The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
MEN TO ANSnER
FREEDOMS CALL
LIST OF NUMBERS DRAWN AT
WASHINGTON FOR FIRST EN-.
uISTMENT OF SOLDIERS
no NUMBERS GUARANTEED As CORRECT
Official List Not Yet Sent Out-These
Numbers are From Associated
Press

On Friday morning at 9:45 in Wash
ingtOn. the drawing of numbers for
the selective draft began. The elabo-
rate plan made by Provost Marshal
General Crowder for drawing, with a
key number, was abandoned at the last
moment owing to the fact that all dis
tricts had not mixed up their cards
before numbering them, some boards
left cards punched in precincts, others
in the south divided whites and blacks,
and others kept aliens separate. With
key number scheme this would have
made drawing unequal as to local.
ties, in same district. The plan adopt
ed and used is as follows:
There are 1857 registration boards
and each board supervises either a
trict with an estimated population Of
5000 in the cities of 10000 and over.
The number of registrants in these
districts varies. The smallest number
in any n district is 1S7-in al un-
settled county in Wyoming. The high
est is more than 10000 in a district
of Detroit. Enclosed in elatine cap
sules were numbers from l to 10000.
These were placed in a great glass
bowl. Then drawn out II at a time.
The first number drawn means that
every man holding a registration card
bearing that number in all of the Asst
districts is the first called to serve.
Owing to the difference in registra-
ton in the various districts, however,
there is this provision.
That if the first number or num-
berS drawn was higher than the card
bearing the highest number in the dis
trict the first number to be drawn
within the limit of the numbered cards
of that district ~designates the first man
called from the district in question.
For instance should number 10, 1000
be drawn first, it would affect only
a few districts, those having that num-
Der of registered. Then, if number "a
were the next to be drawkn, the man
holding caro- No. "a would be the sec
ond to be called in the district of more
than 10, 1000 but the first in all below
l 5000.
Each man registered can learn form
A. Ioao koorI IS I;ctr;ot ~ fha Dnr-
lister the number of registrants in his
district. He can determine his liabil-
ity to call by simply scratching all
numbers higher than the number of
registration cards in this district. This
will give him his exact position in re-
lation to his own district.
Each district is called upon to supply
200 per CEN Of its quota, General
Crowder announced. Thus, If the reg
istered number in a district is 200 and
the quota 20, forty men are called for
examination. This means that the man
who stands forty first on the list will
be exempt from the first call. The only
provision is that out of the 40
men called 90 are found physically fit
and free from exemption. Should more
men than 40 be required in order to Sc
cure 90, the next men in line will be
called.
From this 200 per cent is taken the
number of ~enlistmens in that dis
trict in all branches Of the service.
The gross quota from Brookings coun-
ty was III, and we are credited with
IS enlistments, leaving 103 as our net
per cent quota. Some counties have
had more enlistments than their quota
and are therefore not called upon TO
furnish any men. These counties are
Buffalo, Clark, ~Codington, Dawson,
Hughes. Jackson. Marshall, Minneha-
ha, Moody, Miner and Stanley. The
net quota of each of the other coun-
ties are as follows:
Aurora, 81; Beadle. 81: Bennett. 191;
Bonhomme, 40; Bookings, 103; Brown,
%; Brule, Is; Butte, "a: Campbell, 4S;
Charlesmix, 1872; Clay, 68; Carson, So;
Custer, 27: Day, 81; Deuel., 81; Dewey,
35; Douglas. 40; Edmunds, %; Fall
River, SO; Feulk, 80: Grant, A; Greg
DRY, SO; Haakon, 16; Hamlin. As; Hand
20; Hanson, 81; Harding, 60; Hutchin'
son 116; Hyde, 25; Jerauld. 81; Jones,
%; Kingsbury. 80; Lake, 81; Lawrence,
40; Lincoln. so; Lyman. 40; McCook,
&C. Mcpherson 81 Meade. 90. .Mellette