Show DRAFT MEN PUT IN J CLASSES BEFORE i NEW GALL I Method Enables Authorities to Lay Hands on Men Needed By Harry Ward International News Service Staff Cor 1 Intern v respondent 1 WASHINGTON W Mar 3 The Thc The process proc proc- of ot classification of or All nil men within with a less ess j field of ot the selective service Is in tt the tho proceeding rapidly 1 It has become necessary to carry forward with this process the making I of a n. complete completo Index which will accurately y 1 stele locate any ani specially qualified I t 1 man matt among the Ole ten millions milion who taro havo o I enrolled under the selective draft been 1 law i iJ J 1 1 A. A As this duty can best st bo performed by the school teachers of ot the country and acting under the authority conf conferred con con- f tarred upon him law President s dent ent Wilson has called upon them to I rid aid id In this tills stupendous task The They have responded to the number of at and t tho o work of ot getting an ac accurate aci nci nc- nc i curate account of oC the capabilities of at often i ten million young oun men is now under wa way 4 IMPORTANT SAYS CROWDER f It Is of paramount Importance to the selective features s of the tho draft and andL L tto to tho the effective c employment of ot theman the tho man man power of or tho the arm army that thelt every everyman man inan be bo so placed in hi It as to give tho thu I most mORt a advantage vantage from his particular II I qualifications Marshal r I said Provost Pro i General Crowder In explaining tho the work no now being done In classifying the menThe menThe men The manifold activities that comi compose com com- i L pose the modern army call for tor a most extensive variety ariet of at occupation occupation- K al el experience and skill he ho continued 11 A itA largo proportion of ot tho the men In if khaki will be more or less occupies occupied y 4 with activities which represent the military iii tar application of oC tho the very skill t already acquired by them thorn In civil chon life liCe rh These varieties of ot military y e service are areas areas areas I as as vital as an any others to the success of military operations on a n large calc I I CONGENIAL PLACE ASSURED Under the first draft the problem I K 1 has bas been m met t h by waiting wailing until the men arrived d In camp and b by then II tho the occupational qualifications qualification on of of each leh one Special experts in ht the adjutant adJutant ad- ad I I generals general's office and personnel I officers In the tho several divisions ha have hae e eI I go lI themselves s to this tusk task that r f every man in ht the national army Is now assured ar that his special 1111 experience c will be bf availed of at so far a ai as there N Is need need for it it And this I Incidentally illustrates that tha t th man mani who who enters under the tho selective c service j i I system Astern will wm have hay as ns reu- reu reasonable a It likelihood like like- j of finding n a task congenial to I j his hb experience as if he had orl originally i J enlisted In t some orate branch l 0 of r t the 11 C sere ervi ervIce i Ice selected by hy himself But Urn thin plan of waiting waltin until the theman's theman's I mans man's arrival in jn camp mp no longer r suf suf- Instead of waiting until the new 4 contingent nt arrives arrIvE's in camp we must I know know w its composition l before It starts tarts for tor camp Wo We must h be able lo to determine determine deter deter- J mine he beforehand how many men mm of the thc branches branches' of ot Industry aro amo available available avail ail able for the corresponding kinds of oC work ork rk in the army And if iC special and urgent need arises W vc mu must t be he able ahlo to make a n special call caU for the nee needed ed kind 1 of ot men mn and to know how v many manyE E there are arc and where the they can be found EXAMPLE CITED For Tor example General Pershing recently re- re re recently nU cabled for meteorologists to as assist as- as alst In the work of the tho army in France and ind the adjutant generals general's officers W ro re o able promptly to find for him Inthe in I the national arm army the needed men I This is the kind of service which we mar may now 1 be 0 called upon to render out sot Jot the millions of or men now awaiting the call to arms arras outside the tho camps Such a n. possibility illustrates emphatically the aptness of the name chosen for the selective service system in the thebe ginning beginning be b by tho the President nt The filing cards describing in great reat detail the indu industrial and educational Qualifications of each registrant are ct coming to General Crowders Crowder's office at atthe the rate of nearl nearly a day A big staff of women and men has been put putto putto to work In his office tabulating this information under the direction of or ex experts experts exports ex- ex ports from rom the federal census bureau The sooner the Ule card file is completely com com- Installed said General ner der th the more rapidly and effectively the fine t e national army arm can be bo Ho eto to go forward rd In that mighty might and InspirIng in- in task for which we are all allOW now ow straining str every effort t. t DULUTH Minn March 2 A A drug L store clerk refused to sell bird hird seed to ta a customer on heatless s. s Monday Claiming that bird seed was not medi- medi cine The man declared he needed the ecil to keep his wife wife's s canary from fromi i starving f r but hut tho the matter was waa not sett set set- t tied ed until C C. 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