The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-08
$4,000 NEW SOLDIERS.
That IL the Number Gen. CrOwdcr
Figures Will DC Added by TOday's
Registration.


manpower mobilization, another mil
lion 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 a swift. smoothly
working and practiced organization.
whose agencies i'm every country side,
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
its 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 Amer
lean selective service law us the most
tangibly successful OF it's military ef-
forts, and regard the accrction to the
man-power reservoir of the young
stcrs who had not reached their ma
Jorty one year ago as the most GER
tain assurance of the final downfall
of the Prussan autocracy. Be il
near or far, the day of Allied victory
cannot be evaded, the practical mill
tary view is, SO long as the rising
Hood of the American armies, drill
turned to the European battlefront
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
who supervises the draft, fixes the
tentative 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 10000,
concluding that the class will he 75
per cent. composed Of military effec.
tives.
AS they assemble at the registering
stations today, the total Of men raised
by the draft i'm the United States for
It's armies will pass 100000. Before
the end Of the present month. the
mobilized total will have passed L.
100000, for the immense military
machine that owes it's existence to
the readiness of plain Americans to
ight Is moving forward to goal that
will meet President Wilson's demand
for force. force to the utmost. and
force without stint"
The $500 local boards throughout
the country who take the burden of
the work have named rcgsterinc
clerks for every 100 of the young men
within their jurisdiction. Men absent
uaavoidably from their homes Oh
registering day may apply to any
board for their cards. Names as
recorded will pass into the existing
ciassiilcations of registered men anC
In accordance with their physical
qualifications. their status as to de-
pendents and as to industrial or agri-
cultural occupations. they will be as
signed to Class One. "wo. Three
Four, or Five. The overwhelming
majority. however, as indicated by the
estimate given, the provost marshal
general expects to find placed I'm Glass
One.
They will go to the foot of the list
OF 1917 registrants i'm each class, and
Will not be called. the regulations pro.
vide, until those above them have
been taken. unless by trade or educa.
ton they are fitted for specialized
army service, then they may be call
ed sooner. The system Of determin-
ing the order of their call as amone
themselves the provost marshal gen
eral has not yet fixed, but the general
expectation is that some sort of a lot
tory of the type previously used, will
he conducted on Il national scale. Yet
OF this officials are not certain, be
cause the recurring draft calls com,
more swiftly, and run to larger to-
tails now. and the classification has
come to he more important than the
numbers. A late order number will
serve only to postpone for a few day.
The inevitable call to the training
amps.
National purpose to sec that no in
ulVidualS cV11e Servico ;c ovnro,,.,l
IN the regulations. whcrein are voiced
the command of the government t.
peace officers of all dcscriptions
United States marshals secret servic,
meA' ana city police, that they shall
assist exemption boards i'm scanninc
lists and coming out attempted cvad.
~ of the registration.
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