Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-11
Revision Cuts Draft
Quotas in 3 Districte


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to the cities and boroughs which were ~ I
headquarters of a guard command. &
The new net lists are made up amer
credits for guardsmen are allowed to the
counties and cities whence the eniistments
came. This was the procedure followed ~
the Federal Government in giving crsdfts
for enlistments In the regular army. mo I;
credits are now given for enistmsnts In -
regular army. No credits are given TOR
navy enlistments, as the conscrption Is foe
the army only.
The prior figures announced showed thar
the cities OF Harrisburg Wilkes-Barre auh
Lancaster and Union County had supplied
their net quotas and, therefore, would n0R
have to furnish any men for the first dram :
army. The revised figures show that Hsr-
risburg and Lancaster will not have to fuF- Z
nish any additional men, but Wilkes-BsrYu
and Union County will have to do 30. TIA.
total net quotas just announced and the
total Of the prior quotas are the same.
District draft boards for the most past (
are resting on their oars today, some hav- Z
ing filled their quota, others having - Z
amined all the men included in the dfSe
calls and now waiting until next week fer 4
the Candidates on the next call - submit
themselves and four making preparatiuns
to start their initial examinations on Mon
day and Tuesday. With estimates from
sixteen draft boards that they will coulr
plete their work before or by the end of
next week. a total of twenty districts will
have furnished their share Of the new %
tional conscrpt army by that time.
SOME DISTRICTS FINISH WORK
Only fifteen boards are examining men
today. So far as they know now Distrio1p
Seventeen, Twenty-Five. Twenty-nins and
Forty-one have finished their examination
work. The question Of doubt lies only
! in the result of the decisions on the tx-
| emption claims that yet remain to be paaaed
upon II the claims allowed reach too hlSh
| a total, the number now held as available
will be correspondingly decreased and \
| may be necessary then to issue calls for
! further examinations. -f q. Y
| while two-ffths Of Philadelphia's dis-
tricts will have finished by the end Of
next week, there are some boards that -
! no signs Of procuring their quota before
| the middle of November and possibly later.
| The latter districts are particularly con-
gested with aliens and undesirables,
| situation that tends to greatly hamper the
conscrption work.
The draft board of District 23 will start
| it's initial examination on Monday. The
boards for Districts 8, 10 and 20 will start
| on Tuesday. The draft boards for tho
! Eighteenth and Forty-eighth Districts Will
! resume examinations In the week OF Au-
| gust 20. The board for District 81 has post
| poned its examinations for the time being
until It cleans UP all Of the doubtful cas4s
| of exemption claims and candidates foe
| further physical examination and until It
receives official notification OF the number
! of selected men in its quota. ..
| The different boards have adopted various
methods of obtaining their quotas. Some
| called out large numbers at once. worked
| lohg hours each day and In some casee
| into the early hours of the morning, and as
! a result have definitely completed their
work Other boards have only called =
| small number each day and met for q few
hours on only two or three days In thu
week with the consequence that their wosk
will extend over several weeks S
The board of the Forty-f1fth District, In
! a final drive to finish up by the end OF next
week has arranged to have sixteen doctors
on hand at the Wright School, Eleventh
| and Venango streets. next Saturday, ana
| has called 200 men for that date. fa
| The percentage OF assured conscript sql-'
| diers to the number Of men called to take
examination ranges from or per cent 20
| 80 and 80 per cent In the various districts
a factor that plays havoc with the plans cf
| many a board and leads them to the COM
| clusion that their work will not be finishes
| until next Christmas" as one member said
The districts meeting today include: n q
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Ward (southl southeast corner sixtieth ~
AfSssT bisTRIcT wsst.
Twentieth below Federal street ~
DISTRICT FoRTY-Thirty-nint Ward (wsek),
Fourth street and Snyder avenue. $tf,
DISTRICT. FoRTY-FIvEs-Forty.th third wes1
(southl. southeast corner Germantown avsu@s
DISTRICT FoRrY-sIx--Forty-fo ward.
Forty-eighth street and wyalusinE avenue
IRON HAND FOR EXEMPTIONS
Philadelphia must raise 1855 man ~
the new national army, according 70 -
| latest revised quotas received ofhcialix, -
this city from Harrisburg .>2,
Exemption board members said aE-&I
today that owing to the large numbef
exemption claims filed, many districts
have great difficulty In filing their all19
| quotas unless these exemptions are nA4
with an iron hand. t.. ~ <{|
II was reported semioflicially that q
tainly not more than SO per cent 81 a
exemptions claimed would be granted,
Many Of the board members todaY
pressed the opinion that they had e1c
trouble on their hands without ~
forced to see to the feeding. housing
care of the men when they are cauo4
the first army. 4,1X
According to the oficisl regulations
nounoed by General crowder yssteresy
local boards win have full respouei1l1
that respect and will gather IN the ~
have charge Of them until th4y Gr1
llvered at the various mobilteafteA