Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 6 | Utah's Draft Quota is Reported Filled

UTAH'S DRAFT QUOTA 15 REPORTED FILLED Captain A. J. Mechin Says Voluntary Inductions Meet Coming Call. AVheri the next draft is put into effect ef-fect Utah will not be called upon to furnish any men. Such tvas the declaration decla-ration made yesterday by Captain A. .1. Mechin, chief clerk in the adjutant general's office, on his return from a trip to Ogdeu, where he visited the O-den O-den and Weber county local draft boards. "Men are offering themselves to be inducted into the service voluntarily in such numbers as to make it certain now that Utah's quota will have been furnished fur-nished before the call for the next draft is issued," declared Captain Mechin. ' ' How many men Utah wiU be asked to supplv we do not know exactly, but the number will be somewhere between 2000 and 2500. Owing to the irregularity irregu-larity with which reports are made by some of the smaller counties outside Salt Lake, I cannot say at this time exactly how many men have voluntarily voluntar-ily entered the service, but the rate is high enough so that we are now cer-, cer-, tain the next call will not mean placing men from this state in the national army who do not want to go. On the contrary, it will be found that Utah's quota has already been supplied. "The boards are now explaining to men who ask permission to enlist in the army that, while drafted men may not have such permission, they can cause themselves to be voluntarily inducted into the service." Enlistments are etill being accepted in the marine corps and the navy, but those are credited against Utah's quota in the draft. Captain Mechin left last night on a trip, in the course of which he will visit the draft boards of Beaver, Cedar City, Panuitch, Marvsvale, Richfield and Mantu