Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1918 — SEVENTY-FOUR NOW IN CLASS 1 [ARTICLE]

SEVENTY-FOUR NOW IN CLASS 1

TOTAL NUMBER OF SELECTMEN READY FOR GENERAL MILITARY SERVICE IS 69. The local selective board reports that they now have left in Class 1 out of the 1917 registrants but 36 Tnen qualified for general military service and but one for limited service. In the class of 1918 they have 34 men in Class 1 qualified for general military service and four in the limited service. This is a total if seventy-four men in Class 1, sixty-nine qualified for general service and five in the limited service class. There are a few men who have appeals pending with the district board. If the government, requires more men tha nwe now have in class one, either there will have to be a combing of , the other class of the 1917 and 1918 men or congress will have to extend the draft ago up and down or both. ' It is the general opinion that Secretary Baker will ask ‘ congress to change the age limits, which are now from 21 to 31, so that it will include all men between the ages of 19 and 45. If this is done it is possible that men with dependencies will not be drafted. ,' The government seems to have in mind an army of 5,000,000 men.