Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-11
DRAFT WORK COMPLETED
by BOARD OF DIVISION 8
Has Honor of Being First in State
to Finish Draft Ger
f. tification.
IkSoTTY PROBLEM IN DIVISION 5
Not Enough White Men to Fill 40
Per Cent Quota, So Governor Will
Have to Call Upon Other Districts
y to Meet Shortage.

Because of its tirclcss activity and
eeaseless work. Division Board No. :
Is the first local beard in the State
to have completed the certihcation OF
it's entire 100 per con. quota for the
first draft. Not only has II certified
its full quota of 1875 mon. hui II has
done more than its present share OF
work. having examined and certified
lat men.
Ss This certitication is nnal for tho
first draft. II means that this local
board composed OF II. L. Atkinson.
chairman: !. NJ. BOssieuX, secretary.
and DR.. L. r. Ru,k,r have certified
twelve men more than was necessary
for the first draft to the district board
The district board examined the work
or the local board. put It's stamp or
approval on the work, and certified
this number Of men back TO tho loca!
board. Consequently. tho ccrtitcation
is final in the literal meaning Of the
word. and Edwin =. Cox. chairman OF
the district board for the Eastern Dis
trict, says that this local board has
been able to complete, its entire work
ahead of the rest of the local boards
in the State. only because the members
of this board have lost hardly 4 minute
from their work.
Consequently. Division Board 40.
is ready Ia furnish its 40 per cent quota
to report at Gimp Lee on September
70 on q minutes notice. More than
this. il is also ready to furnish the
next 40 per cent and the - per cent
quota following that without mo-
ments hesitation, and then have
twelve men left over for the next draft
whenever ii may come.
DIVISION BOARD NO. )
HAS PERPLENISG PROBLEM
Division Board No. is confronted
with the rather perplcNing ..roblem
Of having enough men subject TO the
draft TO meet the demands Of the 40
per cent quota ordered TO repor, 20
Camp Lee on September II. but Yet
not having enough white men 10 con-
form TO the orders just received from
the War Department. which states that
all the men OF this quota must be COM
posed of white men.
In Division No. ) the total number
of white men certified 10 the district
board amounts 10 little over SO per
cent, ) per cent of whom have already
reported at Camp Lee. Now the board
receives orders from the Provost Mar
shall comma ndinE that - per cent OF It's
entire quota. all white men. be sent
10 Camp Lee on September -. AS one
of the members of the local board
serts it is physical i.npossioilty
TO carry out TO the letter the orders OF
Provost Marshal.
But on the second consideration. this
probe m confronting Division Board No.
5 is a problem that also presents an
easy solution. For the provost-mar-
shal-Eeneral had already anticipated
that some local boards would be I'M
able to carry out the letter Of the or
ders II confined TO their own division
to draw upon men. Consequently. he
has attached a wider disposinG of all
such complications confronting the
local boards II there are not enough
white men in the division TO carry out
the orders of the provost -marshal-Ecn-
eral the Governor has the righ, to
satisfy this deficiency by calling for
sufficient men from other divisions
where there are more white men sub
tect to the draft that are needed at