The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-20
ELEvEnTH-AOUR CHANGE
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trict will designate the first man
called from the district in question.
For instance. should No. 10000 be
drawn first, it would affect only a
few districts, those having that num-
Der of registrants. Then II No. "a
is next to be drawn the man holding
card No. "a would be the second to
be called in the district of more than
10000, but first in all below 10000.
Each man registered learns from
the local board of his district the
number of registrants in the district.
He can determine his liability to call
by simply scratching out all numbers
higher than the number or registra-
ton cards in his district This viii
give him his exact position in rela-
ton to his own district.
Supply 200 Per Cent Of Quota
Each district is called upon to sup
ply 200 per cent of it's quota. General
t'rowder announced today. Thus, II
the registered number in district
is 200 and the quota twenty. forty
men will be called for examination.
This means that the man who stands
forty-frst on the list will be exempt
from the first call The only pro-
vision is that out OF the forty men
called twenty must be physically MT
and free of exemption Should more
men than forty be required in order
to secure twenty the next man in
y
workings Of the draft ended when
Pennsylvania, New York and Michi-
gan. the last states to get ready, an
nouneed by wire that they were at
last prepared.
General Crowder. in anticipation Of
these announcements. had conferred
with Secretary Baker this forenoon
Immediately upon the secretarvs re-
turn from trip down the Potomac
with several Of his war chiefs
Immediately after this conference
the general released for publication
his plan for the draft which con on
plated the drawing Of ten mSter
numbers and 1000 kew numbers. .
process which would have required
but an hour. and which would have
fairly and squarely determined the
liability of every registered man TO
service The plan was te}egranhed all
over the country and printed in after
noon newspapers. General Crowder
then announced that the hour of the
draft had been definitely set for $50
and invited newspaper men who were
assigned to report the event 10 at
tend II trial dra wing in his office az
o'clock IN the afternoon 90 that they
might be thoroughly fanilarized witt
every detail OF the plan.
II was Just about o'clock that the
telephone on General Crowder's desk
rang sharply and central told him
there was long distance call from
Trenton for him
Just what words passed over the
wire only two men possibly central
knows. One was General Crowder.
He would not tell who the other was
Indeed he would not even tell the
name of the stare which had upset the
draft plan. Secretary Baker did that
later.
Hurried Conference Held
But ~ II result or ttTat u1rggH re
there was a hurried call over the
telephone for Secretary Baker. Gen
eral .Crowder informed him OF the
news. 1t was that several Of the
Jersey boards each one OF which In
Cluded several election districts in
stead Of shutting the registration
cards Of All the districts together be
fore placing the red ink numbers
TN them. had taken whole districts
by themselves and numbered the cards
in order, right down the line. This
meant that should the cards OF a GER
tain district he IN the zoos while
the ones Of another district under the
same hoard ran over into the 2.o00s
all the men holding the LOCO cards
would he ordered out first should that
number he drawn first In the pulling
Of the ten master numbers at Wash
lngton In other words the whole
district would be first while the next
district with the cards numbered .
GOO would escape In a body
Would Destroy Fair Deal
The whole fair deal as heretofore
arranged FOR the draft would w de-
sfroyed There would fallass charges
or uueairness which would be a IA
tional scandal and the whole drawing
might be invalidateef--after hundreds
Of thousands of homes had been
caused suffering by the threatened de
parture Of a member OF the family
AS soon as Secretary Baker heard
the news from General Gre~tle-f,- 1e
called the newspaper men in the state
and war and navy building and told
them of the developments He stated
however. that General Crowder naa
told him he would not let this inter
fere with the draft aud that sub
stitute plan would be announced at
O'Clock.
When that hour came General
Crowder was ready and SO was the
plan. II was the original plan. sim
plified as to figures but made more
arduons physically.
General Crowder, after short talk
with his aides. had quickly decided
to abandon the master numbers"
and instead have drawing Of 10000
straight numbers.
He Immediately ordered the mum
hers already prepared for tomorrow's
drawing destroyed, modified his en-
tire clerical force to writing numbers
on new slips. sent an officer scouting
lor gelatine capsules in which to en-
close the numbers and another scurry-
Ing around the China stores for a
great glass bowl large enough to con-
tain all the lo.5oo capsules
Wholesale druggist establishments
were secured for capsules. The cap
sules In which the numbers are en-
closed are Just the same as three
grain quinine capsules. The numbers
are written In red ink on small Sins
OF paper. The paper Ia white on one
side-the side with the number-and
black on the other side. SO that the
number cannot show through the
transparent capsule.
New Capsules Arrive.
After whole lot of difficultv boxes
or capsules began to arrive at the pro-
vost marshafs office. From an F.
street establishment came wagon
bearing the attendant with a huge
glass bowl. It looked like an all night
Job numbering the slips. It takes a