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Show I DRAFT AGE MAY I I BE JXTENDED ; I I War Department Will Not Op-pote Op-pote Move If It Is Made at Once. B I WASHINGTON, June 18 Should I I congress deride that i' ie necessary a1 this time to extend the draft acr limit S j cither below 21 or above 30. or both, g I no opposition will be offered by the war department S In authorizing this statement today, s Serrriir p.ikr -.mi! the department 9 I could see no immediate need for such n I action, although the date already is in 3 I sight Tvbrn it will become necessary H to replenish the Class 1 reservoir A bill by Senator France of Mary- I land, to extend the draft to men from i to -1", is now before the senate mili- B tary committee and at a hearing on it H I last Saturday, Provost Marshal Ocn r- II al Crowder cave it as his opinion thai I extension of the draft aces would b( I I under arms by next August 1 and that I I Class 1 would be cxhaujted by the M I first of next vear. a The present tentative schedule of I I the war department i:- said to eontem-B eontem-B plate the arming of four million men I by next January' 1. That would mean 9 I the calling of 1,000. Oni'i men ti t w . n a July and January, and the absorbing ji not only the men remaining In Class 1 M I from the first registration but those H placed in ihat class under the recent 91 registration as well as some- I'l'm.cmrt a expected to be put in that class as the r result of the re-classification recently I ordered. M All previous estimates of the de-I de-I partment relating to man power have Jj I been based solely upon t he men in I Class 1. General Crowder stating spell spe-ll cifically in his report on the first draft i that it would be the policy of his de-jj de-jj partment to refrain from touching the j other classes. The present emergen - cy, however, with Itfl resultant demand: for the speedy organization of forces far in excess of the number contem-J contem-J I plated, have upset Di. .;. . 'if- ficials here have always declared that I the difference between lumbers of Class I and Class 2: from the viewpoint of eligibility for service was too minute min-ute to be seriously considered. The invasion of this class, it is said, would not effect the economic nuichinery of the nation to any disastrous degree, oo "Do you know all the words of "The Slar-Spangled Banner?" M "No," admitted Senator Sorghum. I I "I doubt If I could repeat the ten I commandments accurately, either. But J that fact does not prevent me from having the deepest respect for them " |