The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-07-26
EXPECTED TO GO BEFORE Elk
EMPTloN BOARDS NEXT WEEK.
MOBILIZATION ABOUT OCT.
Average Iowa County viii Be Re.
quired to Furnish About One
Hundred and Fifty Men As
Its First Quota.

for the actual selection of the con
script army.
, In the opinion of Governor Harding
the Iowa men selected will not be
actually modified before Oct. 1, bu
they will probably be called before
the exemption boards within the next
week for examination.
OF the men drawn, total of 12,749
will be called to service in Iowa. The
leverage county will be called upon
to supply about $50 men.
The exact number which will be
taken from each district is announc-
ed at the state house today, compile
ton of the lists having been reached
last night.
/ 1.-THE list appears in another col
i umn.l
Some of the counties of the state
have already completed their quota
and there will be no men called be-
fore the boards. Five counties are
said to be in this situation. In a
number Of other counties from fifty to
seventy men only will be called.
Orders are expected from Wash
Iington within day or two for the
further conduction of the draft. The
boards will then meet and issue calls
/ to the men first drawn ordering them
| to appear before the boards for exam
nation. = ra
| In Polk county, for instance, proba-
bly, the first 1900 men drawn will be
summoned, and the county quota will
be filled from those who qualify in
order of their drawing. .r ~~
If the county quota is 800 men, for
instance, examinations will be held
until 500 men are chosen, when oper-
atoms will be suspended. @. a.5
Each man drawn will have an OPP
portunity to present claim for ex-
emption, if he is found to be physic-
ally qualified.
II an exemption claim is made on
the ground that he has a dependent
family, he will be compelled to OBJ
tain one or more afIidavits testifying
to the fact that ne has dependents.
If he makes the claim himself, one
corroborative affidavit from neigh
for is required. If the claim is made
in his behalf by relative or friend,
two offidavits are required.
No Local Authority.
The local board will have no au-
thority to exempt on grounds that a
man is an agricultural laborer, or
engaged in any other occupation
which exempts him from service. Sucn
exemptions can only be made by the
| two district boards, one for the north
ern half of the state and the other for
1.-THE southern half. These boards have
not yet been named.
Governor Harding, in stating that
in all probability the drafted men
will not be called to service before
| Oct. /, bases his opinion upon the
fact that equipment and cantonmeht
facilities for the men will probably
| not be complete before that time,
and that the men are not likely to be
called until facilities are ready for
them to begin training. ,.f -e
| NO
The drawing at Washington did not
draft fixed number of men, but de-
termined THE ORDER in which all
of the 9,67S,795 men registered in the
entire country shall be called for ex-
/ animation in their respective dis
| tricts, to supply not only the first
Edraft of s687 900 men, but all subse-
I quent drafts that may be ordered
1 1t is an interesting fact, not easily
grasped, that men in different districts
but bearing the same serial number
will not in all cases be called up in
the same order. This is because
/ the number of men registered varies
j in the different districts.
AS is we'll known, all of the men
registered have been numbered by
the boards in their respective dis
tricts, from to the highest number
Registered in each, = in Mahaska
county from / to 1924. The result
of the drawing at Washington show
, ing the order in which the serial
numbers have been drawn will be
LeleSTdIEleu edCH soNeIuOl anu Wy hiLi
, forwarded to each district in his
i state. Each board to find the order
| in which the men in their districts
shall be called must resort to this
process:
!, Beginning with the first seria
number drawn in Washington, checl
off all of the serial numbers lowel
than the highest number registered
9 in their district and including th'
I highest number. Obviously. the ser
l. ial numbers higher than the highes
n number registered have no interes
n for the district under consideration
J. because there will be no man bearin
the higher number In that particuia
district. The man bearing the mrs
number checked will be the first ma
E called up for examination for the frs
d draft, The additional men needle
!, for the first draft will be called up 1
n the order In which their serial nun
bers have been checked For q se