Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-03
PRESIDENT CALLS
OLDER AND YOUNGER
MEN To SERVICE
Estimated That 12,778,758
viii Register on September
II and That 100000 viii
Be Called to Service

WASHINGTON. Aug. 31.-An men
from is to IS years OF age in the con-
tinenta1 United States, except those
N tns army or navy or already regis
tered were summoned by President Will
son t66ay to register for military serv-
ice O. tt ursday, S-1temoer IL.
Machinery of the provost marshal gen
erals office was set in motion to carry
out the second great enrolment under
2 presidential proclamation issued soon
after the president had signed the
new manpower act extending the draft
ages. The bill, completed in congress
yesterday, had been sent to the White
House for the presidents signature to-
day soon after the house and senate
convened
1t is estimated that at least 12,77S,-
75S men will register this time, COM
pared with nearly ten million ON the
first registration of men from Fl to
81 on June 5, 1917. OF those who en-
roll now it is estimated that $500, 900
will be called for general military serv-
ice, probably two-thirds of the number
coming from among the 100000 or
more between the ages of Is and Fl.
General March has said all regis
trants called into the army will be in
France before next June 80, swelling
the American expeditionary force %
more than the four million men expect
ed to win the war in 1919. The last to
be called will be the youths in their
eighteenth year, but those of that age
who desire and who have the necessary
qualifications may be indicted into
service on October 1, for special tech
meal or vocational training.
Registration this time will be con-
Quoted as heretofore by the local
boards. All federal, state, county and
municipal officers are called upon to
aid the boards in their work, to pre-
serve order and to round up slackers
All registrants will be classified as
quickly as possible under the question
naire system and drawing will be held
at the capitol to fix the order of regis
trants IN their respective classes
The provost marshal generals esti-
mate today places the number of men
under 81 now in the army at about 245.-
zoo and the number of those from 81
to As at 10000.
President Wilson today signed the
man power act, bringing all men in the
United States from eighteen to torty-nVe
years of age within the army service
and Immediately afterward issued a
proclamation fixing Thursday. Septem-
Der IL, as registration day.
Tn a proclamation issued Immediately
after he signed the new man power bill
authorizing extension of the twenty-one-
thirty-one ages, the president called on
the Younger and older men to enroll on
that day with local draft boards where
they make their permanent homes
1--WE solemnly purpose decisive vic
tory of arms" said the president, and
deliberately to devote the larger part OF
the military man power of the nation to
the accomplishment of that purpose
1t is the call to duty to which
every true man in the country will re-
spond with pride and with the conscious
ness that in doing so he plays his part
in yindication of a great cause at whose
summons every true heart offers in SUI
preme service"
The hours of registration will be from
a. m. to 9 d. m. and all state and local
officials are called on to make immediate
arrangements for maintenance of regis
tration places on that day.
All men within the new ages, whether
citizens of the United States or not,
must register, unless they are diplomatic
or consular representatives of foreign
nations.
In case of illness, arrangements for
tardy enrolment may be made with To-
cal boards, and men who expect to be
absent from their homes may register
by mail, sufficiently in advance that
the registration record reaches the board
by September IL. If a man has no perma-
nent residence he is to register at the
place he is on September IL, and those
out of the country on that day are re-
CURED to enroll within five days after
their return.
At least thirteen million men will
place themselves subject to call for war
service under the new regulation, it is
estimated, although only those without
dependents, in good health, and other
wise qualified for arduous duties of a
soldier are to be taken first.
Boys in Separate Group
Youths in their eighteenth year will
be placed in a separate group, the war
department has announced, to be subject
to a special educational program, and
will not be called until the supply of
other available men in the new classes
is exhausted. This does not mean that
their calling will be long deferred, how
ever, inasmuch as it has been announced
that all men in the new registration &C
cepted for general service will be under
arms by June 80, 1919. The man-power
bill makes no specific provision for sep
arate classification of 1S-year-old boys,
and war department plans for their
treatment have been made on executive
initiative.
Although the work or fight clause
which would have affected striking work
men was taken out of the bill before
passage yesterday, Provost General
Crowder has planned to apply vigorous
ly existing regulations relating to idle
men or those engaged in non-essential
employment to the newly registered men.
The man-power bill was signed today
by presiding officers OF the house and
senate and sent to the White House for
the Presidents signature which made