The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-11
5000, ,OOO YOUTHS UNDER q WILL REGISTER THURSDAY
If Any Registrant Fails to File Hia Proper Exemption With Draft
 enption for Him--Government Does Not Want to Cripple Any Business.

W ashington, Sept, 10-Youths of 19 and 20 years and men between the ages of 32 and 36, inclusive, who regis
 ter Thursday will be called to theNcol- ors first, Provost Marshal General l Crowder announced today and until
 the supply of available fighting mate rial in their ranks has been exhausted.
 older men will not be inducted into ' the service. Questionnaires will a0 first to registrants of these ages and
 focal boards have been expected ,o
 proceed wth their speedy classifica-
 tion so that some of them may be called in October. Pointing out that in classifying men above the ages of 31. the army draft would be attack ing the country's economic life and entering an unexplored field" Gener- al Crowder in a public statement 10 all employers and industrial repre- sentatiyes he sought their aid in ap- plying the plans of individual defer ments so that tine maintainance of the military establishment or of the national interest during the emergen- cy" may not be interfered with
 Before issuing his appeal General Crowder had again pointed out that GU estimates of experts the war depart ment co&ld expect to draw from tho classes above 31 only 601 ,000 men physically fit for military service aad not entitled to deferred classification on the grounds of dependency or oc- cupation. He also said that men or
 
 mission to the students training corps at the 400 secondary schools with which the war department has made contracts, but added that this corps would number 10000 men while ovar 3,000,000 youths below 2l will register Thursday. Methods of selecting those to be inducted into military service and educational training corps, he said, were the concern of other branches Of the administration.
 In his statement to employers and other representatives of industry, General Crowder said the time had come when he must address to them some recommendations us to their share of responsibility in the classi- fication of the new registrants and added
 'I have noticed in the general ex- pressions of the public attitude two | frequent features which have led ms to the present comments. One of these | features is that belief that process of lawarding deferred classification to q | registrant requires merely the filling
 out of the questionnaire, and that the selective service boards will perceive | the propriety of making the deferment. without the assistance furnished by the registrants' formal claim indicat- ing the deferment desired The other feature is the employers failure to I realize his responsibility to intervene
 in aiding the boards determination
 and therefore to inform himself fully
 on all the considerations which should
 affect the decision.
 "As to the first mentioned belief, 1t | must be pointed out that if it wero
 universally acted upon, the process of classification would be seriously ham
 pered and delayed Some one musr
 indicate that the individual case is one which should arrest the special at
 tention of the boards in respect to the lregistrants occupational status The boards do not possess a superhuman omniscence. Nor are they permitted by circumstances to devote unlimited
 time to the search of questionnaires for possible grounds of claim In 1917 out of more than 3.000.060 registrants lcalled. only 10000 filed occupational -------------------------- l (CONTINUED ON PAGls TaREE