Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — DRAFT AGE IS UNCHANGED [ARTICLE]

DRAFT AGE IS UNCHANGED

• Washington, June 29.—Rejection of the Fall amendment, proposing extension of the deaf ages to twenty and forty years, paved the way i for passage by the senate today of the 112,000,600,000 army appropria-, |Hou bill. The long discussion over the extension of the draft ages, which was ! regarded unnecessary by Secretary ' Baker and General March, chief of staff in statements made before the senate military committee, was endied by an adverse vote of 49* to 25. .The debate on .the Fall amendment as well as on similar amendments ’offered by Senator Hardwick of Georgia, and by Senator Weeks of | Massachusetts, indicated that the majority of members prefer to postipone all efforts’to extend the draft ages until the new army program, promised by Secretary Baker, is submitted.