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Show SUBJEcffS DRAFT MO CHANGE IN REGULATIONS WILL BE MADE. ANNOUNCES PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL. Statement Is Issued in Order to Clear Up Misunderstanding Five Per Cent of White Men From Each Local Area Go to Camps September 5. Washington. --At the surest ion of President Wilson, Provost Marshal General Crowder telegraphed lo all governors Saturday night a supplemental supple-mental explanation of regulations governing gov-erning Ihe status of married men under un-der the selective service law. No change In regulations is made; and the purpose of the new statement is to clear up misunderstandings which have arisen in what General Crowder describes as "a few instances." In a letter to Secretary I'.akcr. quoted quot-ed by General Crowder. President Wilson states his opinion that Ihe regulation reg-ulation directing local boards "lo, establish es-tablish the fact of dependents, in addition ad-dition to the fact of marriage, ought not to be abrogated." This leaves the regulations as they are and the supplementary sup-plementary statement is designed merely lo make the application of the rules uniform among all hoards. While the statement regarding married mar-ried men was In preparation, new orders or-ders were Issued, changing entirely the mobilization arrangements previously previ-ously made. Congestion of rail traf-lic traf-lic and the necessity of making better provision for the reception of the men at the cantonments dictated the Changes. Under the new orders " per cent of the while men, preferably those Willi military experience, from each local area, will be started forward to the camps September 5 instead of HO per cent. They will go in live daily detachments de-tachments of equal size ami form skeleton skel-eton company organizations and set tip a going concern into which the remainder re-mainder of the total quota can be absorbed ab-sorbed without confusion as they reach the cantonments. 'The next -JO per cent of the quota will go forward September 11), when the second ,'0 per cent originally was scheduled to go; a second 40 per cent will go forward October :i instead of the third iSO per cent and the remaining remain-ing 15 per cent will be called, up as 6oon thereafter as practicable. Local boards are directed lo disregard disre-gard order of liability numbers to some extent in selecting the first 5 per cent as men of experience, such as cooks and former soldiers, are desired de-sired at that time. Warning is given, however, against getting into this levy by reason of his experience, any man who might not otherwise have been included in the first increment of the district at all. |