Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
ENTIRE DAY TAKEN UP IN DRAWING TEN
 THOUSAND NUMBERS
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blindfolded man who constantly stirs the 10, 300 black capsules in the gEeat glass bowl in which they have been placed, another blindfolded man who draws the capsules from the bowl one at a time, and two announcers, one standing at each side of the bowl and to whom the capsules will be handed in turn as they are drawn.
 The announcers will break the cap sules as they receive them, extract the tiny slip of paper on which a number will be stamped, and call the number to three tally clerks. The slip then will be handed to an official in front of the bowl who will verify the announcers report, and in his verification, another man, stationed at a great blackboard, will write the number in it's order on the board
 The board will hold 1000 numbers. When it is filled it will be taken out of the room, photographed, cleared off and returned, the drawing continuing meanwhile with second board in use.
 The official record of the drawing which will be furnished to the local eX- emption boards, and in accordance with which they will call out the men to fill each district quota, will be made up into books of eleven pages, each page being a photographic facsimile of the blackboard. The exemption boards will take no action toward sum- moning their men until these books reach them through the mails
 The telephone message referred to by General Crowder in his statement came from the adjutant general of New Jersey. When that official learned, h Iflt inn # hl pf double drawing announced earlier in the day, he saw that great injustice would be done in his state because of the way in which the local boards had given serial numbers to the cards from the registration precincts.
 A nasty conference of officials was called and a similar situation was found to exist in many parts of the country. In some lists colored and white registrants had been classified in separate groups and the serial num- bers ran accordingly. In others aliens were separated and given their own group of serial numbers.
 It was a hopeless tangle If the double drawing system were carried out, one elecuon district in any eX- emption division might be swept clean of all it's young men to fill the quota
 
 same exemption area furnished no men whatever. In other cases it might be necessary to pass upon and exempt a thousand aliens before a single Ameri- Han was called to service. In others a thousand negroes might be taken for examination before a white man was called, or vice versa.
 There was only one way out and the war department promptly announced that the whole intricate method of drawing devised to save time and labor, would be abandoned ln favor of the simple, direct plan vI drawing suffi- cient numbers to fix the place of the last man in the largest exemption dis trict. That was the original plan, and it was intended for weeks to draw in that way, but the enormous amount of labor and the time involved prompted the effort to devise a short cut that would be fair to all.
 Officials congratulated themselves tonight that the difficulty in the way of the double drawing was found today rather than after the drawing
 The difficulty that forced abandon ment of the more elaborate method grew out of the detail of the plan It was proposed to list all registrants in each district by thousands or fractions of thousands. Men whose serial num- bers were in the three thousand would have been put in one group, those with numbers of less than a thousand in an other, those with numbers i'll the four thousand in another and so on. The first drawing would have placed these groups of thousands in the order in which the numbers nothing to 10 were drawn. The second drawing would then have fixed the order of liability of the individuals in each of the thousands as between themselves a thousand num- bers being drawn to that end.
 The result would then have been that of the three thousand group were first drawn in the little lottery, all the men bearing serial numbers in the three thousands would have been called for duty first and in the order in which their serial numbers came out in the big drawing. The result of the big drawing would then have been applied to the other thousands in their order fixed by the little lottery.
 Each exemption district is composed of several election districts which were
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