Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1917 — Path the Draftee Follows to Camp. [ARTICLE]

Path the Draftee Follows to Camp.

Regulations under which men of the new national army will be called to the colors beginning September 1 have been issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder. They map out in detail the whole program to be followed until every soldier of the selective draft army has been accepted by the adjutant general of the training cantonment to which he is assigned. Two hundred thousand of the first (>87,000 men will be called on September 1 and forwarded to their camp before. September 5. The whole business of assembling the levies at entraining points, providing them with shelter, food and transportation and giving them their actual Induction into military life is entrusted to the civilian local boards which selected them for service. Until the men - reach the camps they will not be in contact with uniformed officers.

The civilian control is carried forward through every stage of the draft, to the very gates of the military camps where the making of soldiers will begin, to be completed within sound of the guns in France. The actual call for men will go in each case from the provost marshal general to the state adjutant general, stating the number of men to be supplied at a specified time by the state. Each local board will be promptly informed of its proportion in the call and the adjutant general will fix the date when men from his state shall entrain for the camps. Immediately the local board will make out a list of men to fill the call from the roll of accepted men and it will also fix the place of entrainment and the exact time of departure.

Orders to the men will be posted and also be sent them by mail. They will be directed to report to the local joard at its headquarters not less than twenty-four hours before the time of departure for camp.