Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-21

shSd OF the order Of liability until
a-thefr local boards summon them for
examination after official records OF
the drawing have been transmitted to
them by mail.
Preparation OF those records will be-
gin tomorrow.
This was the day OF the nations
selection from among its sons to MI
up the ranks OF the armies OF democ-
racy.
Who shall go first among the 10000
600 registered for service was deter
mined by chance in carefully de-
vised lottery. and before tn, day was
ended the Federal government had
converted its registration list into a
muster rol! with every reeistrant set
down in the exact order OF his liability
SoS-cali
GILMAN OF EFFORT TO
I BUILD MILITARY MACHINE
= The drawing Of ire lots was the
iclimaN of the nations effort to build
up great military force on the prin-
rciple OF universal service. After the
puster roll is made. only the simpler
TIA SKIS of examination and exemption
tmobilization and training viii remain
SEor this work long -esta hlished rules
losn be followed. but in the step taken
Heretofore the government has been
forced TO make way of its own.
tesi Already President Wilson has form
ally ordered to the colcrs 6S7.0O0 of
tstne men for whom lots are drawn to-
,day. and most of them viii he in train
~ng by mid-September. To provide
.that many physically 1T and without
descriptions the War Department; will
SSummon for examination the l.31i0OO
stNho are found after the drawing to
Island at e head OF the muster roll
sss If more are needed TO provide a net
SQuota of 6S1 900 soldiers. those stand
ling next in order will he summoned.
so, too. VIII the choice pass on down
Ssthe line when future incremcnts are
speeded. Military men estimate that
-.about every other man summoned will
abe exempted. and on that basis the
ri, 100000 whose order Of liability Is
tito be determined to-day should yield
,Sc4ose to 100000 soldiers before the
'-roll is exhausted.
EVERY PRECAUTION
sr.- TO MAKE DRAWING FAIR
*. Every precaut!on was taken TO make
the drawing to-day absolutely fair
IAN ella horate scheme worked on; in
:tand crowd the entire process into an
y hour, was abandoned last NIGHT when
.sit was discovered that registration
...boards in some sections had misunder-
,r>&ood the instructions for numbering
.efocal registration cards, making some
vain eQuallties possible. Officials in the
,.GroVost -marshal-Eenerars oitice de-
Esoaared to-day that the change to q
SssImpler but more laborious plan left
ssno possibility of inequality or fraud
- Although $3.50 a. NJ. was set for be-
s ginning the drawing, it was after mid
,Salght before II was finished. Under
s-she plan adopted, lo,500 numbers had
rto be drawn one at n time IN a speed
.stsst recently. nearly sixty minute
sSwere dram and recorded. bur II was
..1-,impossible to keep that record up for
~lenE periods together.
ss,r The 10000 numbers to hc drawn
rSranged from TO lo5oO The order
In which they were drawn determines
1.-THE order in which the men having
serial numbers on their
sslSards in the local districts will be
a,iiahle for service. The total OF 10. 500
z,Yas selected because 1t exceeds the
ss s,!snotal or rcGistrants in the largest dis
,s.tSlct Of the country.
HEARING ROOM
go, PRESENTS SOLEMN SCENE.
- Ale public hearing room in the Sem
nate pfice Building was selected for The
-ldrawing. and il presented a solemn
srscene. The witnesses selected wer.
s,Ethe members of the Senate and Hous.
sSMtlltary Committees. whose faces re-
ssaected their appreciation of the epochal
ssSlE nlhcance of the event. The. lO.5o0
srnu moers, each Enclosed in a black
t.Gapsu!e, were placed III large glass
sSsssspwl for drawing AS part of III.
.rprecaution against fraud, IL was or
S,Tdered that an official stationed by the
aseow! 10 stir the capsules during the
sS1Eawing. S we'll as the man selected
.s.EFfpr the drawing itself. should be
eAse.