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Show REORGANIZE DRAFT i 13 WILSON'S PLAN EVERY MAN Wli.L BE SUBJECT TO SERVICE. EVEN F NOT IN FIGHTING FORCE. President Makes Stirring Appeal to , All Citizens to Aid in the Work Next Army Call Will Not Ba Made Before January 15. Washington. President Wilson on Kovember 10 ordered the complete reorganization re-organization of the draft machinery which makes every man subject to war duty, if not In France, at least in the fields and factories. In a foreword to the new regulations regula-tions under which the reclassification of the 9,000,000 men not called In the first draft will be made, the president makes a stirring appeal to all citizens, specially lawyers and physicians, to aid in the work. In his foreword, tie president, over Ills signature, says: "The task of selecting and mobilizing mobiliz-ing the first contingent of the national rmy is nearing completion. The expedition ex-pedition and accuracy of its accomplishment accom-plishment were a most gratifying demonstration dem-onstration of the efficiency of our democratic institutions. The sufferings suffer-ings with which the machinery for its execution had to be assembled, however, how-ever, loft room for adjustment and Improvement. Im-provement. "The time has come for a more perfect per-fect organization of our man power. The selective principle must be carried to its logical conclusion. We must make a complete inventory of the qualifications of all registrants In order to determine as to each man not already al-ready selected for duty with the service, serv-ice, the place In the military, industrial indus-trial or agricultural ranks of the nation na-tion in which his experience and training train-ing can best be made to serve the common com-mon good. This project involves an Inquiry by the selection boards into the domestic, industrial and educational educa-tional qualifications of nearly ten million mil-lion men. "I call upon all citizens, therefore, to assist local and district boards by proffering such service and such material mate-rial conveniences as they can offer and ty appearing before the boards,' either upon summons or upon their own initiative, in-itiative, to give such information as will be useful in classifying registrants. regis-trants. "I urge men of the legal professiou to offer themselves as associate members mem-bers of the legal advisory boards, to oe provided in each community for the purpose of advising registrants of their rights and obligations, and of assisting assist-ing them in the preparation of their answers to the questions which all men subject to the draft are required to submit. . "I ask the doctors of the country to Identify themselves with the medical advisory boards which are to be constituted con-stituted in the various districts Ithroughout the United States for the purpose of making a systematic physi- cal examination of the registrants. It la important also that police officials of every grade and class should be Informed of their duty under the selective selec-tive service law and regulations, to search for persons who do not respond promptly and to serve the summons of local and district boards. "Newspapers can be of very great assistance in giving wide publicity to the requirements of the law and regulations, regu-lations, and to the numbers and names of those who are called to present themselves to their local boards from day to day. Finally, I ask that during the time hereafter to be specified as marking the sixty-day period of classification, classi-fication, all citizens give attention to the task in hand In order that the process may proceed to a conclusion with swiftness, and yet with even and ronsiderate justice to all." One thing certain as a result of the announcement is that there will be no second draft until after the middle of January. The sixty-day vperiod of reorganization will not have expired until then. |