Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — REGISTRANTS MUST BE PATIENT [ARTICLE]

REGISTRANTS MUST BE PATIENT

Docal Boards Must Await Action of Washington Authorities. Indianapolis, July 2.—The fact that all calls for selective service registrants are issued through the provost marshal at Washington makes it impossible to estimate at present how soon the newly registered men will be called to service. It is impossible* at present for any 1918 registrant to determine even in what order he will be called by his local board. This is true because no physical examinations or classifications of the new registrants Have been made. The selective service rules and instructions to local boards regarding registration are that after the day of registration a registration, or serial number shall be' assigned to each registrant. Registrants wishing to know their registration number should inquire of their local board. The local boards expecting an order in a few days to assign order numbers to the new registrants and until that order is received the correct standing of any registrant can not be ascertained. All of the new registrants will be placed at the end of the present class to which they will be assigned and no new registrant will be called into service until all the 1917 registrants of his class have been called. For example, the first man of the new registrants liable to call in Class 1 will not be called into service until all the 1917 regis-

trants in Class 1 in his division have been called to service. Major Robert C. Baltzell, state conscription agent, said Friday he had no information regarding when the new registrants would receive 'their physical examinations. A