PACE THREE
PAGE THEATRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 21.
MTCPFOTJD MAIL TRTTVTTXR METVFOTCP. 0T7F.CI0N. TUESDAY. JUNE If). 1017
WHAT IS UR
GHANCETO SERV
E
Gilson Gardner Writes of Opportu
nities Facing Those Who Regis
tered and of Conditions in Camps
of Selected Men Who Will Be
Exempted and Why Used at Home.
HY GILSON CIARDNKH.
VASUINGTON", Junu 19 Xow
Hint wc lmve l'onisti'i'eil for sclut-tivi
Ht'i'vicc, what next1?
jjTliis iiurstiiin is in the miiirls ut
iibout 10,000,000 young men and
their 30,000.000 relatives.
The. answer in some of its details
will be delayed for several days. I!
is eonlnined in regulations now being
worked out by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder and it must have tin
final approval of the secretary of
war ami the president.
Some of the questions, however,
enn be answered. For instance, hov
are the men to be chosen f What
are the chances of being selected bi
lottery and by exemption hoards?
How Men Are Chosen.
Til round numbers a million and a
half names will be taken by lot from
the ten million rogisiered names. The
chances are about one in seven and
a half of being selected in this lot
tery. Then will follow exemptions on
the ground of occupation, dependent
relatives or physical defects. This
will cut the number down to 500,000,
so that the chance is one in tlucc of
Ming selected from Hie list chosen
b.vjjot.
Will married men be excused? At
this writing this question is un
answered. It may be covered by
the regulations which will before long
be published. Probably it will be
left largely to the judgment of the
local exemption boards.
Will sons with dependent mothers
be excused' Again the answer is to
be found in the regulations and the
judgment of the local exemption
boa i ds.
Wlio Is Kxcmplcd
1'roadly speaking, it may he said
that those having dependent relatives'
will be excused. Not all, however,
will be exc ised. They are more likely
j , ,i t. : e 1 1.
to ue cm i..-co, ao"cei, il uicu occu
pation is important to industry, as,
lor instance, it tney arc in a inccnun
ieal trade or fanning.
If it should happen that the man
with a dependent relative be a lawyer
or have no regular profession he
might still he selected on the theory
that the $:!0 a month to he paid him
as a soldier would go farther toward
xigportin his dependent mother than
casual earnings in industry or his
profession.
It is expected that about one man
in three will measure up to the phy
sical requirements. These require
ments will necessarily be relaxed from
the severe tesls applied to the regular
army and will come nearer to those
applied to state militia.
Another Dmwing.
If it should happen that exemptions
for occupation, physical defects and
dcpcndenl relatives reduced the num
ber in any community below the num
ber required from that community
another drawing would be made from
the registration list and new eandi
dales would appear before the ex
emption boards,
These exemption hoards will he in
manv can's the same officials who
did the n mistering. It is not note
sary, how'ever, that they be the same
officials. Nominations for exemp
tion board clutv are now being senl
t. the prc.-ident and by him forwarded
to the war department where they
are investigated to discover their
qualifications to serve on such
boards.
Appeal is allowed from the decision
of exemption hoard and one of the
big jobs now faced by the war depart
ment is the creation of these boards
of appeal, one in each federal judicial
district. Judicial districts are quite
large and such appeal boards will be
vcrv busv after the exemption board
have done their work, bearing enseo
brought to them on appeal.
Hofcnrtllng Apix'iil
It is not necessarv to have a lawyer
to make the apcal. The purpose is
to luie everylhing informal. If a
candidate feels that he is not being
fairly dealt with bv his local exemp
lion hoard and that he has a proper
."oiind to be excused he may eom be
fo.e the appeal board and tell bis
story.
The work of selecting from the reg
istered men is expected to oecupv
nearly two months. Hy that time the
government will have a roster of a
half million or more able-bodied and
more or less foot-loose Young men.
Tlie-e voiing men will not be called
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I.illv I.eonhardt and Guv Snnipsel
Tlieater Musical Comedy Miccss,
until the caulonmcut barracks arc
ready for llieiii. This will not be be
fore September 1, according to the
present indications.
It will take from CO to 00 days
to build these cantonment cities, but
when they are readv the men will be
ordered to assemble and will be put
under the command of officers now
being trained in the various camps of
the officers' reserve corps. These
officers will teach the oOO.OOO rookies
tnc iirst principles ot .soldiering.
Xo Distinction in Service.
Pay will begin tor each man from
the lime he gels orders to report or
takes the formal oath as a soldier.
It will begin whether he actually ia or
dered to camp or begins drilling or re
mains at home. lie will be issued his
uniform and shoes and when he has
put them on he will resemble in all
respect a soldier in the national guard
or regular army.
There is nothing distinctive about
the uniform of the selective service
armv unless a button on the collar
be used to designate as the militia and
regulars are designated.
In assembling and organizing the
men an effort will be made to hold
localities together. The boys iroiu
Chicago, for instance, will not be
mixed up with those from St. I.ouis
or New York, altho they may be if
the war department later dicides to
mix them. The law directs that so
far as it may be practicable men
from the same communities he kept
together.
Kligihlo to Coniissioiis,
Men in the selecthe service army
will be eligible to officers' commands
and it is announced that the third
series of officers' camps will he made
up of men chosen from the selected
soldiers.
The second camp is lo be August
-7 and Hie third will probably conic
in October or November.
In official circles it is privatdv ad
mitted that the chief purpose of this
selective service army is fur the de
fense of this country. Much has been
said and written about sending men
to the trenches in Krancc.
Men are going to Prance now and
il will not be long before (Icn. Per
shing has a couple of divisions there,
hut it probably will be a long time
before the men now about to bgin
their training will see active service
of any kind.
Tiimijh for Home (tiiai'd.
This does not mean that America
is not to take its full pail in the
war. It merely means that one of
the most important tasks this country
faces is the preparation of a large
reserve army, mobilized equipsd and
trained to be used, if ncces.snry, to
defend this country from foreign ag
gression. As much as wc would like to send
large bodies of troops abroad, the
shortage of transports makes this an
almost impossible task in the near
future. Feeding the people in France
and Knglnud is already a tremendous
burden which must be shared at once
by the I'nited States, ami every man
t 'nt over there from the 1'nited States
is another man to be fed, clothed, mu
nitioned and tran-portcd by the work
ers at home.
Selective service men who will be
di-appointcd if they do not see active
fiL'htmg at once will do well to en
list in the navy, the marine corps or
even the regular army.
All of tlic-e will go before til.' se
lective cr ice army. This army may
in the end all go. That is for the
I future to determine.
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in the brilliant New ork Casino
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PETKOGHA1), Jane 19.- The
American mission, headed by Eiilui
Koot, was busily engaged today in
formal conference with cabinet mem
bers and army nnd navy officers
who explained Russia's needs and
began preparing preliminary lists- of
supplies the United States can J'ur
uisb. Mr. Root and Ambassador Francis
had luncheon today willi President
Kodzianko of the Uunia, iuu MY.
Koot later called on General Kuropal
kiu. .James Duncan and Charles Edward
Uassell, other members of the mis
sion, will be entertained at luncheon
at the American embassy. M. Sko
belcl'f, minister of labor, and M. Tse
retelli, minister of posls and tele
graphs, socialist member of the cabi
net, will be present.
Mr, Root and some other members
of the cabinet probably will visit
Moscow Thursday.
.John F. Stevens, head of the Ameri
can railroad couimisMon, has been
suffering from inflammation of the
ear. lie has been confined to a hos
pital and not been able to attend
ihe conferences,
lfcar Admiral James II. Glennon
and the naval party started Sunday
for Sebastopnl. They probably will
remain with the P.lack sea fleet for
five days. General Iluli L. Scott
and his staff are expected to usiL
the fighting front durnur the week.
El vefjb o dv's
i.ocer sens
rumble s.
because newly every
body has learned of
the food value
IPi I
Zl'HIClI, dune 1st. The Polish
deputy Daszinski declared in the
Vienna b'eichsrath that more than
:)0.(!II0 P.des had been hanged by or
ordcr of German authorities, accord
ing to the Vicuna Arbeiter Zeiung,
which prints sccial details of the sit -thins
of the reichsruth on the 11th
and l.'ith. Deputy Stiiberny also de
scribed the abominable treatment ac
corded political suspects, whereupon
the Pan-Germanist Deputy Jlcine
shouted :
"They have not used the rope
enough; all of them ought to have
been hanged."
At these words all the Slav and
Polish members rushed uihui Ilcinc
and the president was obliged to sus
pend the sitting in the midst of a tre
mendous uproar.
COPF.NIIAGKN, June 10. The re
volt of the Poles in the Austrian
parliament is described by the Vienna
-pendent of the Vossisehe Zei
tung as having produced a crisis in
which the position not only of Pre
mier Claiu-Martinie, but also of Count
Czernin, the foreign minister is
threatened.
The Vossisehe Zeilang correspond
ent, however, points out that the de
fection of the Poles in parliament is
sufficient lo turn the scales against
the government since the rest of the
Slav Iiloe is in opposition. The Poles
indicated the seriousness of their in
tention by a decision to vote against
the budget, being the first parliamen
tary group in nny belligerent country
aside from n handful of extreme so
cialists, in refusing to vote a war
credit.
The Polish nsnirations, which re
cently have been indicated, aim at
practically an independent kingdom
openly on an nnti-Gcminu basis. ,
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LONDON, June5 '1'). The Times'
Madras correspondent sends the' text
of a government order issued Sur.day
forbidding Mi;s. Anna DesaJit, Ihv
English theosophist, and two male
assistants mimed Arundel and Wade,
to participate in any meetings, deliver
lectures or publish their writings.
The order also pats their eones
pomlenee under censorship; they are
prohibited from residing in Madras
city and certain areas are preseiibed
which they must not leave. The cause
of the restrictions is not stated by
the government.
A. dispatch from London in July,
l!ll(i, said Mrs. Ilcsant had been pro
hibited from entering- the Bombay
presidency. For many years Mrs, He
sant, who was a devoted pupil of
.Mine. Hlavatsky, has travelled in all
parts of the world lecturing for the
Theosophical society, of which she
was elected president in 11107. She
founded the Central Hindu college at
Benares in 1!M)8 and several years
later in tbe same town the Central
Hindu Girls' school. She has been
an advocate of home rule for I ml
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Palouae, Wash., June 19. O. E.
Huckmun of Lewiston, Idaho, and II.
R. Ponton, professional of San Fran
cisco, were liifih in the first day's trap
shoot of the Idawa gun club shoot
with 149 birds out of 150 each. II. 13.
Poston and M. 11. Trool, of Vancou
ver, Washington, tied for first In the
Eventing fiO-blrd trophy with 4i and
Poston won the shoot-oft with 2."i
straight.
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