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SECOND DRAFT IS CALCULATED i
The local exemption board has re-j
eeived from the governor’s office at
Juneau the following statement from 1
the provost marshal general relative
to the next draft. It is promulgated
at this time "in order to compose the
public mind,” and is as follows:
"The next national quota will be an
nounced and apportioned among the
several states as soon as pending
legislation authorizing a change in the
basis of computation is enacted by
congress. This legislation has been
passed by the senate and favorably re
ported by the house military commit
tee. The number that will be assumed
as a basis for computation will be
1(00,000, which is well within the au
thorization of clause 4 of section 1 of
the selective service act of a second
increment of 600,000, men increased
by the recruit training units author
ized by clauses 5 of said section 1, and
by the special and technical troops au
thorised by section 2 of said act. It
„ cannot now be announced what the
total number to be called to the colors
each month will be but it may be
stated that no more men will be called
than can be properly accommodated
and promptly assimilated.
"There are difficulties confronting
the nation in the supply of labor ap
purtenant to agriculture. Class 1
from which new levies are to be with
drawn, will contain many more mei
than are at present required for th
army. It would be a most unscienti
fic and fatuous step if the men i
Class 1 were called indiscriminatel
without regard to the labor situation
in agriculture. Therefore, the Iocs
boards will be directed to fill thei
quota in the order of liability of me
in Class 1 as determined by the ni
tional drawing, except that, where
is shown that a registrant is con
pletely and assiduously engaged in tl
planting, cultivation or reaping of
crop, his call to the colors shall 1
deferred to the foot of the quota (
his board as long as he continues 1
toe so engaged. Whenever any regi
trant, whose call to the' colors has
aeen deferred by reason: of his en
gagement in agriculture; is shown to
lave been idle on the farm on which
le is engaged or to have trifled with
the deferment that has been accorded
him, the boards will forthwith induct
him into military service if his order
number has been reached in the mean
time. The effect of this expedient is
to grant furloughs from service prior
to actual call to the eolors to the men
so greatly needed In the production
of this year’s crop.
“This is not, however, the only ex
pedient that is to be adopted to con
serve the supply of labor appurten
ant to agriculture and to mobilize all
means of increasing the harvest for
the agricultural season of 1918. There
is now pending before congress, a bill
authorizing the secretary of war to
I grant furloughs, with or without pay,
to men in the army to enable them to
engage in industrial and agricultural
pursuits. The purpose of this bill is
to relieve serious situations in par
ticular instances in which men who
are the main stay of farms have beer
inducted into the service eithei
through voluntary enlistment 01
selection and whose services during the
. present emergency in agriculture ar<
needed. These furloughs will b<
. granted after consideration of the cir
i cumstances of the individual case ii
> which they arise and when the mill
. tary situation is such that they cai
1 be granted without too great disrup
Y tion and disorganization of the arm
! or of any particular organization o
1 the army.
r “As to further means to protec
a agriculture a new regulation has bee
promulgated authorizing agricultun
t students in their senior year in lan
i- grant colleges to enlist in the enliste
e reserve corps of the quartermaster
a department, provided th6ir class stam
e ing is such as to place them In tl
if upper third of their class. By th
o means it will be possible to defer tt
s- draft call of such young men in ordi
may seem that they court! perform,
in the best interests.
“The whole industrial and agrabult
tural situation Is being sufiiected to. a.
very comprehensive study in order to
discover any means that may be taken
to protect and augment the labor sup
ply appurtenant to industry and agri
culture without precluding;the pnompt
and ordterty progress of our military
plans. It Is confidently believed that
great progress can be made along this
line and that more effective measures
than any yet devised can be put into,
operation to attain the; dfesireif end.
“It must be emphasized that this its
a war of mechanics. The need of the
several armed forces, for men highly
skilled In technical and mechanical
pursuits is greater titan ill any former
war. Yet this need fe*r specially skilled
men. finds the nation under a necessity
for increasing its; production it* al
most every line ef industry. With
drawals must take mem who might
otherwise be deferred on aceoant of
their special qisatifications and skill
The necessary number of such skilled
men will be obtained in one of three
ways. First, men already in the mill
tary service who have such speeia
skill will be taken from the tine regi
ments and assigned to the staff oi
ganlzations and departments when
classified by the selection boards,,
their skill is needed; second, men
even, though they may have been,
placed in. a deferred classification,
will be withdrawn with great care and
particularity from the industries «f.
the nation, for special service in staff
corps and. departments; third, young
men of draft age with certain eduea-.
tional Qualifications will be inducted
into the service and sent to *ni versifies,
solleges,. and technical arts schools.un
til, they hare acquired such profit
eiency as will justify their assign
ment to. the special, unit* that ara be
ing organized in considerable num
bers.
“Ini accoadance; with, this plan, the
provost marshal gene cal has already
called upon the states for some 10,
000 skilled artisans and, will shortly
call upon the states for 10,009, young
men, graduates of grammar schools,
who wilt be sent th*t first of April to
various technical aud other schools
throughout the United Stares for a
I two months’ «ours« of training. Regu
larly thereafter, an increasing stream
! of seJected men will be sent through
educational and other training Insti
tutions for this purpose,
“To sum up, it may be said thal
there will be no suddRu withdrawal
of great numbers of men from the
• ranks off industry and agriculture dur
- ing the coming summer but that mer
> i will be drawn in relatively smal
groups throughout the. year in such a
way as to create the least possible
interference with industry and agri
culture. Men in deferred classes as
well a» men In Claris 1 will be selected
in small numbers either on account
of their special technical qualifica
tion!*: or for the purpose of sending
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them to schools where they will be
given an opportunity to acquire such
qualifications.”
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