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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
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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
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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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The public statement of a local
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