to "March Into Hell" to Meet the Enemy Willing death ls easier in Oklahomd less not have been devised. hurta and is "The Boston Journal" makes a striking- 'registration could The Draft or FranceT ethical standing, need for and 165 examined in one Indianapolis district 115 But "The Tribune" comments that it be Dodger or Georgia than in Belgium Ifl TnB . . . The mining counties will espe- selective draft claimed an individual contribution to the discussion has been found that only one in fifteea lfl Krviceability of the exemption. It is obvious that many difficult to imagine officer petty enough !y cia'ly hard hit. It is said the registration in t -'fl--. .:.''¦ men are in some measure and of the asserting that "our century- hurt or killed on the modern battlefieM, ajiny were icussed and conceded young supporting to display any such spirit as this, draft, includes aliens to the is to jGreenlee County men themselves with country last week. some relative, and if all of these were to be out that of such material were the old boast of freedom and justice put cent. native where protect trenchefl^ tBB of the points amount of 70 to 80 per Every maska and other contri*ew preis exempted the nation would not have much of the test with all the world looking on." It American in that steel helmets, gas 'and naturalized registered It is that the casualtiea 14 an army. declares it would be both stupid and dan- county will be taken, and then the quota ancea. probable "The War should make it im¬ a battle fought between anti-drafters aad Department Dead gerous to conceal the fact that the draft cannot be met." AH Ready, Boya for men to cvade service a Morally government posses in or Georgia possible through law and the regulations that surround it of action false of issuing a clear On the question governmental would be much more numerous." plea dependents by do not grow more popular. ruling, so that there will be no difference in against slackers "The Birmingham Age- Senator who was one of the eigirl The same paper continues: Gore. the practice of the boards in any part of the Herald" says: against the selective draft law, said "The cheerful assurances from Washington voting country." "As the war drags on and it is more fully disturbance in hir» state: to the effect that the draft had been accepted of the On the ethics of exemption the "Spokes- realized that America will have to sacrifice the Seml« .¦^Sb^L 'sY^'H/W in proper spirit may have been valid in some of her "The trouble originated among man-Review" writes that for the efforts of thousands, and perhaps millions, aa measure a week or two ago, but could noles and the Seminole freedmen, thfl they young men to win a vietory over Germany, those men who have undertaken to sift the atm not be Whatever the cause, negroes who used to be slaves in that eee- %*mw&1 repeatcd to-day. there is a spirit of disaffection nation's "there will be little ">i- the growing tion are termed. In the Indian bill of laat registrants 4-taKiM it is the effect which must now engage 'which cannot be stamped out too soon. Over pra se and some blame," but that this is L^*s6-n&*mm:jm attention.an effect which has alarm- winter a per capita payment was provided public n Georgia the anti-draft agitation has made not the time to think of individual inter- for the Seminoles. The Controller of tbe ing aspects. some headway, and in parts of Alabama a was as the swift- decided under an old law that thia ests. The paper continues: "The draft law adopted similar state of affairs prevails, particularly Treasury fairest means of must be held up because of a reservatVon "Therefore the exemption boards must con- est and' surest and raising in the mountain dlstricts. It is rumored an army. The men and economi- for a school fund. sider, not the individual's needs, but the na- physically that men are not only organizing to rcsist were to be selected for became a with the Indlaaa, tion's. -Boards are to 'exclude rigidly' the cally eligible military tha draft law by peaceable protests, but are "This grievance service in an national of Some of them said didn't want to fight pleading of individual cases by the drafted orderly programme being armed." they war The burden of sacrifiee for a that would not pay them. man or his attorney. Kach case must be de- development. assumes, however,' government Th* Xc-wt was to be allotted as evenly as possible. "The Age-Herald" had a cumulation ol From In-li'tnapoli* cided on its strict merits." is to .From The St. LflBBfl I'ost-Dispateh They thought they "Then came b horde of objectors claiming that the government amply prepared grievances. Admiration for the Man conscientious and a itamp out treasonable movements of all as he might once have been of the from the basis scruples proclalmlng dishonorably, "I do not think the disorder will amoual Jvery phase question, for non-resistanee. Then it was kinds. ?" Indians have to ba to the debts of the drafted OnlyWho Is Drafted preference honorably to a great deal. The may i registration learned that many thousands of young men, The most serious phase of anti-draft dis- treated with some discretion, for they harflj has undergone The chairman of an board, Slackers Will Be Caught niB ai i ilacker marriage, exemption -From The Birmingham Age-Herald plain shirkers, had evaded registration. Next turbances occurred in Oklahoma. The not long been citizen3, and perhaps do nofl analysis. Draft resisters, writing to "The Chicago Tribune," says: followed what must be as And Made to Suffer , atrareaing recognired All troubles there assumed the form of an 'properly understand the obligation of cltfe (,t" the °Pen-v v'()lcrit 80rt "There seems to be a accepted formidable of the arhflther generally heroes of Cold Harbor, and also those who question constitutlonality "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" believes armed "rising" in which Indians, negroes zenship.'" terrorized a part of the State of belief among young men that those who wait of the draft act in this instance. And now Brho have turned the German back at the Marne slackers are not numerous in proportion to and small tenant farmers took part, to the or th -< who a working to be drnfted for the National Army will be there has been actually introduced in the Oklahoma. sought not let him at number of ."00 or <>00.. Of the "rising" out of their looked upon as slackers when they arrive in and those who would pass Senate a bill exempting from foreign service the population: for sneaking military "The Boston Transcript" says: Before and After leripe of vcrbal ex- the training camps, and will be so treatcd by Verdun. all drafted men who ask such exemption. ii.y, have bei n the subject "It is not that the first armed the petty officers who have their training in "The Tribune" concludes: "In this crisis no ordinary remedy can be surprising Th< acker brigade that has de- resistance to the draft ihould break out in ra**tion. hand." admiration and gratitude and a na- adopted. Government threats are cheap.it is 14'-.** behind the ramparts of feminine "Only Oklahoma. There aro district! in that state aVjed to But this is a and ¦¦".' tion's love will go out to the drafted man." easy say 'jail.' republic, *-*_». *»*. --..¦ =1 has been contrastcd with men .."".i-': r*i*.'"' *c' .'" "'. ''° where the are mostly incapable of frp-jerie "the drafted man and his wholesale jailing is out of the question. Nor '''..i/a1 / 'J\ \ people in their normal emotions by "The Concerning comprehending a war which they did not dothed Mamma! in whose behalf the Detroit Federa- are the American people accustomed to be News," which paper wastes no Just Before the Battle, debts," start themselves. There is much more ex-| fodianapohs tion of Labor asks for a national morato- led by threats." with the wearera of the lingerie. m/r-M cuse for a draft resistance among ignorant .i-rmpathy rium, "The Detroit Free Press" says: to "March Into Hell" ar.d Indians than there is in the or- "Tnig paper comments: negroes "Michigan already has a statutory pro¬ WillingIf Necessary ganized conscientious objection of Massa- woman who pcrmits herfelf to be "A young vision exempting officers and enlisted men in chusetts. Ihe bottom crust of the Oklahoma » slacker does so knowing full "The Journal" points out that the des- «c i»ed by the actual service of the state or of the population has no national background. Its .shU what manner of man it is that she is tiny of this country is in the hands of its the . . cattle United . but the provision does vision has been lirrited to range, ' States, She " know him for a coward and if are to -.urrrnir. not extend to those called out by the draft." young men, they willing pre- the isolated farm, sometimes to the tepee, afashirker. or, most likely, both. How can serve what their fathers have won they the "The Free Press" seems to doubt the ad- often to the mud-chinked cabin in river lat regard him v- ith respect or confidence? will "march into hell itself to meet bottom." or in the of Congressional action and . No sympathy now, future, visability the It cautions the in these out that the cases that should be enemy." people Curious Case of .StuJd be wasted on either of them." points circumstances against talking about "red- for are almost always laid in provided for at best this is a i-