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Show YOUNG AMERICANS TO FILLUP RANKS WAR ARMIES WILL BE RAISED FROM CLASS ONE UNDER NEW SELECTIVE PLAN. All Youths Who Have Reached the Age of 21 Since June 5, 1917, to Be Required to Register, Adding 700,000 Men a Year. Washington. All men for the war armies still to be raised by the L'nited States 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 sup-port and unskilled in necessary industrial indus-trial or agricultural work. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced the new policy in a report on the operation of the selective draft law submitted Thursday to Secretary Baker and sent to congress. He says class one should provide men for all military needs of the country and to accomplish that object he urges amendment amend-ment of the draft law so as to provide that all men who have reached their twenty-first birthday since June 5, 1917, shall be required to register for classification. Fair Distribution. Also in the interest of fair distribution distribu-tion of the military burden, he pro poses that the quotas of states or. districts dis-tricts be determined hereafter on the basis of the number of men in class one and not upon population. Available figures indicate, the report re-port says, that there are 1,000,000 qualified qual-ified men under the present registration registra-tion who will be found in class one when all questionnaires have been returned re-turned nud the classification period ends February 15. To this the extension exten-sion of registration to men turning 21 since June 5 of last year and thereafter there-after will add 700,000 men a year. Class One Eligibles. Class one comprises: Single men without dependent relatives, married men who have habitually failed to support sup-port their families, who are dependent upon wives for support or not usefully engaged, and whoso families are supported sup-ported by incomes independent of their labor; unskilled farm laborers, unskilled Industrial laborers, registrants regis-trants by or in respect of whom no deferred de-ferred classification is claimed or made, registrants who fail to submit questionnaires and in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed in-made, in-made, and all registrants not included in any division of the schedule. The plan places upon unattached single men and married men with independent in-dependent Incomes most of the weight of military duty, for the number of men in the other divisions of class one Is very small. First Draft a Success. General Crowder finds that the first draft surpassed the highest expectations expecta-tions und pays high tribute to the thousands of civilians whose service made the plan a success. |