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MEN WITH NO DEPENDENTS NEXT ARMIES WILL BE OF MEN WITHOUT FAMILIES. Class 1 Will Also Include Those Having Reached 21 Since June 5, 1917. Washington, Jan. 3.?All men for the war armies still to be raised by the United States will come from class 1 under the new selective service plan. That means the nation's fighting is to be done by young men without families dependent upon their labor for support and unskilled in necessary industrial or agricultural work. Provost Marshal General Crowder announces the new policy in an exhaustive report upon the operation of the selective draft law submitted today to Secretary Baker and sent to congress. Urges Amendment 01 iiaw. The general says class 1 should provide men for all military needs of the country and to accomplish that object he urges amendment of the draft law so as to provide that all men who have reached their twentyfirst birthdays since June 5, 1917, shall be required to register for classification. Also 7 in the interest of fair distribution of the military burden, he proposes that the quotas of States or districts be determined hereafter on the basis of the number of men in class 1 and not upon population. 1,000,000 in Class 1. Avoiiohio fie-nrps indicate, the re ' AT UlAUk/AV **CJ ? - , port says, that 1,000,000 physically and otherwise qualified men under the present registration should be found in class 1 when all questionnaires have been returned and the ' classification period ends February 15. To this the extension of registra. ; tion to men turning twenty-one since June 5 of last year and thereafter will add 700,000 effective men a year. Class 1 Comprises: Single men without dependent relatives, married men who have habitually failed to support their families, married men who are dependent upon wives1 for support, men not usefully engaged and whose families are supported by income independent of their labor, unskilled farm laborers, unskilled industrial laborers, regis a istrants by or in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed or made, registrants who fail to submit questionnaires and in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed or made, and all registrants "."2 not included in any other division V of the schedule. Where the Weight Rests. Narrowed down on the analysis of the first draft made in the report, the plan places upon unattached single men and married men with independent incomes most of the weight of military duty, for the aggregate numbers of men in other divisions of q class 1 is very small, jh r, ' Gen. Crowder finds that the first draft surpassed the highest expectation of friends of the selective service idea. 'He pays high tribute, not only to the thousands of civilians who gave ungruding ser; vice to making the plan a success, Trat also to the high patriotism of the American people as a whole. Splendid Response. "At the President's call," he says, '""all ranks of the nation, reluctantly y' , entering the war, nevertheless instantly responded to the first call of the nation with a vigorous and un\ selfish cooperation that submerged % , all individual interest in a single effort toward the consummation of the national task. I take it that no great national project was ever at[ tempted with so complete a reliance ; upon the volunteer of citizens for its execution. Certainly no such burdensome and sacrificial statute had ever before been executed without a 'great hierarchy of officials. By Civilians. "This law has been administered by civilians whose official relations r \ lie only in necessary powers with which they are vested by the President's designation of them to perform the duties that are laid upon them. They have accomplished the task. They have made some mistakes. The system offers room for improvement. "But the great things they were called upon to do they have done. The vaunted efficiency of absolutism of which the German Empire stands as the avator can offej nothing to compare with it. It remains the ultimate testimony and proof of the in. trinsic political idea upon which American institutions of democracy and self-government have been based." The First Draft. Analyzing the first draft Gen. Crowder shows that 9,586,508 men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one registered. Up to late in December only 5,870 arrests have been made of those who have sought to evade registration and of that number 2,263 were released after having registered, and there remain only 2,095 cases to be prosecuted. The report declares that in the final analysis of the records it will be shown that only 0.00026 per cent, of the men within draft age evaded registration. Eager to S?rve. A rough figure of 8.2 per cent, is given as the number of registrants who failed to appear when called by their local boards for exemption, but Gen. Crowder hastens to explain that most of these men already are in Europe in the American, British and French armies. They did not await the draft process in tneir eagerness to get into action. "The final data will undoubtedly show," Gen Crowder adds, "that the number of those who willfully failed to appear for examination when called is insignificant." Of the total registration of 9,586,508 the number called and examined was 3,082,949 and of these 1,057,363 were certified by the boards for military service. Since the first call was only for 687,000 men there now remains 370,363 men awaiting summons to the mobilization camps. Rejections 23.7 Per Cent. Of all men examined 730,756, or 23.7 per cent, were rejected for physical reasons. That, it is pointed out, shows an encouraging improvement in the physical condition of the young men of the nation since civil war days, for at that time the draft authorities rejected 32 per cent, of all men called on physical grounds. About one-half of all men called, or 1,560,570, claimed exemption. The claims of 78 per cent, of these were granted, showing in the opinion officials that very few fraudulent claims were filed. Of those exemped, 74 per cent, were released because of dependent relative, 20 per cent, because they claimed alien birth and nationality, and only 6 per cent, on vocational grounds. Less than 1 per cent, of the exemptions were granted to religious objectors or to those morally unfit. The figures are 3,887 exempted because of religious belief, their exemption extending only to release from participation in actual combat; and 2,001 rejected for moral unfitness. The majority of the latter were convicts now in prison. Cost of First Draft. The total cost of the first draft exclusive of the provost marshal general's office here was $5,221,965. This amount has been refunded to the States by the federal government. It represents an average cost of $4.93 per man accepted for military service and with the provost marshal general's expense included $5 per man against a cost of $24.48 per voluntary recruit in 1914; $19.14 in 1915, and $28.95 in the first nine months of 1917. Prior to the Draft Act during the civil war the cost per man was about $34 and after the draft was enforced, about $9.84. In discussing the future of - the draft, Gen. Crowder takes occasion to say that the first duty is to provide an adequate army. Economic considerations must be regarded in selecting men, he says, but not at the expense of an efficient fighting force. Viewed beside the efforts Germany and Austria have put forth to place man power in the field, he added, "it little becomes us to emphasize above a whisper as a substantial national problem anything we have yet been called upon to do." Striking Results. Tables accompanying the report show many striking results for the draft. Take the total of 1,243,801 aliens registered; it is shown that of the 457,713 called up for examination, 76,545 were certified for military service, having voluntarily waived their rights to exemption as aliens and in effect volunteer for the battle for democracy. Even of the 381,168 exempted, 40 per cent, went out on other grounds than their alien status. There was evidently some: variation of practice among the States on the question of exempting married men. A total of 163,115 married men have been certified for service. In Mississippi the board held 3S per cent, of all married men called for service; in Wisconsin and North Dakota only 8 per cent, were held. After further study of the results it is expected efforts will be made to unify the practice of boards more closely in this regard. Montana led among the states in the number of men called who filed nn rlm'ms for exemntion. Fiernres for that State show that 80 per cent, of the men called were ready to go to the front. Kentucky had the greatest number of exemption claims, 52 per cent, of all men called filing affidavits. The average number of claims was 46 per cent. An embargo has been placed on the exportation of butter, except to nations associated with the United States in war. 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