Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. NO NEW C.ALL BEFORE SPRING Is the Opinion of the Army Officers at Washington. There will be no second draft for the national army before next spring is the opinion of army officers at Washington. Every available camp site will be crowded by the 687,000 men called in the first draft, and training and transportation facilities, they believe, will not permit of the army using any additional force of men within six months. General Crowder said the subject of a second draft had never been taken up at any conference at which he had been present. General 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 the selective draft law before another call is ordered. Active preparations for the mobilization of the first increment of national army recruits on September 5, which is now announced as 5 per cent of those drafted, began Friday 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.