The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19

some extent by putting every man on the list
 For this reason the whole ten mil lion names are to be given places on the list of order of examination.
 The SegregatienaI Into Groups.
 Obviously no single agency coasa examine 10,9oe9ee men: Therefore the 10, 100000 are segregated into groups of suitable size For cenv6--St gam ination. There are 5,59 of these groups. For each group a board has been appointed te examine for selec. ton. By far the greater number of these groups consists of approximate ly 3,e99 men.
 Since this is so, our problem is not to put the whole 1e,e0o,0ee names in one list arranged in the order of ex- animation. It is to determine the order of examination in each group.
 Necessity for Drawing.
 : 'tSince all registered men stand in an equality of right and duty, the question of priority can only be de- termined by lot or drawing. It would be possible to have 4,557 separate drawings-one for each group-but since methods would vary and since supervision and absolute insurance against the charge of fraudulent man. ipulation could not be had in that way, every consideration of expe- diency and justice urges one drawing in Washington.
 Method for the Drawing.
 ''In each group, every registration card has a red-inked number written on it's face and these numbers run in a single series from unity CD to the ,,,,x i, fn nS Sf number of cards in the group. Nor mally this Is from unity CD to about 5000.
 Exact copies of the cards in each group have been attested and sent to the various state capitols. Lists showing the name of each man in each group and the serial number of his card have been posted in the of flee of the board, published in the press, and one copy is on file in Wash ington. There is. therefore. no chance of any mans number being changed without detection, or of any card be- ing lost beyond replacement.
 Idea of the Central Drawing.
 Suppose there were just. 5000 names and numbers in every group, It is at once apparent that 1t would be a very simple thing to have a cen tral drawing that would control the order of every name and number in every group of the whole 10000, ,O00- just put 5000 numbers into a bowl and draw them out one at a time. The first number drawn out would place the 4,557 cards bearing that particu- lar number at the head of every list in the United States. The second number drawn would put the cards bearing that number second on all the lists, and so forth.
 i. ssNow, the thing cannot be done in precisely this way, because there are not precisely 5000 numbers in every group. But the same idea with a few necessary modiacations is the idea, on which the present drawing is based.
 Drawing By Thousands.
 "To draw 10000 separate numbers would take ten hours and would mul- tipIy the chance of error. Moreover, if the nine-thousands, the 8-thous- ands, the 7-thouss nds, and the 6-thou- sands were scattered all over the mas ter list indiscriminately the cancella- ton by boards having small groups would be very tedious and would open the way to numerous errors. All this is easily avoided.
 Suppose we drew only 1000 mum bers. We could then provide that the also draw thes numbers 1878, 2878 sS7s, 4s78, 5878, 687S, 1878. s8878 | 9878 and 10,87S.
 Tn that way only 1000 number, ] need be drawn and by making oul l [ si5 a sA |