The sun., 1917-08-05
Of 1924 Examined by City
Boards 2,447, or "a Per
Cent. Pass Physical Test.
NO DISTRICT HAS QUOTA
All Divisions Will Call More
Men Pending Action on
Exemption Claims.


more boards get into action and as the
examiners learn that the Government eX-
poets them to qualify physically at least
10 per cent of the young men who pass
before them,
One man out Of every four examined
yesterday appears to have been accepted
without exemption claim; on Friday It
was one man out of five.
Yestefday's proportion OF candidates
passing the physical tests was ~ per
cent. on Friday It was 65 per cent Day
by day the portion OF both physicaliy
qualified men and of those who are
qualified and do not claim exemption mas
risen.
About thirty other boards will begin
their examinations to-day. To-morrow
others will scrutinize their nrst cai,
men, and by the middle OF the week All
aycent few who have had preliminary
trouble will be busy.
Honor Roll Gains 077'
Yesterdays figures, including some
from Friday not available Tor puo'io"-
ton yesterday morning, folloW'
Examined. 1924.
Physically qualified, 2,441.
Physically disqualified, S77.
Passed and not indicating claims OF
exemption, 677.
Not One hoard Has quota.
Theoretically all loca! boards are sup
uosed to all their army quota by three
days examination. Actually none OF
the thirty boards in this city which mn
ished the three day period last night ana
of the two boards that hnished IL on
Friday night has reached the marx.
Most OF the boards have already called
more candidates. Those that have not
will have to do SO. In no case mas a
board been able to complete It's quota
by calling twice as many men as are
needed. Board 159. at 121 East F1fty-
first street, will call the next 500 men on
its list for examination this week.
The first board to get its quota may be
No. l24, at 36l Amsterdam avenue. IL
must certify 172 men for the army
out OF $50 men examined up to last
night II had passed 129 without exemp-
ton claims. Nobody on the first call In
this district can file claim now as the
seven day period has expired. Chair
man Joseph NJ. Proskauer believes the
forty-three men needed to fill the quota
can be weeded out OF the 142 who did
claim exemption.
George w. Perkins Jr.. is one of the
men qualified for service by Board II,
Public School 80, in East 1880 street
The physicians called him "a splendid
specimen." He was graduated in June
from Princeton University. where he was
manager OF the varsity crew. Y. NJ. c. A
leader and leader in the arti-cluh
crusade Soon after graduation he mar
ried a daughter OF Prof Trowbridge OF
Princeton. He is now In international
Y. VI. c. A. work. At the Progressive
national convention in Chicago last sum.
mer he was his fathers right hand man.
Boards to he Less strict.
From now on the rate OF physical
qualification may be expected to jump
| All city boards received yesterday this
telegram from Adjt-Gen. Stotesbury:
by direction OF the War Department
you are advised that department Stats
tics indicate your district should turr
out approximately 10 per cent. OF iti
| men physically At. II you are rejecting
greater number than 80 per cent. II
is probably caused by very exactinl
| physical examination"
Boards that have not attained 10 pei
cent will try to do so. but in some divi'
sions II will be impossible. Some physi'
clans admit that they have been very
| strict in order TO save trouble for the
| army surgeons who would examine the
drafted men before they get into thu
army.
To discourage the somewhat prevalent
notion that there Is something essen
TALLY ignoble about claiming exemption
Assistant Attorney-General Conkling
director of the city draft boards, pu
forth a statement yesterday saying:
"It is time the words 'conscripted' and
drafted be given their proper signifi
cance. To be drafted or conscripted II
to be selected to render the noblest and
most patriotic service to the nation
! Americans are accustomed to the gen
eral call to arms, the formal call FOL
volunteers, but modern warfare anC
modern Industrial conditions hav'
changed the old order OF things anC
the President and Congress have wisel!
determined that the old system be sup
planted by the selective service idea. ant
that certain men of certain ages ar,
the ones best qualified to defend tn
honor and assert the right OF the United
States
IL Is an Honor Privilege.
Therefore to the men together will
tnOS0 WHO HdNO hnthuy gwen Inem
selves regardless OF age or personal re
sponsibility to the great cause come
the great privilege. The call is no
now general or divided but comes direc
from the President OF the United State
to each bearer of a red ink serial mum
ber II is a specific announcement I
the individual that he Is selected for tn
honor of performing his part of tn
great duty which no real American wi
ever shirk.
"It is not that formal call for volun
teers has failed and that certain AmerI
cans must now be forced into service
Is the first call to certain men In orde
and by name to get into the ranks OF tn
great new army. Therefore let II b
understood once and for all that to b
drafted or conscripted means to be SO
lected for the noblest and most patrioti
duty known to mankind.
The conscript or selective servic
man Of 1917. unless he is a Nquitter,'
the volunteer Of '7s, 81 and '9s."
Family Allowance Would Help.
The chairman OF West side boar
voiced the opinion Of many others whe
he said:
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