The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-06
Anniversary of Americas First
Manpower Mobilization
Thus Recalled.
SMOOTH WORKING
ORGANIZATION
$500 Local Boards Throughout
Country Are Doing the
Work.
Associated Press.


sociated Press)-Today, on the ami
versary of Americas first manpower
mobilization, another million youths,
the estimated strength of the class of
1918, register on the first station of the
journey to the colors.
When their draft registration cards
come into their hands, they come to
the disposition of swift, smoothly
working and practical organizations
whose agencies in every countryside.
hamlet, and city of the land have as
sumed successfully the task of dis
eliminating between the nations need
for men who can fight or work, and
additional need for men at home to
support its dependent population.
Observers, foreign and domestic,
military and civilian alike, class the
performance to date under the Ameri-
can selective service law as the most
tangibly successful of it's military ef-
forts, and regard the accretion to the
manpower reservoir of the youngsters
who had not reached their majority
one year ago as the most certain as
surance 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
American armies, drilled, equipped and
equipping, can be turned TO the Euro
pean battlefront.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
who supervises the draft, fixes the ten
tative number given above for the
days new total. and likewise from the
experience tables of the year places
the number of potential soldiers
to be added to the list today at 1900
concluding that the class will be 75 per
cent composed of military effectives.
AS they assemble at the registering
stations today, the total of men raised
by the draft in the United States for
its armies will pass 100000 Before
the end of the present month, the mob
ilized total will have passed I 800. 900.
for the immense military machine that
owes its existence to the readiness of
plain Americans to fight is moving
forward to goal that will meet Tres
ident Wilson's demand for force.
force to the utmost, and force with
out stint"
The 4.5o0 local boards throughout
the country who take the burden of the
work have named registering clerks for
every 100 of the young men within
their jurisdiction. Men absent una
tering day may apply to any board
for their cards. Names as recorded
will pass into the existing classifica-
tions of registered men and, in ac-
cordance with their physical qualifi
cations. their status as to dependents
and as to Industrial or agricultural
occupations, they viii be assigned to
Class One, Two, Three, Four or Five.
The overwhelming majority, however,
as Indicated by the estimate given, the
provost marshal general expects to
find placed in Glass One
They will go to the foot of the list
of 1917 registrants in each class, and
will not be called, the regulations pro-
vide, until those above them have been
taken, unless by trade or education
they are fitted for specialized army
service. then they may be called sooner
The system of determining the order
of their call as among themselves the
provost marshal general has not vet
fixed. but the general expectation is
that some sort of lottery of the type
used. will be conducted on
a national scale. Yet of this officials
are not certain, because the recurring
draft calls come more swiftly, and
run to larger totals now, and the
has come to be more inn
portant than the numbers late
order number will serve only to post
pone for a few days the inevitable call
10 the training camps.
National purposes to see that no in
dividuals evade service is expressed in
the regulations, wherein are voiced the
command of the government to peace
officers of all descriptions United
States marshals. Secret Service men
and city police. that they shall assist
exemption boards in scanning lists and
combing out attempted evaders of the
Figures available show that no other
country participating in the great war
has the actual resources in men that
the United States has. Again0 the
provost marshal generals estimate of
1 600 900 for the American military
class of 1918. which is added to the
almost 10000. 900 total of 1917, can be
placed the German annual increment
Of 100000. the French of 100000 and
the Italian of $4,000. And all thes
classes in other countries have been
called in advance.