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Show Provost Marshal General Gen-eral Crowder Announces An-nounces That the War i Armies Are to Be , Raised From Class 1 j j Under the New Selec- tive Plan Adopted. j i AMENDMENT OF ' THE LAW URGED j ! All Youths Who Have Reached the Age of 21 Since June 5, 1917, to Be Required to Register; Regis-ter; Quotas Hereafter Will Not Be Based Upon Up-on Population. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. All men for the war armies still to be raised by the United Stales will come from class one 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 j a nd unskilled in necessary industrial or agricultural work. j Provost. Marshal General Crowder an- I nounced the new policy in a report on ; the operation of the select lve draft law ! submitted today to Secretary Baker and S sent to congress. He says class one should provldo men for all military needs ' of the country and to accomplish that object lit urges amendment of the draft j taw so as to provide tha t all men who have reached their twenty-h?L birthday since June 5, lflT, shall be required to register for classification. I Fair Distribution. Also in the interest of fair dist i Ibu-tion Ibu-tion of the military burden, he proposes that the quotas of states or districts be determined hereafter on tho hasip of the j number of men in class one and not upon i population. Available figures indicate, the report says, that there are l.oon.uoo nun lined men under the present registration who ; will be found In clase one when all ques- 1 tionnah es have been returned a nd t he classification period ends February 15. To this the ex tension of regtstrat ion to men turning L'l since June 6 of last year and thereafter will add 700,'nnj nnn a year. Class One tiligihlcs. (Mass one comprises; Single mm without dmrndent. relatives, ma rried men vlc lia vo hn l'it.ually failed lo support their farnilipr. v. ho are depm-d'-nt upon wives for support or not u?p-fully u?p-fully engaged, and wlio;o fnmihea ar supported by Incomes ntdeprndent. of thtr labor; unskilled farm labofr-rs, uu-sliilled uu-sliilled Industrial la borer:-' . rrelsl ra n t tt by or in refper-t of w hoiu no deferred i las-fiirKation las-fiirKation 1h claimed or mad:. rtKitiantH who fall to submit queB(ionnriire.,i Md in respect of whom no dr-fen ed claer.itl. rt-tion rt-tion Is claimed or mail'-', and all r'-gin-trants not included In any division of tin; schedule. The plan places upon unattached single mn and married nn-u v.itM I ndeponf)Tit Income most of t In- wf it-hi of military duty, for the ninubrr uf men hi tb- othr divisions of cln:'.; ojk- is i ry iMnall. First Draft a Success. 'Jonernl t ifi'p.'dcr find, lb.it ih first dra ft su rpa psed the b h vl c?t pc t ;i.t ion a nd pays lufch t riimt i o the t lioiu-ands of HvlHaiiFi who;.r- sTvirp made the jmui "At tli" pr-5-id''tif:.; full." ho gayn. "n.lj rwiikh of Hie liHti-UI, I ( 1 1 ji ; ; 1 1 y f-ntcrillg the war, tievo r ) 1 n-ksr- intaiilly re:--poNdJ to the firfi ,ili r.f the natiou with a vik-oroiir-i iind noseirn-h o-(i-raiion rluit suimifjfd nil individual inlfi-owf in n, HiliKh- cii'Ieavor tov.ard tin- ons'nnma t Ion of i ho national t;ink. I iak- it lli;if no crent national project wa- cw-j- a.ttonipt. ed Willi f-o oinif-lc a rdiaipco upon tlio voluntary o-opi-ra t inn of en i.cji.s for lfv exo-ijt inn. 'r i'liiiniy no ;jiic1i burden;:omr. and Macrtfb-ia I S' a 1 ut e had .vor befure li'-n cr-cutfd vitliout a great, hierarchy Of '.faial;-. Administcrofl by Civilians. "Tli1'; !a-v lias b' ' n ; d n -i , , j ;;t ere d bv ! f.-, ilia n. v hope rf f r-isi 1 t'-l-iMon lr-s only ft ii, , ( s..;-r-.- pov.-rt- v.jtli .vlii'li th-v arc I . -Jt . d .v 1 he pi-f irk ni 'r d iirnaMon of Hum to pfT't'-rin t'"' 'InM'F tliat nr'- laid upon thm). Tb' y haw- . -r f.mplif be1 inn rn V . They hu r- niad v.'.p"- mihf a i-s. lii' f-fitm offf-i f- rr.oin f'-r 1 1 ni rnvc-m"i t "Hut the trreat llim; thry wire CHlIvJ upon to do thf-y hnvi done. The vaunte eTi v- of a bsohj t i;.tn of which 1 he I '.."riii.ni empire r-tands a t,o avatar c.n orfor t.r.fhir.c to Compaq with it. Tt re-jnai!-. 'b" jHim.-itc tM:-.t and iirof.f of the, j 1 1 1 r i tt i. politico) id-n upon which American Amer-ican institutions of dr n'ocrwy and t'-lf-;over n ni'1 1 it have Y.cr- n ba sert. ' A :'': '-hi ir t',o first draft, General rrovdor p.iiov.s (bat !t." inep bc- twe'u the iiZ'?. of 21 and o 1 years rsi- ( Continued on Pasre T?:o. FIGHTING IN EUROPE! i (Continued from Page One.) tcred. Tp to 'ate in December only 503 ! r:u heen n a le of those who ' . sought tn pvade registration an 1 of That mui'hr --'.; were reit-ased after having i '. r : sr.e red. und there rp. ains orlv 20"..'o I i ;isi.. ti t- r rCS'-'-ut-d. Tiie report de- I . '-la res mat in the nnal analyais of the ; rei-onls it v. ill he shown that only 0. ."o' S i per '-t-nt of the mtn wit Inn draft a?e i eva!.'d registration. : A ro'iuh fisure of ? 2 per rent is given i hs the number of registrants who failed ! to a r pear m hen called ny their local hosrds for examination, but rieneral j i 'ruw'ier hastens to explain that most of ; these Hjen already are ip Eur"pe in the : American. British and French armies. , Thev did not await the draft processes in ! their eagerness to get into action. ! "The fm;j I data undoubtedly will I show," General Crowder adds, "that the I number of those who willfully failed to i spfar for examination when called is in- ' Mniiicant." j 370,363 Await Summons. Of the. total registration of O.oS.SS. the ! number called and examined was 3.os.-, 3.os.-, 0 l'j arid of these l,n.,7,3i53 were certified " by the boards tor military service. ; Since the first call was for only 657,000 men, there now remain 370,3'3 men awaiting summons to the mobilization camps. I Of all men examined, 730,756. or 23.7 per cent, were rejected tor physical reasons. rea-sons. That, it is pointed out. shows an j encouraging improvement in the physical I condition of the young men of the nation : since civil war days, for at that time the ' drait authorities rejected 32 per cent of all men called, on physical grounds. About one-half of ai! men called, or 1.560.:,0. claimed exemption. The claims of 7 per cent of these were granted, showing, in the opinion of officials, that very few fraudulent claims were filed. Of those exempted. 74 per cent were released because of dependent relatives. 20 per cent because they claimed alien birth and ; nationality, and only 6 per cent on voca- ttonal grounds. Less than 1 per cent of the exemptions were granted to religious objectors or to those morally unfit. The . figures are 3SS7 exempted because of religious re-ligious belief, their exemption extending only to release from participating in actual combat, and 2001 rejected for moral unfitness. The majority of the latter lat-ter were convicts now in prison. Cost of First Draft. The total cost of the first draft, exclusive ex-clusive of the cost of the provost marshal general's office here, was $5,211,965. This amount has been refunded to the states by the federal government. It represents an average cost of $4.03 per man accepted for military service, and with the provost marshal general's expenses included, Sf per man. against a cost of $24. 4S per voluntary vol-untary recruit in 1914, $19.14 in 1915, and 52S.S5 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 S9-S4. In discussing the future of the draft, General Crowder says the first duty is to provide an adequate army. Economic considerations must be regarded in selecting se-lecting the 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 adds, "it little becomes be-comes us to impasse above a whisper as a substantial national problem anything any-thing we have yet been called upon to do." Striking Results of Draft. The data accompanying the report shows many striking results of the draft. Taking 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 vol-untarily waived their right to exemption as aliens and in effect volunteered for the battle for democracy. Even of the 3S1,-1US 3S1,-1US exempted, 40 per cent went out on other grounds than their alien status. There was evident some variations of practice among the states on the question of exempting married men. A total of 163,11;") married men have been certified for service. In Mississippi the boards held 3S per cent of all married men called for service; in Wisconsin and North Dakota Da-kota only 8 per cent were held. It is expected ex-pected 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 no claim for exemption. Figures for that state show that 80 per cent of men called up 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. |