Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-13
MEN 10 TO 20,
81 TO 80, TO BE
CALLED ON FIRST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O-Provost
Marshal General Crowder announced To-
day that the first call to the colors Of
men who registered Thursday will in
clude men in the 8 and 20-year-old
classes and in the classes from 80 to 26
years, inclusive. Questionnaires will go
first to registroQnts within these speci-
fled age limits and local boards will be
ordered to classify them first in readi-
ness for calls beginning in October.
BY September 16 all states should
have reported to Washington their total
registration and the work of assigning
serial numbers to registrants by the To-
cal boards will be well under way,
Crowder explained. AS rapidly as each
registrant is given a serial number his
QUESTIONABLE will be mailed. There will
be practically no loss of time in starting
the machinery for Inducing the men of
the new draft, Crowder assured.
Nineteen to Thirty-six First
Boards will concentrate on the cards
of men between nineteen and thirty-six
inclusive leaving those who are not
liable to immediate call for later atten-
ton.
General Crowder explained in detail
the work of advisers who will sit with
local boards. These advisers will not
act as a committee, but instead each
will have his own field. A labor adviser
and an agriculture adviser will have
jurisdiction over questions relating to
industry and agriculture, respectively.
Additional advisers will deal with the
professions and other occupations not
falling under the other two divisions.
Crowder explained there was no limit
to the number of advisers each board
might have
No claims for deferred classification
will be considered unless registrants
have mentioned it in his QUESTIONABLE
or third person requests it for him.
Crowder urged employers to study their
personnel thoroughly, so as to be able
to advise draft boards regarding the
registrants in their employ.
classification of the nineteen to thirty
six-year-old group should take not over
fifty days, Crowder said, and this group
comprises practically half the entire Is,
100000 men.
10000 for Colleges
Boys between eighteen and twenty, in
elusive, will have opportunity to attend
one of the 400 universities designated by
the war department, Crowded said. Not
over $50, 900 of the 1900, 900 registrants
of these ages are expected to attend COL
lege under the war departments regula-
who are qualified to attend universities
and volunteer to do so.
In the forthcoming great call, every
care is to be taken to protect essential
industries, but at the same time excep-
tional alertness will be shown to prevent
abuse of industrial exemption" claims.
This has been made clear by the pro-
vost marshal general, explaining the
preference lists" issued by the war in
dustries board to aid boards in deter
mining proper application of the So
called work or fight order.
These lists, embodied in four main
divisions compiled according to their
relative essentially for var work, are
merely for guidance.
such lists shall mot be regarded as
binding upon the district board and
it's conclusions as to whether any par
ticular industry, occupation or employ
ment is necessary" Provost Marshal
General Crowder declared today. Nor
shall such lists prevent the district
board from holding as necessary any
industry, occupation or employment not
contained therein"
Crowder declares that these lists
merely supplement information in the
hands of the district boards and to as
sist the boards in dealing with specific
cases.
Each board will have Industrial advis-
ors who will bring to the attention of
the board itself such matters as wheth-
er or not individuals engaged in some
particular line of industry are so neceS-
sSry thereto as to outweigh the bene-
fit the nation would get from their
services elsewhere. These advisors will
confer with employers who ask de-
ferred classification for their men and
with employees in whose behalf no such
claims have been made. Thus much
more careful examination of question
naires is prospect for the next draft,
and it is hoped to reduce to the min
imum both abuse of exemption privi-
leges and injustice, resulting from too
hasty passing upon questionnaires.
In determining upon the classification
of men there will be really only two
fight Interpretation of right to ex-
emption or deferred classification:
First, that man is engaged in in
dustry, occupation or employment neces-
sary to the maintenance or operation
of military forces or the maintenance
of public interest
Second, that he is himself necessary
to the operation of said industry.
The Germans are a little out of
breath by the pace Marshal Foch set
for them, but they are unlikely to get
respite during the coming autumn
and winter. 1t is assured that Mar
shall Foch will not let them go to earth
as was done after the first battle or
the Marine