The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-07
Grace Allowed, City
Fails to Register
Delinquent Males
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and of every member of congress who
voted for the bill staids pledged to the
statement that even-handed justice
and fairness to all men, high OF low,
white or black. VII govern Ill the
great task.
Much must be done before the names
Of those who will compose the armies
can be enrolled Millions Of registra-
ton cards must be examined and
classified. Those who are wholly un-S
fitted physically for a soldiers grim
business must be eliminated; the quo
tas of the states must be ass1gned;
the machinery for distributing this
quota equally through every remote
county or precinct Of each state must
be perfected.
The local exemption boards will al
| most equal in number the registration
precincts. Assurance has been given
that a mans own neighbors will be
the judges to pass upon his case
There were more than $4,000 pre-
cincts and equal decentralization will
| characterize the exemption machinery.
President Wilson, upon whom the
law imposes the duty of selecting and
appointing all these boards, probably
will delegate this authority to the
state officials Their loyal and en-
| thusiastic response, exemplifield in the
registration is certain.
| Then comes the appointment of the
| boards of review. to which each man.
who may be chosen by his class
board for army duty may carry his
case If he feels himself wronged
| These, broadly speaking, will be Gre
| ated for each federal judicial district,
| and the President may appoint them
himself.
| There is no statement yet available
as to the process by which men will
| be drawn to appear before the exemp-
| ton boards Secretary Baker has
stated that something in the nature
of a jury wheel might be employed,
| but beyond that no information has
| been given out.
Reports today from all parts of the
country bore out the indications OF
| last night that the great enterprise
| had been carried through without OBJ
lection or opposition from sufficient
number of citizens to be worthy OF
| mention. Registration was completed
virtually without disorder; certainly
with only a small part Of the disturb
ance that usually characterizes ma
tional elections.
| General Crowder last night out
lined what is to follow the great
enactment:
| Registration marks the completion
of the first well-defned step in the ex-
ecution of the selectiye service law"
he said. 1.-THE actual recording has
been practically finished in a single
day, but the arrangement and copy
\ ing OF cards, their segregation into
l yfy,s,f i'm y
| lists and the garnering in of delayed
registrations will consume a week or
ten days In the meantime the ma
= chinery of the registration is being
freadjusted to serve as machinery for
the further execution of the law. This
work is proceeding rapidly and should
be completed, coincidently with the
| tying up Of the loose ends Of regis
tration.
When this is all done regulations
lgoverning the Jurisdiction of the local
boards will be issued and the ma
chinery will then be ready to proceed
to the drawing which will result in
determination of the order in which
Registered men will be examined for
military or industrial service. When
| this list of orders is determined, it is
expected that the war department will
| be able to make a definite call for
men and as soon as this data is avail
able the quotas necessary to fill the
first call will be assigned to the sew
eral states.
'sThe policy of the decentralization,
the application of which has SO sue
cessfully contaminated the registra-
ton, will be adhered to throughout
The various states, knowing the num-
Der of men which they must call and
the order in which each particular
man is to be examined can then as
sign to the various local boards the
task of selecting the number of men
necessary to complete the quota for
the. locality under the Jurisdiction of
each board.
Precise time limits cannot be set
at present for the reason that it is de-
/ sired to have uniformity of operation
of the machines throughout the Unit
en- simultaneously through out the ma
ton. Mountainous, heavily wooded
! and sparsely settled states cannot
move with the expedition of compact
and densely populated states. While
dates are not to be named precisely
| these steps will follow each other
| promptly with a fixed purpose of CIV
ing as much time as possible to men
who are selected to adjust their af-
fairs, to make their farewell and to
avoid the Inconvenience and suffering
that would result from a hasty
change from civil to military sta
tus.
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