Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-15
GOVERNOR URGES
FULL DRAFT QUOTA
AdmOnishes District and
Local Boards to Get Men
Off on Time
PHILADELPHIA PREPARED

Governor Brumbaugh is determined that
Pennsylvana's share OF 45 per cent of the
quotas Of the local boards shall get off to
the mobilization camps on schedule time
regardless of the eleventh-hour request that
no negroes be included in this first detail
of drafted soldiers. kilograms have been
received by the district and local boards
urging haste and that the requisite dctach-
ments in each case must be ready
The two Philadelphia district appeal
boards said today that they would have
enough names certified back to the local
draft boards by the end Of today, Monday
or Tuesday to enable them to call their
men in time.
The Governors telegram to the local
boards requests them to send word to the
Adjutant Generals office whether they can
supply more than their local proportion
that Is, more than the As per cent The
telegram explains that as some boards are
delinquent the other boards that are more
fortunate may be able to call out a greater
percentage of their quotas at this time as
a complement to the deficient sections. thus
making up the full share of this state as
a whole.
GOVERNORS ADMONITION
The overnor's telegram to the district
boards is as follows
kilograms are constantly coming in to
the effect that either mono CT not enough
names have been certified to the local
borrds to enable them to have their quotas
ready for shipment next week. Certif-
cations must he made not later than
saturday to those boards. Enough men
who have filed no claims for exemption
or whose claims can be speedily disposed
of have been certified TO the district
boards to fill. needed quotas. Must urge
that every effort be made to have Penn
sylvania men ready Oh schedule time.
The reply of the district boards to this
notice was, I'VE are making every effort.
District Appeal Board No. . has yet tc
receive from few Of the local draft board;
in it's jurisdiction the lists of names o
certified men. The regulations require tina
! ten days must eapse after the district boart
| receives such lists from the local boarC
| before 1t can certify those names bacl
| to the board for draft, In order to give tn
| men time to file appeals with the distsic
\ board Thus it becomes impossible for
\ few boards to get a certified list back ii
! time to comply with the entrainment sched
| ule. 1t is expected, however, that enough
! names may be certified back to those de
| linquent local boards of men who will no
| press their right to appeal but who desir
to go with the first detail.
District Appeal Board No. has receive,
| the lists from all of its local boards, how
ever and is expecting to get them bacl
on time or to certify enough at least s.
| that the requisite percentages may be called
NEGRO EXCLUSION A PROBLEM
The negro problem breaks up the situa
ton again, however, for in some district
| the negroes constituteSG0 per cent Of tn
! quota, leaving only a possible forty pc
cent of whites. This means that all tn
| white population available for military serv
| ice in those sections will be taken. 1t ais
| has doubled the work of conscription b
| the local boards. as they have to go a
| over the individual papers again and de
| note whether they are white or negro.
That each local draft board does not hay
| to send As per cent of its men now lvin
| in it's district in this first detail was ponte
| out today by Clinton Rogers Woodruff
| chairman of the sixth local draft boart
| at Twelfth and Pine streets The boar
may send receipts for as many men a
have already entered military service.
In other words. if the Sixth District Boar
has received" receipts from the militar
authorities for 10 per cent of its quota a
having entered the Federal service, thf
board may send with its party those n
ceipts and only men enough to make u
So per cent of it's quota, thus making
total of IS per cent delivered to the Gov
ernment
With the plans of Philadelphia's fifty
one local draft boards for sending ava
As per cent of their quotas on Wednes
day ranging from orderly completion I
chaotic incompletion, despite the giganti
efforts of the two district appeal board
to get them ready within the short tim
allowed a sense of great relief is fe
, today through the extension of the tim
for entraining the men to September 23
This later date applies to the twent,
| four boards whose quotas are to go
| Camp Meade. Admiral Md, but the otht
boards are we'll prepared with their re-
uisite number of men. In some cas-
the local draft boards have had fully
per cent of their quotas certified bao
to them by District Appeal Board No.
Under the schedule prepared for Phil
delphia's drafted men to Camp Meat
eight trains have been arranged. Six
these will leave over the Baltimore al
| Ohio Railroad and two over the Pennsy
yania. The local boards will select tv
points Of mobilization. The men will gath
at the points designated and march
the stations.