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Show YOUNGER DRAFT IN TOGO FIRST" CLASSES OF 19 TO 20 YEARS AND-32 AND-32 TO 36 WILL BE SUMMONED SUM-MONED EARLY. Questionnaires Will Go First to tho- . " Registrants Within These Specified Ages and They Will Be Ready for tho Calls In October. ' ' ' Washington. Provost Murshnl General Gen-eral Growder announced September 10 that the first cult to the colors of men who registered Thursday will Includo- ' men' In tho 10 und 20-yenr-uld classes und lu the clusses from 32 to 30 yeurs, Inclusive. Questionnaires will go first 1 to registrants within these specified 'ugo limits, and local boards will he-ordered he-ordered to classify them first In readiness readi-ness for calls beginning In October. Young men lu tliu 10 und 20-year classes, General Crowdcr wild, will be accepted for Induction Into the stu- ' dents' army training corps, but he pointed out thut the authorized strength of this corps Ih only lf0,00O men, whereas tliu total number of reg- Istrants below 20 will be over 3,000,-000. 3,000,-000. Tho General pointed out that the total to-tal number of fit men cxiH'i.-ted from '' tliu classes over 32 was 001,000, nnd repented the statement that class one- ' of men now registered would be al- . must exhausted by October I. Appeal to Employers. , General Crowdcr also IhxuoiI an appeal ap-peal to employers to assist In the pres. dilution of claims for occupational exemptions, ex-emptions, and declared that no estl- , mutes could bo made as to the number of older men who ought to be so exempted. ex-empted. General Crowder bus said the war department could expect lo draw from the clusses above 31 only 001,000 men. , physically fit for servlco and not entitled en-titled to deferred .classification. lie- . also said men of It) and 20 culled went entitled to admission to tho students' training corps at the 400 weanihiry schools with which the war department' depart-ment' has made contracts, but added that this corps would number 15(),000 men, whllo over 3,000,000 youths below 21 registered Thursday. ' Methods of selecting thoaa to bo In ducted Into military servlco und educational edu-cational training corps, ho said, wcrc-the wcrc-the concern of other branches of tin; ' . administration. "Someone must Indicate thai the Individual In-dividual case Is one which should arrest ar-rest tho special attention of the hoard ' ' In respect to the registrant's occupational occupa-tional status," said General Crowder In Ills statement. The boards do not possess a stiiierhumun omniscience. Nor nre they permitted by clrcuin-Htnuces clrcuin-Htnuces to devote unlimited time lo-tho lo-tho search of qiiestlnnuuln-H for possible pos-sible grounds of claim. In 11)17, out of more thnn 3.000,000 registrants- , culled, only 140,000 filed occupational clnltus, or 4.7 per cent; thus 05 per cent of all registrants raised no question ques-tion of such deferment. Boards to Welcome Aid. "Tho boards will da all that they possibly ciin, on their own Initiative, to reach a Just decision by u complete com-plete examination of tho questionnaires question-naires even where no claim Is' expressly ex-pressly made. "Nevertheless, the hoards will welcome wel-come and will need till the aid that they can be furnished by tho Indlcn- tlon of a claim made- for deferment. "But who Is to mlikn thut claim. Ordlnnrlly, tho registrant himself will Indicate the claim on bis questionnaire. question-naire. But, If through mlstnken chivalry, chiv-alry, he should fall to do so, anothei-muy anothei-muy make It for him. In Industry, agriculture or other occupations (he-other (he-other person will milurully tie his employer em-ployer or some other reprenentntlve-of reprenentntlve-of his associated group. "The employer In this situation re-rcKcnts re-rcKcnts the nation becuuso In the statutory stat-utory phrase 'the maintenance of tin-military tin-military eitablUhmeut or of the national na-tional Interest during tho emergency, requires that some well-advised third person should look uftcr that national Interest which the registrant himself may not have sufficiently considered." |