Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — 55 PERCENT MAY LEAVE OCT. 3 [ARTICLE]

55 PERCENT MAY LEAVE OCT. 3

PREPAREDNESS OF CAMP TAYLOR MAY CHANGE PLANS % OF WAR DEPARTMENT. The remaining fifty-five per cent of the quota from Jasper county may bb sent to Gamp Taylor withir the next two weeks as a result of the new plans of the war department. In response to an inquiry of the war department as to the present condition ,of the camp, and of the possibility of caring for the complete quotas of the men to be assigned to the camp, an answer was given thaj; the camp is now completed, and has equipment and organization to receive immediately the entire 55 per cent that is yet to be» sent to the camp. The exact significance of the inquiry is not understood, as a dispatch from Washington Monday •stated that only twenty per cent of the men would be sent to the camp the first week in October, and that the other thirty-five per cent would be sent at later intervals. Whether the preparedness of Camp Taylor to care for the men will cause the war department to change its original plans, making special cases of Kentucky and Indiana, or whether the remaining parts of the quotas of the several states will move on the same dates, is a matter on which no information of any nature has been given out. If the war department adheres to its original plan, the local exemption board can get the twenty per cent ready in a short time; but if it is asked to furnish the full 55 per cent by the 3rd of October, more difficulty will be encountered, although it is thought it would be possible to do so.