
lates to the induction of skilled work.
ers into the military service. The
effect of the new ruling therefore is
that the government has decided to
select the sort of skilled workers es-
pecially. needed rather than to induce
men into the service by number with
out regard to special needs Of the
army. Section 149 is as follows:
"Induction into military service of
technical and other experts and of
registrants highly skilled in some
special line of work. The deferred
classification of experts and men
highly skilled in industry or agricul-
ture is intended to prevent thf waste
incident to induction into military SER
vice of men whose special qualifica-
tons render them more valuable to
the national interest in some other
capacity. There are, however, cir
cumstances in which the need of the
military establishment for men expert
or highly skilled is such that the ma
tional interest is better served by in
Quoting such men into military service
than by leaving them engaged in in
dustry or agriculture" In such cir
cumstances neither deferred classifi-
cation on the ground Of engagement
in industry nor agriculture 0 the or
der numbers heretofore assigned by
lot can be permitted to defer the call
of such men into military service.
When there is need for the services
Of men expert or highly skilled in
any special, class Of work, the adult
ant general of the army shall make
requisition on the provost marshal
for the number and class of men need
ed. Thereupon the provost marshal
aeneral shall call upon the governors
OF one or more of the several states
for such number Of the total required
as will distribute the burden equally
among the states as far as tpractic-
able" The call has been issued from
Washington for 1000 bricklayers at
once. Iowa is to furnish SO of these;
Minnesota As; North Dakota IL and
that portion Of Illinois represented in
this district 8.
More Men Given Vigorous Sentences.
"A civil court is a tame affair in
comparison with the penalties impos-
Led by a Court Martial. The past
Eweek Private Harold Bruber, men,
Der of Co. F., Three Hundred and Fiji
~ty-second Infantry has been SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the federal
penitentiary at Fl. Leavenworth. He
maintained he was a member of the
International Bible Students Associ-
alton, was first charged with deser-
tion because he refused to report to
his local board. He was arrested and
brought to Camp Dodge, where he re-
fused to don q uniform, obey, orders
or to take any part in the military
d1ties to which he was ASSIGNED