The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-18

|I few local districts are missing. |g The plan of the drawing to be held in asecretary Bakers office virtually has been |Eompleted and details may be announced l Tomorrow. Secretary Bakers final ap- DBproval is yet to be given but Provost LeMarshal General Crowder may reveal |esnough of the details to guide newspa Iipers in preparing to publish the result l ,and to inform registrants what facts they | 3nust ascertain to know their exact po- |ssition on the liability lists.
 |s While these preparations are going for |;ward sentiment apparently is growing i'll H-ongress for amending the conscription act to make aliens liable for service or ptherwise to relieve the requirements placed under the present allotment on Esrommunities with large foreign popula- |tion.
 |N Bills have been prepared in both Sen Hate and House, but the administration |Ehas not indicated that 1t will favor any |EHhange. Many officials hold to the opin- Mon, on the other hand. that to compel .%liens to serve would be violation of |Hnternational law.
 |H The states from which reports of com piete exemption arrangements were re- REeived during the day were: Utah, Ala bama, Ohio and Virginia. Reports still kre to come from Illinois. Kentucky. Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Mis- |Ifouri and Pennsylvania
 M DETAILS NOT ANNOUNCED |E Detailed plans of the drawing itself |Elenain to be finally approved by Secre- E rvt,. li,of fry1c hDt
 more complex arrangement than has Net been outlined publicly will be em- iH2loyed in the interest of perfect fairness E3 As far as can be told now, every reg
 istrant will have to be informed not only Elof the serial number placed on his card hs1y the local exemption board, but also Ast the actual member of reglstra nts in 1tis district. Otherwise he will be un- 4able to know until he is ordered before iShe board what his order of liability is M, Given his own number and the total aaumber of registrants in his district any R Regstrant can figure out quickly what Esolace he occupies in the line as soon as Ethe results of the lottery are announced. lllf there are 15O0 registered men, every iserial number above that will represent Ea blank in that district when it is Ihrawn, and the rotation numbers of the Ihrawing will pass them over Thus II Humber 142S should be drawn first, No. hh569 second and No. 1249 third, the order tbf liability in 15o0 district would be 142S E}first and No. 1247 second
 REFUSE TO DISCUSS N While officials of the provost marshal EIoffice refused to discuss charges of un- AEfairness in allotment of quotas made yes- E1terday in the Senate, it was pointed out aagain that the revised population est- Irnates of the census bureau, upon which Nthe allotment was made, were based Wholly on the actual showing at the reg Ms,ration Under the law the bureau khad to consider the fluctuation of popu- flation since 1910, the last census, and the war department had to count in aliens lin making allotments, even though they Iare exempt from service.
 Reconsideration of population esti- mates that on the average 3-10 per cent 1of the total population were within the age limits of the draft bill. In large and industrial centers how lever, the percentage ran far above that figure because of the influx of young men.
 CASE IN POINT The case in point is Detroit. where, | with an actual population of probably 1 less than 100000 the proportion of reg 'istrants indicated population of 1,52l,- 00O using the rule established This was due to the automobile and others plants | in that region which have called many i young men from the country to work 1 In its revised estimate. the bureau fixed Detroit's population at the inflated fig |
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