The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-07
LUCK TO DECIDE
ON $4,000 MEN
The Provost Chief May Use
the Old Jury Wheel
Method
SIZING UP THE
y REGISTRATION
How First Big Army Will
Be Picked Under the
Present Plans

Washington, June YESTERDAY a
force of tabulators was at work in the
offices OF the provost marshal general OF
the army Analysing the returns that
have come in from Tuesdays registra-
ton, with view to estimating how
many OF the 100000 names enrolled
will have to be drawn as material from
which to obtain the 625,000 that are to
comprise the roster of the first increment
of the national army.
This $4,000, it must be understood,
includes the 100000 that will form the
first contingent of "actives" in the new
army, and the $4,000 who will be held
in reserve to fill up the gaps that will
occur in the ranks of the 100000 in the
first period of the actual fighting.
How the drawing itself is to be done
remains to be fixed officially by the reg
ulations to be proclaimed by the presi.
dent.
The impression has prevailed here that
the drawings will be made under the old
jury wheel system.
In each district or subdivision, accord.
ing to which the drawings will be made,
the names of the eligibles enrolled in
that district, minus the names of those
eliminated for obvious defects" will be
inscribed on individual slips and placed
in the wheel" A designated official will
then begin drawing these slips out
through the opening in the wheel until
sufficient number is drawn to insure the
required number OF ROCKIES
Those whose names are thus drawn
will be ordered to appear at a given
hour on given day before the examin-
ing board to be named for their district.
The others whose names are still in the
wheel when the drawings have been
completed will remain on the list of
ayailables for the second call, provided
they are still under 81 when the second
draft comes.
John Smith, let us say, is among
those called to appear before the ex.
aiming board The regulations pre-.
scribing the exact mode of examination
are still to be issued by the president,
of course, but the general opinion among
officials of the war department is that
the examinations will proceed somewhat
along the following lines:
Smith, on going before the board, will
find that the examinations are made
in the order Of the drawings; the man
whose name was first drawn from the |
jury wheel being the one first exam.
med In one room sits the board itself, |
which passes on all questions of fact. In |
the other are the physician and his as.
sistsnts who make the physical examina.
ton.
Smith first goes before the board |
the law has already provid.
ed that only those who were II on June |
but not yet 81 must have registered,
the law is also drawn that if John Smith |
had reached the age Of 81 on June 6 or
at any time after registration day he
,annot be drafted though he has been
registered. 1t is not the case with John
smith, however, and the examination
proceeds further.
Not having answered at the time he
we'll say, question No. IL,
which asked if he claimed exemption,
smith is now asked by the board If he
.laims it, his record being available from
he registration cards to show whether
lie claims to have dependents, Ii he
loes not claim it, or if the board does
Tot allow his claim or decides that his
is not such as to be indispens-
ble to the government in the civilian
a pacity in which he serves, he is passed
IN to the physicians in the next room,
Who proceed to size him up physically
He may have vital defects in a physi-
al way which warrant the physicians
n turning him down without further
question. Then. again, he may have a
nslady or injury that is durable in a
rief time, as for example, broken
rm, and in such cases, If otherwise
fit, he may be held. If ac-
epted at all he will be told to hold him
elf under orders to report to the con
camp of his state when the
all to the colors shall come.
When the number fixed as the required
uota for Smiths district shall have
cen examined by the board, passed by
he physicians and accepted, the exami-
ations will thereupon stop and those
n the list of the drafted who remain in
ne will be instructed to hold them
elves in readiness to report for exami-
alton when the second call is made, at
hitch time they will be examined be.
ore those inclr~(ad in the second draw