Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — NEW DRAFT RULE ISSUED [ARTICLE]

NEW DRAFT RULE ISSUED

Registrants Do Not Have to Measure to Old Physical Standard. Washington, Feb. I.—New regulations' for selective draft physical examittattous were issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder in preparation f«A extension of the policy of ac•■epring for special and limited service registrants unfitted for general military duty. They will bring into the service under the next draft many men who otherwise would be exempted; The local boards are directed to pass upon registrants for general military service only when they come within the standards of unconditional acceptance or rejection. All other cases must be referred to rhe medical advisory board for further examination. Hereafter there will be no unconditional rejecting of men who have reme-lial defects. Exepriments in the use of lalang grass for paper pulp have been carried out in Australia. There are millions of tons of lalang grass growing in Queensland. It produces three crops a year, and is considered a eurse to the country. It resembles esparto grass and when dried, yields is high as 60 per cent of first-class paper-making pulp. \ The canners of the United States will have to fill close to 70,000,OOV.OOO tin cans in a year to feed oar army and navy. If you allow only five inches as the average length of a can, 70,000,000,000 cans, end to end, would stretch 553,000 miles, or more than twenty times around this old war-torn earth of ours. A large percentage of pencils is being made from California incense cedar. ' - ;