Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — 2,000,000 Unmarried Men To Be Called First. [ARTICLE]

2,000,000 Unmarried Men To Be Called First.

. Detailed pains of the war department for raising an army numbering millions, if it is necessary to .bring the government of the German Empire to terms, were placed in the hands of President Wilson in the form of a bill prepared by the general staff and revised an part by Secretary Baker and the (general officers who are military advisers. If the .present plans are carried through the unmarried men of the country between the ages of 20 and 30 years will be called , out first to undergo a rigid course of training which would embrace a period of a year or so. Presumably the oldest men in the prescribed age limit would be called first for training. These, classes would . yield the smallest number for training, for the percentage of meh to assume family resporisibilities goes up rapidly after 20 years is reached- It will take at Least four months after a training law is passed to enroll the men and at least twelve months thereafter to train them, if the work can be done in that time. Registration of all single men between the fixed ages will ibe a big task. Co-operation of state and municipal authorities may be sought under the plan for state co-operation in the national war measure program being framed by the council of national defense. Probably workers of certain classes whose tabor is vital to maintenance of food and war supplies, will be exempted as a class.