The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-30
HOW THE DRAFT
FORHAWANW|LL
BE CONDUCTED
FatefuI Lottery On Thursday SO
p q Arranged That Il viii Be
Absolutely Fair %.
NUMBER WANTED FOR
SERVICE NOT SET YET
Every Registered Man In Islands
To Be Drawn and Uncertain
ty Done Away With .

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Official word of the number Of men
the Islands are expected TO furnish for
the National Army, when the second
call comes in December or January, has
not yet been received. II is taken for
granted that the notification will come
before Thursday, the day set for the
draft drawing, when the twenty nine
thousand and more men registered will
know Just where they get off. -.
II is expected by Major Green that
| the plan now being advocated for the
second drawing on the mainland will
be the plan here and that HawaiiIs
first drawing will differ from the first
drawing on the mainland. Under this
new plan, which was the one desired
originally by Provost Marshal Crowder
the number of every registered man
will be drawn and every registered man
will know definitely just where he
stands. . ffH f.-. -. = .
Third and Last Number
After the draft on Thursday, every
registered man of Hawaii will receive
his new number, which win be the third
since he entered the registration booth.
There he got a number which was writ.
| ten on his registration card. Recently
he was given second number, the reg
istration cards having been all shuffied
and remembered. This second number
is his "serial humber Now, in the
drawing, he will get his draft number,
and that s the number that counts. 4. ,
| If his draft number is below 1900 he
will know that he has a good chance
indeed Of being among the flrst called
to the Colors. If il should be a mum.
Der above 5000, he may rest assured
that he will not be called unless the
national safety becomes seriously i'm
perilled. ~
Only Looks Complicated
The method for the drawing appears
complicated but is, in reality, very
simple. There are six registration dis.
tricts and in each there is some one
with Serial Number One This makes
six men in Hawaii with Serial Number
One, six with Serial Number Two and
so on up to the highest number on
Kauai, where the registration Is the
smallest. There are five each of each
number higher until the Maui registra.
ton is exhausted, The higher numbers
still are held by four, then three, then
two, until the very last and highest
numbers are reached, held only by a
few in the Fourth District, Oahu. Thus
the smaller numbers drawn will each
call out six men, one from each district
with that number. The higher number
will call from five down to one. e
Numbers from one to 1000 have been
written each on "a scrap of paper"
and each tucked away in gelatine
capsule. These capsules are to be
placed in glass container and thor.
oughly stirred up. On Thursday they
will be. drawn out, one by one.
The Fateful Lottery
The first capsule drawn will deter
mine who is to have Number One in
the list of those to be called to the
COlors from each of the six districts.
The first capsule may contain. the
slip on which No. 545 is written, for
example. Then the one in each district
who has Serial Number 545 becomes
Number One in his district, And so
on, until the entire 1000 capsules have
been drawn and each registered man
has his new and final draft number.
When the call to the COlors comes it
will be for all men from Number One
to whatever other number be set, and
from each district the. registered men
with these numbers will respond. Those
who claim exemption will be heard and
their cases passed on. Then will come
the physical examinations, until all
ineligible have been weeded out or ex.
empted aud the un-exempted, physic
ally fit left to 20 into training as Ma
tiOnal Army men.
l. Later, if more men are needed, an
other batch of numbers, on from those
called in the first quota, will be sum
mOned, and 80 on. .. -"
Drawing In Public
The ceremony next Thursday morn,
ing will be open to the public, and the
first number will be drawn at nine
CLOCK. ."a 10 H..
The draft office yesterday received
approval of the names of four men fol
exemption board service as follows;
For the first division, this city, Joh1
Drew and John Guild; for the second
division, b. l.. Marx and Alfred
Eames tihti w. g. 4.r
The numbers which appear on card,
of those who registered on July 81 viii
not be the numbers drawn from tAt
big glass cOntainer on November ], il
must be remembered. All these card
have been shuffied and reshuffled ant
then have been given the new seria
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