Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — No New Call Before Spring. [ARTICLE]

No New Call Before Spring.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 23. There will be no second draft for the national army before next spring, in the opinion of army officers here. Every available camp site will be crowded by the 687,000 men called in the first draft, and training and transportation facilities, they believe, wilFnot permit of the army using any additional force of men within six months. Gen. Crowder said the subject of a second draft had never been taken up at any conference at which he had been present. Gen. Crowder is understood to be preparing a complete report on the draft and making recommendations for possible future drafts. The general believes, moreover, that the shortcomings of the first draft, which cannot be ascertained entirely until after the mobilization and first period of training, may make it necessary to amend thetselective draift law before another call is ordered. Active preparations for mobilization of the first increment of national army recruits on Sept. 5 began yesterday with the receipt by the quartermaster general’s corps of meal tickets to be furnished the men enroute to their camps. Each ticket is made out in triplicate form and provides for meals not to exceed 60, cents apiece in value. The local boards will issue these tickets. Once the men are on the trains, the new soldiers’ railroad fares and meal tickets will be turned over to a leader* selected by each local board. The railroad officials will provide places where the men can eat, or else furnish them box lunches. The public is warned that the vouchers the leaders will turn over for meals must be accepted when properly endorsed and are as good as cash when turned over to the nearest army quartermaster, whose location will be stamped on each ticket. The war department issued orders aimed toward economy in clothing allowances and quartermasters are instructed to fill requisitions only for necessities. This will discontinue the former practice of giving soldiers upon enlistment an extra allowance of $3.05 in clothing.