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Page 12 I M « a i Ob I W' « Kmlliw feggW H ol Uft pM M h MM® Oil foots SOOO[ ® |W jfc w te QiJ/ ® rW Xu k T ISs II I . 11 I : t b i| lii lb Hi In a statement of the aims, accom plishments and future of the selective draft system, Provost Marshal General Crowder makes some very pungent re marks, which should be read by all who expect to be called upon for ser vice in the next few weeks:, Class 1. In Class I we shall have, in every community, immediately available for military service single men and a few married men whose removal will not disturb the reasonably adequate sup port of their dependents. In the in dustrial and agricultural aspect, we shall have segregated into this class, men who have not especially fitted themselves for industrial or agricul tural pursuits so tha tour only insur sion into the labor supply will affect but a small percentage of unskilled labor. Class 11. “In Class II we find men who can be taken without disturbing the support cf any dependent and, as I shall pres ently show you, if the necessity of drawing on Class II arrives, we must demand even from agriculture and in dustry an adjustment to replace a small percentage of skilled labor af fected by the draft —men who, while occupying no pivotal or important po sition, can servfe industry or agricul ture better than unskilled men. "Should the pinch of military neces sity increase beyind Class II it would mean that the nation would have to begin to commit itself to hardship and to an adjustment in agriculture and in dustry to meet the paramount ne cessity. Class 111. “We take in Class 111 a very small class of persons upon whom others are dependent for support, but we do not break up the closest and most sacred of the family relationship. We also invade the field of agriculture and in dustry to the extent of ‘"kin!?, in the small percentage aff..?‘ri men who have specialized thems* ’• cr who occupy rather pivotal pc • ns. Class IV. “In Class IV we find the men whom we shall take as a last r?so Before that class is reached it is perfectly safe to say that by the addition of other classes as to age, say those who have attained 21 since registration day and perhans adding the classes of 1? and 19 and 20 years old, men. we sh ill have included two or three million men in our available list, and thus have saved Class IV. “Class V comprises the field of ah. solute exempts. The Field of Labor. “There is one thought that I muT impress to eradicate an erroneous view that may be taken of this- classafica tion: “We are dealing in the field of labor supplv. Presuming that labor supply of industry and agriculture comprises men between the ages of 18 and 50, and assuming, for the purpose ‘of this ex position. that there are 1,000,000 men of each of these ages, we are dealing with thirty-two classes, appurtenant to agriculture and to the various indus tries. The draft affects ten-thirty sec onds of this sunply or only about 31 per cent. Therefore turning to Class II where we find skilled farm labor there it does not mean that when Class II is exhausted all skilled farm laborers will have been taken. From these fig ures, it would seem to mean that 31 per cent of all skilled farm labor will have been taken. But even this fig ure is misleading. Without the defi nite statistics that the present drnf* will eventually afford I can say, I think, that within this class of skilled lab orers at least 62 per cent of these. Must Give Man Power. “To raise an armv comprising hun dreds of thousands of men necessitates an inroad into the man newer of the nation. We are committed to this war and wo ought to fight it in the most ef fective fashion possible to us. The ne cessity of raising on armv is para- The decrease in labor sunnlv must be ndlnsted m some way o’her than bv shutting off recruitment. That it can be adjusted there is no question. Wo see what England has done, what France has done, and most of all what Germany has done. The problem is not to maintain the labor sunply of agriculture and of every industry in tact. It is to make the withdrawal of men in the most scientific manner possible. I think we have done that and that what is offered here is the basis for a nice balance between our two necessities. I feel that we can go no further. There are those who say that we must win this war in the economic field, with an inference that the rais ing of an army is a side issue. I say to you that with any greater inroads into th? field of recruitment of our armv, we shall be sendirfg inferior men to the field. That if this nation is not competent to make the slight adjust ment necessary to compensate for this scientific selection, then it is not com petent to. enter this war. A vast pro duction in cur farms and factories is necessary. It is necessary in order to support military operations on the field of battle. But certainly no man can urge in this day of trial and sacrifice that this nation should deliberately neglect to make itself effective in the field of military operation on the plea tjiat our greatest contribution to the “Man Power Must Win War,” Says Provost Marshal Crowder TRENCH AND CAMP cause of humanity is in attaining an economic supremacy. Not a Mere Sutler. “To do so would be to relegate the United States to the role of sutler of the fighting nations. We shall, of course, increase our production. We shall become more and more effective as a nation and we shall supply our new armies and do all that can be ex pected of us to supply thearmies of our allies. But we shall not, under that guise, confine our participation in this conflict to the baking of bread and the sharpening of the swoids of other men. This war will be won military on the devoted field of France. Doubtless it will be won by the side which is able to place behind its army the prevailing ounce of provision. But the blow that shatters the Germin lines and extin guishes autocracy from the face of the earth will be the blow of man’s right arm and not the insidious stroke of a shrewd trader.” General Crowder gives great praise to the selection boards and states that the “volunteer method of raising an army far war is gone,” and that the “principle of selection has been tried and proved by our people.” NEWSLETTES FOR BURNING FACE with acid to pose as victim of German’s liquid fire, a former soldier has been sentenced in Jersey. BOARDERS hid hat of Detroit land lord, he beat his wife and she got a di vorce. FROZEN RABBITS are to be exported by Teaxs to our allies abroad. SPOONING in subway O. K’d by Presi dent Shonts, who in reply to protest says “Don’t look at ’em.” MAKING GAY COLORED sweaters al most high treason, say those trying to save wool. CRAWFISH closed West Virginia fac tory and made 3,000 men idle by getting in meter and shutting off water supply. 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