Committee on Education and Special Training
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Excerpt from Committee on Education and Special Training: A Review of Its Work During 1918 1. When the United States declared war on April 6, 1917, its regular army numbered less than 120,000 enlisted men. Nineteen months later when the armistice was signed, the total number recruited for the army exceeded 4,000,000. In order to accomplish this rapid expansion of the army it was necessary first to define a policy and then to improvise administrative machinery to put that policy into effect. The Committee on Education and Special Training was an essential part of the mobilization machinery. Its function in the entire operation may best be understood by briefly recalling the important features of the policy that was adopted and of the organization that was gradually developed to administer it. The policy was defined by the Selective Service Law passed by Congress on May 18, 1917. This act authorized the President to recruit the new army by draft. The responsibility for the selection in each community of the men who should serve was placed upon local and district boards consisting of citizens of each community appointed by the President. All men between the ages of 21 and 30 inclusive were required to register with their local boards and to give full descriptions of their special abilities, occupations and industrial and domestic relations. The original registration cards were preserved at the local boards as a basis for their work and duplicates were forwarded to the office of the Provost Marshal General in Washington. On June 5, 1917, in response to a proclamation by the President, 9,586,508 men were registered at the local boards. The registration cards were numbered and on July 20th a public drawing was held to determine the order in which the men should be called. In the meantime, the local boards were engaged in hearings and investigations to determine which of the registrants were entitled to exemption. The first call for 687,000 men was issued in August, and the movement of the recruits to camp began on September 5, 1917 and ceased on December 15, 1918. The experience with this first call indicated that the Selective Service Regulations needed some modification in order to increase the protection to essential industries of the country against needless disturbances. To this end, the remaining registrants were classified in five classes in the inverse order of their importance to the economic interests of the nation, which included the maintenance of necessary industries and agriculture and the support of dependents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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