Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
100000 SELECTMEN
ORDERED To REPORT
To CAMPS APRIL Is
Call Issued Saturday Is for
Three Times Number Origi-
nal Schedule of Provost
General Contemplated

WASHINGTON, April Approx
mately 10000 men will be sent to
training camps during the fve-day pc
riod beginning April &c under orders
sent to state governors today by Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder for mob
litigation of the April call of the sec
ond select service. This is three times
the number it was originally planned to
call and is nearly twice the monthly
quota as based on the calling of $780,
600 men over a period of nine months.
Calling out of the increased number
was made necessary by the decision of
President Wilson to respond without
delay to the need of France and Great
Britain for achievements in the great
battle in Picardy. Vacancies in nation
al army divisions resulting from the
Withdrawal of men to complete nation
al guard and regular army units and
for the formation of special technical
units asked by General Pershing will
be made good by the April call. Those
divisions farthest advanced in training
are to receive first attention in order
units may be sent abroad soon.
Is ~ .,.< Old Basis Used
Failure of congress to pass the
amendment to the SelecuVe service act,
which would permit the fxation of
state quotas on the nunrber of men in
class one, necessitated temporary adj
herence to the old system. Local boards
have been officially advised, however,
that they are to ignore quotas for
Al Aa;w 20 -fx oyNIxy
calling up men until they have obtained
the number they have been instructed
to forward. When basis for establish
ing state quotas has been found, due
credit against future increments will
be given for those already called.
Among the men to be called will be ap-
proximately 116,700 whites and $4,000
negroes. Pennsylvania leads with TO-
965; Ohio is second with 10,302, and
New York third with 10,171.
The call laid grim emphasis upon
Presidenr Wilson'S address in Balti-
moge tonight when he answered in kind
Germanys threat of peace by force.
The order practically winds up the
first call in all states, including the
south, where the movement of negroes
has been delayed until warmer weather.
And it fixes in April stirring answer
to the French and British appeal for
more men. Between March % and April
l. just z53,13 men will have responded
to the service call.
Of this number, 245,oO0 are for the
general run of the service-regular
fighting men-while the remaining are
for mechanical students and photogra-
piers. Special calls are coming in
daily ANA the number may be increased
several thousand before the month is
over.
Mobilization Complete
The mobilization of the first big gen.
eraI call of the month for $4,000 men
was completed today. Cooperation
with the national railroads has devel-
oped such a smooth working system
that few delays to mobilization are now
experienced.
Following are the southern. states
quotas Alabama, 3,30f; Florida, $3.50;
Georgia. 6.S56; Kentucky, 1896; Louis
lana, 4.549; Maryland, 2,120; Mssissip-
pi. 2.JO4; Missouri, 4,07S; North Caro-
lima. 5.054: South Carolina, 1853; Ten
nessee, 4.751, and Texas, 1917.
Following his usual policy, the pro-
vost marshal general refused to give
the camps where the men of each state
will be sent, except to state that the en-
tire mobilization will be rather gener-
ally scattered all over the camps OF the
country. Most of the southern negroes
will be brought to northern camps ana
many northerners will spend the spring
i'm Dixie cantonments.
With the mobilization order General
Crowder sent a notice calling the atten-
ton of local boards to the ruling that
the induction of necessary farm LABOR
should be deferred until after harvest