The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-15
PREPARE FOR FINAL
MOVE FOR NEW ARMY

Washington, July 14-Preparations
for the final act in the organization
Of the national war army went for
ward rapidly today indicating that
despite DELAYS it might be possible
to hold early next week the drawing
which is to establish the order in
which each of the nearly 10000, 900
registrants is to appear before his
exemption board.
Probably 1000 of the 1859 local
exemption boards have completed
their, organization, given serial num-
bers to the cards within their dis
tricts and filed certified copies Of
these numerical lists. The office Of
provost Marshal General CroWder had
| received $500 lists IN to Saturday
and undoubtedly hundreds more are
| in the mail
1t was stated authoritatively that
as soon as the last board had re
ported to the adjutant general of the
state the federal government could
| begin the drawing. The fact that al
numerical lists are either in WASH
| ington or in the mail will be sufficient.
1t will not be necessary for all to
| reach WASHINGTON.
Officials still declined to give exact
details of the plans for the drawing
! further than Secretary Bakers an
| nOuncement that each man of the ten
million would know after it was over
! his place among the registered men
| of his district and order of liability
| of service. It NAV be necessary to
, draw approximately 1000 numbers
to accomplish this result. The fact
+ that officials are Withholding infOr
nation as to the actual number nee
. essary to draw however indicates
that some plan for simplifying the
/ drawing and reducing tn mechani-
cal task has been evolved.
/ 1t has been estimated that at least
687 900 men will be needed to fill uD
the regular army, national guard and
first increment of the national
army. The federal government stops
with distribution of the quotas by
states, however, leaving to the state
authorities the task of dividing the
total properly among the counties
and making the actual credit to each
district for the war volunteers it has
already furnished.
Another point that came up was
the appeal of various papers to pub
fish names of men exempted and the
reasons for exemption. Officials said
this had already been given. The
regulations provide that the records
of the exemption boards shall be
open to the public including the af-
fidavits filed by or in behalf of any
men and the action taken by the
board.
The newspapers A the large popu-
lation Centers of the country have
encountered difficulties in their eff
forts to arrange for publication of
the names of men in the order drawn
In some cases papers would have to
public 1000 names. 1t has been
suggested that the result Vf the
drawing be made public in chapters
over a period of days so that the
names for each lot could be published
on the dav of the announcer ent of
their numbers. No action has been
taken as yet and the decision still
stands that all numbers will be drawn
and made public on one day.
Small net quotas in many states
are accounted for by heavy enlist
ments in the national guard and reg
ular army, Oregon. for instance, is
given net quota of only 1T for this
reason, whereas her rgoss quota bas-
ed upon the population estimate
would be several thousand.