The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-06
CALL FOR HAWA||
!. DRAFTQUQIAMAN .
AWAIT new Plan
Exemption Boards win Probably
Have TO Mark Time Until
Method Of Selection Il Ap-
proved
INDUSTRIAL VALUE or 90
MEN 70 BE c0hsiDEREC
Sugar Industry Of Territory La.
be- 70 BE Affected inoreas,
ed Llst q Rsiectious and Ex-

n
Until President Wilson has fully ap,
proved his own. plan for q change in
the method Of selecting men from
draft quotas for the National Army
the, exemption boards in Hawaii may
have to mark time for a few weeks,
after all and, in all probability, Maj
Francis Green, chairman Of the draft
board, will not receive early notifca-
tion from Washington as to the number
Of men required from Hswaii for its
first contingent, HIS
In selecting men who have been Civ
en- new registry. numbers throughout
the Islands, the local exemption boards
win follow the new plan for drafting
men into the army IN December or
early in January, by taking only those
absolutely physically At, having naither
depepdents nor value. IN essential war
industries. ~ n M !. 7.
II t6Is plan is followed to the letter
II will also probably have an import.
ant bearing on the actual number Of
mon which Hawaii may eventually send
to the front, for undoubtedly there will
be mpeh larger list Of Examinations
and rejeetious from the lists as com,
piled through the capsule drewiag Of
last ThuTsday than previously planned.
This comprehensive and entirely
new plan for applying the selective
draft, as proposed by the President,
would take first, only mon, without de.
pendents, and establish various grades
Of dependency and Industrial value
from which future drafts would be
made on a purely selective basis. The
plans have been worked out in the
provost marshal's office in Washington
and discussed in detail with the Presi.
dent, .. VEIN n
The plan was submitted to q confer.
ence of civilians who directed exemp.
tion board activities in a number OF
States and received the endorsement
Of many Of them, and, these in turn
have taken up q similar ditedssio1
with the state governors. Il
It is proposed to formulate in each
draft district, table Of all registrants
| placing. each in column denoting his
dependents and industrial value in the
war 3 prosecution. .tf-. " p.
Industrial Glasses ...E. Fa
| Industrial classes under consideration
in this connection are farmers, ship
yard employees, mutton workers, rail.
way and transportation employees, min.
ers, steel plant and motor industry
workmen, and certain other individual
plants or industry branches to be DIES,
ignated from time to time by the
President or war department as tenn.
| porarily essential. -,
When the class of those physically
fit and having no dependencies nor
value in essential war Industries is ex-
hausted, draft authorities, under the
President plan, would then draw on
the classes having the slightest depend
ency claims and the least value in in
dustries. Theoretically the draft would
work down through the table to the
classes with most dependents and high
est industrial value.
No class would be exempted as such,
but the valuable men would be placed
so that they would not be called until
the need for soldiers became more ur-
| gent, and all the less essential classes
were exhausted, o..
May AFFECT Sugar Production
The plan involves a determination by
the government Of what industries are
the most valuable, and this list may in
clude the production Of sugar in the
Islands, as an absolute food necessity.
Farmers organizations, shipping board
officials and shipbuilders on the main
land, as wen as munition makers, are
insisting on the prime Importance Of
their own employees in civil work.
The entire program will be made
known from Washington as soon as it
is completed and fully approved by the
President to allay the anxiety prevail
ing throughout many industries over
the next draft, which had been planned
for early In December before the new
plan was proposed which may delay
proceedings for one month, or early
In January. - -n..s :.
The proposed plan is expected to
meet President Wilson Is objections to
class exemptions. phf Sic2 p Pc IN
For these reasons the call for draft
quota from Hawaii may be delayed for
few weeks until the Presidents plan
has, been worked out to the small de.
tails, SO as to apply properly in Hawaii
as well as in continental United