Excerpt from Second Report of the Provost Marshal General: To the Secretary of War on the Operations of the Selective Service System to December 20, 1918 The promise has been fulfilled. Our fighting forces were supplied with men from Class I, and from Class I only. From the ordinary walks of civil life, men were drawn and placed in the mili tary service. But the deferred classes have remained intact. When hostilities closed, there remained in Class I a supply of fighting men sufficient to meet every military necessity. 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.