CONSCRIPTION IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 275, 9 August 1918, Page 5

CONSCRIPTION IN AMERICA

Washington, Juno 25. Tho United' States is now expecting daily to hear that tho Congress lias pnssed a law authorising and calling into tho service of tho country all men up to the ago of forty-five yeara, and maybe all those up to fifty-five years. The War Secretary, Air. H. D. Baker, has reached nn agreement with General Enoch Crowdor, Provost Marshal General, as to necessity of calling men of higher ages into the service, and that both now aro on tho point of urging upon Congress tho passage either of a Bill already ponding, or elso of a similar Bill. Eighteen months ago there was practically uo sentiment in tho United States for tho universal military scrvico which is the rule in European countries. Tho passage, soon after the war hegnn, of the Sclcctivo Service Act was a national revolution. It meant that the United States felt 60 keenly tho fact that tin's was a war which required tho united effort of tho whole nation, that it was willing to throw by tho board, almost over night, the principle of voluntary service to which it had previously been committed.