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Show APPROACHING DRIFT Many Volunteer in Army and Navy to Avoid Conscription. The large number of enlistments tn the army and navy at the present time is due, in the opinion of Gilbert W. Williams, chief clerk of the district exemption board, to the desire of a large number of the younger men of the state, -without claim for exemption, to avoid cou-fcriptlon, cou-fcriptlon, which asain will be in effect December 15. Besides the thousands of young men who are now enlisting in the regular service, hundreds of others, competent com-petent as draftsmen and mechanics, are seeking employment in the shipbuilding service, which guarantees them enlistment enlist-ment in the emergency fleet classification 'and consequent exemption from the draft. I The opinion is expressed by Mr. Wii-! Wii-! liams that at least one-fifth of the men ! who. a month ago. were available for classification Xo. 1, made up of men without with-out dependents, as well as those of low order of liability, will either be enlisted in the regular service by December 15 or be in the employment of the various shipyards of the country. In the coming draft, however, it is believed be-lieved that the local draft divisions will be given credit for all who have enlisted between June 30 and December 15, the letter being the date when the mailing of the questionnaires to all registered men will begin. By reason of this credit, the quotas of the local draft boards will be reduced. It is considered doubtful if any of the men drafted into the army during the coming draft will be eligible for entrance into the officers' training camps now in operation, as they will not have been sufficiently long under the observation of the. officers making selections of men for such camps. It is considered more than probable, however, that other officers' training camps will be established early in April, which will receive men selected from the increment of men to be drafted beginning December 15. |