The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06
ANOTHER MILLION ON
SELECT|VE REGISTER
THIS ESTIMATED STRENGTH
OF MILITARY CLASS OF
YEAR 1918.

Washington, June 6.-Yesterday,
the anniversary of Americas first
manpower mobilization, another
million youths, the estimated
strength of the class OF 1918, regis
ter on the first station of the Jour
ney to the colors.
When their draft registration
cards come into their hands, they
come to the disposition of swift
smoothly-working and practiced
organization, whose agencies in ev
cry country side, hamlet and city
OF the land have assumed success
fully the task of discriminating be
tween the nations need for men
who can fight or work, and its ad
ditional need for men at home to
support its dependent population.
Estimate BY Crowder.
Observers, foreign and domestic,
military and civilian alike, class the
performance to date under the
American selectve service law as
the most tangbly successful OF its
military efforts and regard the ac-
cretion of the manpower reservoir
OF the youngsters who had not
reached their ma jorty one year ago
as the most certain assurance of
the final downfall OF the Prussian
autocracy. BE it near or far, the
day of allied victory cannot be
evaded, the practical military view
is, so long as the rising flood OF
the American armies, drilled, equip |
ped and equlpping, can be turned /
to the European battle front.
Provost Marshal General Crow
der, who superyises the draft, fixes
the tentative number given above
for the days new total, and like
wise from the experience tables of
the year places the number OF po-
tention soldiers added yesterday to
the list at 100000, concluding that
the class will be IS per cent COM
posed of military effcctives.
AS they assemble at the register
irg places today, the total of men
raised by the draft in the United
States for its armies will pass L.
100000 Before the end OF the pres
ent month. the modified total will
have passed 100000, for the i'm
mense military machine that owes
its existence to the readiness of
plain Americans TO fight is moving
forward to a goal that will meet
President Wilson's demand for I
force, force to the utmost, and
force without stint"
The $500 local boards through
out the country who take the bur
den of the work have named reg r
istering clerks for every 100 OF the 6
men within their jurisdic- b
ton. Men absent unavoidably from a
their homes on registering day may q
apply to any board for their cards r.
Names as recorded will pass into Il
he existing claSsiiicatonS OF reg u
Istered men and, in accordance
with their physical qualifications, tl
heir status as To dependents and y
IS to industrial or agricultural oc- tI
'upationS, they will be assigned to oi
lass one, two. three, four. or five p'
The overwhelming majority, how b,
,ver, as indicated by the estimate &c
,iven, the provost marshal general ne
.Npects to find placed in class one. NJ
To Foot Of List. IN
They will so to the foot OF the hi
ist OF 1917 registrants in each class,
nd will not be called, the regula- Gl
ions provide, until those above
hem have been taken, unless by
rade or education they are fitted M
or specialized army service, then
hey may be called sooner. The
ystem OF determining the order OF NJ
heir call Is among themselves thu As
rovoSt marshal general ha, not yet tn,
lXed, but the general expectation
, that some sort OF Lottery OF the SD,
spe previously used will be CON no
ucted on 4 national scale. Yet OF tie
his officials are not certain, be he
ause the recurring draft calls come cit
lore swiftly. and run to larger to- au
as Aiphs am Alt NldANlllNdllOIl llda
ONE TO be more important than mi
ne numbers. \ late order number wa
i'll serve only to postpone for VII
~ days the inevitable call to the alb,
aiming camps. wa
National purpose to see that no pri
divldualS evade service IS express Off
] in the regulations. wherein are
Diced the command oi the gov enl
nnent TO peace officers OF all de ser
'rip,ionS. United States marshals, the
cret service men. and CITY police, the
at they shall assist exemption an'
'ards in scanning lists ard comb Dri
& out attempted evaders OF the no.
gistration. nei
America Leads All. "o
Figures available show that no
her country participating in the 1',' ,
eat war has the actual resources ~, ~
men that the United States has. M
gainst the provost marshal gen pro
al's estimate OF l.O00.OOO for the po'
nerican military class OF 1918. ~.
hich Is added to the almost TO-
600 total OF 1917. can be placed >,
e German annual Increment OF Liz